Posts by Dirk Broer

21) Message boards : Number crunching : again on on computation error (Message 7994)
Posted 30 Dec 2005 by Dirk Broer
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My last 24 Rosetta WU's gave only ONE normal completed result, the rest were all computation errors. Never had that with Seti, nor Predictor. Their problems seem more network/hardware related, whilst Rosetta seems to have corrupt data to begin with.


Just looked at your results - the errors LOOK like the "application left in memory when preempted = no" errors. If that setting isn't "yes", then Rosetta _will_ fail, frequently, as covered in this and many other threads... it's a known bug, that they're chasing. (Much less fatal than Predictor's "fortran error", or "cypa" WUs that ran for longer than the extremely short deadline, or...) There was also a bad batch of WUs released, that at this point are all cleared out, unless you still have one in your cache from before today.


But the setting is 'YES'! (Correction: that is to say when viewed in the Windows taskmanager. Rosetta is active no matter which other BOINC project is. Just altered my settings in the preferences to see whether this will have some benefit) I have no known 'bad' WUs, so I'll keep my fingers crossed.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : again on on computation error (Message 7977)
Posted 30 Dec 2005 by Dirk Broer
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Have set to YES. I also am running SETI and Predictorat 33% each and have no problems at all with these other two over the past several years.


No project is "perfect" - but the three that have the MOST complaints seem to be SETI, Predictor, and SZTAKI. If you've been able to function well with SETI and Predictor, I would almost guarantee that your current Rosetta problems are very temporary.


My last 24 Rosetta WU's gave only ONE normal completed result, the rest were all computation errors. Never had that with Seti, nor Predictor. Their problems seem more network/hardware related, whilst Rosetta seems to have corrupt data to begin with.


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