371) Message boards : The Lounge : BOINC on multiple partitions? (Message 16519) Posted 8 Apr 2008 by mo.v Post: I'm a writer and not an IT person. I thought you were a French politician! Nobody running ClimatePrediction models needs to lose them. If you look at the CPDN project READMEs, third section here, you'll find there's an entire category about how to regularly back up the BOINC folder contents so that if a model does crash, a backup can be restored and the model continued. The only models that one occasionally can't avoid losing are the few that turn out to be flawed.

372) Message boards : The Lounge : The last who posts (***) before 1212 posts and before the year 2010 wins. (Message 16443) Posted 4 Apr 2008 by mo.v Post: Did you buy it?

373) Message boards : The Lounge : The last who posts (***) before 1212 posts and before the year 2010 wins. (Message 16377) Posted 3 Apr 2008 by mo.v Post: I'm getting these BOINC Manager messages: 03/04/2008 01:55:16||Running llama benchmarks 03/04/2008 01:55:16||Suspending computation - running llama benchmarks 03/04/2008 01:55:48||Benchmark results: 03/04/2008 01:55:48|| Number of llamas: 2 03/04/2008 01:55:48|| 2352 floating point MIPS (Whetstone) per llama 03/04/2008 01:55:48|| 5325 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per llama 03/04/2008 01:55:49||Resuming computation There's also a song that's been running continuously on this computer for over 24 hours and I cannot find a button on the song page to turn it off. The song was highly recommended by Kathryn so I thought it would be safe. What should I do?

374) Message boards : The Lounge : The last who posts (***) before 1212 posts and before the year 2010 wins. (Message 16343) Posted 2 Apr 2008 by mo.v Post: There's always something missing from boinc and the scheduler. Must get to a point where some of the thousands of tweaks interfere with each other.

375) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Public launch of BOINC version 6 (Message 16340) Posted 2 Apr 2008 by mo.v Post: Glad to see you've recovered with such remarkable speed, John. Must be Kathryn giving you some psychological counsel. LHC updated their workunits to version 6 a day too early and provided a foretaste of things to come. Otherwise I think everybody's busy having a peek at what the pirates are up to: http://pirates.spy-hill.net/

376) Message boards : BOINC client : boinc 5.10.45 startup blank (Message 16332) Posted 1 Apr 2008 by mo.v Post: Hi Ralph Well done for sorting out the installation. If you can tell us which projects' tasks are failing and tell us the exit or error code numbers of the crashed tasks, or quote the boinc manager messages if they give any details about the task crashes, somebody may be able to advise you about why this is happening and how to avoid it.

377) Message boards : The Lounge : The Speling and Grammaticle Advise thread (Message 16318) Posted 1 Apr 2008 by mo.v Post: I've heard the expression 'naughty names'.

378) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Public launch of BOINC version 6 (Message 16284) Posted 1 Apr 2008 by mo.v Post: I am delighted and honored to have been asked by the team in Berkeley to announce the launch of BOINC version 6 on all platforms. The platforms are Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista. Separate versions of BOINC 6 for Linux, different for every distribution, will be launched at 3-hourly intervals until the beginning of May, or as server traffic dictates. (It is regrettable that several BOINC mirror servers have suddenly and without explanation withdrawn their support.) Change log * 93% of the code for BOINC 6 consists of a newly compiled and redesigned BOINC scheduler. * Each user will respond to 87 simple questions, the answers to which will automatically configure a personalized scheduler for download. To allow maximum flexibility, this procedure must be followed separately for each computer and core thereof. Sample questions are: #31 What is your usual bedtime? (The time you leave the computer, NOT the time you get into bed) (UTC or specify other time zone) (Use 24-hour clock) (mm,hh,ss eg 23/23/23) #59 Give the start date of your next holiday (The date you will turn off the computer, NOT the date you will leave) (MM, YY, DD eg 08/08/08) * JohnMcLeodVII will be responsible for this part of BOINC. * A new Wiki dedicated solely to the BOINC scheduler will be launched and named the Unofficial Scheduler Wiki. As John suffered a minor transient nervous collapse shortly before the launch of version 6, volunteers are needed to write and maintain this Wiki until he recovers. * The remaining 7% of BOINC 6 code requires all project workunits to be version 6 compliant/optimized. Project administrators unfamiliar with what is required should contact Crunch3r. Please note that he is very busy at the moment. * KathrynSMarksPsych will be responsible for documenting download/installation instructions for all Linux versions in a separate new Wiki. * All existing BOINC and project Wikis, FAQs and READMEs are deprecated. * Problems relating to v.6 (we anticipate isolated queries about where/how to install, disappearance of graphics, loss of climate models, blue screens, stop errors, rebooting failures, imagined bugs, the pan-BOINC 'Credit Calculator' algorithm, pop-up messages of every provenance, which Windows version Mac users should select, why v.6 cannot be uninstalled) must be addressed to Ageless and Nicolas on this forum only. BOINC mailing lists should not be used for this purpose. The Berkeley team are satisfied that BOINC VERSION 6 heralds a new era in distributed computing and are grateful to the alpha-tester, who wishes to remain anonymous. ENJOY! Berkeley, CA 1 April 2008 Ediot: Many thanks to the thousands of volunteers already simultaneously writing the new Scheduler Wiki!

379) Message boards : The Lounge : There's truth in it. (Message 16113) Posted 28 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: Newcomers to BOINC may need to know that Paul D. Buck made a massive contribution to BOINC and the projects, in particular but not only by creating the Unofficial BOINC Wiki. This is still an invaluable resource and I hope BOINC crunchers will continue to edit and update its pages. I'm glad to see that Paul is well and crunching again. I do hope he'll stay. Yes, of course the projects are independent and simply share the BOINC platform. But when users join an extra project they arrive with a history, which is their experience of previous projects they have crunched for and where they may have read and contributed to the forum. They arrive with hopes and expectations. So a positive experience provided by one project is helpful to all other projects, and I'm sure the converse is also true.

380) Message boards : The Lounge : The Speling and Grammaticle Advise thread (Message 16071) Posted 25 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: Where can I by some of that 4 the corns on my toes?

381) Message boards : The Lounge : Celebrities running BOINC (Message 16038) Posted 22 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: In the UK, Nick Palmer who is the Labour Member of Parliament for Broxtowe joined the BBC/CPDN Climate Change Experiment and ran a 160-year climate model to completion. This of course took many months on his home computer. He also posted on the BBC project forum. (Not sure whether MPs count as celebrities!)

382) Message boards : BOINC client : New Linux Version is Awful (Message 16033) Posted 20 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: Hi Srank Regarding your CPDN models which take so long to complete, it's maddening to lose one when it's well advanced. In the case of the HADCM 160 and 80-year models, all the info you sent to the server in your 10-year zip files will be used by the researchers, so the computing time wasn't all wasted. I suggest you look at the CPDN README collections which are posted on the CPDN independent forum here near the top. I recommend the section about backing up the contents of the BOINC folder. There's a selection of methods. If you back up regularly and your model crashes or your BOINC installation goes wrong, you restore the backup and continue crunching the same model. Restoring a backup is the only way to rescue a crashed model. In the README collection about crashes & problems, item #6 by Mike explains how to avoid the usual causes of climate model crashes. And in the collection about running the model you'll find tips on how to run models as fast as possible. (If you want to post on that forum you'll need to register separately.) Hope that helps.

383) Message boards : The Lounge : DST (Message 16009) Posted 20 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: The film is also extraordinary. So blatant it's almost surreal. But I don't think any country or culture has a monopoly of dishonesty or virtue. In different places corruption assumes different forms and takes a grip on different areas of life. I've seen plenty here and it eats into the heart of things. Our current president is the prior president's wife It would be even more extraordinary if that ever happened anywhere else in the world.

384) Message boards : The Lounge : DST (Message 16008) Posted 19 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: Venezuela changed their clock by 30 minutes What an extraordinary thing to do in a country whose southernmost tip is just a couple of degrees from the Equator. I'm no better at getting up in the morning than los Venezolanos, but I don't expect the nation's clocks to be reset in an attempt to disguise the fact.

385) Message boards : The Lounge : DST (Message 16004) Posted 19 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: As your president has such a radical agenda, he could consider changing the name of the day of publication from el Dia de los Inocentes to el Dia de los Tontos or el Dia de los Autócratas. I know there's incompetence everywhere, but this is incompetence on a grand scale. Has the press talked about it?

386) Message boards : The Lounge : DST (Message 15999) Posted 19 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: This must mean you have the sun overhead at 1pm in winter and 2pm in summer. In Spain it's the same with really late mealtimes, worse still in summer. Children sometimes fall asleep at the dinner table and have to be carried to bed already asleep.

387) Message boards : The Lounge : Arthur C. Clarke dies, aged 90. (Message 15998) Posted 19 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: He made an important contribution not only to the science fiction genre but also to the popularisation of science.

388) Message boards : BOINC client : Window Position/Size (Message 15989) Posted 19 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: If I press Control while maximising the mini-window first time after reboot, I find it usually remembers to reopen full size. I can then use X to close it with a single click.

389) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 15948) Posted 16 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: There will be a planned power outage in the Oxford Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics department on Tuesday 18 March from 07.00 UTC for about half a day. The servers will need to be powered down on Monday 17 from about 17.00 UTC. Because Milo will be away on Tuesday, he may not be able to reactivate the servers until Wed 19 at approx 09.00 UTC. The BBC servers will not be affected. The SAP project website, forum and some uploads will be affected. The CPDN website, forum and some computers' uploads (trickles and zip file uploads to upload server uploadatm) will be affected. CPDN stats exports of credit for trickles received should not be affected. The CPDN independent forum will not be affected. It's a good idea for all members to register there. The usual advice for outages applies. CPDN and SAP members should if possible suspend BOINC network activity before the outage begins. Some multi-project crunchers may wish to fetch extra work from other projects before the outage begins so they can also suspend network activity. The server status of ClimatePrediction projects can be checked here: CPDN http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/server_status.php BBC http://bbc.cpdn.org/server_status.php SAP http://attribution.cpdn.org/server_status.php

390) Message boards : The Lounge : The Speling and Grammaticle Advise thread (Message 15924) Posted 15 Mar 2008 by mo.v Post: Interesting insite. We all needs a hire degree in speling.

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