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1) Message boards : Number crunching : Xtrack beam simulation (Message 9735)
Posted 17 days ago by Link
the time clicking by second by second taking about 5MB for the virtual size and almost 11MB for the working size


Same as for any other application from any other project: if they are not using any CPU time, try restarting them, if that doesn't help, abort them as they will never finish if they are not doing anything.


I tried suspending them for over 30 seconds but they just kept going and are now up over 21 hours for the 2 that were over 8 hours earlier today. Wuprop IS counting the hours so I'm not aborting anything, I have run Climate Prediction tasks for months before so running this or running something else is no difference to me.

Unless WUprop hours are all that matters to you, you should look in the task properties if the used CPU time is increasing or not each time you open them (or you check that in Windows Task Manager).
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Xtrack beam simulation (Message 9730)
Posted 17 days ago by Link
the time clicking by second by second taking about 5MB for the virtual size and almost 11MB for the working size

Same as for any other application from any other project: if they are not using any CPU time, try restarting them, if that doesn't help, abort them as they will never finish if they are not doing anything.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : App in RED but I still have tasks and they aren't due for several more days (Message 9721)
Posted 20 days ago by Link
Now you have 31.1 hours on that app, but it's still red. Something more needs a kick I guess.

I have at least 3 brand new ones on my pc's just today, so yes it's still active.

Well, it was definitely active in the past 30 days, so it shouldn't be red. Now it's up to the project admin to fix this, all we can do is reporting the issue and that is done.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : App in RED but I still have tasks and they aren't due for several more days (Message 9715)
Posted 21 days ago by Link
Now you have 31.1 hours on that app, but it's still red. Something more needs a kick I guess.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : WUs not analyzed (Message 9709)
Posted 21 days ago by Link
And back to ZERO again Task data as of 27 Feb 2023, 22:06:18 UTC.

And now (28 Feb 2023, 13:10:21 UTC) 126137 not analysed. Seems like a database issue and the server status page displays 0 if it doesn't get any answer from the database when updating, displaying "---" like on runtime if there's no data to display is likely not intended.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : App in RED but I still have tasks and they aren't due for several more days (Message 9708)
Posted 22 days ago by Link
Now the hours are appearing in your profile, no idea however how long the app needs to turn black. Perhaps we shouldn't expect too much right now, I'm still getting just around 50% of my hours. So I guess there's nothing wrong on your end.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : App in RED but I still have tasks and they aren't due for several more days (Message 9701)
Posted 22 days ago by Link
No, requires log in to see anything.

If those tasks became available in the past 1-2 days after a longer break, than it might be related to this issue and the hours are in not yet analyzed WUprop WUs. Must wait until that is fixed, than complain again if you still have 0.00 hours and the app is marked red.

OTOH, after switching from WCG to Einstein my "Gamma-ray pulsar search #5" hours seem to make it instantly to the hours displayed in my account, so no idea what's going on there, apparently some WUs are analyzed instantly.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : App in RED but I still have tasks and they aren't due for several more days (Message 9697)
Posted 22 days ago by Link
Have you crunched those tasks in the past 30 days? Your activity in the past 24 hours is 0.00 for this app.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : WUs not analyzed (Message 9696)
Posted 22 days ago by Link
Yes, there is missing about 50% of the activity like in the run times for the apps in my profile.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : WUs not analyzed (Message 9693)
Posted 22 days ago by Link
Task reported 4:55AM, then next one in list is 6:55AM and then 8:55AM. Missing 5:55AM and 7:55AM tasks.

No missing tasks for my 24/7 running host, but Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo, large) still shows only 11 hours in the last 24, so they must be stuck in that pile of not analysed tasks.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : WUs not analyzed (Message 9691)
Posted 22 days ago by Link
I will support these worries - for yesterday, the application did not register more than 50% of the processor time.

Pretty much EXACTLY what I see from here too.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Problem on home screen (Message 9636)
Posted 13 Feb 2023 by Link
Weird, I see http, not https. Maybe depending on the browser? I use Firefox on Win10.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : couldn't start app: CreateProcess() failed - (unknown error) (Message 9599)
Posted 21 Jan 2023 by Link
I added a new plan_class for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

Thanks.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : couldn't start app: CreateProcess() failed - (unknown error) (Message 9572)
Posted 18 Jan 2023 by Link
Sorry Link, but Rosetta does not run on XP anymore. I have XP and was blocked from Rosetta over a year ago.
However Asteroids, Numberfields, TNGrid all do run on 32 bit XP but no hours will be recorded on this web site unfortunately.

Hmm... OK, the last time I run Rosetta on XP was version 4.17, the current is 4.21.

Anyway, even without Rosetta, most of the projects I run suport XP and you added few more to the list. So it doesn't seem that close to impossible to write applications that support Windows XP and also current versions of Windows.

As a side note: I even tried some games that were originally created for Win95-ME, most still run absolutely fine on Win10, all they need are write permissions in their installation dir. I was surprised myself.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : couldn't start app: CreateProcess() failed - (unknown error) (Message 9567)
Posted 17 Jan 2023 by Link
Einstein's FGRP5 and probably also BRP4G (not tested myself) run on XP, Milkyway runs on XP (at least the CPU app, not sure about the GPU app), Rosetta runs on XP. They all run on current versions of Windows as well and that are just the very few projects that I participate in and have run the current versions of their apps on XP myself.

But I do understand, that if issues arise, it doesn't seem worth to spend too much time on an OS, that run out of support nearly 9 years ago and is used only on ancient hardware with very limited computing power. Just the server should be configured properly to not send tasks to machines, that can't run them and send instead some useful message, so the user can see why the machine didn't receive any work.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : couldn't start app: CreateProcess() failed - (unknown error) (Message 9565)
Posted 17 Jan 2023 by Link
Maybe there should be a better error message: i.e. that Windows XP is no longer supported.

Like I said, the server should not send any tasks to hosts, which can't run them, just an error message. This should have been changed same moment as the new app was released. Also the app description should be changed on the application page, currently the minimum requirement stated there is Windows 98.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Asteroids (Message 9552)
Posted 15 Jan 2023 by Link
Well, they don't just call it the same name, it is the same application doing same work and generating same results, just running on different type of processor. That's same for all projects, not just Asteroids. plan_class is different for every application version, even two different CPU versions have different plan_class, for example SSE2 and AVX or whatever (or different platform). Same for different GPU versions. But all those app versions are the same application from BOINC's point of view, you can see that in your client_state.xml, you have one <app> and one or more <app_version> tags, all of them with same <app_name> in them, just different <platform> and/or <plan_class>, which is optional btw., my Milkyway CPU app does not have any <plan_class> since it's the only CPU app version.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending... (Message 9539)
Posted 9 Jan 2023 by Link
Parlea is only not added because it wasn't exporting it's stats last I checked.

A good reason not to add them is the fact, that they even not write on their homepage who they actually are, no info on people or organzation.

The translation of the describtion is "distributed computing test project that aims to investigate the efficiency and behavior of mobile devices as computing nodes on the BOINC platform for solving the orthogonal diagonal Latin squares (ODLS) search problem" and states Android 4.1 as requirement, but they have only an application for Windows PCs. So what they are doing actually? No forums to ask anything either.

So no idea why someone would let a project like that use their computer ressources or even just enter his email adress on their page as currently the project isn't trustworthy at all. This concerns are IMHO by far more important than the project's TLD.
19) Message boards : Science : Lots of missing data (Message 9536)
Posted 8 Jan 2023 by Link
That was fast, now both are displayed in the list. Thank you.
20) Message boards : Science : Lots of missing data (Message 9534)
Posted 8 Jan 2023 by Link
Any particular reason why the data from my GTX 275 is not making it to the results page? It appeared in the list few days after I visited http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/gpu.py after installing it, it crunched well over 4000 Milkyway WUs since than (hours are counting), but the list remains empty. There are results in the list from a GTX 260, so it shouldn't be "too old" like my HD 3850 apparently was.

My Android should be also visible under Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo, large) by now, after over 1000 hours. It's disappearence from Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo) seems completed and there was no significant break when switching to the new app, just few minutes.


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