Posts by AlanG7Mc

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Discussion on increasing the default run time (Message 108293) Posted 10 Apr 2023 by AlanG7Mc Post: {Thanks Grant, Darwin NT :( } TERMINATION NOTICE: With the stupidly 'soon' deadlines that >You Choose< ... With the way that >I Choose< to run my computer (including >My Choosing< hours-per-day to run it) ... I find that the >Very Last< Unit I will every try for You, cannot complete within deadline. With Your Right and privilege to chose too-soon dead-lines ... With >My Right and Privilege< to run my computer My Way, and to >Volunteer< My Way ... Result: YOU have >Chosen< to Steal 30+ hours of CPU time from another project who actually wants results. And you have just thrown away a Volunteer (Me) who has been here for Seventeen Years.
2) Message boards : News : COVID-19 vaccine with IPD nanoparticles wins full approval abroad (Message 108292) Posted 10 Apr 2023 by AlanG7Mc Post: TERMINATION NOTICE: With the stupidly 'soon' deadlines that >You Choose< ... With the way that >I Choose< to run my computer (including >My Choosing< hours-per-day to run it) ... I find that the >Very Last< Unit I will every try for You, cannot complete within deadline. With Your Right and privilege to chose too-soon dead-lines ... With >My Right and Privilege< to run my computer My Way, and to >Volunteer< My Way ... Result: YOU have >Chosen< to Steal 30+ hours of CPU time from another project who actually wants results. And you have just thrown away a Volunteer (Me) who has been here for Seventeen Years.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Discussion on increasing the default run time (Message 108282) Posted 4 Apr 2023 by AlanG7Mc Post: Increase Work Unit Deadlines, Please. At >least< add a day. Please I'm getting Work Units with of estimated One Day+ CPU -- but the deadline is only 3 days or so later. Other tasks on my computer chew up a lot of time, so Rosetta gets only about 10% of the CPU time (one WU per core). I Hibernate/Sleep my computer at night & when I'm not using it (because of energy costs), and this makes the WU deadlines even tighter. - Result is, WU's risk going over deadline - Rosetta loses my results, and several days of CPU time on my end are wasted. So, please Extend Deadlines by >At Least< one day. Then you get results, and my Cycles are not wasted. Thank You. --- PS: I've been crunching for Rosetta since 2006, for World Community Grid (WCG) since 2009, and for BOINC since 2004.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Waiting for Memory (Message 97232) Posted 5 Jun 2020 by AlanG7Mc Post: Waiting for memory Some Rosetta Work Units get suspended on my machine with "Waiting for memory". 'Tricks' such as rebooting to clean things up sometimes work, but many times the problem returns later for the same WU. It's as if the WU can start out using 'small' memory, progress to the point where it needs 'medium' RAM, and further along needs big memory - which I simply don't have.. Yes, I have a dinky little Win 8.1 laptop with only 2 Gig RAM, but I'd still like to help, especially with COVID research. Since a lot of CPU time (often 9+ hours) is used before problem occurs, all of it is wasted when I have to abort the work unit. (Fortunately, World Community Grid also sends COVID WUs.) With very great reluctance I am declining further Rosetta WUs - even if some them - the ones not jamming my RAM, would complete. Sorry. I do get BOINC Notices from you, so if you have a fix or "magic" settings, I'll happily resume WU downloads. Thank you.