Posts by Grant (SSSF)

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113654) Posted 3 days ago by Grant (SSSF) Post: Ah, I didn't think IPv6 would be the issue, but that's entirely possible. I'm running Linux. No worries I guess. I have other projects to crunch. PS Although I do hope they fix their networking issues. That issue has been around for almost 18 months now.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113652) Posted 4 days ago by Grant (SSSF) Post: Can anyone please tell me why the feeder is not running for a very long time? Cannot get any work. BOINC client 7.24. Mon 10 Aug 2026 09:54:53 AM EDT \| Rosetta@home \| Server error: feeder not running You haven't been able to get any work as there hasn't been any since early May. Even if there was work, you still wouldn't be able to get any as there is a problem with the project's IPv6 support- the Feeder not running indicates this issue (for some reason). There are several threads with work-arounds using the Host file, but the project really is pretty much dead and i honestly wouldn't bother.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113637) Posted 21 days ago by Grant (SSSF) Post: 3 months of no work and counting.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113609) Posted 25 Jun 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: Looking at Grafana.kiska.pw - https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc?orgId=1&var-project=Rosetta@Home&from=now-90d&to=now&chunkNotFound&editPanel=2 - it looks like the last small batch of Rosetta WUs were sent back around May 11th. Hopefully we'll get another graduate student in the fall to generate more WUs! - Ian And another small batch on June 21st or 22nd. ? May 11 was the last time any new work was released. There would have been a few resends after that, but there has been no new work since then.
5) Message boards : News : Rosetta@home Update (Message 113593) Posted 16 Jun 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: All I want to know is, Is there any more work coming??? Most likely. When please? Whenever someone gets around to submitting it. Work has been very hit and miss for a couple of years now.
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Problems running Rosetta (Message 113584) Posted 5 Jun 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: [qquote]6/5/2026 1:44:27 PM \| Rosetta@home \| Server error: feeder not running[/quote]The thread posted before this one with that very issue in it's name gives a workaround for this problem. Rosetta@home \| Server error: feeder not running Even so, there hasn't been any work available for over 3 weeks.
7) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Other projects. (Message 113579) Posted 24 May 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: So...ahhh...what's happening in the world of Rosetta? The main page Server Status hasn't updated since the 17th.
8) Message boards : News : Rosetta@home Update (Message 113574) Posted 19 May 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: We're happy to be cited in recent scientific publications[quote]We thank Michael Weim, Luki Goldschmidt, Rocco Moretti, and Sergey Lyskov for support with Rosetta and Rosetta@home; members of the Baker lab and the SD2 consortium for sharing computational design models and data files and for useful discussions, especially Chris Norn and Jedediah Singer; UW BIOFAB technicians; and members of the public who donate their computer time to Rosetta@home. It's not much, but it's better than nothing. Well, at least they still know this project still exists. I just wish they'd fix up the server/configuration issues.
9) Message boards : News : Rosetta@home Update (Message 113572) Posted 18 May 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: Is there a problem with Rosetta work units? There never seems to be any ? For a year or two now, thewre have only been occasional bacthes of work released, many of them very small, but even the larger batches get picked up quickly. If you request work when it's available, you'll get it, but the timing has to be good because often it's all gone in less than an hour, and then it's even more difficult to pickup resends when they become available. Maybe a News or Technical News update to keep us minions informed. Apart from one very brief period, there has been no communication from the project for several years.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113570) Posted 8 May 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: Haven't seen this for quite a while. Notice: Undefined variable: stats in /projects/boinc/rosetta/html/user/index.php on line 81 Server status on the main page is broken again.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : When Rosetta active, only one GPU active (Message 113552) Posted 16 Apr 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: Can someone point me to the specific setting that may undo this bottlenecking? Your best bet is to check the forums for the project that is using the GPU. You will need an app_config.xml file placed in the C:/ProgramData/BOINC/projects/ whatever project it is folder (back slashes replaced with forward slashes as the forum software strips them out). For Numberfields (depending on the GPU) i use <app_config> <app> <name>GetDecics</name> <gpu_versions> <gpu_usage>0.33</gpu_usage> <cpu_usage>1.4</cpu_usage> </gpu_versions> </app> </app_config> GetDecics is the name of the application i want the settings to apply to (so you need to know the name of the application running on your GPUs to replace GetDecics). 0.33 for the GPU usage results in 3 Tasks running on the one GPU. If the application for your GPU project is well optimised, then you'd only want one Task to run which would be 1.0 CPU usage means i reserve 1.4 CPU cores per GPU Task that is running. With 3 Tasks running, it reserves 4 CPU cores/threads. 3 of them support the GPU Tasks, the other is unused and available to the system. If you're only running a single Task per GPU, then set that value to 1.0 as well. That will reserve a CPU core to support the GPU Tasks that are running. If no GPU Tasks are running, then it is released back to any projects running Tasks on the CPU to use. "Use at most xx % of the CPUs" and "Use at most xx % of CPU time" are best left at 100% in most cases.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Task ran fine, but timed out on Threadripper 9000 after approx. 2,5 days: rb_04_04_702801_692873_ab_t000__robetta_cstwt_5.0_FT_IGNORE_THE_REST_09_10_3023291_43_0 (Message 113546) Posted 15 Apr 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: I'm much more inclined to blame BAM than Boinc, Yep- there are issues with BAM that have never been addressed.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Chi angle error (Message 113506) Posted 31 Mar 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: The longer you process a Task for, the more powerful your CPU, then the more likely you are to run into the problem.
14) Message boards : News : Rosetta@home Update (Message 113501) Posted 28 Mar 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: Would it help BOINC to make requests more often if I increased the Rosetta resource share from 150 to, say, 250, or 350 or similar? Nope. Resource share is about the balance of of work being done between projects. It has no effect as such on how often BOINC will request new work. When BOINC requests work, and can't get any, it increases the back-off time until it asks again. Each time it tries and fails, the back-off increases (i can't remember if the maximum is 24 or 48 hours). The back-off then resets, and it starts all over again. The idea is that if BOINC can't get work, there's no point in asking for it every few seconds or minutes- particularly if the problem is the servers or network are overloaded as it just makes things worse.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Chi angle error (Message 113500) Posted 28 Mar 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: It's been an issue ever since they released the application. Instead of exiting gracefully, it crashes
16) Message boards : News : Rosetta@home Update (Message 113494) Posted 28 Mar 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: How are people getting these tasks? Requesting work when it is available. What am I doing wrong? Check your event log that your system is actually requesting work. Make sure you're not getting any "Feeder not running" messages when requesting work- if so you need to disable IPv6, or edit your hosts file as per the many, many, many posts in the Number Crunching threads. Even then, if you don't request work at just the right time (occasionally a period of just a couple of hours, more often 30min or less), then you won't get any.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113449) Posted 27 Feb 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: Hmmm...is there a way for me to keep this from displaying when I look at my tasks? I would have thought it'd aged out by now, it's been almost 5 years after all. https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/result.php?resultid=1480656462 Considering they haven't fixed the issues with their servers, the odds of them cleaning up their database are pretty much non-existent.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113386) Posted 5 Jan 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: It'll need someone to report it there & post relevant info for it to be sorted out, I did raise it tentatively here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=15546&postid=116493#116493, but no one replied to my post. That far back- the same time they broke the Remaining (estimated) time updating.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113384) Posted 4 Jan 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: yours is the only instance i've heard of where for some reason BOINC is reporting itself as running under LUNIX when it is actually running under Windows. Grant, This issue has affected a number of crunchers at World Community Grid (myself included). After upgrading to BOINC client 8.2.4 and installing Docker, my PC was reporting itself as running Alpine Linux or Docker Desktop (or Ubuntu, which is the Linux version I had installed under WSL2). However, it was running the Windows executable for Mapping Cancer Markers. Do you have an account at BOINC? I've gone through the threads again, and there is no mention of this issue at all. Same for the BOINC Github- no reports of this issue. It'll need someone to report it there & post relevant info for it to be sorted out,
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 113381) Posted 4 Jan 2026 by Grant (SSSF) Post: Which of the three recent version(s) I've read about do you have installed? No idea. Whatever came with BOINC v8.2.4 (after which i did a WSL update). But i reverted back to BOINC v8.0.2 because the new version broke the updating of the Remaining (Estimated) times- it no longer updates as work is returned. What have you read about those three versions having exactly identical behavior? Nothing at all- yours is the only instance i've heard of where for some reason BOINC is reporting itself as running under LUNIX when it is actually running under Windows. Most of the posts at BOINC regarding Podman are due to installation issues- if you don't do things in the exact order as posted, you can't get it setup. Most of the others are asking if it's needed (which it isn't), for what projects (only 1 as such which is more of a test project). My internet provider won't handle IPv6, only IPv4, so I didn't expect that setting to have any effect. I might as well try it, though. I just tried it, with no reboot. The lasts uploads finally went through! So it looks like- for whatever reason - that that instance of BOINC is not running under the main Windows installation. If it were, then editing it's hosts file would have had the same effect. But if you're selecting the manager using the icon on the Taskbar, then it should be. Like i said- something there is very, very, very broken. As it is, there is presently no new Rosetta work (once again).

Next 20