[TBA] BOINC Climate Prediction: The 'Hot or Not' perpetual thread

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    Check the messages tab in BOINC, to see if there is any other messages. I've had the no work from project message on another project, but when I scrolled up I'd had it because I didn't have enough disk space set for BOINC to use.

    Just a thought.
    It grabbed a WU now Wink
    Oddly enough the Screensaver says BBC Climate Change Experiment... does it say that on the 'normal' project too?

    WU name is hadcm3 5.15
    They're the same WUs between projects. The BBC I believe had a TV show/series about global climate change and sponsored CPDN or something.

    They were just lazy and didn't bother to change the screensaver. Smile
    So, both of my BBC Climate Change units are no longer running on my X2. That makes 3 total on this machine. All the files are there but restarting BOINC doesn't restart the work.

    Can anyone give some advice to restarting them??
    Does it say anything in the messages tab of BOINC Manager?

    Any other projects running on that machine? Project definitely not suspended?

    Just covering the obvious bases first.
    I believe I removed any message when I restarted BOINC to try to restart the WUs.

    And yes, P@H and Spinhenge are running.
    Are we wasting our time with this? Every WU I've processed so far has returned a "Client Error" message and that appears to me the most common result obtained for every TBA members' WUs that I've sampled so far. I still haven't been able to find a decent explanation for what Client Error means, or how to avoid it. I'm very tempted to detach and go back to SETI unless I can figure out what's going on with climate prediction.
    2.2GHz AthlonXP (Barton) swapped out for a 2.6GHz Opteron (Venus). I hope that gives a decent improvement to my crunch power.
    For some reason one of my machines has grabbed and queued 130 new WUs while it still has 2 running, that have no estimated completion time. Anyone encountered this before?

    Why is there no completion time for the 2 WUs it's running? this I believe is what caused it to go out and get 130 WUs, because it thought it was under committed.
    Have you updated the BOINC client, or moved the folder about or done anything that could cause it to lose some of the XML information that BOINC holds? If so, it'll have no idea how fast the machine is and just grab work and make it up on the fly.

    Could try suspending the work units in progress then resuming them. If that doesn't work, try switching projects briefly. If that fails... just hope.

    Oh and Hat, you'll see a fairly good improvement, and not just through the extra clockspeed.
    I hadn't touched the computer in days. Nothings changed on it in months and months. It came across this problem all it's own. I tried doing those, and restarting... but in the end I just aborted them all (since I'd never get through them ever anyway). It's currently running E@H and Rosetta until I can pickup some more CPDN WUs. Man that machines WU list will look messy now lol. Looks like everything it's ever done has failed, when that's not true.
    My sister's Sempron box dropped another CPDN WU. I guess Spread Spectrum Clocking wasn't the issue. The computer was not overclocked at the time. Things were great for a month, and the WU spontaneously died due to file access errors. Maybe it's just the work units, but it's back to FAH for that computer unless you guys think I should give it another shot.

    I have replaced my Celeron D box with a Sempron S754. Hopefully the shorter latencies will help.
    Well I joined up, but will this mess with my bittortents?
    There's no reason why it would. Welcome to the team. Smile
    bump (hate to see these threads die just due to a timeout)
    Practically all my WUs end with "Client Error"...should I be worried?
    My experience (limited as it is to less than a year) is that it too early to tell. I have two PCs running this software. One, a dual Opteron running Windows Server 2003 (64 bit) has had zero problems. My other PC, 3.4 GHz Pentium D, running Windows XP had a bunch of client error problems but eventually settled down. I think Oxford occasionally sends out buggy work units which end prematurely due to the complexity of having to convert mainframe Fortran code to run on Windows PCs.
    The climateprediction.net database still seems dead. Any inside scoop from anybody? I only have a handfull of older (PIII & 2 PIV) boxen doing this under Ubuntu but I'm getting sad and impatient.

    "Impatient" and CPDN do not go well together!

    And a PIII...man, pls don't tell me your impatient.

    Sorry, can't help. Haven't run this in quite a while. You'll need to get help from the main site, if they have any info.

    I'll probably come back to this project in the future. I really liked it. I really liked the CPDN board, too, tho it's gotten slower since they went BOINC, and now there's a BOINC ClimatePrediction board, too.

    ~ Strat ~
    K -

    Just started running this again.

    ~ Strat ~

    Very sorry, but that post above was simply a quick bump after getting this thread out of the 60 day auto-lock! Big Green


    Yep, I will start running CPDN again. It seems the Ars team is still doing relatively well:

    9th place in TC
    11th place in RAC

    But the TBA thread isn't doing too well! Razz

    I'll soon be throwing a coupla’ cores on public release models, but will probably be concentrating a lot on beta models. I just received an email from Tolu, and he was good enough to welcome me (back) into the beta testers, which is actually a pretty interesting and enjoyable environment. Definitely not for the feint hearted, stats conscious, or those lacking in patience, that's for sure! Eek

    BTW - I actually was put in touch with Tolu by Carl forwarding my email to him, after my first having emailed Carl, only to find he’s still at his Oxford email addy but no longer on the CPDN project! A loss for CPDN, but hopefully a gain for Carl.

    Looks like I'll be getting myself up-to-speed on the current public models, and hopefully gain some insight into what's coming down the pike.

    Of course, I'll be happy, as always, to help out with problems w/i my realm, or disseminate information.

    This always was a favorite project of mine, and I'm looking forward to getting involved again.

    ~ Strat ~
    Howdy all,

    It's been a while since I've checked in here, but I'm still crunching away. I like the new BOINC client in that you can specify for each computer the max CPU time that you want BOINC to use. (Maybe the older clients had this too, but I just never noticed it). Anyway, by specifying 50% for the max, I'm able to load BOINC on a few more computers here at work without having the CPU fan go full speed. With any luck, my RAC will be up around 6,000, which might be enough to get us up to 10th place on RAC.
    Good day. I've joined the team. I'm giving 1/3 of my laptop's spare time to the Climate folks. The other 2/3s go to Seti and Einstein. When I get my desktop to run again - it too will be crunching once more. Every little bit helps.
    Just a quick general question - How efficient is a computer when used as a heater?

    The reason I ask is that my wife is taking college classes online and she complains that her feet are getting cold when she's sitting at the desk. She wants to get a space heater...

    I would rather cobble together another barebones system and put it under the desk. It would serve no other purpose than to warm the area under our desk and to crunch numbers for Climate Prediction.

    I'm quite confident that it will generate enough heat to keep her feet warm. I would imagine that a space heater might be a little more efficient, especially considering it wouldn't run 24/7 like the computer will, but I hate the idea that something is generating heat with no other benefit.

    What do you all think?
    How efficient is a computer when used as a heater?

    As close to 100% as makes no difference.
    That's all I needed to hear.

    Another anti-lock bump
    omg...finally finished my first work unit...woohoo! Only 2150 hrs to complete the next one Eek
    Congrats! I've never even attempted these WUs. I don't have the patience for it. Smile

    Great day by the Climate Prediction group yesterday. And welcome to avanpelt.
    Anti-lock bump
    Monthly anti-lock bump
    First time trying this project on a NEW-ish computer: C2D 2ghz.

    Tried it on a G3 Mac years ago, waiting most of a year Eek before anything finished.
    Monthly anti-lock bump and welcome to ef2000.
    Work units on this DC project take awhile to finish but fortunately intermediate results are reported and participation credit is recorded on a fairly frequent basis.
    Monthly anti-lock bump.
    What happened to such a proud and active team? Frown

    I had to bow out because the electricity bill was getting out of hand here in California.
    Guess it's the vault disease, hunting for quick points
    I just moved 3 of the cores on my Q6700 workstation from Folding@Home to CPDN. Hopefully this will give us a bit of a boost!
    Monthly anti-lock bump
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