Posts by The red spirit

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Discussion of the merits and challenges of using GPUs (Message 94439) Posted 14 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: I wonder if there will be some GPU tasks due to emergency. It could really speed up everything and help to reach project's goals faster and more efficiently.
2) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Losing WU progress (Message 93684) Posted 6 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: Can you give a link to the task? Here they are (the failed ones): https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=1139781657 https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=1139781737 And here's the successful one: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=1140448033
3) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Losing WU progress (Message 93681) Posted 6 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: So, that one WU was crunched successfully. However, checkpoints didn't work.
4) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Losing WU progress (Message 93675) Posted 6 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: I'm really sorry for ruining those 2 WUs. After that incident I set Rosetta to not get any new tasks, but during that freeze it downloaded one WU and I noticed that it's 95% complete. There's not much left, so I will keep it going. Checkpoint functionality is again nonexistant on that WU, however Cosmology's WU seems to have working checkpoints.
5) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Losing WU progress (Message 93617) Posted 6 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: And I had to restart machine afterall. During night it became completely unresponsive. After restart both Rosetta WUs have failed ("computation error"). However it seems that both are 100% complete.
6) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Losing WU progress (Message 93576) Posted 5 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: Small update: The whole thing froze. BOINC window in fullscreen froze, Mint menus froze. PC doesn't respond to lost internet connection. Only mouse cursor moves. It looks like it won't resolve itself, but I will keep it running and won't try to close BOINC window. There's only 1 hour and 28 minutes work left. That's so frustrating.
7) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Losing WU progress (Message 93525) Posted 5 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: I will try to leave that computer running. I don't use it for anything else and it once was DV6000 laptop. Now it's a halftop. There's no screen, battery, keyboard touchpad. The only plastic left is the one which holds everything together. It was also upgraded from 1.8GHz Sempron to Turion X2 2GHz, from 1GB DDR2 to 4GB, from 80GB HDD to 120GB SSD. So naturally now I use it as "desktop". Meaning that I plug in keyboard/touchpad (Logitech K400), to monitor via VGA, use old Android phone as WiFi adapter. Not having internal display means that I can't see how to enter BIOS and lack of internal keyboard means that support for external ones is finicky. So I can't really access it anymore and if I unplug it from power all settings are lost. I think that by default there's only 32MB assigned to GPU (GeForce 6150 Go), which might be problematic nowadays. Not sure if it could be related to not saving progress. Not sure about virtualization and security setting (NX bit maybe). Hopefully this information helps a bit.
8) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Losing WU progress (Message 93506) Posted 5 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: CPU time is equal to CPU time since checkpoint. Right now it's at 3:40:40. It seems that previous progress was completely discarded. Also it's weird that my other PC had working checkpoints.
9) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Losing WU progress (Message 93489) Posted 5 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: Hello, I have been running Rosetta@Home COVID-19 WUs on a really low end hardware. That computer has AMD Turion X2 TL-60 inside and each WU takes 21 hours to complete. At home I don't feel comfortable leaving old hardware running overnight and I have to shut down that PC after 13-15 hours. Sadly, it seems that after shut down I lost all progress of those two WUs and they simply started from scratch. I run latest linux Mint there. Is there anything I can do about this? Cosmology@Home WUs work just fine and save their progress.
10) Message boards : News : Rosetta's role in fighting coronavirus (Message 93116) Posted 2 Apr 2020 by The red spirit Post: Does anyone know what "Junior HalfRoid vs COVID-19" in project name mean? I'm only getting WU names like that and it made me a little bit curious. Also one file mentions database and methyl.