1) Message boards : Number crunching : Computation Errors (Message 42867) Posted 15 Oct 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: the solution I use is as follows I use a PC with 2 CPU only and have the SSE3 running I notice they should show a percentage complete of 0.062 within about 2 minutes , if they do, they run ok for me within about 4 to 6 hours and I get credits. if they still show 0.00% complete after a few minutes I abort them and I get another download to try as these ones never seem to start at all. it is not easy to spot those when you are asleep so what I do is to just make sure about 3 or 4 of these have started running correctly to prove the are all going to work during the night and set it to no new tasks until I am back on the computer with 3 or 4 ready to submit the following morning then I allow new tasks. I hope this helps

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Torrents of Invalid WU's (Message 42752) Posted 11 Oct 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Not sure where this fits best, This task ran for 3 hours with no progress and I aborted it, 4 of 5 didn't seems to show any progress either. Yet one task I had ran just fine.[/u] task de_14_2s_5_1344965_1286666350_1 I have had similar ones what I notice is that if it does not start in 2 minutes it will just countdown on the right with no progress until it reaches zero Ie after 6 or 7 hours then keeps running instead of the normal 4 to 5 hours the good ones that work usually show 0.62% progress within 2 minutes. so when i get them if it shows the 0.62 before 2 minutes then I let it run and if not I abort it. I notice over the weekend about 40% were good but the other 60% would not have started so these were aborted after 2 minutes Paul

3) Message boards : Number crunching : Questionable WU's (Message 42684) Posted 8 Oct 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: i decided to stay and they worked ok yesterday but the latest ones are showing no progress so I do not want to waste 7 hours so how long should i have them running before aborting them? 10 minutes seems to be ok

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Questionable WU's (Message 42660) Posted 7 Oct 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: My latest one is the same it is up to 7 hours but the "to completion" has gone to nothing but the elapsed is still going up. if I look at it with Boinctasks it shows 100.669 complete so it looks like a wasted 7 hours. I am definitly not pleased and I will abort any in future much earlier in fact I will detach and try something else

5) Message boards : Number crunching : CPU worth it for MW@H? (Message 42652) Posted 6 Oct 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Hi my latest 2 are showing the elapsed time going up and the "to completion" going down as usual but the progress is 0-00% according to Boinc should I abort them?

6) Message boards : Number crunching : CPU worth it for MW@H? (Message 42596) Posted 5 Oct 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Hi I have a question I run using the SSE3 then sometimes I get this message 05/10/2010 20:22:17 Milkyway@home Message from server: Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a version of MilkyWay@Home N-Body Simulation. so the only way to get it is to detach and then reattach the project then the N body runs but the SSE3 disappears from the app-info.xml Then the next one is not an N-body file so to stop it running for 24 hours you abort it and download the SSE3 again and this removes the N_body for the next one. is there a way to change something so it can automatically tell which one to run without this work around i just have CPU on my computer thanks Paul

7) Message boards : Number crunching : Wow! CPU WUs done in just 160 secs! (Message 42507) Posted 2 Oct 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: I keep looking at sea breeze who has moved from a boinc score of 57,533 on 18th september and in 199th place and now stands at 9,884,264 in 5th place and is top in Milkyway perhaps I am too cynical thinking that this is not genuine

8) Message boards : Number crunching : CPU crazy slow (Message 42472) Posted 30 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Hi with my SSE3 installed it reduced the time taken from 24 hours to between 5 and 6 hours. Assuming you have both CPUs running Milkyway, you should be able to up the credits from 214 a day to between 1500 and 1900 credits a day. mine alternates between 1710 and 1924 a day. nowhere near the speed of GPUs though. Paul

9) Message boards : Number crunching : Wow! CPU WUs done in just 160 secs! (Message 42366) Posted 25 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: I am sceptical because not only did he get 400,000 from milky way he actually got 3,406,890 in one day on all projects it has taken me 17 months with a computer running permanemtly to get to just under half of this. so he must have a machine well over 1000 times faster or over 1000 computers to get to this figure

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Wow! CPU WUs done in just 160 secs! (Message 42348) Posted 24 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: has anybody seen that somebody is getting over 400,000 credits a day on milkyway

11) Message boards : Number crunching : reconnecting to clint (Message 42235) Posted 18 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Thanks Zydor I have got it working again but needed to do a system restore as my sound had disappeared as well regards paul

12) Message boards : Number crunching : reconnecting to clint (Message 42232) Posted 18 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Hi my Boinc has been trying to connect to client all morning. has anybody else had this problem. paul

13) Message boards : News : started a new nbody search: de_nbody_model1_1 (Message 42199) Posted 16 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: as an example I have just got 141 credits on another project for 7 hours so they a giving 20 credits an hour not 8 Paul

14) Message boards : News : started a new nbody search: de_nbody_model1_1 (Message 42197) Posted 16 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: my latest one took 26 hours so you can see it has hogged one of my cpus for a whole 24 hours and I just get credits of 213 again this seems very low and I may be detaching soon although I have done this project for 17 months paul

15) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : What are YOU listening to!? (Message 42193) Posted 16 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Mahler Symphony no 2 wonderful

16) Message boards : News : started a new nbody search: de_nbody_model1_1 (Message 42162) Posted 15 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Hi My one finally finished at 25 hours 27 minutes with a CPU time of just under 17 hours and got 213 points or just over 8 points an hour. this seems very low as I think most other projects give more than this. what do others think? regards Paul

17) Message boards : News : started a new nbody search: de_nbody_model1_1 (Message 42106) Posted 13 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Hi it is nealy midnight in the UK so my maths have gone up the creek today thanks

18) Message boards : News : started a new nbody search: de_nbody_model1_1 (Message 42104) Posted 13 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Hi my latest one is a de_12 and has run 2 hours and is showing 9.259% done so this looks to be going to take over 200 hours it is due by 21/9 so I will need be running for 24 hours a day to get it done in time or should I abort it. regards Paul

19) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange Message (Message 42077) Posted 12 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: Hi Again I solved it by detaching and re-attaching the project and I am getting work now. I do not have a GPU so all mine are CPU. it has lost my SSSE in the app_info.xml which I used to run them on and it now shows a JScrypt file regards Paul

20) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange Message (Message 42073) Posted 12 Sep 2010 by Paul Forsdick Post: I am getting this message 12/09/2010 14:36:48 Milkyway@home Message from server: Your app_info.xml file doesn't have a version of MilkyWay@Home N-Body Simulation. how do I get it? thanks Paul

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