Posts by Tom M

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112189) Posted 15 days ago by Tom M Post: Hi, I have located the email for the University of Washington IT Help desk. I have asked for help with both the security certificate issue and the clock-like shutdown/start of the "boinc-processing" HOST. I have also pointed them to this thread for further research. I have asked for a specific System Admin contact for these and future issues. Maybe this will help. Maybe it won't. Worst case is just the "status quo". Respectfully, Tom M
2) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Better Contact with the System Admin (Message 112188) Posted 15 days ago by Tom M Post: There are at least two technical issues with Rosetta@Home that it would be good to have a System Admin contact to let us know that we have both, been heard. And when the fixe(s) are coming. 1) Fix the security certificates so we don't need a "work-around" to successfully upload/download tasks. 2) An explanation and/or fix for the clock-like outage of the Boinc Host called "boinc-process". It stops on Wednesday and restarts on Friday. Every Week! Respectfully,
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112177) Posted 16 days ago by Tom M Post: Has anyone messaged Zari about the "boinc-process" server shutting down on a regular Wed through Friday schedule? Err... who is Zari? I have had an email to use in the past, and I did use it when it first started happening, but it stopped being responded to a couple of years ago. Edit: boinc-server <is> back running very early on Friday (UK time) Nearly all my pendings have been cleared already https://www.bakerlab.org/contact/ Zari is the listed Executive Assistant to the lab. The above is the contact page. Oh! Thanks. Well, not me. Do they listen? I emailed someone up at the top once some time ago and they never replied. Maybe we need to locate the actual Sysadmin to the servers?
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112172) Posted 17 days ago by Tom M Post: Has anyone messaged Zari about the "boinc-process" server shutting down on a regular Wed through Friday schedule? Err... who is Zari? I have had an email to use in the past, and I did use it when it first started happening, but it stopped being responded to a couple of years ago. Edit: boinc-server <is> back running very early on Friday (UK time) Nearly all my pendings have been cleared already https://www.bakerlab.org/contact/ Zari is the listed Executive Assistant to the lab. The above is the contact page.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112152) Posted 22 days ago by Tom M Post: Has anyone messaged Zari about the "boinc-process" server shutting down on a regular Wed through Friday schedule?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112151) Posted 22 days ago by Tom M Post: So far, 1 day cache has been keeping my system busy. I do run WCG at the same resource level. And so far, my system is still favoring R@H. Yes, i have 1 cpu thread running e@h on this cpu-only box. I am setup that if R@H stops sending tasks, WCG is "supposed" to take on all those CPU threads. I am pleased it hasn't been tested yet. :)
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112113) Posted 29 days ago by Tom M Post: Excellent and highly appropriate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGgMZpGYiy8 Today the daemons are green, but still "waiting for validation". And it's Wednesday! It's quite astonishing But there's some comfort in reliability too I don't know whether to be upset or not This reminds me of a line from a Tune on He Haw.... "If I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all...."
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112085) Posted 13 Feb 2025 by Tom M Post: What day is it today? Wednesday! And what happens on Wednesday? It's not even funny any more... ...see you Friday Well, now I see why my RAC has been falling. Its Thursday around here. So I have to wait till Friday for the huge Validation back log to start declining. Rats (Australian Kangaroo version?)
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112084) Posted 13 Feb 2025 by Tom M Post: Unnecessary, as not only are you running multiple projects, so at least one of them will have work available at any given time, but the server issue here isn't one affecting work availability. People keep suggesting this. I am signed up for six projects and Rosetta and WCG are the only ones that send out work. And in the past, WCG was nearly down for about two years, so does it count? And ClimatePredicion does not send me Linux work in many months and their web site is currently down.. I have found the majority of the Biology/Medicine projects except for Rosetta at Home and World Community Grid are simply not active. I run both of those and then have Asteroids at Home setup for a backup using "0" resource. So it only downloads when some of my CPU cores/threads are not busy. Other choices include Gaia at Home, Milkyway at Home and PrimeGrid. If you have gpus you can also run Asteroids, Milkyway and PrimeGrid at home. Einstein at Home almost always have CPU tasks. And loads of GPU tasks too. While I want to run all the Biology/Medicine projects I can the only Biology research project I run on my NVIDIA gpus is GpuGrid. It is intermittent so I only run it on one of my gpus. The other two are always running Einstein at home. Some of my teammates run GpuGrid on all their NVIDIA gpus when it is available and then run another GPU project when it is not, by setting the backup GPU project at a much lower resource level than the GpuGrid project. HTH's Jean-David Beyer.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112068) Posted 11 Feb 2025 by Tom M Post: I've been sneaking a few tasks throughout the day and interleaving them with WCG and SiDock tasks, but in the last hour Rosetta has been coming through quie a lot. Front page now shows 2.2m new tasks. Go get'em +1
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112067) Posted 11 Feb 2025 by Tom M Post: YAY! I had one computer run out of Rosetta work, loaded a days worth of WCG to keep it busy. I hate to see wasted BogoMips. Idle hands are the devil's workshop... +1
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111893) Posted 10 Jan 2025 by Tom M Post: Never seen this before. It's an error on the download. <error_code>-119 (md5 checksum failed for file)</error_code> So your SPECIAL <grin>
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111835) Posted 27 Dec 2024 by Tom M Post: While we are waiting for Rosetta and or SiDock and using alternate projects to satisfy our Science needs... One other project for Science if you happen to have a Nvidia GPU available and ready for work is GPUGRID@HOME Also a Science project Respectfully Bill F +1 Einstein at Home has x86 CPU tasks. And tasks for NVIDIA, Radeon, Intel and Apple (Darwin?) gpus. Yes they run ARM tasks too. Pick one task GPU task (brp7/meerKat or OS3GW). Mixing both tasks on the same GPU will apparently slow things down. I like GpuGrid. If I could afford to keep more Gpu's running I would have one running GpuGrid until it runs out of tasks and then switch to another GPU task. Respectfully! OBTW, Asteroids at Home, Milky way and Prime Grid all run both gpu and CPU tasks.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111834) Posted 27 Dec 2024 by Tom M Post: [EDIT] Classical ... trying to find what is wrong for hours and finaly write a post here to see if it's just me. 5 minutes later it starts working by itself :) [/quote] I call that the Mechanic/Technician effect. All too often as soon as you call in heavy support, the problem stops.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111833) Posted 27 Dec 2024 by Tom M Post: While we are waiting for Rosetta and or SiDock and using alternate projects to satisfy our Science needs... One other project for Science if you happen to have a Nvidia GPU available and ready for work is GPUGRID@HOME Also a Science project Respectfully Bill F +1 Einstein at Home has x86 CPU tasks. And tasks for NVIDIA, Radeon, Intel and Apple (Darwin?) gpus. Yes they run ARM tasks too. Pick one task GPU task (brp7/meerKat or OS3GW). Mixing both tasks on the same GPU will apparently slow things down. I like GpuGrid. If I could afford to keep more Gpu's running I would have one running GpuGrid until it runs out of tasks and then switch to another GPU task. Respectfully!
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111811) Posted 23 Dec 2024 by Tom M Post: To the right, “Computing Status” > Tasks Ready to Send = 0 I have been seeing that a lot too. Anyone got any ideas about why that is so frequent? Too many volunteers competing for a limited production?
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111810) Posted 23 Dec 2024 by Tom M Post: The host files fix worked for me as well. Thanks Me Too.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111792) Posted 21 Dec 2024 by Tom M Post: Thank you.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111785) Posted 20 Dec 2024 by Tom M Post: I have had to add watch -n 300 ./boinccmd --project https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ update to my Linux boxhttps://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/show_host_detail.php?hostid=6306257 to reliably get tasks. I haven't got a clue how you can do that in Windows or Windows server. But several top performing Windows system running 256 cores are clearly not getting tasks reliably. The reason I am claiming this is my smaller 128 core system is currently parked at #1. That doesn't seem reasonable given the specifications of the other systems. Respectfully, Tom M
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 110248) Posted 15 Dec 2024 by Tom M Post: How do I add the DNS changes mentioned previously to my hosts file on Ubuntu to get the downloads working? sudo nano /etc/hosts and add this line at the bottom 128.95.160.156 boinc-files.bakerlab.org Is this still correct? I have stopped getting downloads at all. At least they are not stalled downloads. Ah. There are no downloads ready to send.

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