Posts by Thomas Starr

1) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Manager will not connect to client. (Message 56066) Posted 27 Sep 2008 by Thomas Starr Post: No, just one BOIC
2) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Manager will not connect to client. (Message 56060) Posted 27 Sep 2008 by Thomas Starr Post: Ran services.msc. BOINC is not even listed in the list of services for the computer that is having the problem. I checked services for the computer that it IS running on, and it's not listed there either.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Manager will not connect to client. (Message 56048) Posted 26 Sep 2008 by Thomas Starr Post: When I start BOINC Manager, message appears lower right "connecting to localhost" After about a minute "BOINC Manager is not able to connect to a BOINC client" The computer this is happening on had been running just fine for a long time. Nothing has been changed. All of the work units it had been running finished and I cam unable to reconnect to get more. I have uninstalled and reinstalled BOINC. I have shut down the computer and restarted. Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.
4) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC will not connect to localhost (Message 56047) Posted 26 Sep 2008 by Thomas Starr Post: I am running BOINC on two computers. All has been going well. All of a sudden one of them won't connect to localhost. Message: "BOINC Manager is not able to connect to BOINC client" Can anybody tell me what I should look for? I haven't changed anything. Thanks
5) Questions and Answers : Windows : No WU? (Message 55165) Posted 18 Aug 2008 by Thomas Starr Post: Speaking of having extra work units on hand, even though I have my preferences set to 10 days worth of work, I get no more than 8 or 9 work units at a time. Hardly a days worth of processing. I lowered my preferences to 4 days thinking that this might be more realistic, but still no additional work units. What's up? Anybody know?
6) Questions and Answers : Windows : No WU? (Message 55164) Posted 18 Aug 2008 by Thomas Starr Post: There were some server problems over the weekend that caused the server to run out of work. But they seem to be resolved now. Thanks for joining the project. Such outages are very rare, but keeping the cache of work at-the-ready assures your machine has something to do. If it works for you, something closer to a 2 day cache would be better. This is longer then most outages, and yet still gets results back to the project very quickly.
7) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Has Rosetta Changed Anything? (Message 49764) Posted 17 Dec 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: Has there been any real tangible benefits to all of these computers crunching so much data?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Who Can I Contact? (Message 48600) Posted 13 Nov 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: Who can I contact regarding a team that is listing itself as a government agency that in no way belongs in that category?
9) Message boards : Number crunching : New Computer Working Rosetta (Message 41621) Posted 30 May 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: Well whatever it was, it seems to have resolved itself. Both work units seem to be processing at the same time now. I can only guess, since I don't know much at all about how computers handle these work units, that it was the work units themselves and how they were designed to be processed by the computer. Thanks for you assistance, and to all that responded, thank you too.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : New Computer Working Rosetta (Message 41617) Posted 29 May 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: Go to the [Participants] link at the top of this message board display, click on your General Preferences. Do you have more then one "location" set up? What are your preferences for the "use at most % of CPU"? [edit] Are you looking at the task manager to see when things are running? Is some other Windows task kicking in and using CPU? Or does the CPU time just go to the idel thread when both task are not running? Here's how I have my preferences set up. I just added this new computer and beside doing that, I didn't change any preferences from what I had set up for my other systems. The only other programs I have running are the usual anti-virus, firewall and spyware items. It just seems odd that only one processor at a time is accumulating CPU time. Do work while computer is running on batteries? (matters only for portable computers) no Do work while computer is in use? yes Do work only between the hours of (no restriction) Leave applications in memory while suspended? (suspended applications will consume swap space if 'yes') no Switch between applications every (recommended: 60 minutes) 60 minutes On multiprocessors, use at most 2 processors Use at most Enforced by version 5.6 and greater 100 percent of CPU time Disk and memory usage Use at most 100 GB disk space Leave at least (Values smaller than 0.001 are ignored) 0.1 GB disk space free Use at most 50% of total disk space Write to disk at most every 60 seconds Use at most 75% of page file (swap space) Use at most Enforced by version 5.8 and greater 50% of memory when computer is in use Use at most Enforced by version 5.8 and greater 100% of memory when computer is idle Network usage Connect to network about every (determines size of work cache; maximum 10 days) 10 days Confirm before connecting to Internet? (matters only if you have a modem, ISDN or VPN connection) no Disconnect when done? (matters only if you have a modem, ISDN or VPN connection) no Maximum download rate: no limit Maximum upload rate: no limit Use network only between the hours of Enforced by versions 4.46 and greater (no restriction) Skip image file verification? Check this ONLY if your Internet provider modifies image files (UMTS does this, for example). Skipping verification reduces the security of BOINC. no
11) Message boards : Number crunching : New Computer Working Rosetta (Message 41598) Posted 29 May 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: No, the task names are "1gidA_BOINC_MG_CHAINBREAKS_........" (to keep it short). The status of both tasks is 'running' They have each taken almost 4 hours of CPU time so far and are at about 95% completion.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : New Computer Working Rosetta (Message 41595) Posted 29 May 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: I just bought a new HP system, DUO core processor. I've noticed that I have two work units processing at the same time. This is great. The same thing my Dell does. Difference is, on the HP, one work unit will process for several seconds while the other one is stopped. Then they'll switch and the one that was stopped will process for several seconds. My Dell processes both units at the same time. Any ideas? Is this maybe a limitation of my new system, or maybe just the way the system is handling the particular jobs it is processing? Thanks for any info.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Daily Quota (Message 39452) Posted 15 Apr 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: I get a message that my PC has reached it's daily quota of 100 work units, apparently because I deleted a lot of them during the problems that were recently experienced. assuming that there was a problem with the work units that were downloaded. I know my PC hasn't processed 100 work units today. Who can I contact to get whatever has to be reset so that I can download more work units?
14) Questions and Answers : Web site : Daily Quota (Message 39442) Posted 15 Apr 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: I get a message that my PC has reached it's daily quota of 100 work units, apparently because I deleted a lot of them during the problems that were recently experienced assuming that there was a problem with the work units that were downloaded. I know my PC hasn't processed 100 work units today. Who can I contact to get whatever has to be reset so that I can download more work units?
15) Questions and Answers : Windows : Work Units Not Downloading (Message 39394) Posted 15 Apr 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: The Tasks tab shows I have workunits downloading, but nothing ever gets downloaded. Under the Transfers tab it shows there are units downloading and pending, but no progress is ever shown on these. Everything seems to be stuck. I have tried reseting the project, I have tried exiting BOINC and restarting the computer. Nothing works. Dead in the water for now.
16) Questions and Answers : Web site : Creating A New Team (Message 39376) Posted 14 Apr 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: I am a member of a team whose creator has not been an active participant for quite some time. I have submitted a request to Initiate Transfer to become the teams new founder, which has been declined. I was wondering if it would be possible to form a new team, along the lines of "The NEW _____________", where the blank would be the name of the team I am currently on?
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Creating New Team (Message 39366) Posted 14 Apr 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: I am a member of a team whose creator has not been an active participant for quite some time. I have submitted a request to Initiate Transfer to become the teams new founder, which has been declined. I was wondering if it would be possible to form a new team, along the lines of "The NEW _____________", where the blank would be the name of the team I am currently on?
18) Questions and Answers : Windows : Downloading New Work Units (Message 39118) Posted 7 Apr 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: In the projects tab, I am set to allow new work units. However when I do an update, none will download. I am down to my last few work units. What else should I check? This has been a problem for a few days now.
19) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : User Of The Day (Message 38928) Posted 3 Apr 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: Just out of curiosity, I'm windering how a participant becomes User Of The Day who has managed only a litte over 1,000 total credits in over a year and who has 0 (zero) average credits over the last 30 days?
20) Message boards : Rosetta@home Science : Anything New? (Message 36612) Posted 12 Feb 2007 by Thomas Starr Post: Has all of the data crunching resulted in any medical breakthroughs?