Posts by Tim

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Work being reset to 0% on restart after BOINC is shut-down (Message 74504) Posted 21 Nov 2012 by Tim Post: Some tasks have very long running models and no checkpoints within the models. Such tasks would produce the symptoms you describe if your PC is not running BOINC for more than a few hours at a time. Or if the machine is so busy that the active tasks don't get much CPU before the machine is powered off again. Rosetta is set up in a way that if a task begins at the same starting point more than 5 times, this is detected and it is ended for you. ================================================ Thanks for your reply. I can sometimes only run BOINC for a few hours. Some Rosetta tasks obviously do checkpoint as they can restart from a intermediate point while others do not. I now usually only give the tasks two chances before aborting as it is clearly a waste of time if the task gets reset. One of the respondents has pointed out that the problem lies in Hybrid tasks. I don't understand why checkpointing can not be set up in all tasks.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Work being reset to 0% on restart after BOINC is shut-down (Message 74204) Posted 8 Nov 2012 by Tim Post: My last two tasks from Rosetta appear have a problem where they reset to 0% complete on restart after BOINC has been shut down. I have tried suspending the task before shut down as well but it still get reset. I have had this happen before. Ultimately I abort the task to get new work as eventually the task misses its deadline. Has anyone else had this problem? I am running BOINC on Windows XP SP3 and BOIC 7.0.28.