Posts by Jean-David

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1) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 115672 Posted 3 days ago by Jean-David	I stopped getting work for both ARP1 and MCM1 a while ago today, so have now completely run out of work for WCG. I ran out of ARP1 work first.
2) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 115508 Posted 28 days ago by Jean-David	I thunk they were going to be back in a week. But now it is about two weeks and they are still not up.
3) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 115405 Posted 9 Feb 2025 by Jean-David	Though only one new task since I posted and that is less than an hour away from finishing. MCM tasks still coming through on phone, just the ARPs seem to have dried up. I have been getting solid ARP1 tasks since 2025 January 19. And MCM1 since 2025 January 8. Both on my Linux machine.
4) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 115282 Posted 25 Jan 2025 by Jean-David	Upload speed also limited by my bored band rather than project servers. My ISP provides very high Internet speeds. Verizon FiOS. In November, speeds for ARP1 were so slow I could get them from looking at the Transfers tab. Now they are so fast the never appear there long enough to see there are any. So here are all the uploads from one task as it finished. They seem to go up pretty fast. About a minute and 6 seconds to send them all up. Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:10:49 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Computation for task ARP1_0017628_131_2 finished Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:10:51 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Started upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_0 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:10:51 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Started upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_1 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:12 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Finished upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_1 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:12 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Started upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_2 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:13 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Finished upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_0 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:13 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Started upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_3 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:33 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Finished upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_2 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:33 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Started upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_4 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:36 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Finished upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_3 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:36 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Started upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_5 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:56 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Finished upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_4 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:56 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Started upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_6 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:57 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Finished upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_5 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:57 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Finished upload of ARP1_0017628_131_2_r1745477363_6 Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:57 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks. Thu 23 Jan 2025 02:11:57 AM EST \| World Community Grid \| Reporting 1 completed tasks
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc Manager vanishes on Linux when I select Notices tab. Message 114121 Posted 11 Jun 2024 by Jean-David	Now it says there are three notices, but the Boinc manager exits without a word if I select the tab. Where in the file system are the notices kept? I should look at them, their ownership, and permissions. I rummaged around in /var/lib/boinc/notices but it does not seem to be what I thought.
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc Manager vanishes on Linux when I select Notices tab. Message 114066 Posted 26 May 2024 by Jean-David	I set the Boinc Manager process to simple view and asked for Notices and it crashed just like the advanced view does.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc Manager vanishes on Linux when I select Notices tab. Message 114065 Posted 25 May 2024 by Jean-David	To me it feels a bit like the bug that would crash the manager when switching from simple to advanced view. I just tried that, switching from advanced view to simple view (or whatever they are called) and then back to advanced view and it worked with no trouble.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc Manager vanishes on Linux when I select Notices tab. Message 114063 Posted 25 May 2024 by Jean-David	I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.10 (Ootpa) on a Dell computer. CPU type GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2245 CPU @ 3.90GHz [Family 6 Model 85 Stepping 7] Number of processors 16 Operating System Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.10 (Ootpa) [4.18.0-553.el8_10.x86_64\|libc 2.28] BOINC version 7.20.2 Memory 125.08 GB Cache 16896 KB I am running boinc version 7.20.2 from EPEL that is the latest version available from them for my system. Now I run the boinc manager almost all the time and it works fine unless I select the top left tab that currently says Notices (2). When I select that, the boinc manager seems to vanish and stops runing. Wondering if something went wrong with the code, I re-installed the boinc manager from the .rpm and it made no difference. Is it just me, or do thers have this problem too? In any case, what do I do to fix it?
9) Message boards : Projects : connecting to CPDN. Message 112049 Posted 11 Jun 2023 by Jean-David	How much credit do you have? Total credit 16,166,961 Recent average credit 30,619.600 Niotice that these numbers do not agree with the stuff in my signature box. The box is many weeks (months?) behind, and I do not know why.
10) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid Message 111821 Posted 16 May 2023 by Jean-David	Ooh! ARP Uploads all going through as fast as my bored band can cope with! Not here. My machine has run out of WCG work. Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:51 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:51 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| Requesting new tasks for CPU Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| No tasks sent Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| No tasks are available for OpenPandemics - COVID 19 Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| No tasks are available for OpenPandemics - COVID-19 - GPU Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| No tasks are available for Africa Rainfall Project Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| No tasks are available for Help Stop TB Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| No tasks are available for Mapping Cancer Markers Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| Tasks are committed to other platforms Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| Tasks for NVIDIA GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| Tasks for AMD/ATI GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them Tue 16 May 2023 07:45:53 AM EDT \| World Community Grid \| Tasks for Intel GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
11) Message boards : Projects : connecting to CPDN. Message 111815 Posted 15 May 2023 by Jean-David	The update process now seems to work normally on Lunar with 7.23.0. Also at least one other user has reported it working on the CPDN fora with Arch Linux. And here on Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa) with 7.20.2.
12) Message boards : Projects : connecting to CPDN. Message 111802 Posted 14 May 2023 by Jean-David	I raised my RAM to 128 GBytes so I would have enough room to do the larger Oifs work units, and now I am not getting any, Sigh! There aren't any to be had even if the CPDN servers were working. I know. I am sorry I did not make that clear. But I cannot even get the Projects tab of the Boinc manager to display the current up-to-date results for climateprediction.net on my Linux machine. My Windows machine has that right.
13) Message boards : Projects : connecting to CPDN. Message 111800 Posted 14 May 2023 by Jean-David	As Jean-David Beyer pointed out on the CPDN site, these certificate files are actually incredibly simple: just chunks of plain ASCII, concatenated one after the other. If you break the[m] up into single certificate files, even a home version of Windows (sorry!) will decode and display the details - provider, period of validity, and so on. Some months ago, the Rosetta project could not download anything to my Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa) machine (it may have been a slightly earlier release at the time). I updated all the certificate stuff on my machine, but nothing actually changed other than the dates of some of the files were made the current date. But the content was unchanged and it did not cure the problem. I then did a Reset Project on Rosetta on the theory that something was wrong on my machine, but that did not work either. Doing that, Rosetta created the files that were needed, but they were all empty. I posted on the Rosetta board where complaints should go, but nothing came of it. I wondered if any human was running Rosetta at all. They sure did not read their Crunching board. Then several months later, Rosetta started working again with no action on my part. I hope it does not take months to solve this here. My guess is that Rosetta did not update their certificate when the existing one expired. It all works just fine on my Windows 10 machine (other than lack of work units, which is no big deal). I raised my RAM to 128 GBytes so I would have enough room to do the larger Oifs work units, and now I am not getting any, Sigh! CPU type Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2245 CPU @ 3.90GHz [Family 6 Model 85 Stepping 7] Number of processors 16 Operating System Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7 (Ootpa) [4.18.0-425.13.1.el8_7.x86_64\|libc 2.28] BOINC version 7.20.2 Memory 125.34 GB Cache 16896 KB Total disk space 488.04 GB Free Disk Space 475.73 GB Measured floating point speed 6.05 billion ops/sec Measured integer speed 25.61 billion ops/sec
14) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 111739 Posted 7 May 2023 by Jean-David	Some Charlie getting a new hat I thunk chuckie got his new hat yesterday...
15) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 111733 Posted 6 May 2023 by Jean-David	The way I see it, it's better if Andy gets it right first time rather than rushes and makes silly mistakes. I entirely agree.
16) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 111731 Posted 6 May 2023 by Jean-David	I anticipate that this will take a few days to complete during which time the project will be offline. -- Posted: 2 May 2023, 15:23:30 UTC Any idea how long a few days is? It is now late May 5.
17) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 111493 Posted 3 Apr 2023 by Jean-David	For me, the "Home Page" resolves to www.climateprediction.net and everything of interest is at www.cpdn,org. And www.cpdn.org is down. The link to the real home page seems to resolve to the www.climateprediction.net now, but that is not where my browser wants to go. It wants to go to www.cpdn.org. So perhaps this home page is a fall-back address in the DNS somewhere. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/cpdn.org?www=1 Is Cpdn.org down? Checking if cpdn.org is down or it is just you... It's not just you! cpdn.org is down.
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : Is there a way to get BOINC to give priority to Tasks with short "time to deadline"? Message 107785 Posted 10 Apr 2022 by Jean-David	Pore example, only CPDN set absurd deadline CPDN deadlines were not absurd. They may be a little long these days with faster machines, and shorter work-units, so perhaps they could be cut in half, or even to 25%. Mine currently take 4 to 8 days, depending on what work units I get. But a new set of work units (OpenIFS -- not yet available) might take a long time. I am told they are RAM hogs. In the past, there were many CPDN tasks (most of them) that took several months to complete on the machine I had. It had two Xeon processors that ran at 3.06 GHz, which was as fast as I could get at the time. It had 8GBytes of RAM that was considered a lot in those days.
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc cliend does not start correctly Message 106586 Posted 28 Dec 2021 by Jean-David	Whatta mess! After a lot of spinning wheels, splitting hairs, and so on, I gave up and removed the boinc-client and boinc-manager and replaced them with the same thing I already had. I had the rpms on hand. Then I could get the boinc-client and boinc manager up, with no tasks in the machine (as I had left it) with no new tasks for anything. The system still got mad at me with errors every second or two. This system runs with systemd and SELinux (security enhanced Linux) and it is very fussy. Even the super-user cannot do things. So I cleaned up a few rules and got it going. I then enabled new tasks for universe (because I do not care what happens to it) and it failed to download any, though it acquired a nice list trying to download. I then set the system to check and relabel all the files with SELinux (which involves a reboot), and that helped a lot more. So now I have it running. If it does all right with those, I may let another project run next. WCG, probably. Then I have to remember how to tell systemd to start the boinc client on boot. But I have done that before, so I suspect I will be able to do it again. But a day wasted on a 15-minute job.
20) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinc cliend does not start correctly Message 106552 Posted 27 Dec 2021 by Jean-David	P.S.: ps -ef reveals nothing with .boinc in it except the grep ps -ef \| grep boinc jeandav+ 470157 469956 0 11:15 pts/0 00:00:00 grep --color=auto boinc So there is no boinc client running.

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