Posts by Zoffix Znet

1) Message boards : News : You saved MilkyWay@home!! (Message 62813) Posted 10 Dec 2014 by Zoffix Znet Post: That's great news, but I'm deeply saddened that my donation won't be helping you. When you started your fundraiser, I donated $5â€”not a lot, I know, but all I could afford at the time. Since then, your institute has completely squandered my donation by sending me junk mail. First letter was a thank you for my donation; I thought it was mad for that to be sent, since postage cost $1.30. Later on, I believe I received another $1.30 letter reminding me of other possible donation options. And yesterday, I received a... calendar. Completely useless to me. Postage cost $3.30 and the calendar itself likely cost you $5 to design and print. What is up with that? Will I continue to receive junk mail instead of that money going to research teams? Disturbing, disappointing, and sad.
2) Message boards : News : User location visualization (Message 59008) Posted 21 Jun 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: This is really cool to see :) Thanks for posting. Even some from Nigeria! Awesome! I'm myself from the blob in Canada, Ontario :)
3) Message boards : Cafe MilkyWay : Thanks for User of The Day :) (Message 57604) Posted 22 Mar 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: It's funny to see myself as user of the day :D I just recently setup my profile, so it's surprising to see myself pop up so quick :) Check out my Zombie box I resurrected not so long ago :D I managed to make it crunch MilkyWay@home with just 120MB of RAM :D http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/show_host_detail.php?hostid=505967 Anyone else has ancient hardware doing crunching?
4) Message boards : News : New Separation Runs Started (Message 57514) Posted 14 Mar 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: Hey. I'm curious about these messages I'm getting on both of my computers: <search_application> milkyway_separation 1.00 Linux x86 double </search_application> Error loading Lua script 'astronomy_parameters.txt': [string "number_parameters: 4..."]:1: '<name>' expected near '4' Error reading astronomy parameters from file 'astronomy_parameters.txt' Trying old parameters file Using SSE3 path Is that normal? Is that something I should be fixing on my end? Here's one of the tasks (there are more of same messages): http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=418905719
5) Message boards : News : New Separation Runs Started (Message 57451) Posted 8 Mar 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: I had one fail today: de_separation_22_sSgr_1_1358941502_19384205_0 Details: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=414701797
6) Message boards : News : New N-Body Release (Message 57384) Posted 28 Feb 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: All error on that WU happened with 0 run time, so you don't seem to be affected by that error. The first computer is also probably still running it, it has timed out for him already, but the last contact was the 17th, so he is probably alive. I mean, nobody can tell you, if it will error out or not, you have to try it. If everyone aborts all WUs, that eventually might error out, how shall anyone get to know, if they really error out and why? In science also something that didn't work might be a valuable result. So now my run completed successfully, and another box tried to run it unsuccessfully. The message now reads "Too many errors (may have bug)" and "Completed, can't validate" Will my result now be discarded, or is it somehow possible for me to validate it (or for someone with my type of box to run it... not sure why I'm the only one without errors). Just curious.
7) Message boards : News : New N-Body Release (Message 57303) Posted 21 Feb 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: I mean, nobody can tell you, if it will error out or not, you have to try it. If everyone aborts all WUs, that eventually might error out, how shall anyone get to know, if they really error out and why? In science also something that didn't work might be a valuable result. Alright :) I'll keep it running :D (37.6% right now). Thanks for replying.
8) Message boards : News : New N-Body Release (Message 57301) Posted 21 Feb 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: Are long-running N-Body 1.06 worth running at all, or do they all error out? All the ones that promised to run for 75 hours usually errored out pretty quick for me, but now I got one that's been running for 80 hours already, and estimated time has now changed to 112 hours and is still growing. Despite the increasing estimated time, it managed to get to 33% completed so far. With all that said, should I abort it or let it run? I'm guessing it will run for 160 more hours and it would be a shame if it just died eventually, like other 75-hour N-Body 1.06 runs. This is the WU in question: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/workunit.php?wuid=305973763 My computer is the 495319 one.
9) Message boards : News : Stopped N-Body Runs (Message 57033) Posted 26 Jan 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: Disable N-Body Simulation in your MilkyWay@Home Preferences. From what I understand it would be however better for the project to accept them and abort before they start. Alright. Thank you. I'll keep all applications active :)
10) Message boards : News : Stopped N-Body Runs (Message 57028) Posted 25 Jan 2013 by Zoffix Znet Post: Hi, I'm totally new to BOINC and Milky Way @Home, so bear with my ignorance... You said running N-Body tasks is now pointless, as the results won't be useful to you. I still get N-Body tasks from you. Is there a way to avoid them until they are needed again? For how long will they be sent, as you mention there are some still in queue? Thanks.