Posts by mo.v

331) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17764) Posted 10 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: CPDN main project Tolu worked on the database this morning to try to speed it up. He disabled the database server over lunchtime so the CPDN-BOINC forum was down for a while as well as access to our account and model pages. Everything appears to be running normally now.
332) Message boards : The Lounge : The Speling and Grammaticle Advise thread (Message 17745) Posted 9 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: What are the pink things tied in pairs with blue ribbons in the photo? Are they pigs' trotters (feet)?
333) Message boards : The Lounge : Is Wate still crunching? (Message 17743) Posted 9 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: I can't find the original thread about Wate. Maybe we can't access threads more than two years old. He seems to have briefly crunched something for uFluids in March but has been inactive since then: http://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/get_user.php?cpid=76db680ba32bbff7599ce4aa12d06341 http://boincstats.com/search/all_projects.php?cpid=76db680ba32bbff7599ce4aa12d06341 I'm not sure whether this represents real crunching, but he has some RAC.
334) Message boards : The Lounge : The last who posts (***) before 1212 posts and before the year 2010 wins. (Message 17741) Posted 9 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: But would the bulls, being heavier, sinko faster and disappear without a tres?
335) Message boards : Web interfaces : More Questions to BOINC wide teams (Message 17734) Posted 8 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: Thanks Lluis.
336) Message boards : The Lounge : The Speling and Grammaticle Advise thread (Message 17731) Posted 7 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: I have more good news. My school pupils who produced the German some of you so successfully deciphered further up this thread have achieved excellent grades. To celebrate their success I shall buy una boina and wear it at a jaunty angle to work in the autumn.
337) Message boards : The Lounge : The Speling and Grammaticle Advise thread (Message 17729) Posted 7 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: une boina = beret They are high fashion in the Basque country. Here's one for festivals: http://www.esflamenco.com/product/es20968643.html Or if your fashion sense and finances are more restricted, here are two jackets and a tartan beret all for 30 Euros, in good condition and still apparently unsold: http://www.segundamano.es/vi/10866380.htm?ca=8_s All eminently suitable for BOINCers.
338) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Boinc Manager 5.10.45 will not allow Vista Shutdown or Restart and Browser Question (Message 17724) Posted 7 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: It is in any case always a good idea to exit from BOINC before shutting down the computer, whatever the OS or variant of it. Otherwise sooner or later some tasks in progress will crash, even if they were suspended at the time of the shutdown.
339) Message boards : The Lounge : BOINC in the News (Message 17675) Posted 5 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: For crunchers in Barcelona BOINC crunchers, particularly from Seti, CPDN and ps3grid will be taking part in the Science Festival in Barcelona on 7 and 8 June. Here it is on the official Barcelona website. Sat 7 June 11.00 - 24.00 (yes, this is Spain!) Sun 8 June 11.00 - 15.00 (finishing just in time for lunch or a picnic in a most beautiful place) Sat 7 June. 11.00 - 20.00. Dani Gil will be demonstrating 'Offer your computer to science'. 12.15. 'Computers and climate - a marriage of convenience' by Miquel Àngel Rodríguez of the Climate Research Laboratory. 17.00. 'SETI. Is there extraterrestrial life?' by Agustí Dosaiguas. 18.00. 'Playstation3 serving biomedicine' by ps3grid. Parc de la Ciutatella Passeig Picasso, 1 No charge Here was Dani Gil in a Spanish article about BOINC published in February in the ABC weekend magazine.
340) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17594) Posted 1 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: CPDN main project CPDN server status currently appears normal http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/server_status.php but model results pages are in many cases hanging and refusing to display. Milo will look at the database on the server tomorrow to see whether there's an overload.
341) Message boards : Projects : ClimatePrediction.Net (AKA CPDN) NEWS (Message 17585) Posted 1 Jun 2008 by mo.v Post: In Spring 2007 Carl, who was then CPDN's chief programmer, outlined new CPDN projects that were at the proposal or planning stage. I've added comments in green to show what has been implemented since then. Carl said 'Here is an update on developments for modelling done via CPDN, in the order they will happen over the next two years. Some are at the "proposal" stage so may not come to anything if the reviewers & funding bodies don't fund them. I'll put a (P) for those: 1) optimized (CPU & file I/O) HadCM3L model to come out of beta testing soon (1-2 months). Implemented Summer 2007 2) 80-year workunits to redo some of the more interesting results of the BBC experiment with different forcings (1920-2000 and 2000-2080). These workunits would use (1) and probably happen in 1-3 months' time. Implemented 2007 3) I think we'll be doing another experiment or two with the HadAM3 model (9-times higher resolution model from the Seasonal Attribution Experiment). New experiment using HadAM3 models launched on CPDN in March 2008 4) regional model (UK MetOffice PRECIS Programme HadRM3 model, see http://www.precis.org.uk) embedded with the HadCM3L global model (which generates the boundary conditions for the region). We'll probably do regions of southern Africa and US Pacific Northwest and work with scientists from those areas ((P) -- Microsoft is hopefully going to fund this. I'm going to Seattle with Richard Jones of the MetOffice for meetings next week). I find this project very exciting (and I hope Microsoft does :-) as it will allow scientists from countries that don't have a lot of computer resources to take advantage of setting up experiments with CPDN, having the huge CPU power thanks to the participants, and then being able to use data they would otherwise never have been able to get. Spinup HadCM3L global models currently being run by CPDN beta2 members in preparation for this new work. Funding received. 5) high-resolution global modelling, with the latest generation MetOffice model (HadGAM1). This is at 4 times the resolution (i.e. "half" the hadcm3 resolution, but not quite as high as HadAM3) This experiment is led by William Ingram of the MetOffice (and Oxford too now) to do an in-depth study of cloud feedbacks within the model (i.e. the positive & negative feedbacks of clouds on the climate etc). The modelling code is quite a bit different, and we are keeping things in 64-bit for the first time, so it could take a gigabyte of RAM to run, as well as a 64-bit PC! Not yet implemented 6) HadCM3 but use a higher resolution ocean with hopefully no flux corrections (P) Not yet implemented. 7) in addition to the modelling, a big part of the project work will be getting the results online for scientists' Implemented Summer 2007 in Milo's Results website There is a discussion thread for this topic here.
342) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17369) Posted 18 May 2008 by mo.v Post: SAP This afternoon Milo managed to get into the Physics department. He has cancelled the SAP server redirect to the CPDN server and upgraded the server software. The SAP server is now completely up and running, though Milo can't guarantee its future reliability. It should now be possible to run SAP models again and allow them to send trickles and uploads to the server.
343) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17368) Posted 18 May 2008 by mo.v Post: Thyme Lawn has now modified those instructions. The link to them in the above post is still correct.
344) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17366) Posted 17 May 2008 by mo.v Post: The problem of the SAP server redirect to CPDN doesn't appear to have been really solved. Thyme Lawn has posted a fix on the SAP forum here .
345) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17359) Posted 16 May 2008 by mo.v Post: SAP Milo has fixed the immediate problem of the SAP redirect to CPDN that didn't work as planned and produced the dreadful BOINC manager messages quoted two posts above this. If you have messages like that, please ignore them and don't do what they suggest! The SAP website and forum are now running but the SAP server status page looks as if the SAP server won't accept trickle and zip file uploads at the moment.
346) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17356) Posted 16 May 2008 by mo.v Post: What is wrong with the SAP server? If you don't want to know the technical details, you only need to read the green section below. Milo says Apologies for the SAP problems. What is going on is as follows. The server software needs upgrading as well as the whole OS re-installing, new disks adding and the database fixing. Some of this we don't have time to do and others we can't due to the location of the server. So, as a temporary measure I changed the server so that requests would be re-directed to the main site instead, thus avoiding some of the broken bits. This was supposed to not affect BOINC, but has not worked as planned. I can quite quickly restore the server to its previous state which will fix BOINC, but I can't ssh in to Physics right now. When I do, and revert it to its previous state, it will need some more updating and so it will end up going up and down again as before. With luck I can get this done tomorrow morning. The SAP server is located in a different department at Oxford University, which is why Milo hasn't got full and normal access to it. The problem is exacerbated by a recent serious Linux security problem/vulnerability affecting computers with Debian and Ubuntu. Most of the Physics department computers use Ubuntu. As a result of this, the Physics department has further restricted access to its computers and servers, including the SAP server, until they are sure the security problem is fixed. In addition, the Physics Department only allows Milo and Tolu to access the SAP server remotely via a single CPDN computer, and this computer isn't behaving very well at the moment. We will try to keep members informed about what's happening, but of course Milo can't constantly keep in touch with us while he's fixing problems. If you have a SAP HADAM model: * Don't detach from the CPDN or SAP projects * Don't reset the ClimatePrediction or SAP projects * Don't abort any SAP HADAM models * Do suspend HADAM models in the Tasks tab of BOINC manager * If you are already receiving unpleasant BOINC manager messages about your HADAM model, suspend BOINC network activity if possible.
347) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17355) Posted 15 May 2008 by mo.v Post: SAP project and SAP HADAM models from the CPDN main project There is a temporary but serious problem with the SAP server. CPDN SAP-HADAM models come from this server. When SAP models contact the server they will produce BOINC manager messages like this or similar: 15/05/2008 10:35:34\|CPDN Seasonal Attribution Project\|Fetching scheduler list 15/05/2008 10:35:39\|CPDN Seasonal Attribution Project\|Master file download succeeded 15/05/2008 10:35:45\|CPDN Seasonal Attribution Project\|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|You used the wrong URL for this project 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|The correct URL is http://climateprediction.net/ 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|You seem to be attached to this project twice 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|We suggest that you detach projects named climateprediction.net, 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|then reattach to http://climateprediction.net/ 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|Already attached to a project named climateprediction.net (possibly with wrong URL) 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|Consider detaching this project, then trying again 15/05/2008 10:35:50\|climateprediction.net\|Message from server: Invalid or missing account key. Visit this project's web site to get an account key. Please do not detach! You have not really got an extra account and you are not really attached twice. Please do not reset the SAP or CPDN project! Please do not abort your SAP HADAM models from CPDN or SAP! CPDN needs your SAP models - only last week a new experiment using these HADAM models was launched! Please suspend your SAP HADAM models for the time being. If you are already getting messages like what I've quoted, please if possible suspend BOINC network activity until the problem is solved. Milo will be doing everything he can to resolve the problem on Friday.
348) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17348) Posted 15 May 2008 by mo.v Post: CPDN main project Upload server uploadcomlab is now working. There was no CPDN credit export to the stats sites on 12 and 13 May, but on 14 May the credit export started again.
349) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My Wish List - 2 (Message 17319) Posted 13 May 2008 by mo.v Post: Thierry said If the property of BoincManager link in startup directory is set to normal window instead of minimized, size is kept. I've just confirmed that on my computers that property was already set to normal window. But after a reboot the BOINC manager window still opens first time as super-mini.
350) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 17304) Posted 12 May 2008 by mo.v Post: CPDN main project The phkup upload server is up and running again, but upload server uploadcomlab is down. Milo is backing up its data today so it can have its new disk installed tomorrow. This means that some different CPDN computers are now unable to upload trickles and zip files. If you find that your computer can't upload to CPDN, if possible please suspend BOINC network activity for the time being. SAP project The SAP server has been problematic for several days. SAP crunchers have not been able to upload trickles and files. As SAP models are provided for CPDN crunchers from this server, there may also be difficulty in downloading new SAP HADAM models. Milo will investigate this server tomorrow.

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