Posts by James Sotherden

1) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : WORD LINK VII (Message 46443) Posted 5 Mar 2011 by James Sotherden Post: Sad
2) Message boards : News : Failing workunits (Message 43164) Posted 25 Oct 2010 by James Sotherden Post: Im also wondering if i should run MW on my i7 68 hours for a work unit to complete and only getting 213 for credit stinks. And I have more of them to crunch. NNT for me. The mac is doing them in 9 hours. why so slow on a i7 quad? the same DE- separation units.
3) Message boards : News : updated the CPU applications (Message 43061) Posted 21 Oct 2010 by James Sotherden Post: My intel dual core mac is not getting any more comp errors but the nbodys are are using 1.95% of my cores. Is this something new? That's not 1.95%, but 1.95 processors. There's a new multithreaded N-body which should be a more effective use of a CPU than running an individual N-body on each core. BOINC tells the application how many threads to use, which in this case would be 2. The OpenMP one is also right now only on OS X; Linux should be soon and then Windows if I can get it to work. Also I had aborted all tasks on my i7 920, and downloaded the new work units. They got to 32 hours and then went to comp error. So I aborted most of them and kept 8 to see what happens to them. How recently? It seems your errors have been removed from the database. [/quote] Thanks for the answer on the core usage. Work is getting done faster on the Mac. On the i7 I aborted all work units 47 hours ago. The 8 I kept 3 had comp errors the other 5 are currently at 47 hours with anywhere between 2 and 19 hours to complettion. Will see what happens if I want to undo NNT on this rig.
4) Message boards : News : updated the CPU applications (Message 43005) Posted 20 Oct 2010 by James Sotherden Post: My intel dual core mac is not getting any more comp errors but the nbodys are are using 1.95% of my cores. Is this something new? Also I had aborted all tasks on my i7 920, and downloaded the new work units. They got to 32 hours and then went to comp error. So I aborted most of them and kept 8 to see what happens to them. Im running stock apps on both computers. CPU only. I will keep my NNT on untill things settle down.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Computation Errors (Message 42816) Posted 13 Oct 2010 by James Sotherden Post: Just had another comp error on the mac. Big bummer. I have 8 on the i7 but seti wont let them run,I can hope they dont error out.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Computation Errors (Message 42781) Posted 12 Oct 2010 by James Sotherden Post: Ive had that same problem with my mac and the i7. They crunch for 32 hours and are allmost done then get a comp error. Kind of ticks me off. So have set both for NNT and will let them die.
7) Message boards : News : updated the CPU applications (Message 42770) Posted 12 Oct 2010 by James Sotherden Post: Both my mac and i7 get allmost done 30 plus hours then get a computational error. I think i will set NNT. Id rather get ghosts from seti than to error out all the time.
8) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42625) Posted 6 Oct 2010 by James Sotherden Post: Fracture
9) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link VI (Message 42401) Posted 27 Sep 2010 by James Sotherden Post: Craving
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Big issue : Milkiway doesn't work on Mac OS X. (Message 39713) Posted 14 May 2010 by James Sotherden Post: Is there an issue with milkyway and boinc 6,10.43. Seems like since I downloaded it I cant get any milkway work. I am on a intel mac on OS X. My i7 gets work.
11) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link V (Message 37608) Posted 21 Mar 2010 by James Sotherden Post: joint
12) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link V (Message 37579) Posted 20 Mar 2010 by James Sotherden Post: donuts
13) Message boards : Number crunching : No Thankyou (Message 33116) Posted 7 Nov 2009 by James Sotherden Post: I dont post here normally as milkyway is my back up project for seti@home. I know some of you also do or did seti. There is a project that has had a lot of server issues. The difference is that seti communicates a hell of a lot better. My one observation is that milkyway will not post a little notice saying that hey we have a problem hang on to your hats a few hours ,days, or what ever. Now I know seti doesnt always give an up to the second account . But in my opinion if your web page is up and you crash , post a blurb, it will work wonders for keeping morale up. Me, i like the science this project does i will stick around and do my small pittance for it.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange things happen (credit) (Message 32989) Posted 3 Nov 2009 by James Sotherden Post: I lost 5 work units this morning when milkyway said they were aborted. They timed out, I take it that what ever crashed they could not get home. And here Seti has had no work so I was hoping to up my rac a little here. O well. stuff happens.
15) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link IV (Message 30486) Posted 11 Sep 2009 by James Sotherden Post: property
16) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link IV (Message 29926) Posted 30 Aug 2009 by James Sotherden Post: shooter
17) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link IV (Message 28641) Posted 30 Jul 2009 by James Sotherden Post: secrets
18) Message boards : Number crunching : server crash (July 29) (Message 28567) Posted 29 Jul 2009 by James Sotherden Post: I just noticed my boinc stats are a we tad below what i have showing on my computer and avatar stats. scared me till i read the forums.
19) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Word Link IV (Message 28566) Posted 29 Jul 2009 by James Sotherden Post: dessert
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Milestones II (Message 28392) Posted 26 Jul 2009 by James Sotherden Post: Just crunched my 100,000 for milkyway.

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