Posts by UBT - Halifax--lad

1) Message boards : Cafe RALPH : Team Recruitment Thread (Message 3102) Posted 15 May 2007 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Why Join UK BOINC Team (UBT)? 1. We are the best UK BOINC Team out there (well were biased) 2. We have a excellent forum with plenty to do in there (technical support, humour etc) 3. We have own own Sig Stats Service with various options to customise them 4. We have regular weekend crunches & occasional crunchathons all in the name of science and team bonding 5. We have our own group radio station on Last.fm 6. Regular reports on how we are doing 7. We support the majority of BOINC projects available 8. We also support a handful of non-BOINC projects (MJ-12, NetDimes & various others see forum for all of them) 9. We have a dedicated BOINC Site for the team 10. We are rapidly rising the ranks in various projects 11. We have our own team stats pages for all the projects 12. All members play a vital part no matter how little or how much you do 13. Open to suggestion from members So join today and help us become a better BOINC Team in the UK Now over 1,000 members on the team who are all helping in there own little way to raise our contribution to science and also help us raise the ranks within the UK stats and the World.
2) Message boards : Current tests : Forum code update. (Message 2189) Posted 19 Aug 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: I beleive that was an effort to take out the ratings on the new forum code update but its only half been done from the looks of it
3) Message boards : Current tests : Forum code update. (Message 2179) Posted 19 Aug 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: No issues at all so far, that was a very quick upgrade to the code seen as though it was only suggested a few hours ago :) Edit: If you don't have a test account to try the new code on you know what you can do to my account on here to test it!
4) Message boards : Current tests : New crediting system (Message 1968) Posted 11 Aug 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Whats wrong with flops counting?? If its been answered before sorry not reading all the forums trying to find a answer
5) Message boards : Feedback : Upgrade server to support AMS (Message 1594) Posted 11 May 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: So long as it is on the drawing board and not overlooked is fine for me, I'm sure I can sit and wait until then
6) Message boards : Feedback : Upgrade server to support AMS (Message 1591) Posted 11 May 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Glad there is a vote of support, the AMS is going to be big, I only want this project to be up there with the rest, Maybe upgrade this server?? Test it make sure it works then port it over to ROSETTA? More info here for people who aren't sure what a AMS is
7) Message boards : Feedback : Upgrade server to support AMS (Message 1568) Posted 10 May 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Have posted this at Rosetta too I would like to know when AMS support will be made available on RALPH & Rosetta, this would mean upgrading the server to enable support for the AMS. The majority of projects have already upgraded and there is only a small minority who have not done so as yet, this project & RALPH been one of them. So please do this upgrade ASAP! Thanks Dave
8) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Report \"stuck at 1%\" bugs here (Message 982) Posted 25 Mar 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Some of the projects cannot use the newest BOINC versions without upgrading their servers and or applications This is untrue for all the latest BOINC clients, they work off the Server Version 5, so every project will run off 5.3.28 with no problems
9) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Report \"stuck at 1%\" bugs here (Message 975) Posted 24 Mar 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Before people perform an upgrade to their BOINC software, could you please provide some information as to the impact this may have on other projects they may be running. Many of the users are running multiple projects, and this kind of an upgrade could have serious implications for those other efforts. In particular people running CPDN and Predictor may have some issues. There are no implications I upgrade my BOINC client whenever ROM and the team bring out a new version, to help test if for bugs, in the many months I have been upgrading to various clients I have never had a trashed WU. Besides if people wish to help RALPH solve the 1% bug they have no choice this is the only BOINC client that handles what RALPH needs for the error reporting
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Resource share: RALPH instead of Rosetta@home? (Message 965) Posted 23 Mar 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: I would assume all WU's are to test for bugs and fixes rather than science as Rosetta does the science and RALPH is set upto test things. Have you got BOINC 5.3.28?? as that is needed for the new app of RALPH
11) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Report - Previously Unclassified Work Unit Errors (Message 859) Posted 12 Mar 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: well if that was the case would it not have errored out straight after the benchmarks?? But seen as though BOINC left it in memory at the benchmark that can't be the reason for the failure can it? Mike, Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought I saw a post from you before indicating that you were running a BOINC version later than 5.2.13. If so you are correct that the error makes no sense. If you are running 5.2.13, then the Work Unit was removed from memory when the benchmark ran and that is why it errored out.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Nothing happening (Message 850) Posted 11 Mar 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: And what I got with the first Wis was "Client error Computing after 12,087.8 sec or about 4 hours in totally wasted crunching time with no CS. And it's not my fault, I get completed Wis for all other projects. I'm detaching and I'm out of here This is a ALPHA Project & errors are to be expected. In fact thats what we are running the Wu's for, to check for errors. If all your worried about is your CS then you would most definitely be better off at another Project ... This same person has sulked in a few threads on Alpha/BETA test sites, I don't think the user understands that these type of projects are usually fault finding sessions for WU's and not a site to collect shiny points. So thats one less point collector here, leaves the rest of the work to us
13) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : removed from memory by benchmark (Message 849) Posted 11 Mar 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Should be all fixed soon, seen as though Rom is on the case
14) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : removed from memory by benchmark (Message 813) Posted 4 Mar 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: The way to solve it is to manually do a benchmark when a RALPH or Rosetta WU is not in the cache if at all possible
15) Message boards : Feedback : Difference F@H and R@H??? (Message 684) Posted 26 Feb 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: they are not just the same in nature but they do EXACTLY the same! They predict how Prots fold...or do they use different algorithms? a dumb waste of computing time... They do no where near the same, go over to Rosetta and read the forums all the info is there
16) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Rosetta does not give up CPU time to cleanmgr.exe (Message 683) Posted 26 Feb 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: It kindof defeats the purpose to disable the process, if I WANT to run it yeah? Suspend the project for 1 minute 20 seconds then
17) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Report \"failure when switching projects without keeping applications in memory\" bugs here (Message 145) Posted 17 Feb 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Double check your preempt in memory setting on the preferences on this project, for some reason mine was set to No when I joined up, usually it automatically says Yes on other projects I join, that may be why it was removed from memory "Leave in memory when preempted" is a BOINC GLOBAL default, that "propagates" across all projects. BOINC uses the config from the project with with the newest time-stamp. i.e. if you run SETI/Rosetta/RALPH and change RALPH today, those RALPH settings (e.g. "Leave app in mem" to NO) will be used by all other projects. It wasn't quite clear to me too, and I had to look for this "detail". Yes I know that but it defaults to No on this project so people need to be aware of that and possibly set RALPH up on a different preference (homes, school or work) with preempt set to No, that way it wont interfere with other project preferences
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Need for Linux testing? (Message 90) Posted 16 Feb 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: Should I have my Linux machine attach to RALPH? (I've already joined the beta via WinXP) I would say YES Please, they want to test on as many different platforms as possible, so your a welcome edition
19) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Registering with boinc account to RALPH (Message 89) Posted 16 Feb 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: It does work I signed upto it on BOINC with the URL, comes up as new user enter email address and a password you want and done, if an existing user which I am now I would click the existing user button and enter email and password
20) Message boards : RALPH@home bug list : Report \"failure when switching projects without keeping applications in memory\" bugs here (Message 88) Posted 16 Feb 2006 by UBT - Halifax--lad Post: This unit errored out when I took Sztaki off No New Work.........it seemed to be dumped out of the memory for some reason even though I'm set up to keep apps in memory. http://ralph.bakerlab.org/result.php?resultid=1611 Host Project Date Message CK ck --- 16/02/2006 21:31:31 request_reschedule_cpus: project op CK ck BBC Climate Change Experiment 16/02/2006 21:31:31 Restarting result hadcm3l_0h9f_00022824_0 using hadcm3l version 507 CK ck ralph@home 16/02/2006 21:31:31 Pausing result HBLR_1.0_1dtj_206_25_0 (removed from memory) CK ck ralph@home 16/02/2006 21:31:32 Unrecoverable error for result HBLR_1.0_1dtj_206_25_0 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005)) CK ck --- 16/02/2006 21:31:33 request_reschedule_cpus: process exited CK ck ralph@home 16/02/2006 21:31:33 Computation for result HBLR_1.0_1dtj_206_25_0 finished CK ck SZTAKI Desktop Grid 16/02/2006 21:31:35 Sending scheduler request to http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/cgi-bin/scheduler Messages are from BoincView........ Double check your preempt in memory setting on the preferences on this project, for some reason mine was set to No when I joined up, usually it automatically says Yes on other projects I join, that may be why it was removed from memory

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