Hints, cheats, and advice for New users

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Tern Send message Joined: 25 Oct 05 Posts: 576 Credit: 4,695,362 RAC: 10	Message 3990 - Posted: 22 Nov 2005, 22:20:14 UTC Last modified: 22 Nov 2005, 22:20:53 UTC This thread was just put up at SETI@Home for new users. While a lot of what it contains is SETI-specific, there is a lot of good information in there on BOINC in general, that our incoming find-a-drug friends might find helpful as well. ID: 3990 · Rating: 33.999999999999 · rate: / Reply Quote

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 7 Oct 05 Posts: 234 Credit: 15,020 RAC: 0	Message 9801 - Posted: 25 Jan 2006, 11:21:04 UTC It's very important in Rosetta@Home that you set the WU's to stay in memory while preempted in your preferences. The crunching time for Rosetta WU's differs a lot from each other. Some are very fast, and others are crunching for hours. If you get a feeling that there might be something wrong with a WU, that it might be stuck, check here on the Number Crunching board for eventually info about WU's with the same name/number. Another good advice is to set the time between switching between applications to at least 120 min (default 60 min). Happy crunching. :-) [b]"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me[/b] ID: 9801 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Rebirther Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 116 Credit: 41,315 RAC: 0	Message 10606 - Posted: 9 Feb 2006, 22:00:25 UTC What is wrong with this WU? Bug or ? https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=10269308 ID: 10606 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Moderator9 Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 22 Jan 06 Posts: 1014 Credit: 0 RAC: 0	Message 10665 - Posted: 11 Feb 2006, 19:04:23 UTC - in response to Message 10606. Rebirther asks - What is wrong with this WU? Bug or ? https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=10269308 Good question. I will point it out to the project team. The benchmarks for the computer do not justify the sredits in any way, and neither does the reported CPU time. If I get an answer I will post it. Moderator9 ROSETTA@home FAQ Moderator Contact ID: 10665 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Carlos_Pfitzner Send message Joined: 22 Dec 05 Posts: 71 Credit: 138,867 RAC: 0	Message 10670 - Posted: 11 Feb 2006, 19:47:32 UTC - in response to Message 9801. It's very important in Rosetta@Home that you set the WU's to stay in memory while preempted in your preferences. The crunching time for Rosetta WU's differs a lot from each other. Some are very fast, and others are crunching for hours. If you get a feeling that there might be something wrong with a WU, that it might be stuck, check here on the Number Crunching board for eventually info about WU's with the same name/number. Another good advice is to set the time between switching between applications to at least 120 min (default 60 min). Happy crunching. :-) One WU is stuck only when its driving application (rosetta 4.80 or 4.81) is not eating any CPU - and the system is otherwise IDLE ! on Linux u can force this by hand pkill -19 rosetta and to recover from previous command and get the wu crunching again pkill -18 rosetta *when the WU is really stuck is does not respond to signal 18 Otherwise it is only a very loong WU and eventually it will finish OK Be patient ! I got one that used about 24 hours of cpu @ 5000 mhz to finish If u cpu is slower ... eg: 1 GHZ or less, it can delay a week to finish. Click signature for global team stats ID: 10670 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote