Posts by Grant (SSSF)

1) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Other projects. (Message 113226)
Posted 4 days ago by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Not exactly "Other projects", but does anyone have a clue as to what's going on around here? I got some tasks and since then it's become vewy, vewy qwiet.
It's been that way for 18 months+ now.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113199)
Posted 26 days ago by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Is there a place where I can send a "private" message to whoever is responsible for the 4.20 tasks being sent out?
Nope.
Although it would have come in useful over the years when a researcher released a whole batch of faulty Tasks.


I'm experiencing problems with them on one computer, only one computer. I suspect it has to do with the bios/cpu/os/video card configuration. Basically those tasks will go out grab every byte of memory, swap, and then things really get ugly since the only way out of it is to hit the power button. I have a work around, hobble along limiting the number of 4.20 tasks that are allowed to run.
Limiting the number of Rosetta 4.20 Tasks is the only work around other than limiting the number of cores/threads in use, which is BOINC wide, or limiting the number of cores/threads for the project as a whole, which would limit the number Beta Tasks if they were to ever release anymore.

My i7 8700k systems had 16GB of RAM, but i upgraded them to 32GB so they could handle the large RAM requirement Rosetta 4.20 Tasks.
Generally you needed roughly 2GB RAM per Rosetta 4.20 Task, although from memory there were batches where some Taks would use as much as 4GB each. I'm surprised it's taken this long for some larger RAM requirement Tasks to be released since they started issuing Rosetta 4.20 Tasks again.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113193)
Posted 29 days ago by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Edit: I see 3 of your PCs have grabbed some of those tasks

I seem to have kicked the sleeping beast with my question(s) and it's awakened. I've turned off WCG requests on some of the computers to try and get more Rosetta tasks.
Why?
If there ends up being some WCG work, you'll get some. If there is some Rosetta work you might get some. Disable WCG and you're unlikely to get any.
When work is released here you generally have a 30min or less window to request some before it's gone.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113192)
Posted 29 days ago by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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For some weeks now I've had several tasks sitting in Ready to Report and when I request an Update for the project get "Server Error: Feeder not Running." So what am I doing wrong since others are obviously processing tasks?
They were just extremely lucky to have requested work when it was available.
Mostly, it isn't.


I've been running Rosetta for some years and this is a new issue to me.
It's been an issue for 6 months (or more, and one of many), If you use IPV6, you can't get or return work.
You need to edit your Hosts file to get to the Scheduler etc directly.


See here.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : ano work for quite a while (Message 113177)
Posted 30 Oct 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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My evidence goes against the deadness of the project. I have had many tasks, but I just wondered why things have now been lacking
Even with Rosetta as a backup project, one day to do 8 hours of work, 4 completed Tasks in the last week, and an RAC of 45 with a total Credit of 687,000 is not a lot of Tasks.


Rosetta used to have 300,000 or so Tasks being processed daily.
A couple of thousand Tasks released every few days for a couple of weeks, after a month of nothing, with absolutely no input or response from the project to forum posts or emails make it a dead project.
The parrot is not sleeping.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113160)
Posted 19 Oct 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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You were either lucky or you weren't
The Graphs certainly tell the story.
120 users had work. A batch of 8,000 Tasks were released and those 140 got some, as did another 20 users. Then another 10,000 Tasks were released, but it doesn't look like any new users picked up any- just the existing 140 users.
If work is available, you need to request it then and there as it doesn't last long. If you've already got work, then requesting more work is more likely to occur before it runs out again.
Looks like not long after i posted this, a second much larger batch was released (20,000 or so), and this time a few others were able to get some work- an extra 550 or so.
Which is still not many at all.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113159)
Posted 19 Oct 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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You were either lucky or you weren't
The Graphs certainly tell the story.
120 users had work. A batch of 8,000 Tasks were released and those 140 got some, as did another 20 users. Then another 10,000 Tasks were released, but it doesn't look like any new users picked up any- just the existing 140 users.
If work is available, you need to request it then and there as it doesn't last long. If you've already got work, then requesting more work is more likely to occur before it runs out again.
8) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Other projects. (Message 113125)
Posted 1 Oct 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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WSL2 is that new Docker thing?
Wiondows Subsystem for Linux is needed in order to setup Linux under Windows.
And Linux is needed for docker/podman.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Can I change my user name to match all my other Boinc accounts? (Message 113116)
Posted 26 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Looks like it's possible.
Click on your name at the top right of this page, under "Account information", Change, select "other account info", change your name and then click on Update info.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113114)
Posted 26 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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It's probably the most redundant thing I've ever mentioned, but the front page Server Status section seems to be not working...
Over a week and it's still stuck.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113105)
Posted 22 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Perhaps it's some incompatibility with Windows 11 and/or my new AMD CPU — I never had that kind of issue when I was using previous Windows (Vista, 7, 8.1, 10) and Intel CPUs (Q6600 and i7-4790k). That and Android, which keeps getting "computational error" on every single WU I get for Einstein, for example.
I was able to attach my Win 11 AMD laptop 12 months ago with no issues.
Some sort of corruption with the user account database/indexes is not out the realms of possibilities.

The fact that you were able to attach to other projects without issue on your existing account, and the account you are posting with here doesn't show any other Projects, but that it does show a list of computers indicates it's most likely something to do with your Rosetta account.
Unfortunately, there's no real way to contact the Project, and even when people have gone through the hoops by posting to email addresses listed on the University web site for those associated with the project, the response has been zero.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113102)
Posted 20 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Does anyone have a guestimate as to when tasks might start flowing?
Whenever a researcher gets around to releasing some.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113101)
Posted 20 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Then why my attempts to get Rosetta work on my two Windows computers have received none in at least a month?
Did you actually read what i posted?
Miniscule amounts of work with large gaps between batches.
If your system doesn't request work while it is available, then you won't get any. Since there isn't a lot being released, and there are large gaps between releases, it means that you have a window of an hour (or less) to get work- when it is available, before it's gone.
You won't get any work if there is none when you request it, and if you don't request it when there is work, you still won't get any.
It is that way for all computers, not just Windows systems.



And that is all assuming you have done the hacks in your Hosts file to overcome the IPv6 DNS issues and the download server issues and probably other issues i've forgotten about since they have been around for so long now because there is absolutely no active work by the Project to fix their server problems.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113096)
Posted 20 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Rosetta us no longer providing work for Windows computers,
There is still work being provided for all supported systems, however the amounts are miniscule, with long periods between batches.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : How to choose Rosetta appliction? (Message 113084)
Posted 18 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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How long you set to run a Task for makes no difference.
There are Rosetta or Rosetta Beta Tasks, there is no way to select one over the other.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : How to choose Rosetta appliction? (Message 113082)
Posted 17 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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Greetings,
My goal is to get some Rosetta WU.
so far, no luck.
There is no work available at present, that's why you haven't got any.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113075)
Posted 13 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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A lot of errors...

<message>
(unknown error) (317) - exit code 3221225477 (0xc0000005)</message>

.....
Most likely a combination of a problem with the application's error handling- it's crashing instead of exiting gracefully - and the data from the Task- a value isn't being initialised, or it's being initialised with a value outside of the range that the application can handle.
End result- crash and burn.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113072)
Posted 12 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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If you click on "Your account" on the Project tab on the newly attached computer, does the User ID there match the one above?

Rosetta is the only project that doesn't have that button — the other seven all do.
Detach from the project and re-attach.
I've no idea how it can be attached to the project without having an account- but that would be why your user name and Credits don't show up.
You've attached to the project, but not using you existing account.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113067)
Posted 11 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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I'm not really concerned about that, just my username and credits not showing up on the client.
Check the account numbers.
The account you are posting with shows 6 systems when "Show all computers" is selected against User ID 2158075.
If you click on "Your account" on the Project tab on the newly attached computer, does the User ID there match the one above?
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113063)
Posted 11 Sep 2025 by Profile Grant (SSSF)
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I've added (Tools > Add project) Rosetta to my Windows 11 BOINC client (8.2.4 x64), but my username and credits aren't showing — they're just blank and zero, respectively. And I'm not getting any tasks.

I've checked my profile and:
1. My account page says I have 131,197 credits — the "Projects in which you are participating" table says it's 131,196.
2. The "Your computers" page shows every single PC and smartphone I've run Rosetta on since May 2020, but this new computer isn't featured on that list.

Are those common bugs? Is there anything I could do about it?
You need to attach to the project as a returning user, not create a new one when attaching to the project (which is probably what has happened with your Win 11 system.
And the reason for not getting any Tasks is because there is none at present.


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