Posts by William Timbrook

1) Message boards : ATLAS application : ATLAS job availability question (Message 35501) Posted 13 Jun 2018 by William Timbrook Post: Yeti, I ran across your checklist. My problem was the <p_vm_extensions_disabled>1</p_vm_extensions_disabled> in the client_state.xml file. Thank You! William
2) Message boards : ATLAS application : ATLAS job availability question (Message 35500) Posted 13 Jun 2018 by William Timbrook Post: Hi, I have a xeon based machine running windows 7 and it always has a few atlas jobs in the boinc work queue. https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10158133 I'm also running with a windows 10 machine (i7-6900) and I've been always getting the "no tasks available" message. https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10402412 I'd like to be able to run the ATLAS jobs on the i7 machine. I have the virtual box 5.2.8 installed on both machines. Does anyone know if there are some things I can check / do to get this to work on my i7 machine? Thanks, William
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Compution error for LHC@home after click \'show graphics\' (Message 22553) Posted 15 Sep 2010 by William Timbrook Post: I crashed 2 work units that way today too.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : boinc architecture questions (Message 18943) Posted 31 Jan 2008 by William Timbrook Post: ...The source of the BOINC client is free available. But in my opinion, a upgrade of your system to 11i - if your HW would be supported with 11i - would be better than invensting a lot of time in compiling a new BOINC client on 11.0. I talked to my boss and he/we're intending to install 11i on the k-class once the n-class is in full production. Thanks for the insight and I'll probably be asking a lot off hp-ux / boinc specific questions in a couple/several months. Is there a specific project forum I should post those questions to (ie. seti or simap)? Thanks, William
5) Message boards : Number crunching : boinc architecture questions (Message 18928) Posted 30 Jan 2008 by William Timbrook Post: Thanks for the confirmation. I'm hoping to get my hands on it in about 8 weeks (we're migrating over to an N-class but I'm not allowed to boinc test it). The K-class has 2 PARISC 180s and it's running 11.00 which according to dotsch.de (which I'm assuming is your site) has the binaries for the boinc 5.4.11 client to run. Is 5.4.11 still a viable release? Do you know if the source is available and runable for 5.10.20 on 11.00? Thanks, William
6) Message boards : Number crunching : boinc architecture questions (Message 18927) Posted 30 Jan 2008 by William Timbrook Post: please ignore
7) Message boards : Number crunching : boinc architecture questions (Message 18854) Posted 20 Jan 2008 by William Timbrook Post: I've seen messages in forums and in the boinc manager that seems to answer some of the questions but I'm not sure I understand the reasoning. So when a project like lhc ports to a new platform - say linux 64bit, the proper boinc manager has to be installed. When it comes to the project and individual client (end user machine), is there an application module that's downloaded with the data download? I've occasionally seen boinc project messages stating "no work for this platform". Does that mean there's work for other platforms vs. the project just stating there's no work period? Taking the last questions farther, I looked at www.dotsch.de and their list of HP-UX platform binaries. I maybe getting access to a 2 PA-RISC proc K class machine running 11.0 and was wondering if it was worth pursuing (Is there work for it?). Thanks, William
8) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 5.10.28 (Message 18569) Posted 7 Nov 2007 by William Timbrook Post: This might help answer what was "fixed" (start towards the bottom): http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=1668
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Wait for it (Message 17121) Posted 26 Jun 2007 by William Timbrook Post: Beautiful !!!
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Fairer distribuiton of work(Flame Fest 2007) (Message 16424) Posted 27 Feb 2007 by William Timbrook Post: There are a lot of projects out there and I've decided to concentrate on 8 of them over 5 machines. Now that predictor has work and with the occasional boincsimap and lhc, sometimes I think I've over extended myself and I'm relieved when those projects are taking a break (yes I could suspend or detach but...). I have to strongly agree with the fact that the turnaround is the most important point, not to see how long you can grow your sig (IMHO). People have different resource capabilities and just because I'm attached to lhc today, doesn't mean I'll be attached next week when there's work available. There are also people that stop boinc'g for extended periods before coming back or quit although. There are people (I'm assuming) that lose their email address (change ISPs, etc.) and have to abandon a username and create a new one. The reason for the comments are think of what it would administratively take to "fairly" distribute the work. But, then again turnaround is the most important point on these projects. William
11) Message boards : Number crunching : SOME greedy users (Message 16065) Posted 6 Jan 2007 by William Timbrook Post: I agree with PovAddict's comment about the nitpicking. Try and realize that we all don’t have the same home countries and native languages. I still find it entertaining to read theregister.co.uk just to be exposed to some of the Queen’s language and humor. If there’s a disagreement / misunderstanding maybe think about rephrasing the question/comment another way. I’ve been following the threads to see if there’s any news about lhc being switched over the QMC’s control and it’s a turnoff read these threads when they’re outright attacks. I still look just to see if there’s a tidbit of useful information. William
12) Message boards : Number crunching : A Miracle! (Message 15955) Posted 31 Dec 2006 by William Timbrook Post: Caspr's comment was "lucky enough to keep my boxes loaded all month..." and probably meant that LHC released enough work throughout the month to keep his machines busy. Although there has been more work recently, it hasn't been enough to keep my 4 busy for the month. January is coming up and hopefully the new admins can get the xml results going once they have control of the project at QM. William
13) Message boards : Number crunching : New Work so get it while you can....! (Message 15806) Posted 13 Dec 2006 by William Timbrook Post: For my home machine, which is the slowest I run on is a P4 2.8 - no hyperthreading, and a 533fsb bus (old but solid motherboard). first one down : 10 Dec 2006 11:18:31 UTC first one back up: 11 Dec 2006 2:04:40 UTC last one down : 10 Dec 2006 17:42:39 UTC - 17:39 is when I intervened. last one back up : 11 Dec 2006 11:21:17 UTC William
14) Message boards : Number crunching : New Work so get it while you can....! (Message 15799) Posted 12 Dec 2006 by William Timbrook Post: I cheated. My 3 machines at work picked up 7. For my home machine, I noticed it was doing a LHC packet so I suspended it and let it download another one. I did this 10 times for a total of 11 packets on my home machine. 6 of these packets were less than 30 seconds each. Doing this had an adverse effect on my rosetta and world grid processing for this machine, but ... William
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Did everyone get work 02 Nov UTC? (Message 15479) Posted 17 Nov 2006 by William Timbrook Post: You stated that 4 of the projects require more than 512meg of ram. I know world comm grid / cancer requires 720. What are the other 3 that you found? William
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Projects to mix with LHC (Message 15470) Posted 16 Nov 2006 by William Timbrook Post: I run my single machine 24/7 with boinc engaged 100%. How is that relevant? Even if it affects the table somewhat, the table would still be a useful indicator of which machine. Yes, memory, disk etc will affect the table, but they will only broaden the gaussian distribution about the mean. We should still be able to rank projects by processor (or processor by project). Multi core and multi chip machines should have their own row or column in the table. Philip, There are some projects that warn what average duration of a workunit is, I think einstein is fairly consistant. Seti is getting into longer ones. Here are 3 from my seti on the same computer: cpu time granted credit 17,755.98 27.82 33,742.97 62.33 313.33 0.11 There have been references that LHC has been putting out smaller units lately too. I'm sure there's a math forumla for all of this somewhere. Someone would have to take the time and look at some work units and compare all the computers for each unit and kind of work out how long they take for a given processor. But, then again, how do you know if the system is being overclocked? Or, and this is probably the exception, if someone actually "lowered" their bus speed because the cpu is running too hot and the noisey fans bothers them (it's not me, but my colleague - I've talked to him about it and it just goes in one ear and out the other). Next comes resources, is it up to the individual projects to furnish this data? And if so, are you expecting to compare "project a" workunits to "project b" workunits (which it seems so)? "It may be that my 2.53 celeron is better at Rosetta than LHC or vice versa." How can you tell if the machines are really similiar or not? 4 of the 5 I run have HT (and those show up as 2 processors) - I'm probably getting a little bit more work done, but it's taking me longer (parallel vs. serial). There might be a couple of people out there that can furnish those numbers (especially the boinc farmers - if they're keeping results statistics). Good hunting and when you find a table, please post it to this thread. William
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Projects to mix with LHC (Message 15456) Posted 14 Nov 2006 by William Timbrook Post: Atotos, I see you're also attached to Rosetta. I don't know about the workunit download times for Spain, but the processing times are reasonable on a P4 2.8 (about 3 hours). I wanted to run the Worldgrid cancer project at work, but was surprised by the 720meg ram requirement (that machine only has 512mg - but it's kept busy with the 5 projects I have loaded on it - with 3 generally not having any work). Philip, as for the request about a table of which project would go well with what cpu, one of the things to remember is it's not all about the cpu. I hit a hard ram issue with Worldgrid cancer and a disk issue with CPDN (it was temporary). There's also the fact that seti is starting to put up some large variable sized workunits out there. Also in regards to workunit deadlines, do you keep the machine running 24/7 or turn it on every couple of days. How many projects and and how do you want to share the time on the cpu? I know your question is a about a single processor celeron, but what about the multi cpu machine (I'm using 4 work pcs that have HT and boinc counts these as 2 cpu machines). I'm asking for solid answers about video cards on these variable like questions for MS FlightSim X on a different message board (If anyone knows if I can get a decent fps increase going from a Radeon 7000, 64meg video card to a 256meg video card for FSX, please let me know :) ). William
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Did everyone get work 02 Nov UTC? (Message 15444) Posted 13 Nov 2006 by William Timbrook Post: Great! Ah, but you didn't exacerbate global warming by burning unnecessary ressources either. Help yourself to a feeling of smugness and superiority anyway. As far as the global warming, I'm just trying to use the electricity generated by the hydro power instead of the natural gas to run the furnance at home (but how much heat can I generate with a P4 2.8 anyways). http://www.climateprediction.net/info/part_faq.php#q3.1
19) Message boards : Number crunching : /stats/ empty (Message 15438) Posted 12 Nov 2006 by William Timbrook Post: Thanks for the confirmation / update. It's greatly appreciated! William
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Did everyone get work 02 Nov UTC? (Message 15437) Posted 12 Nov 2006 by William Timbrook Post: After thinking about your comment, I guess you have a valid point about the smugness. I guess I lashed out because of all the "no work" related comments. Probably something similar to all of the drivers we have in around the Seattle area that have no problems parallel parking doing 70mph on the freeways. As far as the global warming, I'm just trying to use the electricity generated by the hydro power instead of the natural gas to run the furnance at home (but how much heat can I generate with a P4 2.8 anyways). William Got NO LHC work at all. Why - Well I think it was because - After months of being on 24/7, I decided to switch off while I was away on holiday this last week. Bloody typical - All that work and I missed it. Ah, but you didn't exacerbate global warming by burning unnecessary ressources either. Help yourself to a feeling of smugness and superiority anyway. I got a couple of WUs, as I happened to switch a computer on at around 08:00 UTC and must have got some of the tail end.

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