Posts by WBT112

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Tells us your thoughts on granting credit for large protein, long-running tasks (Message 94971) Posted 20 Apr 2020 by WBT112 Post: While I still prefer limiting these "monster" workunits to 1 or 2 per host (WCG does that for 1 GB+) for extra credits we need to look at the hardware of the average active host. Let's assume the average host with MORE THAN 4 GB RAM has 4 Threads and 8 GB of RAM (which is a bit low but i don't know the numbers). 75% of RAM usage while active is default (?) means 6 GB RAM usage is allowed normally. So usually it can process 4 "normal" workunits with 1 GB, making it use 100% of its threads. When you now change the preference to 4 GB this would change the capacity to only one workunit.. so a 75% bonus would be needed to offset this. However considering that the machine will likely not only process these monsters or might have other projects running at least +25% seems like an appropriate amount imho
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Large proteins (Message 94903) Posted 19 Apr 2020 by WBT112 Post: Some work preferences would still be nice, assuming that a lot of people just want to crunch without looking into the preferences every few days. Maybe just send maximum 1-2 of these "monsters" to each user or let them decide manually if they want more. I don't want my CPU cores idle "waiting for memory" and I can't check all day long.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 94147) Posted 11 Apr 2020 by WBT112 Post: I can't upload this Task https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/workunit.php?wuid=1029331860 . It is stuck for two days now. Always uploading to 100% but not disappreaing from the transfer tab. Restarted BOINC manager etc. without success. While the file is uploading (not waiting, but with the elapsed time counting upward), select Activity, "Suspend network activity." Give it a second or 2, then set it back to "Network activity based on preferences." This can often get a stuck transfer unstuck. I tried this however without success. BOINC however gives me an error: 11.04.2020 13:00:13 \| Rosetta@home \| Started upload of conducting_fiber_fold_21_fold_SAVE_ALL_OUT_905803_166_0_r421462194_0 11.04.2020 13:00:41 \| Rosetta@home \| Temporarily failed upload of conducting_fiber_fold_21_fold_SAVE_ALL_OUT_905803_166_0_r421462194_0: transient HTTP error 11.04.2020 13:00:41 \| Rosetta@home \| Backing off 04:04:44 on upload of conducting_fiber_fold_21_fold_SAVE_ALL_OUT_905803_166_0_r421462194_0 11.04.2020 13:00:42 \| \| Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 11.04.2020 13:00:43 \| \| Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 94097) Posted 10 Apr 2020 by WBT112 Post: I can't upload this Task https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/workunit.php?wuid=1029331860 . It is stuck for two days now. Always uploading to 100% but not disappreaing from the transfer tab. Restarted BOINC manager etc. without success.
5) Questions and Answers : Wish list : I would like to see:: (Message 56143) Posted 1 Oct 2008 by WBT112 Post: I would like to see project badges like WCG has them (Bronze/Silver/Gold) and so on for several contributions a user has made to Rosetta or badges when a user or team predicted the lowest energy structure for a wu and so on. Im not that kind of achivement hunter but I think a lot of people could be motivated by this to join rosetta.
6) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Where is everyone (Message 55844) Posted 17 Sep 2008 by WBT112 Post: most of the time I only read the stuff you write and remain silent. but i haven't crunched for R@H for weeks at home now, since my scheduler download problem is still there. Just asking myself why am I here ? I guess I am bored from tv and should go to bed now. bye :)
7) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Tell Wired magazine your story! (Message 55828) Posted 17 Sep 2008 by WBT112 Post: Well, I could not participate on CASP 8 as much as I wanted, because I had a lot of problems with my computer at home connecting to the rosetta servers. On the other hand I am still trying to establish distributed computing for science and for bigger computing things at the company where I work. And I am making really small steps. First time I asked the "IT-boss" (about one year ago) his answer was like "Grid computing ?Don't think we need this. What is this, anyway ?" ... Now he is at least "interested. Maybe next year we could start trying it on some computers here." So I think we will start 2010 ;) Personally, I think distributed computing in common and for science specifically is a way to help in solving big problems in a shorter time. In a time where computers become faster every day and most are only used for office stuff, why not contribute the unused computing time to science ? (excuse the english, it's my first day ;)
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Why no R@h work downloading? I also run SETI (Message 55488) Posted 2 Sep 2008 by WBT112 Post: Just if anyone is interested what happened in the meantime: I crunched for WCG for about a week on this machine and just 5 minutes ago the master file download finally succeded (i wasn't even here)! I still don't have any idea why but i'll donate some computing power of this computer to rosetta again. bye :)
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Why no R@h work downloading? I also run SETI (Message 55205) Posted 21 Aug 2008 by WBT112 Post: there was no edit button so excuse my double posting please. just for your interest: reinstalling boinc didn't work. I'll keep rosetta in my project list and crunch for wcg with this host. maybe it is vista that doesn't like rosetta or the vista firewall is blocking rosetta only on this host (shared connection). whatever it is, I don't like it.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Why no R@h work downloading? I also run SETI (Message 55192) Posted 20 Aug 2008 by WBT112 Post: that's it. and this happens over and over again after the 24:00 hours (or earlier if i click the button). i guess it may be a boinc or connection problem but why is Wcg running without problems and other machines too ? I'll do a clean Boinc install tomorrow and find out. Hope my description isn't too confusing. 20.08.2008 16:37:50\|\|Starting BOINC client version 5.10.45 for windows_x86_64 20.08.2008 16:37:50\|\|log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops 20.08.2008 16:37:52\|\|Libraries: libcurl/7.18.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3 20.08.2008 16:37:52\|\|Data directory: C:Program FilesBOINC 20.08.2008 16:37:53\|\|Processor: 4 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11] 20.08.2008 16:37:53\|\|Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni 20.08.2008 16:37:53\|\|OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: , Service Pack 1, (06.00.6001.00) 20.08.2008 16:37:53\|\|Memory: 4.00 GB physical, 8.17 GB virtual 20.08.2008 16:37:53\|\|Disk: 111.79 GB total, 71.31 GB free 20.08.2008 16:37:54\|\|Local time is UTC +2 hours 20.08.2008 16:37:55\|rosetta@home\|URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default 20.08.2008 16:37:55\|ralph@home\|URL: http://ralph.bakerlab.org/; Computer ID: not assigned yet; location: (none); project prefs: default 20.08.2008 16:37:56\|\|No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults 20.08.2008 16:37:56\|\|Reading preferences override file 20.08.2008 16:37:56\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2046.79MB 20.08.2008 16:37:56\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.22MB 20.08.2008 16:37:56\|\|Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB 20.08.2008 16:39:47\|rosetta@home\|Fetching scheduler list 20.08.2008 16:42:26\|\|Fetching configuration file from http://boincstats.com/bam/get_project_config.php 20.08.2008 16:47:09\|\|Fetching configuration file from http://bam.boincstats.com/get_project_config.php 20.08.2008 16:47:50\|\|Contacting account manager at http://bam.boincstats.com/ 20.08.2008 16:49:42\|rosetta@home\|Resetting project 20.08.2008 16:49:42\|rosetta@home\|Detaching from project 20.08.2008 16:49:46\|ralph@home\|Resetting project 20.08.2008 16:49:46\|ralph@home\|Detaching from project 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Account manager: BAM Host-ID: 118955 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Account manager contact succeeded 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Attaching to http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Attaching to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|General prefs: from http://bam.boincstats.com/ (last modified 20-Aug-2008 16:50:41) 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Host location: none 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|General prefs: using your defaults 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Reading preferences override file 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2046.79MB 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.22MB 20.08.2008 16:50:17\|\|Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB 20.08.2008 16:50:42\|http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/\|Master file download succeeded 20.08.2008 16:50:47\|http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/\|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization. Requesting 1 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks 20.08.2008 16:50:57\|World Community Grid\|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks 20.08.2008 16:50:57\|\|General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 17-Aug-2008 11:27:09) 20.08.2008 16:50:57\|\|Host location: none 20.08.2008 16:50:57\|\|General prefs: using your defaults 20.08.2008 16:50:57\|\|Reading preferences override file 20.08.2008 16:50:57\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when active to 2046.79MB 20.08.2008 16:50:57\|\|Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 3684.22MB 20.08.2008 16:50:57\|\|Preferences limit disk usage to 9.31GB 20.08.2008 16:50:59\|World Community Grid\|Started download of wcg_hcc1_img_6.06_windows_intelx86 ...later: 20.08.2008 20:07:34\|http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/\|Fetching scheduler list and at the same time on the 'project page' of boinc: Waiting scheduler request, Project initialization, Communication dalayed for 24:00 h (translated this line into english so dont take every word of the error message too serious)
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Why no R@h work downloading? I also run SETI (Message 55190) Posted 20 Aug 2008 by WBT112 Post: Hello everybody, I guess my problem has something to do with the server problems discussed here since it appeared at the weekend after upgrading boinc so i'll post it here: I still get no work from the project. 2 other machines with the same internet connection run fine now again, but my quad core is just getting work from WCG, not from Rosetta or R@lph (It did get work before). The Machine is just fetching the scheduler list (whatever this is) for Rosetta and R@lph over and over again with no result or error Message. I lowered the share for WCG, i've even detached it and downgraded to boinc 5 with no result. Any ideas or suggestions ?