Posts by Heidi1

21) Message boards : Number crunching : No Work Units (Message 56578) Posted 1 Nov 2008 by Heidi1 Post: I've already posted the same on another thread.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : Servers running, but no work available?? (Message 56556) Posted 31 Oct 2008 by Heidi1 Post: A little similar to the above problem: I'm getting this message constantly this morning (my time zone), but everything on the Rosetta pages is saying that I should be getting work. 10/31/2008 11:27:45\|rosetta@home\|Requesting 110583 seconds of new work 10/31/2008 11:27:51\|rosetta@home\|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 601] 10/31/2008 11:27:51\|rosetta@home\|Deferring communication for 1 min 41 sec 10/31/2008 11:27:51\|rosetta@home\|Reason: no work from project The deferring communication amount increases with each failed attempt, which I've seen before and expect. But why there's no work from project is beyond my understanding. Help!
23) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Manager will not connect to client. (Message 56121) Posted 30 Sep 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Check this thread out: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=2992&nowrap=true#19891
24) Message boards : Number crunching : Minirosetta v1.32 bug thread (Message 55438) Posted 1 Sep 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Update: It's also blacking out on this WU: abinitio_homfrag_71_A_2hh6A_4443_24307_0. It seems to be doing it at some of the checkpoints, but not all of them. What's more, the other WU that is running does show graphics okay but not this particular WU (it's just a black screen if it's able to show a separate window at all). And the main black screen issue doesn't care if you're doing anything else, even if you're watching a movie or moving your mouse or typing, it will supercede anything else on the screen. The Windows button has worked each time I've pressed it, a better success rate than Ctrl+Alt+Del. One additional thing of note: when exiting from the black screen and I see the taskbar, the icon for the Mini WU that's on the taskbar is that of "minirosetta_graphics_1.30_windows_intelx86.exe", not a BOINC or generic icon (it's a miniature version of Rosetta's logo). I hope this helps you fix this bug. It's sure bugging me! :)
25) Message boards : Number crunching : Minirosetta v1.32 bug thread (Message 55437) Posted 1 Sep 2008 by Heidi1 Post: I've been having the same screensaver/blackout problem that others have had. I don't know which WU it is, but it definitely is a Mini 1.32, as that's all my machine has right now (it's one of these two: abinitio_homfrag_71_A_2uzrA_4443_23491_0 ; abinitio_homfrag_71_A_2ib0A_4443_23507_0). I used to have BOINC be the Windows screensaver, then I changed it to an actual Windows one when the Mini started doing the black screen thing, then I later changed the screensaver to None when Mini was continuing to produce black screens. Sometimes using Ctrl+Alt+Del got me to where the taskbar would show, sometimes not; another trick I found out about is pressing the key for the Start button (my keyboard has it between the left Ctrl and Alt keys) would also allow me to see the taskbar. One of the open programs on the taskbar at that time is MiniRosetta, and I don't know if that is the screensaver that is trying to kick in. Sometimes the Mini screensaver kicks in way before the Windows screensaver is supposed to start (once the Mini one started after the computer was idle for a whopping 30 seconds!). I have not paid attention as to what the WU crunching is doing, if it's still running during the black screen or if it's frozen up.
26) Message boards : Number crunching : Servers running, but no work available?? (Message 55322) Posted 27 Aug 2008 by Heidi1 Post: From what I'm seeing on the home page and the Server Status page, I'm surprised to see the extremely-low number of WUs queued up, especially considering how many are in progress or how many were recently finished. When this happened 1.5 weeks ago, many people (myself included) went to another project just so our computers could be doing something. By the time work was available again, I couldn't download because I was on another project that would take days to complete. Now that those other WUs are finishing up, RAH is now out of work again. I don't know if this is a feeder problem, a server problem, a plain lack of WUs existing, or if Rosetta as a whole is almost finished (which I can't believe is the case). Whatever the problem is, it needs to be addressed. There has been no word (from what I've seen) on why it happened the first time, let alone this time. <edit: There was one short explanation on another message board from one of the mods, but there was nothing on the home page.> For this to happen twice in two weeks is not acceptable if you want to keep your protein-crunchers.
27) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word Link 12 (Message 52853) Posted 3 May 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Minerals Phyllosilicate montmorillonite Fuller's earth Flatiron Building flat iron tourmaline
28) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word Link 12 (Message 52747) Posted 27 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: flat iron tourmaline
29) Message boards : Number crunching : WU Checkpoint Issue (Message 52671) Posted 23 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: To hibernate, click start, then control panel, then performance and maintenance, then power options, then on the top tabs click "hibernate", then enable hibernation. Now a file which exactly corresponds to the size of your RAM will be created on C: drive. Though it is hidden therefore not easily found. But more importantly, when you click the shutdown tab, hold shift and the stand by option will turn into hibernate :) Thanks for the tip! However, everything ran smoothly to go into hibernation, until I clicked on the button to hibernate, and my CPU won't do it. I get the logoff-type screen saying "Preparing for hibernation", and then it goes straight back to my Windows desktop. The file was created on my C: drive. I read online that some graphic drivers don't allow hibernation, and mine must be one of them (Nvidia), as I can't get it to go. I've tried this two different times, and it's done this both times. I did try putting the WU on standby and then shutting down my computer. Nope. The WU still restarted at the last checkpoint. Oh well. On a side note, I have noticed that some WUs do checkpointing as infrequent as every 2 hours! That is one model for that whole stretch of time! I think it was a FRA_ WU.
30) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word Link 12 (Message 52618) Posted 19 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Pinot Grigio Giovanni Wines (they never give up!) ohhhhh...thats low lmao, Expedia is another. Dell
31) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Last one to post here wins part 3 (Message 52429) Posted 13 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Winning while watching Star Wars. Spike TV has been showing all 6 episodes over two weekends, and Empire Strikes Back is on right now. It's good seeing these again. May the Force be with us all . . . (we're gonna need it)
32) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word Link 12 (Message 52351) Posted 9 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Karma
33) Message boards : Number crunching : Resuming a task after a computer shutdown (Message 52350) Posted 9 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Check out this thread: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=4037 I was having checkpointing issues also, and the debug file mentioned in here has helped me with it. It won't actually fix the problem, but you can monitor it during the day and when you shut down, so you can either wait a little longer until the next checkpoint or at least know how much work you're losing. The checkpointing then won't take you by surprise. There is another possible fix also mentioned in the thread that maybe you're interested in. BTW, I found my checkpoints were occuring every 45 minutes or so.
34) Message boards : Number crunching : WU Checkpoint Issue (Message 52331) Posted 8 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Thanks anyway, but the checkpoint debug seems to be my best option. I'm crunching 2 WUs, which tend to checkpoint at different times (so far), so I'd rather just look that info up and shut down accordingly. Maybe someone else wants that program.
35) Message boards : Number crunching : WU Checkpoint Issue (Message 52307) Posted 7 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Thanks, everyone, for the responses. I did the checkpoint debug file, and it works! Even if I can't actually force it to checkpoint (or wash my car :] ) I can at least look at the debug info to see how frequently it is checkpointing to see if I need to wait a bit longer before shutting down. Regarding hibernating, I wish that were an option. My computer that runs Rosetta doesn't seem to do hibernating. I'm going to attempt this manually, but it's not an option on my shut down menu. In looking at Windows Help, there are some computer manufacturers and components that don't support hibernation. Go figure . . . Between the longer file size that I'm trying out and the new debug file, I think that's about as much as I can get, and I thank you all for your help. You're supposed to learn something new everyday, and I just learned mine.
36) Message boards : Number crunching : WU Checkpoint Issue (Message 52289) Posted 6 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: This last time when I turned off the computer and turned it back on (& starting BOINC), I was paying attention to the timestamp of a few files located in the individual slots directories. Is <farlxcheck> the file that keeps the checkpointing? If that's it, then I can at least check that to get an idea of how much work I'll be losing when I shut down. Obviously, I can't change its data, and I don't want to, but I could monitor it at least. Now I'm probably way off base . . . :) Is there a way to request WUs with more frequent checkpoints, or is that automatically assigned?
37) Message boards : Number crunching : WU Checkpoint Issue (Message 52242) Posted 4 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Yes, I knew that the time of CPU writing to disk was not the same as checkpointing, but I thought it may help with any answers. I haven't started the new WU lengths yet, so I don't know yet how that will affect checkpointing. Until that happens, while I still have the older ones, I guess that when I know the computer will be on a short amount of time, I just won't run BOINC. This scenario won't last too much longer, so it won't be a big problem. Again, thanks!
38) Message boards : Number crunching : WU Checkpoint Issue (Message 52215) Posted 3 Apr 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Greetings! I thought I read somewhere in one of these forums that individual WU checkpoints were about every 1/2 hour, so that when you shut down your computer, the WU will start again from the last checkpoint. I'm not sure where I read the 1/2 hour part, because I can't find it now on the boards. Maybe someone can help me: My WUs are going for longer than 30 minutes before checkpointing. Sometimes my computer, and therefore BOINC, will be on for only about 45 minutes, and when I turn the computer on again, one WU will complete restart from scratch; the other WU will restart from a checkpoint, but I haven't paid as much attention to that one. Now, the computer is on quite a bit longer just frequently enough that none of the WUs are returned back to the server with an error, but this really is driving me nuts. My BOINC prefs are set for the program to write to the disk every 10 seconds, so it can't be that. Nothing else in the prefs are screaming this issue at me, so I'm baffled. I just changed my network prefs so that I'll have longer-running WUs, because my dial-up modem is just taking too long downloading WUs. So it would be nice to have this issue resolved, in one way or another, before I really get into the new lengths. This checkpointing issue has been going on for a while now, while more nuts keep getting added to my pile! :) Any help will be appreciated. Thanks much!
39) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Personal Milestones (Message 52178) Posted 30 Mar 2008 by Heidi1 Post: I just hit 10K in Rosetta cobblestones! And this is with a computer that's frankly not on a whole lot and whittling away at WUs.
40) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Word Link 12 (Message 52139) Posted 27 Mar 2008 by Heidi1 Post: Pacific Ocean

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