41) Message boards : Number crunching : I think we should restrict work units (Message 14364)
Posted 19 Jul 2006 by EclipseHA
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I got about 30 (between two machines) today, and they'vre chugging along. They seem to all be "short ones", and take a bit over an hour each.

With my resource share, basiclly, little but LHC will be done until they're gone, and that will likely be by midday tomorrow.
42) Message boards : Number crunching : Are we dead in the water? (Message 13595)
Posted 13 May 2006 by EclipseHA
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It is not that the admin do not care, but very often they know that there are new WU exactly the same way you do. By the number going up on the frontpage. The submission system is completely automated and the physicist that is submitting most of the work is in Canada. So even if he remembers to send an email saying he is putting up more work, the admins will probably have gone home. You should also remember that there is no full time admin at the moment.

But summer is soon here, so a bunch of summerstudents will be arriving soon. I am sure one of them will be put to work on the Boinc system, and will have some spare time to do some sys-admining.



Chrulle, any chance of asking the physicist to drop by the forums to give us an update every-now-and-then?

Paul.


Why? If there is work, it will be downloaded and processed in a few days either way. Not everone checks the forum every day, week, or month

Setting "no new work" just means more for the rest of us. "You snooze, you lose"

I find that LHC has new work when I see some in my queue, and that seems to be exactly the way BOINC was designed! People seem to dislike weeks of "no work from project" in their logs, but for a project like LHC, that's reality.

What's being asked for is a project to post when work is available, so that those who can't "just wait", can all re-activae the project. Those who decided to "just wait", might not be given the work they should be entitled to, as vultures swarm in...

Hey.. Understand, this is the way that BOINC was designed - to NOT require a post from the project like LHC when work becomes available.
43) Questions and Answers : Windows : lhc doesn't save progress (Message 6068)
Posted 25 Feb 2005 by EclipseHA
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> sET YOUR PREFERNCES UP TO keep in memory and see if that helps
>

The problem seems to be that the state isn't being kept in client_state.xml. I've noticed this happening over the last few days on windows, and has not worked on linux since the "relaunch".

While "keep in memory" is a short term fix, all will be lost if you need to shutdown boinc or reboot.

Overall, the progress for a linux client can't bee seen, and the WU could be a "runaway" as reported elsewhere here, on PP, and Einstine.

BYW, LHC also seems to ignore the "least atleast x gb free" when uploading Wu's..
44) Message boards : Number crunching : client_state.xml not updated for "fraction_done"? (Message 6066)
Posted 25 Feb 2005 by EclipseHA
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Seems to have started occuring with the windows client.

The gui_rpc call still returns correct value.

On Linux, client_state.xml and gui_rpc always return 0% done.
45) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : no progress indication (Message 5945)
Posted 23 Feb 2005 by EclipseHA
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Same problem with the PP Linux cruncher.. (not sure about einstien, but CP seems OK...)

The Seti Linux Cruncher hasn't been updated in quite some time, so I wonder if a common header file or source file for crunchers doesn't do the right thing for linux....
46) Message boards : Number crunching : Server problems (Message 3141)
Posted 3 Oct 2004 by EclipseHA
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> Results and Pending credits pages have been disabled until we see that we have
> enough capacity to handle them.
> ==========
>
> Sigh, it's Deja Vu all over again. Seems like I went through this with BOINC
> Seti & they still haven't got it right over there yet...

Let's hope we hear nothing about a SNAP Appliance! :)
47) Message boards : Number crunching : Decision on points accumulated up to now (Message 2672)
Posted 29 Sep 2004 by EclipseHA
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Just food for thought...

I joined LHC when the 1000-2000 user slots opened up.. Seemed to be you were doing a "staged opening".. I never saw anything thru the signup process or on the main pages that indicated this was still in beta.

Infact, it took me some time to find a beta reference on any of the main project pages (not the discussion forums) - news that had long since rolled off the main page.

As the user base is now open to 5000 users, do they know this is a beta? I didn't until today! Predictor had a "this is still Alpha and you might lose credits" notice on the main page - No question there - but with LHC, it's not been clear...


Anyway, the food for thought is this - there could be thousands of folks that see their LHC credits wiped and ask "why?". I sure don't think the 1000-5000 chunck of users understood this was beta (look at the forum posts about LHC within other projects and find one reference to 'beta"!)

It might be best for the 75% od LHC crunchers that had no clue this was beta, to just roll the current credits into the "official credits" and forget about beta page of honor, etc....

My 2c


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