Posts by Guido Waldenmeier

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Miscellaneous Work Unit Errors - II (Message 14025) Posted 18 Apr 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: File this one under "I've just wasted the last 21 hours away"... I've just finished four WUs (17371787, 17367102, 17367039, and 17366677), on host 204887. All four are labeled as client error: <message>Maximum CPU time exceeded</message> $0.02? BS. I'll be crunching elsewhere for a while...
2) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Mac users: Intel Core Duo (Message 9506) Posted 21 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: What will be sad is that you will be able to go to Dell and get a similar PC equipped with the same CPU for a couple hundred less ... As I said in my blog "The specs are rather decent, and I think everyone can agree that the price is reasonable (by Sony Vaio standards, that is)." Here's to the glimmer of hope that the Quads will drop in price while I can take advantage of the student discount... otherwise I think I'll have to go and build myself an x86 box (I've got a number of issues with Dell, and Linovo doesn't seem to have their act together).
3) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Mac users: Intel Core Duo (Message 9447) Posted 20 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: I will as soon as the price tag on the Quad G5 comes down to reality. I'd rather spend $3K on hardware that'll run the programs faster rather than spend $6K in completely new hardware and software. For that I could build my own P4-64b EE with HT and put Christmas trees to shame with all the lights I'd stuff in it...
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Never-ending WU? (Message 9413) Posted 20 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: Many thanks!
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Never-ending WU? (Message 9375) Posted 19 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: It finally ended: 40,524.74 seconds (~11hr 15min) - I'll check the logs later on, but I'll wager that there wasn't any data committed to disk during the last three hours of the crunch. Anyway, can someone eyeball the result and let me know if it's in line with other users' results? I'd greatly appreciate it. Many thanks to all!
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Never-ending WU? (Message 9369) Posted 19 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: One last thing before I head out: Current CPU Time is 9:39:45, progress 90% (still), and "to completion" is 01:00:15 (up 15:15 from an hour ago). Thanks for the help, Scribe!
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Never-ending WU? (Message 9368) Posted 19 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: Sorry for the delay in the response... It turns out I've got far more data than I had anticipated to sift through. This is the log I've got from rosetta crunching the WU I mentioned earlier. The chart is date and time of the log entry, the checkpoint time (seconds since the WU began?), the current cpu time, and the "frac_done". Date Time Checkpt. CPU Time % 2006/01/18 21:09:00 18863.91001 21622.17204 0.7 2006/01/18 21:20:00 18863.91001 21622.17204 0.7 2006/01/18 22:21:00 18863.91001 20520.94194 0.7 2006/01/18 22:50:00 18863.91001 20520.94194 0.7 2006/01/18 23:50:01 18863.91001 18863.91001 0 2006/01/18 23:59:00 18863.91001 21755.28197 0.7 2006/01/19 00:00:01 18863.91001 21755.28197 0.7 2006/01/19 00:24:00 18863.91001 23356.1166 0.7 2006/01/19 01:10:01 18863.91001 23356.1166 0.7 2006/01/19 01:11:01 18863.91001 25988.00896 0.7 2006/01/19 01:12:00 18863.91001 18863.91001 0 2006/01/19 01:30:01 18863.91001 18869.16166 0.7 2006/01/19 01:32:00 18863.91001 18869.16166 0.7 2006/01/19 01:33:01 18863.91001 18867.14215 0.7 2006/01/19 01:42:00 18863.91001 18867.14215 0.7 2006/01/19 01:43:00 18863.91001 19236.79489 0.7 2006/01/19 01:44:01 18863.91001 19311.62809 0.7 2006/01/19 01:50:01 18863.91001 19311.62809 0.7 2006/01/19 01:51:00 19638.72387 19638.84059 0.8 2006/01/19 01:58:01 19638.72387 19638.84059 0.8 2006/01/19 01:59:00 19638.72387 20062.38786 0.8 2006/01/19 02:13:00 19638.72387 20062.38786 0.8 2006/01/19 02:14:01 19638.72387 20801.38322 0.8 2006/01/19 02:28:01 19638.72387 20801.38322 0.8 2006/01/19 02:29:00 19638.72387 21596.48618 0.8 2006/01/19 02:43:01 19638.72387 21596.48618 0.8 2006/01/19 02:44:00 19638.72387 22421.50753 0.8 2006/01/19 02:58:01 19638.72387 22421.50753 0.8 2006/01/19 02:59:00 19638.72387 23169.07735 0.8 2006/01/19 03:13:00 19638.72387 23169.07735 0.8 2006/01/19 03:14:00 19638.72387 23951.3318 0.8 2006/01/19 03:28:01 19638.72387 23951.3318 0.8 2006/01/19 03:29:00 19638.72387 24788.52825 0.8 2006/01/19 03:43:01 19638.72387 24788.52825 0.8 2006/01/19 03:44:00 19638.72387 25549.733 0.8 2006/01/19 03:58:00 19638.72387 25549.733 0.8 2006/01/19 03:59:00 19638.72387 26136.9324 0.8 2006/01/19 04:13:00 19638.72387 26136.9324 0.8 2006/01/19 04:14:00 19638.72387 26958.85906 0.8 2006/01/19 04:28:00 19638.72387 26958.85906 0.8 2006/01/19 04:29:00 19638.72387 27578.8381 0.8 2006/01/19 04:43:01 19638.72387 27578.8381 0.8 2006/01/19 04:44:00 19638.72387 28236.44895 0.8 2006/01/19 04:58:00 19638.72387 28236.44895 0.8 2006/01/19 04:59:01 19638.72387 28957.29703 0.8 2006/01/19 05:13:00 19638.72387 28957.29703 0.8 2006/01/19 05:14:00 19638.72387 29774.80083 0.8 2006/01/19 05:22:01 19638.72387 29774.80083 0.8 2006/01/19 05:23:00 30243.11149 30243.11136 0.9 2006/01/19 05:28:01 30243.11149 30243.11136 0.9 2006/01/19 05:29:00 30243.11149 30560.37531 0.9 2006/01/19 05:43:00 30243.11149 30560.37531 0.9 2006/01/19 05:44:01 30243.11149 31368.43024 0.9 2006/01/19 05:58:01 30243.11149 31368.43024 0.9 2006/01/19 05:59:00 30243.11149 31968.63966 0.9 2006/01/19 06:13:00 30243.11149 31968.63966 0.9 2006/01/19 06:14:00 30243.11149 32536.2561 0.9 2006/01/19 06:28:00 30243.11149 32536.2561 0.9 2006/01/19 06:29:00 30243.11149 33360.69078 0.9 2006/01/19 06:43:00 30243.11149 33360.69078 0.9 2006/01/19 06:44:00 30243.11149 34151.01588 0.9 2006/01/19 06:59:00 30243.11149 34151.01588 0.9 2006/01/19 07:00:01 30243.11149 34982.87669 0.9 2006/01/19 07:14:00 30243.11149 34982.87669 0.9 2006/01/19 07:15:00 30243.11149 35554.93576 0.9 2006/01/19 07:29:00 30243.11149 35554.93576 0.9 2006/01/19 07:30:01 30243.11149 35939.82315 0.9 2006/01/19 07:44:00 30243.11149 35939.82315 0.9 2006/01/19 07:45:00 30243.11149 36361.87355 0.9 2006/01/19 07:59:00 30243.11149 36361.87355 0.9 2006/01/19 08:00:00 30243.11149 36886.76837 0.9 2006/01/19 08:14:01 30243.11149 36886.76837 0.9 2006/01/19 08:15:00 30243.11149 37368.20149 0.9 2006/01/19 08:29:01 30243.11149 37368.20149 0.9 2006/01/19 08:30:00 30243.11149 37904.4584 0.9 2006/01/19 08:34:00 30243.11149 37904.4584 0.9 2006/01/19 08:35:01 30243.11149 38163.10014 0.9 2006/01/19 08:49:00 30243.11149 38163.10014 0.9 2006/01/19 08:50:01 30243.11149 30243.11149 0 2006/01/19 09:05:00 30243.11149 30703.9906 0.9 2006/01/19 09:19:00 30243.11149 30703.9906 0.9 2006/01/19 09:35:01 30243.11149 30664.69227 0.9 2006/01/19 09:49:00 30243.11149 30664.69227 0.9 2006/01/19 10:05:00 30243.11149 30919.71975 0.9 2006/01/19 10:19:01 30243.11149 30919.71975 0.9 2006/01/19 10:35:01 30243.11149 30617.40544 0.9 2006/01/19 10:42:00 30243.11149 30617.40544 0.9 2006/01/19 10:57:05 30243.11149 30243.11149 0 2006/01/19 10:58:01 30243.11149 30806.81106 0.9 2006/01/19 11:12:01 30243.11149 30806.81106 0.9 2006/01/19 11:13:00 30243.11149 31537.93352 0.9 2006/01/19 11:27:01 30243.11149 31537.93352 0.9 2006/01/19 11:28:00 30243.11149 32374.22245 0.9 2006/01/19 11:39:00 30243.11149 32374.22245 0.9 Date Time Checkpt. CPU Time % As for the WU sizes, I hadn't come across a behemoth like this one before - The last two were under four hours and I had to ditch one in order to keep up with a SETI Enhanced WU deadline, but you wouldn't know that because it's still sitting in BOINC Manager saying "Aborted by user"... groan At least I know something's working right...
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Never-ending WU? (Message 9358) Posted 19 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: Currently 08:36:45 at 90%... where it's been for at least an hour or so... maybe two?... I'm polling client_state.xml every five min for %done via cron... gimmie a few minutes and I'll post the contents.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Never-ending WU? (Message 9351) Posted 19 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: I've been crunching this WU (BARCODE_FRAG_30_1dtj_234_976_0) for over 10 hours on a G4 @ 867MHz. I just checked in BOINC Manager to see how far it had gotten, and the CPU time it's now reporting is 8 hours. All throughout the time - all ten hours - the "to completion" column has been reading "0:50:00" and increasing steadily to "1:45:00" over a period of two hours. A few questions: (1) Will this WU never end? (2) Can anyone explain the rollback on the CPU time? (3) Should I send this WU to meet its binary maker? (4) What's the usual runtime? TIA
10) Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : Mac users: Intel Core Duo (Message 9329) Posted 19 Jan 2006 by Guido Waldenmeier Post: Mac users.... is this going to cause problems with legacy apps? discuss! It won't do Classic, it won't do AltiVec, and it won't do Windows. That's reeeeal convincing. Yep. Nothing like having to shell out a $hi+load for Inteicized versions of Final Cut, DVD Studio, Motion, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Joy oh joy. I'm gonna head over to my Apple Store right now and order one. You betcha. I just looooove Rosetta. ...as long as we're talking about the Rosetta handwriting recognition on the Newton MessagePads. Seriously, this is 100% pure bad timing. The Quad G5 signaled that the Mactels were still a way away, and the PS3 (and therefore Cell) is getting closer and closer. Worse still is that Apple hadda call in what's-her-name from M$ in order to convince the masses at the expo that Mac x86 is a Good Thing. As for BOINC... well, let's see how the numbers turn out. But if the top host list over at SETI is any indication, I'm willing to bet that G5s will still outpace their Intel counterparts clock for clock and watt for watt.