Posts by Bill Swisher

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 109697) Posted 14 days ago by Bill Swisher Post: Yer right! My eyes went wonky for a bit and I misread the task name. It was an entry for WCG.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 109693) Posted 15 days ago by Bill Swisher Post: Its back, but with 12000 active users against 19000 tasks, they were gone in a heart beat. That's 1.6 tasks per system on average Only if you're running an Intel GPU according to the Event Log. I've no Intel computers (to speak of). So I have no Rosetta work, Denis is still on summer break, leaving only WCG. Yet again.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 109663) Posted 21 days ago by Bill Swisher Post: "that crashed and burned" I recall them to have been more of a flash in the pan.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Problems and Technical Issues with Rosetta@home (Message 109522) Posted 3 Aug 2024 by Bill Swisher Post: If it wasn't for WCG I'd just turn the computers off. The folks at DENIS@Home have gone on vacation. I do have one really, really old laptop running Einstein simply because the computer won't die and it doesn't have enough horsepower to run anything else.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Question about estimated time to complete and ... (Message 109359) Posted 8 Jun 2024 by Bill Swisher Post: I'm away from home 3 days every week too but I trust my network to stay up sufficient to use 0.5 + 0.1 with a 12hr runtime And on the rare occasions my network does go down - just tough luck for me The 3 days is only in effect during the summer. I'm a snowbird. So I have a couple of other computers where it's really HOT right now. They're shutdown at the moment. In the fall I'll go back there and fire them off also. Locally the internet is normally working fine, but I still have a script that runs every 3 hours, as a cronjob, to verify the network is up. Plus once a week at o'dark-thirty I have a timer that turns the power off to my wifi router and the fiber, was cable, modem for a minute in case one of them decides to muckup.
6) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Silly question. (Message 109354) Posted 7 Jun 2024 by Bill Swisher Post: I was fiddling around with my email preferences and decided to use the link https://www.boincstats.com/signature/-1/user/73865194446/sig.png As the signature, I'm making a SWAG that it's updated frequently. So far I've failed miserably. Is there a secret to this?
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Question about estimated time to complete and ... (Message 109353) Posted 7 Jun 2024 by Bill Swisher Post: I've made the change to 4 hours, the other 4 computers have different processor specs and only 1 seems to be getting work. I'll see what it looks like when new work arrives. Thanks for the assist.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Question about estimated time to complete and ... (Message 109352) Posted 7 Jun 2024 by Bill Swisher Post: Yes, I do run a cache. It's set a 4 days +.5 days. I tend to be out of town for 3 to 5 days per week during the summer. Should the network drop dead I don't want the computers sitting around twiddling their collective thumbs, so to speak. Thanks for the reply.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Question about estimated time to complete and ... (Message 109346) Posted 7 Jun 2024 by Bill Swisher Post: how that affect the boinc software retrieving tasks. For example: I have a computer that processes Rosetta software, it sits in the queue saying it's going to take 8 hours to run. I also have 2 other projects running under boinc, they take either 60 minutes or 90 minutes (depending). The boinc software is supposed to spread it's workload evenly across all 3 projects. Fine and dandy. Except Rosetta projects actually only take 3 hours to process. So the queue for tasks is skewed against Rosetta getting it's share of processor time because of the estimated time to complete. Is there something to make it recompute that estimate, or is that a function of the software that resides at Rosetta@home?
10) Message boards : Number crunching : No more work generated and dispatched, R@H will shutdown for maintaining? (Message 106939) Posted 18 Sep 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: "IBM kicked them out of the nest" Merely a statement, somewhat in jest. Although it did seem like they left them hanging as far as technical details went. I really didn't pay that much attention to the details. All I knew was that WCG and Rosetta pretty much went dark. So I started running Einstein since all the computers were doing nothing but twiddling their thumbs (so to speak).
11) Message boards : Number crunching : No more work generated and dispatched, R@H will shutdown for maintaining? (Message 106936) Posted 18 Sep 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: If there's a method to their madness I haven't figured it out. It ALMOST seems like there's a 2 week cycle, but then again not quite. If I knew how to attach an image to this I would show you what my processing looks like for the last 90 days. I should add that pretty much all my processing is over on World Community Grid now. They went through a particularly nasty period after IBM kicked them out of the nest and told them to fly on their own. They were pretty much TITSUP for 9 months at least. But for the last 60 days they've been pushing out work, I've got 46 cores processing their stuff (used to split with Rosetta but we know how that's working out now).
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Something other than vbox/python? (Message 106569) Posted 18 Jul 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: Thanks for that output. Is there a way for me to see that on my own? I'd like to try some things but it might take a while to do them all (I have things I need to do out of town that will take me away from here for 2 or 3 days per week). That VM no longer exists and I'd have to modify some things in the existing one (the original was a minimal install with just boinc installed on it, the one now was created so I could play around with xfce vice the kde I'm using now).
13) Message boards : Number crunching : Something other than vbox/python? (Message 106560) Posted 17 Jul 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: Which repository has the openSUSE Leap 15.4 version of that software?
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Something other than vbox/python? (Message 106558) Posted 17 Jul 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: Thanks for your assistance. I guess I'll just forget about running Rosetta, to bad I was sitting at #140 until the virtualbox hit the fan. FWIW, my computer has boinc installed on it, a virtual machine defined via virtualbox, the virtual machine has boinc on it (and not much else). Nothing will run rosetta. I get the same message that virtualbox isn't installed on both. The computer at the top got jobs, they quit after about 10 seconds with a notation in the log that the output file was absent. The boinc manager said there was a computation error. Not much to work with there.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Something other than vbox/python? (Message 106551) Posted 17 Jul 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: Seems a bit redundant. Meaning, while running VirtualBox I have to install VirtualBox again. But while running the original process, that I used to install the VirtualBox, and started, it still tells me there's no VirtualBox installed. So which VirtualBox didn't I run, how many VirtualBox's do I need running?
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Something other than vbox/python? (Message 106549) Posted 16 Jul 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: Back to VirtualBox. I installed Leap_15.4 in a VirtualBox, simple enough since the OS I run is Leap_15.4 and I have an iso image handy. While running in that VirtualBox I used yast to install the boinc client and manager. I added Rosetta using the boinc manager. It promptly told me "Message from server: VirtualBox is not installed."
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Something other than vbox/python? (Message 106478) Posted 6 Jul 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: Are you ever going to release work other than that? Or should I just remove Rosetta from boinc. It's going on 30 days since you last gave me anything to process.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Someone is turning off my Virtualbox jobs (Message 105929) Posted 13 Apr 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: Oh well...Since I'm not being informed what "My" problem is, there's not much chance of me correcting "My" problem.
19) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : No new tasks for weeks, no Virtualbox (Message 104434) Posted 23 Jan 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: Sorry I didn't get back to you, been out of town. Disk: Leave at least .1GB free. Use no more than 90% of total. Memory: 90% for both and 75% for page/swap. free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 30Gi 14Gi 11Gi 23Mi 4.3Gi 15Gi Swap: 2.0Gi 0B 2.0Gi And it currently has 14 cores running Rosetta, slightly throttled to keep the heat down since it's not liquid cooled, something it hasn't done in months. And yes it's still whining because virtualbox isn't installed. The other computer has all 24 cores running something other than Rosetta and Rosetta is also whining about virtualbox not being installed.
20) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : No new tasks for weeks, no Virtualbox (Message 104259) Posted 15 Jan 2022 by Bill Swisher Post: I currently have, free, 900GB of drive space and 25GB of memory.

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