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Thread: New Beta Test – May 29, 2019 [Issues Thread] |
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PMH_UK
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 772 Status: Recently Active Project Badges: 
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Checkpoints can be seen from the status entry for the workunit on the website.
----------------------------------------My previous post in this thread included one. While running it is in stderr.txt in the slot directory for the workunit. Paul.
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nanoprobe
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Can someone look in the client_state.xml file and give me the number of this beta. IE: beta25 or whatever it may be. Thanks
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alanb1951
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Can someone look in the client_state.xml file and give me the number of this beta. IE: beta25 or whatever it may be. Thanks It is beta27. |
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nanoprobe
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Can someone look in the client_state.xml file and give me the number of this beta. IE: beta25 or whatever it may be. Thanks It is beta27. Thanks. 
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DrMason
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Only got allocated one unit, which I restarted when it was at about 68%. It restarted from 62.5%, finished like a champ, and is currently pending verification.
----------------------------------------I'm excited for this project. That said, almost 23 hours for 31 credit won't be too appealing to the average user. More frequent checkpoints would also be great, not only for time efficiency but also power efficiency. Would feel weird re-crunching hours of data using power that wasn't produced with 100% renewables. Hope we see that issue resolved with the next set of beta units.  |
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1297 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I was unlikely to receive any work this time around. I would like to comment on checkpointing. I completely agree it would be great if we could have checkpoints closer together. I can remember when CEP 2 (The Clean Energy Project Phase 2) was around we sometimes had to crunch several hours again because of not stopping task straight after a checkpoint. Tasks will run in the vicinity of 3 hours to 14 or 15 hours. I am looking forward to when this project get released into mainstream to see what it's like
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IIRC, since a simulation is a large 750MB+ virtual memory block and some 350MB in core memory, it would likely be prohibitive to do this mid run. The end product of the 8th 6 hour weather simulation step is an upload of 120mb. Impact on user likely substantial if they did with risk of problems restoring mid block simulation. Already I've set my system to not allow more than 2 to run concurrent. 20 minutes upload a piece the event log showed would affect the rest of the client activity if not wait state for new work. (Several times suspended BOINC, with lossless LAIM on, because if slug responses, which I've now covered by simply telling BOINC to suspend computing if more than 50% of CPU time is usurped)
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retsof
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Only got allocated one unit, which I restarted when it was at about 68%. It restarted from 62.5%, finished like a champ, and is currently pending verification. Boinc can't guarantee that. It is a function of where you live. Locally, we were locked into an expensive contract with a wood chip burning power plant. It was too expensive to run, so this city actually bought the plant to save money and break the contract and is keeping it closed. Texas has lots of wind power in the west. The cities are in the east, and the NIMBY factor keeps the power transmission lines away.I'm excited for this project. That said, almost 23 hours for 31 credit won't be too appealing to the average user. More frequent checkpoints would also be great, not only for time efficiency but also power efficiency. Would feel weird re-crunching hours of data using power that wasn't produced with 100% renewables. Hope we see that issue resolved with the next set of beta units.
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nanoprobe
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The cities are in the east, and the NIMBY factor keeps the power transmission lines away. The power lines here are underground. Can't that be done where it's NIMBY?
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retsof
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The cities are in the east, and the NIMBY factor keeps the power transmission lines away. The power lines here are underground. Can't that be done where it's NIMBY?
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