Posts by Gary Charpentier

1) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC project & Seti down (Message 51078) Posted 16 Sep 2011 by Gary Charpentier Post: Both the BOINC Project website and the Seti website are unreachable. Eric just left town for a three day vacation. That leaves Jeff in the lab to attempt a fix Friday. It may be Monday before things are back if the trouble is in the server cabinet at the Space Science Lab. I note that the Cricket Graphs (seti work) are alive so that channel to a different ISP is up, so this may be a Campus IT issue. If the Mods will indulge this off topic information Thanks.
2) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 50219) Posted 19 Jul 2011 by Gary Charpentier Post: tail
3) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : TLPTPW #6 (Message 50218) Posted 19 Jul 2011 by Gary Charpentier Post: drive by win
4) Message boards : News : Make-Up Credits to Run Wednesday and Thursday (Message 50217) Posted 19 Jul 2011 by Gary Charpentier Post: Hello, We'll be running two days of double-credits this week on Wednesday and Thursday to make up for outages earlier in the summer. Cheers, Matthew N What time zone?
5) Message boards : Number crunching : I'm getting lots and lots of 'Computation errors'! (Message 47768) Posted 13 Apr 2011 by Gary Charpentier Post: Is something broken with the stock MAC application?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Calculations. (Message 4433) Posted 23 Jul 2008 by Gary Charpentier Post: The principal designer of BOINC has come up with an idea that would ENFORCE cross project parity, but would also cause long term DEFLATION in credit grants. I would really hate for him to get tired of the cross project credit parity debates and actually implement his idea. The problem is that a CPU that is granted 100 CS / day NOW would be granted about 50 CS / day 18 months from now when CPU speeds double - this is not my idea of how to fix the problem, but I believe that the cross project parity problem will be fixed somehow. I would much rather have a political solution that involves telling projects that are way out of line with credit grants than a draconian measure that keeps reducing credit grants into the future. Well that is one way to do it, but isn't the more correct way to have those new faster processors get 200 CS/day and keep the current processor getting 100 CS /day? In any case there is nothing else that is fair. Unless he wants to grant CS based on the number of KWH that the machine uses! Now for people who re-compile the app to run faster than stock on their machine, what to do is another issue. They do less work so they should get less credit per work unit. Gary
7) Message boards : Number crunching : New WU Length? (Message 4427) Posted 23 Jul 2008 by Gary Charpentier Post: Adding to what Thunder said.....Nate has already said that Travis will increase the deadlines soon,so these short deadlines won't last long ;) Yeah, we'll be making some changes to the deadlines and number of WUs downloaded at a time ASAP. We'll just have to deal with it until then, sorry. So you sent Work Units out with wrong FLOP counts. When the machines finished they adjusted their DCF's. Now you, the project, get the back side, a much lower total FLOP count for your project. Wed Jul 23 07:40:06 2008\|Milkyway@home\|Message from server: No work sent Wed Jul 23 07:40:06 2008\|Milkyway@home\|Message from server: (won't finish in time) Computer on 100% of time, BOINC on 100.0% of that BONIC is very slow to lower the DCF. I'm not inclined to reset it by hand on my machines either, because until the correct FLOP counts are being sent with the work units it will just reset to some ridiculously high value anyway. Good luck as I suspect a large number of machines will never ever be able to down load a work unit from Milkyway again. Gary
8) Message boards : Number crunching : No new WU (Message 3951) Posted 29 Jun 2008 by Gary Charpentier Post: Not posting because Sat Jun 28 08:28:21 2008\|Milkyway@home\|[error] Error on file upload: can't write file /export/www/boinc/milkyway/upload/a/gs_607_1214630507_470607_0_0: No space left on server But all seems as it has gone back to normal by now.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : No new WU (Message 3835) Posted 19 Jun 2008 by Gary Charpentier Post: Results ready to send 10. Need to make a few more work units please. Thanks.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : No new WU (Message 3723) Posted 11 Jun 2008 by Gary Charpentier Post: No WU's in a long time, my 'puter is hungry for WU's. Front page says they are down, they know it and are working on it. Status page says the Transitioner backlog is 38 years! Don't you love automated scripts! Thanks for letting us know you're working on it. A daily update would be nice so we know you haven't thrown the hands up. Even a little tech detail here and there, you never know someone out here just might have run into the same bug. Thanks Gary
11) Message boards : Number crunching : No new WU (Message 3710) Posted 10 Jun 2008 by Gary Charpentier Post: Could simply be that it is the exams period.... Well exams are over. But it's summer break. And I don't know about Travis, but I have a full time job that occupies me 9 hours a day, so i have trouble checking. I have notified Travis about the problem and I hope it's all fixed soon. Thanks. At least we know someone is looking into it.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : server problems (Message 3374) Posted 25 Apr 2008 by Gary Charpentier Post: xp no new work I can't prove it as some of my systems are not asking for work ... But it could be that we are running it dry as fast as it generates new work ... I know I have gotten a few tasks from M-Way this morning ... The problems of popularity ... hmm...well firstly the assimilator is clogged due to a db_purge. I'll kill that soon. and I think I'll restart the server too if it's acting flaky Fri Apr 25 09:08:06 2008\|Milkyway@home\|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work Fri Apr 25 09:08:06 2008\|Milkyway@home\|Requesting 15588 seconds of new work Fri Apr 25 09:08:11 2008\|Milkyway@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511] Fri Apr 25 09:08:11 2008\|Milkyway@home\|Message from server: No work sent Fri Apr 25 09:08:11 2008\|Milkyway@home\|Message from server: (there was work for other platforms) Have they dropped Mac's or do they have a big problem on their end?