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Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 7 Oct 05 Posts: 234 Credit: 15,020 RAC: 0	Message 3296 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 17:40:20 UTC - in response to Message 3247. Last modified: 15 Nov 2005, 17:40:51 UTC I just got the rosetta_graphics_beta 4.79 application with a WU. It looks good and seems to work well. I saw little decrease in the calculation speed while I ran it. Of course I only ran it a few minutes, twice. I didn't want to press my luck :-) Oh, Purple Rabbit, you are so lucky! :-) I think you have got all the luck for the whole team! ;-) And yes, you guys, David and Jack, you're doing a great job! Thanks! :-) [b]"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me[/b] ID: 3296 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Purple Rabbit Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 28 Credit: 3,935,716 RAC: 2,656	Message 3299 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 18:21:51 UTC - in response to Message 3296. Last modified: 15 Nov 2005, 18:28:20 UTC Oh, Purple Rabbit, you are so lucky! :-) Us wabbits love pretty pictures :-) I'm glad I won the WU lottery and was alert enough to watch it for a bit while it was on my computer. It's gone now...sigh...no more pretty pictures. Time for a carrot break. ID: 3299 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Purple Rabbit Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 28 Credit: 3,935,716 RAC: 2,656	Message 3350 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 0:47:46 UTC - in response to Message 3247. Last modified: 16 Nov 2005, 0:56:56 UTC I just got the rosetta_graphics_beta 4.79 application with a WU. It looks good and seems to work well. I saw little decrease in the calculation speed while I ran it. Of course I only ran it a few minutes, twice. I didn't want to press my luck :-) An addendum: My machine is new. It's a 3.4GHz P4 with 1GB memory and a GeForce 6800-Ultra on a PCI-E bus. Other machines may have different results, but mine worked great. Send me another one! ID: 3350 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

KSMarksPsych Send message Joined: 15 Oct 05 Posts: 199 Credit: 22,337 RAC: 0	Message 3367 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 3:59:25 UTC - in response to Message 3350. woo hoo! i just got a graphics wu. too bad it will probably crunch while i'm a work. :( but i'll check on the credit granting for it. Kathryn :o) The BOINC FAQ Service The Unofficial BOINC Wiki The Trac System More BOINC information than you can shake a stick of RAM at. ID: 3367 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

dgnuff Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 350 Credit: 24,773,605 RAC: 0	Message 3374 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 7:53:05 UTC - in response to Message 3367. woo hoo! i just got a graphics wu. too bad it will probably crunch while i'm a work. :( but i'll check on the credit granting for it. If it's not too late, you can suspend the WU so that it won't get processed. That way, you can resume it when you have a chance to watch it. ID: 3374 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

KSMarksPsych Send message Joined: 15 Oct 05 Posts: 199 Credit: 22,337 RAC: 0	Message 3391 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 12:33:38 UTC - in response to Message 3374. woo hoo! i just got a graphics wu. too bad it will probably crunch while i'm a work. :( but i'll check on the credit granting for it. If it's not too late, you can suspend the WU so that it won't get processed. That way, you can resume it when you have a chance to watch it. i think something related to a boinc project crashed my puter because when i moved the mouse to wake it up, i saw some kind of dialog box for a half second then the stupid thing restarted. looking at what was crunching, it doesn't seem like it ran very long after i left for work. thus, i watched it crunch for a few minutes on the graphics work unit. very cool! it does wiggle around a lot at the beginning and then settles down. great work rosetta team! Kathryn Kathryn :o) The BOINC FAQ Service The Unofficial BOINC Wiki The Trac System More BOINC information than you can shake a stick of RAM at. ID: 3391 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Webmaster Yoda Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 161 Credit: 162,253 RAC: 0	Message 3400 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 13:29:01 UTC I just had a Graphics Beta Work unit crash on me. I'm running BOINC as a service and went to show graphics through BOINC Manager. The work unit crashed with: - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005) *UNHANDLED EXCEPTION Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x77F4B739 read attempt to address 0x0023E008 0: Stackwalker not initialized (or was not able to initialize)! This server (3.4GHz P4 550, Windows 2003 SBS, 1GB RAM) hasn't trashed a work unit for a long time, until now. * Join BOINC@Australia today *** ID: 3400 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Legman Send message Joined: 7 Nov 05 Posts: 150 Credit: 129,568 RAC: 0	Message 3425 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 17:01:26 UTC - in response to Message 3400. I got one of the graphics jobs on my dual AMD machine at home.. It looks really cool and seems to be working fine. Secret team meetings and the sharing of 3.2Terabytes of free software -->HERE!... Don't spy, we don't like spies! ID: 3425 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jack Schonbrun Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 115 Credit: 5,954 RAC: 0	Message 3426 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 17:35:38 UTC - in response to Message 3400. Last modified: 16 Nov 2005, 17:36:00 UTC I just had a Graphics Beta Work unit crash on me. I'm running BOINC as a service and went to show graphics through BOINC Manager. The work unit crashed with: - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005) *UNHANDLED EXCEPTION** Reason: Access Violation (0xc0000005) at address 0x77F4B739 read attempt to address 0x0023E008 0: Stackwalker not initialized (or was not able to initialize)! This server (3.4GHz P4 550, Windows 2003 SBS, 1GB RAM) hasn't trashed a work unit for a long time, until now. Anybody else had this problem? I will consult with DK to see if we can figure out what might have gone wrong. ID: 3426 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Philip Send message Joined: 5 Nov 05 Posts: 3 Credit: 1,388 RAC: 0	Message 3429 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 17:58:17 UTC I would test it if I had a graphics WU. Is there a way I can ensure I get one? ID: 3429 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jack Schonbrun Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 115 Credit: 5,954 RAC: 0	Message 3447 - Posted: 16 Nov 2005, 21:29:07 UTC - in response to Message 3429. Last modified: 16 Nov 2005, 21:30:56 UTC I would test it if I had a graphics WU. Is there a way I can ensure I get one? Apparently this is tricky within the boinc framework. But very soon (today?) all new Work Units will have the graphics executable. We will let you know when these new Work Units are being distributed. ID: 3447 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

genes Send message Joined: 8 Oct 05 Posts: 60 Credit: 547,187 RAC: 1,672	Message 3467 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 3:38:27 UTC Woohoo! Can't wait to see the new graphic WU's! I've upped my Rosetta resource share in anticipation! ID: 3467 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

birdman2584 Send message Joined: 25 Sep 05 Posts: 8 Credit: 204,913 RAC: 0	Message 3468 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 3:56:55 UTC - in response to Message 3467. My graphic WU worked great and looked fantastic! Thanks for all the hard work! ID: 3468 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

KSMarksPsych Send message Joined: 15 Oct 05 Posts: 199 Credit: 22,337 RAC: 0	Message 3486 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 13:28:49 UTC - in response to Message 3391. woo hoo! i just got a graphics wu. too bad it will probably crunch while i'm a work. :( but i'll check on the credit granting for it. If it's not too late, you can suspend the WU so that it won't get processed. That way, you can resume it when you have a chance to watch it. i think something related to a boinc project crashed my puter because when i moved the mouse to wake it up, i saw some kind of dialog box for a half second then the stupid thing restarted. looking at what was crunching, it doesn't seem like it ran very long after i left for work. thus, i watched it crunch for a few minutes on the graphics work unit. very cool! it does wiggle around a lot at the beginning and then settles down. great work rosetta team! Kathryn My WU crunched just fine and I got credit for it and everything. Can't wait untill they all have graphics. Kathryn Kathryn :o) The BOINC FAQ Service The Unofficial BOINC Wiki The Trac System More BOINC information than you can shake a stick of RAM at. ID: 3486 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Philip Send message Joined: 5 Nov 05 Posts: 3 Credit: 1,388 RAC: 0	Message 3501 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 17:24:21 UTC - in response to Message 3447. I would test it if I had a graphics WU. Is there a way I can ensure I get one? Apparently this is tricky within the boinc framework. But very soon (today?) all new Work Units will have the graphics executable. We will let you know when these new Work Units are being distributed. Well I am not doing anything... I really want to know (resetting rosetta) ID: 3501 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

anders n Send message Joined: 19 Sep 05 Posts: 403 Credit: 537,991 RAC: 0	Message 3510 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 18:08:30 UTC I have crunshed 3 graphic units now and they all worked great. Nice grafics btw. Anders n ID: 3510 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jocelyn Larouche Send message Joined: 9 Nov 05 Posts: 11 Credit: 6,994 RAC: 0	Message 3514 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 18:58:45 UTC I got one WU with graphics at 3am while I was sleeping so there's not much I can say, can I? What king of beta testing is this? How can it test if it interfere with other program or graphic in use or is compatible with my card. I think the beta test will be on when and only when all WU have graphics. Joss ID: 3514 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jack Schonbrun Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 115 Credit: 5,954 RAC: 0	Message 3519 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 19:49:34 UTC - in response to Message 3514. Last modified: 17 Nov 2005, 19:57:56 UTC I got one WU with graphics at 3am while I was sleeping so there's not much I can say, can I? What king of beta testing is this? How can it test if it interfere with other program or graphic in use or is compatible with my card. I think the beta test will be on when and only when all WU have graphics. Joss Before we use the graphics executable with all Work Units, we want to make sure it doesn't crash more often than the non-graphics version. So we've sent out 1000 graphics WUs to see what the failure rate is. So far it is very low, and things look good. You are right that we won't have a true test until everybody has a graphics WU. We're moving incrementally towards that. So this is mostly a beta-test from our end at the moment. We are also making a few tweaks to the graphics before we send out the next version. ID: 3519 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Christian Diepold Send message Joined: 23 Sep 05 Posts: 37 Credit: 300,225 RAC: 0	Message 3523 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 20:28:52 UTC Working on my 2nd gfx WU right now and no problems so far. Just two suggestions / questions: Is it possible, that the gfx window doesn't close between two WUs? I mean, it's not a big problem to restart the gfx again, but for a continous presentation / watching of R@H it's just a bit annoying. Are you thinking about implementing a percentage / time counter in the gfx as well? I'd just like to be able to tell how far a WU has advanced and for how long it has been running without having to switch to the BOINC manager. Great job folks! ID: 3523 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jack Schonbrun Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 115 Credit: 5,954 RAC: 0	Message 3527 - Posted: 17 Nov 2005, 20:44:21 UTC - in response to Message 3523. Last modified: 17 Nov 2005, 20:47:34 UTC Is it possible, that the gfx window doesn't close between two WUs? I mean, it's not a big problem to restart the gfx again, but for a continous presentation / watching of R@H it's just a bit annoying. The graphics code is currently a part of the whole application. The executable is stopped and restarted for each Work Unit, so it ends when the work unit ends. I will look at the other screen savers and see how they deal with this. I'm not sure, but I think if you run in screen saver mode the graphics will restart spontaneously with the new Work Unit. Are you thinking about implementing a percentage / time counter in the gfx as well? I'd just like to be able to tell how far a WU has advanced and for how long it has been running without having to switch to the BOINC manager. The next version of the screen saver will include percentage complete. ID: 3527 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote