Posts by Trane Francks

21) Message boards : Number crunching : Code Review for Zero CPU problem => Results .... (Message 6521) Posted 9 Mar 2005 by Trane Francks Post: > I never said it was a bug, I said it was poor programing to assume that > messages from loosly coupled systems would always be what we expected and > correct. That would be a bug, Paul, in my opinion. As part of my living, I write software. If software isn't prepared to appropriately handle the messages it receives, that's as much a bug as it would be to receive one datatype while expecting another (crash).
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Everything working on a Linux box--thanks to the developers (Message 6135) Posted 26 Feb 2005 by Trane Francks Post: > You want I should run the pwetty pwetty images from a console > window? :) :) I use BOINCprog for monitoring progress. The lack of progress indication by LHC and Predictor is a bit unnerving. It makes it somewhat difficult to know when the core client has stalled. I do hope this gets fixed sooner than later.
23) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : no progress indication (Message 6034) Posted 24 Feb 2005 by Trane Francks Post: > > What I see here is sixtrack version 4.63 only indicates progress in CPU > > time. It does not display progress in percent completed. > > Not really. Well, yes and no. There's no doubt that different systems can (and often do) see different behaviour. The latest issue under the no-progress banner is that it appeared that a WU had "stalled" -- 1.0 load but no progress -- so I killed it. The INSTANT I sent it the kill signal, the progress updated from 0.000 to 0.57-something hours. Something is definitely unwell and it seems that there are several different-yet-related issues.
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Everything working on a Linux box--thanks to the developers (Message 6012) Posted 24 Feb 2005 by Trane Francks Post: > Title says it all, really. Everything working? There's no progress indication for % done with the current sixtrack version. Close, but not quite everything. :)
25) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : no progress indication (Message 6011) Posted 24 Feb 2005 by Trane Francks Post: What I see here is sixtrack version 4.63 only indicates progress in CPU time. It does not display progress in percent completed.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : Something blew up in Linux (Message 5613) Posted 22 Jan 2005 by Trane Francks Post: Yikes. I just stumbled onto this months after the fact. Yeah, mate, I'm still in Tokyo. Been 13 years now. Isn't that scary!
27) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINCprog 1.1.3 released (Message 5524) Posted 25 Dec 2004 by Trane Francks Post: Season's Greetings, crunchers. Linux-based BOINC progress monitor BOINCprog 1.1.3 has been released just in time for Christmas. You can grok the tar ball from: Trane's Programming Projects. Warmest regards, trane
28) Questions and Answers : Windows : Is 10 days that i can't download WU... (Message 5435) Posted 7 Dec 2004 by Trane Francks Post: > Obviously there are serious problems that will take time to be sorted. Thank > goodness for SETI and Climate Prediction! I doubt the problems are serious. The error message mostly likely indicates either a disk-full issue or access rights being set incorrectly on this new test-server. I'm guessing the latter.
29) Questions and Answers : Windows : Is 10 days that i can't download WU... (Message 5429) Posted 5 Dec 2004 by Trane Francks Post: > well, everything that needs to be said is in the message: the project is down > until the end of the year. The project is down till somebody attends to the log-file issue. The front page states that work is available.
30) Questions and Answers : Windows : Server cat open Logfile/ erneute Registrierung schl�gt fehl (Message 5428) Posted 5 Dec 2004 by Trane Francks Post: There is a problem with the LHC server right now, either a disk filled to capacity or a permissions problem that is causing it to be unable to open a log file. Until that problem is fixed, you will not be able to work with the site.
31) Message boards : Number crunching : Server problems (Message 5423) Posted 5 Dec 2004 by Trane Francks Post: Just to be certain, folks, the "Server can't open log file" is NOT a BOINC client error. Just leave your client installations alone....don't force updates, don't detach, don't do anything. Just let BOINC manage the account and you'll eventually get some work if/as/when Markku and Co. fix the issues on their side. Till then, worry not. :)
32) Message boards : Number crunching : Server problems (Message 5361) Posted 30 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: > BTW, we are still seeing the error Ulrich Metzner told you about earlier in > this thread, the "LHC@home - 2004-11-29 16:30:46 - Message from server: Server > can't open log file" error. I don't know if that is still a valid error, or > just because some of the processes are not running. I suspect that it's a valid error. Since the front page is insisting that the server us up and "low on work" yet I keep getting project-down errors, the log file issue is now a bottleneck. Just a guess, mind you. Cheers, trane
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Just got a new unit??? (Message 5360) Posted 30 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: I tried a unit once, but I didn't inhale.
34) Message boards : Number crunching : Official Word on no more Work Units...!!!! (Message 5180) Posted 16 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: > It's not over until the Fat Lady Sings I guess, I picked up 60 more WU's over > the last hour ... :O Lucky you! It's been days since I got anything. :-) [ Edited: Oops. I see one of the machines crunched a protwelve overnight. ] trane
35) Message boards : Number crunching : Official Word on no more Work Units...!!!! (Message 5171) Posted 16 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: > >>I am just curious how (and why you believe) that one is more > sicentific than >>the other. > > Ok - Astropulse is searching for evidence of natural phenomena. [ snip ] > SETI is searching for extraterrestrial intelligence. [ snip ] You make some interesting points, Mike, but "scientific" doesn't have anything to do with needles and haystacks or estimates of success very close to zero. Scientific has to do with science, as in scientific principles, apparatus, observations, method, classification, arrangement ... SETI@home can easily be convincily argued to follow proper scientific method and principles, so I can't agree that AstroPulse is any more or less scientific than SETI@home. I'm guessing that you perceive greater value in the science being done in the AstroPulse project for the reasons you gave, but I submit that both projects are equally scientific. Cheers, trane
36) Questions and Answers : Windows : No work from project... (Message 5134) Posted 13 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: Yep -- there's just precious little work coming down the pipe right now. I've managed to get all of two WUs in the last 24 hours and one of those was completed in 8 minutes. lol
37) Message boards : Number crunching : Official Word on no more Work Units...!!!! (Message 5113) Posted 12 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: > they're wrong, and that, my meddlesome friend, reeks of stupidity. The only > comments out of line here are yours. "could we have a little more attitude please"? LOL
38) Message boards : Number crunching : Official Word on no more Work Units...!!!! (Message 5092) Posted 11 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: > > Speaking of credits and evil... Cheating by merging clients to get to the > > top of the list, hmmm, just like PCZ. > ========== > > Michaels right Trane, somehow 2 different Computers of mine got Merged > together & it moved the newly Merged Computer into second place on the > Total Credits List ... Then Michael is categorically wrong. "Somehow got merged" isn't cheating. Cheating is intentional. That doesn't seem to be the case with you. Michael's comment was out of line.
39) Message boards : Number crunching : Official Word on no more Work Units...!!!! (Message 5087) Posted 11 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: > Just because you're not aware of which list is effected doesn't make your > statement true. Top Computers is the list I'm speaking of. Combining Yep. I took a look at it. > totals is *cheating* for it serves no other useful purpose. Just > ask PoorBoy and PCZ, that's how they got to the top of the > list! It's totally clear why you're whining about two guys "cheating". Man, that's just silly. Who made the rule that it's not okay for a single host to display all its totals? Probably the guy sitting in 3rd place, eh?
40) Message boards : Number crunching : Official Word on no more Work Units...!!!! (Message 5085) Posted 11 Nov 2004 by Trane Francks Post: Guys, I reread what I posted and it sure comes off unfriendly and know-it-all. Ick. Sorry about that. After so many years on the net, I really do know by now not to sit down in front of the PC when I'm on the wrong end of a stressful day. I apologize. > Can you be more specific, or are you really motivated to do distributed > computing projects simply because they are defined as science? I'm a software engineer, so the whole paradigm of distributed computing excites the dickens outta me. I'm also a fairly rabid amateur astronomer and general science buff. After five years of full-time participation in such projects, it's still a kick to be able to contribute to things that I do not have the skill or resources to pull off on my own. Everybody should have the room to participate and enjoy the projects for whatever reason that floats their boat. This is a point that I utterly failed to acknowledge in my previous post. @Michael Berger: Please explain exactly how merging hosts cheats. Merging hosts does nothing but combine the totals of different IDs assigned to the same host system. Overall credits done by the host remain the same, so there's no list (of which I'm aware) to climb. I've seen several instances of random problems causing new IDs to automagically appear for several of my systems. Of course, I merged them. It makes it easier for me to monitor their health. Cheers, gents. trane

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