Posts by Bryn Mawr

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112758)
Posted 13 days ago by Bryn Mawr
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From earlier in this thread :-

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=6893&postid=112638


It a IPV6 address error. A server went crazy so we use this work around to solve that:
Here how you do it...

open file explorer and then do this
Goto C:>Windows>System32>drivers>etc
find the hosts file

then:
Press the Windows key.
Type Notepad in the search field.
In the search results, right-click Notepad and select Run as. administrator and open the hosts file

then paste the following two lines:

128.95.160.156 boinc-files.bakerlab.org
128.95.160.156 bwsrv1.bakerlab.org

save the file.

If it gives you any trouble, then rename the original hosts file with a .old extenstion and create a new one but make sure you do not give it any extension. So make sure to 'save as' with 'all files' selected in file type. Windows needs to see it as a 'file'.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : GPU WU's (Message 112677)
Posted 26 days ago by Bryn Mawr
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One year ago, Ralph@Home launched the first gpu app for Rosetta@Home.
After that, the silence...


It obviously didn’t work well in practice and it’s either being rewritten or it’s been dropped.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112542)
Posted 15 Apr 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Well that's different- the download server (boinc-files.bakerlab.org) is showing on the Server Status page as not running at the moment.


It’s back up now but that might explain why there are currently 1947 waiting to download - I’ve not seen it that high in quite a while.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112535)
Posted 13 Apr 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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What I can't/didn't see is the validators going down at all this week - so no-one had to wait for them to come back either

I may have got carried away with things that might have been fixed two weeks ago, but for the 2nd week running the boinc-process server kept running from Wednesday through Friday last week too.
It's a relatively small thing, but that's one fewer annoyance each week.


On the other hand, for the first time in a long time, I’m completely out of work :-(
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Request to enable statistics export for my account (Message 112533)
Posted 12 Apr 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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I think that GridCoin is the problem - all of your processing is included in their stats rather than under your own name.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112525)
Posted 10 Apr 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Made these changes some time ago. It finally helped with uploading and downloading WUs. But the feeder not running message keeps popping up when adding the project on a new computer. Something is still not quite right.


And you are making the hosts change to the new computer before adding to project to it?
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 112260)
Posted 19 Mar 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Ahh yeah another Wednesday.

Was just wondering why there was no task being distributed by the server this morning.


Wednesdays don’t normally stop tasks being distributed, just validated and reported.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : BoincStats Never Updates (Message 112239)
Posted 17 Mar 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Hi all. I have been running Rosetta@Home since over 2 days ago. I still see no sign of my contributions in https://www.boincstats.com/stats/-1/user/detail/215675441756/projectList.

is there an expected ETA on Boincstats updating with new projects?


Check that you have allowed data export in your project options
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Unable to download data files (Message 112149)
Posted 26 Feb 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Looking this morning, those 2 tasks must have eventually downloaded successfully as they have now run to completion.
Thanks for persisting with me.

You reassure me, I was out of ideas... At home, it downloads... And even a little too much... 😅
I only activated half of the cores to limit the heating and I will have to activate more if I want to finish on time!
Afterwards, I hope that the cache reduction will finally do its job...
(I was on WCG for a long time where I used the unit limitation)

P.S.: Now my problem is that on Windows I only get betas that end up in errors... I got a second batch, we'll see...
Maybe I'm a bit short on RAM... I plan to put more before the end of DDR3 production at the end of this year. We'll see then...

I've just checked again. My problem is now that it's not calling down any new tasks. Maybe I just need to be more patient.
I only have 2 cores active on my phone and only run when I'm on charge.

Another strange thing. I have my previous phone plugged in and only running Boinc, so I was going to do this exercise all over again to get that running Rosetta too. Except...
I just checked that phone today for the first time and, without changing anything, let alone installing personalDNSfilter and setting it up, it's downloaded tasks twice, run, completed, reported them and been credited.
I have no idea how that happened. Has the whole issue been fixed at the Rosetta end? I'm mystified.

I will never understand phones...


The project has a pool (3?) of servers, only one of which works. If a task gets sent to the working server then it downloads fine.

The fix just means that you will always ask for work from the good server rather than being at the mercy of the load balancer.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Apple Silicon support (Message 112099)
Posted 17 Feb 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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I have a 16gb/256gb M4 Mac Mini and a 16gb 1tb M1 MBP and both of them can chew through Rosetta Beta 6.00 tasks in 3 to 4 hours on average. Even though they aren't Apple Silicon apps, they still perform extremely well!

I hope you don't mind me asking, but why do you only run tasks for 3hrs?
The default is 8hrs so if you force the runtime to only be 3hrs you only do 3/8ths of the work and get 3/8ths of the credit.
You're not completing a full task in 3/8ths of the time - that's not how it works at Rosetta.
More importantly, you churn through more tasks, that then aren't available for you or anyone else to run and fresh batches of work last less long.
I see you run a lot of projects, so correcting your runtime here may impact on meeting deadlines, depending on your offline cache size.
It would definitely help if you could make this adjustment - either to "Not selected" or an explicit 8hrs, as you prefer.


My default is set to default / 8 hours and all of my v4.20 tasks are running for that time.

The majority of my tasks, however, are v6.06 beta and they, without exception, run for 3 hours - not my choice, I presume it’s a setting within the task.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Unable to download data files (Message 112027)
Posted 4 Feb 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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See :-

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=15395&postid=111968#111968
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111972)
Posted 28 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Try following the fix in this message :-

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=6893&postid=111896#111896

So, as you’re not a Linux guru :-

Carl-Alt-T to open a terminal

sudo nano /etc/hosts

Edit to add a new line to the end of the file :-

128.95.160.156 boinc-files.bakerlab.org

Then close up (ctrl-x) and close the terminal (exit).

Job’s a good un.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111960)
Posted 25 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Rats!

The dreaded chi angle error strikes 54 seconds before the task was due to end :-

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=1594094456


It seems that admins cancelled those tasks, I have now several "Cancelled by server" -tasks


No cancelled tasks here yet but I had 4 WUs error out after a combines 19 hours of processing - that’s nearly a whole armful! 🤪
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111944)
Posted 22 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Rats!

The dreaded chi angle error strikes 54 seconds before the task was due to end :-

https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=1594094456
15) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks (Message 111920)
Posted 17 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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Dear all,

I have a problem for several days.

My boinc manager doen't download any task on any project including Rosetta...

The log just tell me :
17/01/2025 06:25:07 | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
17/01/2025 06:25:07 | Rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU
17/01/2025 06:25:09 | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
17/01/2025 06:25:09 | Rosetta@home | No tasks sent
17/01/2025 06:25:09 | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds

I have tried to restart the project and all configuration but nothing trigger new tasks...

An idea ?
Regards,
PoyPoy


If you look at the > Computing > Server Status page you will see that Rosetta has no tasks to send at the moment. This also applies to several other projects such as TN-Grid, CPDN, SI-Dock, Dennis, …
16) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : I cannot report project data (Message 111882)
Posted 9 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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I cannot report project data

Hello!
My Boinc would like to send back data but it is prevented from doing so.
A look at the server status shows several areas that are red and I would like to point this out to someone responsible so that it can continue here again.
Where can I make such a report?

Yours sincerely, R.Lehmeier


The normal place is under Number Crunching, the thread Problems and Technical is usually at the top. It has been reported.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Rosetta Beta 6.00 (Message 111881)
Posted 9 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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A lot of errors:

ERROR: Error in simple_cycpep_predict app! The imported native pose has a different number of residues than the sequence provided.
ERROR:: Exit from: src/protocols/cyclic_peptide_predict/SimpleCycpepPredictApplication.cc line: 2798
BOINC:: Error reading and gzipping output datafile: default.out


4 out of 36 so far from my end.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111867)
Posted 7 Jan 2025 by Bryn Mawr
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3th of January WCG is back.

Well, no.

I was looking at this last night.
The latest update reads:
January 4, 2025
Update from the data centre: "Having issues with the physical network , likely can't get it diagnosed and fixed until Monday, January 6.". As a result - we still do not have a connection to our servers.


It is now Tuesday January 7 morning, and still nothing.


Now :-


January 7, 2025
Networking issues have been resolved. The data centre staff is finalizing our access.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111831)
Posted 27 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
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They have been announcing it for the past month - they even tried to explain why
Very well hidden then IMHO.

Main page news stories-
Target # 23: Ebola GP1, 11 Jul 2024
Vote for the next target!, 26 Jan 2024
Project status: December 2023, 26 Dec 2023
etc.

The "About SiDock@home project" page makes no mention of it.
For someone thinking of joining the project, they're the places people are most likely going to checkout to find out about the project, and what hardware is supported.
And looking at the topics in Number crunching there is not even a hint in any of the thread titles for the last 12 months about the project becoming Arm / Arm on LINUX only.


Very well hidden and I failed to understand why
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 111825)
Posted 26 Dec 2024 by Bryn Mawr
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SiDock is ARM architecture only meow until further notice from them. Basically dormant.
Would have been nice if they would have put that somewhere on their website.
Ideally the main page, but even in the Proiect News would have been nice.

I'm guessing they have very little work available, hence an application with a very (very) small user base (even with those with Linux systems prepared to roll their own to crunch ARM on Linux).


They have been announcing it for the past month - they even tried to explain why


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