Posted 11 Jul 2023 by
adrianxw
Have a good holiday, going anywhere interesting? My wife and I spent a couple of weeks around Naples earlier this year, had a nice time. We climbed Vesuvius, sounds dramatic doesn't it! Okay, a bus drives up to a large car park about 150m from the crater rim, but you have to walk that last bit!!!
Posted 16 May 2023 by
adrianxw
I crunched a few, (8), work units from the test batch on the 12th which all ran to normal completion. Since then, I've not received any.
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And less than an hour later, a work unit arrives! It is crunching now.
Posted 3 Mar 2023 by
adrianxw
>>> I have 7 tasks stuck in upload.
Stuck? My tasks are uploading without issue, I've just sent a couple within the last five minutes. Is there another issue?
Posted 2 Mar 2023 by
adrianxw
Fair enough. I've never had that problem.
Posted 1 Mar 2023 by
adrianxw
Cancelled by the server might go into the "errors" box, but really, it is not a client error, there is a limit on the number of boxes to put the figure. The server has been instructed to cancel remaining tasks already sent for a particular job, or class of jobs, if the criteria it is given are met. There are several, probably many, possible reasons for this. It might have been instructed to cancel jobs because an error has been found with them, alternatively, if the server has already received sufficient replies from other crunchers which are valid it cancels outstanding jobs to prevent crunchers wasting their time. You can get this message from all projects, I have received several of these messages from Rosetta this week for example.
Timed out is simply what it says, no reply has been successfully received for a job it has sent you before the given deadline. The deadline is used by the server to ensure that a task does, indeed, get processed. It allows it to resend the job to another cruncher so that the result can be assimilated.
Both of these "errors" can, and will be seen at all projects. A common cause is a client downloading excessive quantities of work units for the project.
Posted 28 Feb 2023 by
adrianxw
>>> The project has an endemic problem with uploading results. I'm going to stop crunching for them.
Why? It's been off most of the day, but my uploads have all cleared within the last couple of hours. BOINC handles this kind of thing fine.
Posted 2 Mar 2022 by
adrianxw
... and to date, I have yet to receive a reply which actually answered my question. Their marketing junk is pretty voluminous though...
Has the price of your current preferred solution just taken a series kick up?
Posted 28 Feb 2022 by
adrianxw
I have asked what...
2x 8TB (Raid 0), for example two 3.84TB SSD SAS Read Intensive 12Gbps 2.5in Hot-plug
... that would cost from Samsung, who supply my SSD's. Their chat type person was useless and directed me to their local office. I can ask them in the morning.
Two 3.84TB SSD is, of course, not going to give you 2x 8TB....
Posted 28 Feb 2022 by
adrianxw
I asked earlier about the equipment necessary to run a project, you basically didn't know. I am puzzled, you now say you have found another disk. The reason I am nagging on about this, is that I added a new Samsung 870 EVO 2.5 500GB SSD to this machine earlier this year. The cost was trivial. >edit< It cost 529 Danish Kroner.
Posted 14 Oct 2021 by
adrianxw
Most crunchers attatch several projects to a computing node, so if one, or more, temporarily, stops producing work, their machines happily move onto other projects. Nice of you to let us know though.
It would be interesting to know what kind of systems, (processors, RAM, disk capacity, communications etc.), are used to run a project.
Posted 5 Mar 2021 by
adrianxw
>>> show your contribution to the project
The badges have no real meaning then. My contribution to the project can be seen anyway.
Posted 17 Sep 2020 by
adrianxw
If your new computational resources are sufficient, don't feel the need to "make work" to keep crunchers happy, I have several "silent" projects on my machines, every now and then, one of them pushes a couple of weeks work, then goes silent again. Remember, the crunchers are trying to help you, they should never be a burden.
Posted 17 Oct 2019 by
adrianxw
>>>
If you run a BOINC-based project and would like it to be included on this list, please contact us.
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Posted 10 Aug 2019 by
adrianxw
What purpose do these badges have?
Posted 12 Jul 2019 by
adrianxw
Does the ARM version have issues is the point really.
Posted 10 Jul 2019 by
adrianxw
One of the things that struck me was the run times. The ARM systems had at least ten times the run time of my systems, if their results are being dumped, that is serious waste.
Posted 9 Jul 2019 by
adrianxw
Eleven hours later, and the two units have been validated for me. I should have noted the unit numbers so I could see what had actually happened, but I didn't.
Posted 8 Jul 2019 by
adrianxw
I happened to look at my recent results page and noticed I had two marked as "Validation inconclusive". One each from my two i7's. In both cases it´s partner is an ARM v7 processor. Potential issue here?
Posted 2 Jul 2019 by
adrianxw
I got this from:
https://www.researchgate.net
>>>
Well notify you at "my e-mail" when the authors provide the full-text.
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A possibility.
Posted 28 Jun 2019 by
adrianxw
Errm, that is what I was trying to explain to him...