Posts by Ensor

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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Very short Intel computation vs. normal AMD Message 20287 Posted 12 Sep 2008 by Ensor	Hi, ....One processor was a 486-66 Intel and the other had an AMD Pentium-class processor. The Intel-based machine would routinely process as many as three SETI@home work units to every one the AMD chip could process.... Sounds like you had an AMD K6-II, they had hideously slow FPUs; the K6-III corrected this. TTFN - Pete.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : "Stuck" WU? Message 19632 Posted 16 May 2008 by Ensor	Oh, incidentally, I've aborted this "stuck" WU....nice waste of 6hrs processing time, sigh.... :-( TTFN - Pete.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : "Stuck" WU? Message 19631 Posted 16 May 2008 by Ensor	Hi, BOINC has this annoying habit of halting processing, at times, just before it completes a task.... Unfortunately, in this case that's not what's happened....BOINC is showing the WU as 100% complete, but it's status as "Waiting to run". In fact, it's downloaded and completed several other LHC WU's in the meantime, but this one just refuses to budge. :-( ....I have had tasks that have run for long times, with just a minute or so to complete, get suspended and thus cluttering up my work queue.... I find that damn annoying too, which is why I've set the time between switching tasks to 4 hours on my host (which suits the projects I run). It tends to avoid that problem. On the odd occasion I do spot such a WU, I suspend all others and allow it to finish. Anyway, my suggestion (years ago) that the work scheduler take a look at time to complete before halting work on a task was never allowed to come to fruition.... Glad I'm not the only one with that opinion, pity the BOINC devs can't take it on board. It's such an obvious improvement they could make.... TTFN - Pete.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : "Stuck" WU? Message 19630 Posted 16 May 2008 by Ensor	TTFN? Wow, showing your age now old son. Even I can remember the ITMA radio programme !! Hmm, actually I got that from the first computer system I used at school about 1978....the operating system (MAXIMOP) printed that when you logged out. Ah, the hours wasted playing "Star Trek" on a TTY @ 110baud.... :-) TTFN - Pete.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : "Stuck" WU? Message 19623 Posted 15 May 2008 by Ensor	Anyone else having problems with WU #2642346? On my host at least, progress has reached 100% after just over 6hrs of processing, but it's status is showing as "Waiting to run". Looking at the rewsults page for the WU I notice that noone else who's been issued this WU has yet returned a result yet either.... I'm getting close to just aborting it. TTFN - Pete.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : shut down for maintenance ? Message 19431 Posted 14 Apr 2008 by Ensor	Hi, I'm stil getting a "Message from server: Project encountered internal error: shared memory" error :( Same here.... :-( TTFN - Pete.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : shut down for maintenance ? Message 19428 Posted 14 Apr 2008 by Ensor	Hi, You can wish ... I looked and I have some stuff in there from 2006 ... I was being ironic....on reflection I probably should've put a ";-)" at the end of it. :-) TTFN - Pete.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Muon accelerator design via BOINC Message 19426 Posted 14 Apr 2008 by Ensor	Hi, ....Spihenge and uFluids, sadly are PC only, so my MAIN machines are not ... Having been crunching for uFluids since December 2006, the last thing I would call it is STABLE! It's very much still in an alpha state and there are FREQUENT problems with the application (which is exactly what you'd expect from an alpha project). Whilst it doesn't need constant "babying" it's certainly not "attach and forget" like SETI etc. TTFN - Pete.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : shut down for maintenance ? Message 19387 Posted 12 Apr 2008 by Ensor	Hi, So, What's going on now? Server is up, but not working. Presumably they're now clearing up all those "0.00" credit pending WUs which are cluttering up our results pages...? TTFN - Pete.