Posts by Heidi1

1) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages (Message 30383)
Posted 31 Dec 2009 by Heidi1
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I didn't see it here, so I'll add it to the list: Rosetta@Home is having a lot of problems right now, and has been since the SAN was upgraded on 23Dec. Most everyone can't get work and about half of the server stats are still in the red.
2) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages. (Message 27447)
Posted 16 Sep 2009 by Heidi1
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I think Rosetta is down. I can't get access to their site, nor can my GPU communicate with their server.
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : IE 8 and the project buttons (Message 26175)
Posted 21 Jul 2009 by Heidi1
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I did Ageless's answer to this, as I was having the same problems. It worked! If you are already using a custom setting, just click on one of the other choices, then back to Custom to access the various options in this section. Make sure Internet Explorer is selected (versus "the current browser") and click OK. And voila!
4) Message boards : Projects : Rosetta project (Message 23118)
Posted 15 Feb 2009 by Heidi1
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It looks like Rosetta is down again. I can't even get to the website. Anyone know what's up?
5) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages. (Message 21246)
Posted 14 Nov 2008 by Heidi1
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It turns out their file servers crashed the night of Nov 13-14. It will still have intermittant problems, but it is up and running right now.
6) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages. (Message 21238)
Posted 14 Nov 2008 by Heidi1
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I'm wondering if the Rosetta servers are down. My CPU is communicating with everyone else but them.
7) Message boards : The Lounge : The last who posts (***) before 1212 posts and before the year 2010 wins. (Message 19499)
Posted 15 Aug 2008 by Heidi1
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Learn something new every day. Thanks much, Jord, now I can sleep at night!
8) Message boards : The Lounge : The last who posts (***) before 1212 posts and before the year 2010 wins. (Message 19463)
Posted 12 Aug 2008 by Heidi1
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Jord, I'm just dying to know: What is your avatar of? It looks to me like it's from something science fiction, something from space. This has been bugging me for a while now. Thanks!
9) Message boards : The Lounge : The Speling and Grammaticle Advise thread (Message 19462)
Posted 12 Aug 2008 by Heidi1
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Thank you for the translations! I tried a website I maintain with the Swedish Chef, and I just about died laughing!
10) Message boards : The Lounge : The last who posts (***) before 1212 posts and before the year 2010 wins. (Message 18183)
Posted 3 Jul 2008 by Heidi1
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For those in the US: May you all have a relaxing 4th of July. And may none of the fireworks set off any more wildfires.
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : What project has the shortest task times (Message 17908)
Posted 17 Jun 2008 by Heidi1
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PrimeGrid has various subprojects with runtimes ranging from 5 minutes up to 30 hours, depending on your system. Like Rosetta, you can change your preferences of which subproject to crunch from the My Account page or through a link on the home page. For PrimeGrid, your best bets are Twin Prime Search and either of the sieves; all three subprojects go for under an hour and have deadlines of 5-7 days.
12) Message boards : The Lounge : The last who posts (***) before 1212 posts and before the year 2010 wins. (Message 16557)
Posted 9 Apr 2008 by Heidi1
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Aren't the television ads for Viagra and others supposed to do that for you?

All of you Europeans were smart to ban that stuff. The ads are getting to me. Now, I'm gonna need a med just to recover from listening to the ads.
13) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC Communication Bandwidth Question (Message 16367)
Posted 2 Apr 2008 by Heidi1
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Rosetta has an option to set the length of their workunits. Effectively this allows you to shrink the bandwidth needed. So if you set the option so that you get 24 hour workunits, you'll only need to download two per day rather than eight per day (assuming you have a dual core).




I've been on Rosetta's forums for a while now (since I joined, really), and saw people talking about the length of WUs. After going through my Rosetta prefs and more forums, I finally figured out how to do the quote above. Thanks much! Hopefully this will help.

In terms of using the dialup while wanting to use the phone, I only have a cell phone as my voice communications device. The landline is hooked up to 4 machines that need a dialtone, one of which is the modem on the computer. As all my friends and family have the cell phone #, I'm not worried about being able to be called in case of emergency.

One ringy dingy . . . two ringy dingy . . .
14) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC Communication Bandwidth Question (Message 16350)
Posted 2 Apr 2008 by Heidi1
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That's what I thought. It was worth a shot, anyway.
15) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC Communication Bandwidth Question (Message 16320)
Posted 1 Apr 2008 by Heidi1
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Yes, one computer (DSL) is at work and the other is at home.

Does anyone know if the following can happen successfully: I download WUs from Rosetta on my work machine, cut/copy those files to my home machine, and have the home machine crunch and upload? There is one problem I can see with this: Rosetta has those WUs assigned to the work machine, but yet it's the home machine that is reporting the results, which can screw up the server's database. Obviously, in downloading the files, I would need to make sure I get ALL the files copied, incl. those that are 100 bytes.

Any thoughts?
16) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC Communication Bandwidth Question (Message 16214)
Posted 31 Mar 2008 by Heidi1
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Thanks for everything. I'll reset the prefs back to -0-. I just thought maybe if the program prefs actually stated the available bandwidth speed, it might try to actually attain that. Oh well. Also, I've noticed my DSL doesn't use up all of its bandwidth, either, but again we're dealing with 100Mbps here.

BTW, I used the upper-case "K" because my computer had it that way. I know it really doesn't make any difference.
17) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC Communication Bandwidth Question (Message 16147)
Posted 30 Mar 2008 by Heidi1
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The default maximum is no maximum. It tries to use all it can.

There is no such thing as a minimum bandwidth. The minimum is 0, when the network is completely overloaded with traffic :)


Thanks for your answers. I should have been a little more specific, which is in response to the quote: My computer's problem is that, when downloading files, it is far short of 100% of the available bandwidth, which I can check on Task Manager. It's using more like 15%. I've changed my prefs to have the maximum be the speed of my modem, but maybe I need it to by higher to trick BOINC into actually using more? I've tried different numbers in my prefs, but nothing seems to make any difference.

My modem is at 49Kbps, and the BOINC file rate is totalling about 5-6Kbps at any given time (obviously less if I'm also doing web surfing), but that's as high as it gets.

Again, it's not crucial, but it is annoying.
18) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC Communication Bandwidth Question (Message 16128)
Posted 30 Mar 2008 by Heidi1
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Greetings,

One of my computers is on a dial-up, running Rosetta, which has a number of files, some of which are some 2MB in size. I've looked everywhere on the BOINC interface, as well as the project's website, and I can't find a way to INCREASE the amount of bandwidth that BOINC can use. I can only find an option of choosing the maximum bandwidth, but nothing to choose the minimum.

Is this possible? The files per WU are taking a really long time to download because only a small percentage of the total available bandwidth is being used. However, on another computer running a different project and with access to DSL, those WUs do download much quicker. But the dial-up ones generally take some 30 minutes just to download the files, and I would like to decrease that.

Any help would be appreciated.



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