Posts by moebicat

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Message boards : Cafe Docking : Logo Poll

( Message 898 )
Posted 3960 days ago by moebicat
Atomic Booty (2) !!!
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Message boards : Docking@Home Science : Compilers and Lanugages

( Message 666 )
Posted 3968 days ago by moebicat
Thanks! This is just the answer I was looking for!

Uh... sorry, I didn't know which forum to post this question. Which forum did this question belong in?

Is there something in particular you are curious about?


Well, yes. This is probably not the correct forum for this question either, but...

Where can I find more information about volunteering programming skills for projects such as this or other BOINC science projects? I am wowfully ignorant of ways to help these project beyond letting my computer crunch away in their non-working hours or the proper channels to ask about projects looking for help with software (ya know, fixing bugs).

Thank you for taking the time and effort to have forums to answer questions from the curious.
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Message boards : Number crunching : Output file exceeds size limit.

( Message 482 )
Posted 3977 days ago by moebicat
Changed all the max_nbytes from 1000000 to 10000000 in file sched_request_docking.utep.edu.xml, yet I still the same error message.


Ouch, wrong file, you must change this in client_state.xml file!


Doh! Will do! I wonder how many things that brilliant move broke.


Don't worry, as far as I know, the sched_request_* and sched_reply_* are saved on each RPC, maybe for some internal reason or maybe only to help debugging. If you delete all of them (as long as BOINC is not in the middle of a request), nothing will go wrong. As far as I know :)


Phew! That is good news. I do need to go to school on the internals of BOINC.

Haven't seen this problem since I reset the project. The Intel Mac Mini and Intel Mac Pro are crunching away on Docking@Home work units, in their copious spare time.
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Message boards : Docking@Home Science : Compilers and Lanugages

( Message 446 )
Posted 3977 days ago by moebicat
What compilers are used by Docking@Home for Intel Mac, Windows and Linux?
What programming languages are used each of the components of this project?
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Message boards : Number crunching : Output file exceeds size limit.

( Message 286 )
Posted 3980 days ago by moebicat
Changed all the max_nbytes from 1000000 to 10000000 in file sched_request_docking.utep.edu.xml, yet I still the same error message.


Ouch, wrong file, you must change this in client_state.xml file!


Doh! Will do! I wonder how many things that brilliant move broke.

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Message boards : Number crunching : Can't rename state file: Error -1

( Message 285 )
Posted 3980 days ago by moebicat
Perhaps something to do with your changes in wrong file "sched_request_docking.utep.edu.xml"? Hope you can set it all back.


Good point. I changed it back.

Success, no more "unable to rename file" error. But, I am wary of magical thinking and fools who change random files in applications they don't understand. (That fool would be me.)

Still have "file to large" problem. In the end, the goliath Intel Xeon Mac Pro can crunch Docking@Home data sets, but can't report the results. However, the tiny Intel Core Duo Mini Mac crunches away without a care in the world.

Sigh...

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Message boards : Number crunching : Output file exceeds size limit.

( Message 281 )
Posted 3980 days ago by moebicat
Changed all the max_nbytes from 1000000 to 10000000 in file sched_request_docking.utep.edu.xml, yet I still the same error message.
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Message boards : Number crunching : Can't rename state file: Error -1

( Message 280 )
Posted 3980 days ago by moebicat
My Mac Min running BOINC reports the following messages:

Sat Sep 16 13:30:35 2006|Docking@Home|Started upload of file 1tng_mod0001_394_299133_0_2
Sat Sep 16 13:30:35 2006|Docking@Home|Started upload of file 1tng_mod0001_394_299133_0_3
Sat Sep 16 13:30:37 2006|Docking@Home|Finished upload of file 1tng_mod0001_394_299133_0_3
Sat Sep 16 13:30:37 2006|Docking@Home|Throughput 1720 bytes/sec
Sat Sep 16 13:30:39 2006|Docking@Home|Finished upload of file 1tng_mod0001_394_299133_0_2
Sat Sep 16 13:30:39 2006|Docking@Home|Throughput 50521 bytes/sec
Sat Sep 16 13:30:41 2006|Docking@Home|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks
Sat Sep 16 13:30:41 2006|Docking@Home|Reporting 1 tasks
Sat Sep 16 13:30:46 2006|Docking@Home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 507]
Sat Sep 16 13:54:22 2006||Can't rename state file: Error -1
Sat Sep 16 13:54:22 2006||Couldn't write state file: system rename
Sat Sep 16 13:55:22 2006|Docking@Home|Task 1tng_mod0001_373_257480_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
Sat Sep 16 13:55:22 2006|Docking@Home|If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
Sat Sep 16 13:55:22 2006|Docking@Home|Restarting task 1tng_mod0001_373_257480_0 using charmm version 501
Sat Sep 16 13:55:23 2006|Docking@Home|Task 1tng_mod0001_372_186141_0 exited with zero status but no 'finished' file
Sat Sep 16 13:55:23 2006|Docking@Home|If this happens repeatedly you may need to reset the project.
Sat Sep 16 13:55:23 2006|Docking@Home|Restarting task 1tng_mod0001_372_186141_0 using charmm version 501

This is the first time this has happened. Of course, if I see this again I will follow the suggestion and "reset the project".

Anyone else see rename errors?
Other than resetting the project, is there some corrective action that I should take?
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Message boards : Number crunching : Output file exceeds size limit.

( Message 276 )
Posted 3980 days ago by moebicat
Thanks. I'll up the value of max_nbytes for the Docking@home project.

Odd, this was only an issue with the Mac Pro. The Mac Mini worked fine with the original value.
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Message boards : Number crunching : Output file exceeds size limit.

( Message 267 )
Posted 3980 days ago by moebicat
My MacPro has been reporting the following messages while processsing work units:

Fri Sep 15 21:22:54 2006|Docking@Home|Computation for task 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3 finished
Fri Sep 15 21:22:54 2006|Docking@Home|Output file 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3_2 for task 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3 exceeds size limit.
Fri Sep 15 21:22:54 2006|Docking@Home|File size: 1622632.000000 bytes. Limit: 1000000.000000 bytes
Fri Sep 15 21:22:54 2006|Docking@Home|Starting task 1tng_mod0001_117_105026_3 using charmm version 501
Fri Sep 15 21:22:55 2006|Docking@Home|Unrecoverable error for result 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3 (<file_xfer_error> <file_name>1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3_2</file_name> <error_code>-131</error_code></file_xfer_error>)
Fri Sep 15 21:22:55 2006|Docking@Home|Deferring scheduler requests for 1 minutes and 0 seconds
Fri Sep 15 21:22:56 2006|Docking@Home|Started upload of file 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3_0
Fri Sep 15 21:22:56 2006|Docking@Home|Started upload of file 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3_1
Fri Sep 15 21:22:58 2006|Docking@Home|Finished upload of file 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3_0
Fri Sep 15 21:22:58 2006|Docking@Home|Throughput 8981 bytes/sec
Fri Sep 15 21:22:58 2006|Docking@Home|Finished upload of file 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3_1
Fri Sep 15 21:22:58 2006|Docking@Home|Throughput 8096 bytes/sec
Fri Sep 15 21:22:58 2006|Docking@Home|Started upload of file 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3_3
Fri Sep 15 21:23:00 2006|Docking@Home|Finished upload of file 1tng_mod0001_203_254679_3_3

Do I need to change one of my preference settings to prevent the MacPro from truncating large files?


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