TAS Note: Orbit@Home is October 2010 project.

[biodoc]

2) some WUs are very long (I have one at 95h and counting)

109 hours and counting. No one has finished this one without error yet. link

 

[biodoc]

109 hours and counting. No one has finished this one without error yet. link

133 hours and counting! :biggrin:

 

[filibusterman]

moved and took forever to get internet. Ill be adding some rigs to the mix shortly. Also, the conversion to ssd was not gentile on me!!

 

[biodoc]

Welcome back filibusterman! 🙂 It's nice to have the cool crunching weather back again. :thumbsup:

 

[biodoc]

133 hours and counting! :biggrin:

256 hours and counting! :biggrin:

 

[petrusbroder]

Quantum Fire Alpha is up again and accepts and sends WUs. 😀

 

[Rudy Toody]

Quantum Fire Alpha is up again and accepts and sends WUs. 😀

Thanks for the heads-up! I'll leave my neighbor's x3 on it. The 2 quads are on Cosmology for awhile.

fyi: Thread I started on Highly Technical. This might make a great prosthetic hand!

 

[filibusterman]

So this was posted as news on the Quantumfire alpha web site:

"IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
October 28, 2010
QuantumFIRE will be offline for a longer period of time (4-8 weeks) starting at the end of this week to make the transition from alpha to beta test phase. Thanks a lot to all volunteers who have so far supported QuantumFIRE! Why not donate your computing power to QMC@HOME in the mean time? We will try to let you know as soon as possible, when QuantumFIRE will be available again. "


So what projects are you guys moving to for the next few days?

 

[biodoc]

256 hours and counting! :biggrin:

360 hours and counting! :hmm:

 

[Rudy Toody]

360 hours and counting! :hmm:

We will have to give you a Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

[TAandy]

Announcement from Pasquale:
"New Storage Equipment
Submitted by tricaric on Thu, 10/21/2010 - 22:22.

We are pleased to announce that new storage equipment has been ordered today. We should receive, install, and test it within the next two weeks. This upgrade is critical to allow orbit@home to continue operations and to keep growing beyond the volunteers base of 25,000 that we just recently reached. A grateful acknowledgement goes also to all the people that donates to this project, as this gives us the much needed flexibility to take care of unexpected project requirements such as this one.

The wait for the new hardware gives us a little more time to test the new features of the scientific application, including better validation across different operating systems and smaller output files. We plan to resume the creation of work units soon after the new storage goes online, first with small test batches, and then with large production batches."

sounds good to me!!
🙂

Posted 27 Oct 2010 22:08:24 UTC
"We have received the equipment. The installation is scheduled for tomorrow. The server will be down for several hours during the upgrade."

Posted 29 Oct 2010 0:25:08 UTC
"The upgrade went pretty smoothly, and we are now initializing and formatting the system, composed by 12x2TB disks in a raid-6 configuration. The storage should go online next week."

 

[petrusbroder]

🙂 :awe: 🙂

 

[biodoc]

We will have to give you a Lifetime Achievement Award.

:biggrin:409 hours!!:whiste:

I had to take my main rig off RNA World. X-windows froze up so I ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to cmd-line login and found "compiz" was taking 100% of one core. RNAWorld WUs were still running so they weren't the problem. I tried to stop X-windows processes but that killed the RNA World WUs (290 hours on one WU). I rebooted and ran some badly needed software ugrades including the nvidia driver. The latter probably caused the problem?

 

[biodoc]

The TeAm is in 98th place on Virtual Prairie, so I tossed my x6 on that project.

 

[Fardringle]

Let me know if you actually get any work from Virtual Prairie, Biodoc. I have one computer attached and it has not seen a new work unit there for months.

 

[biodoc]

Virtual Prairie has work. I've been crunching away for a few hours now.

Edit: This is the app: "Application simulating the growth of a prairie of many clonal plants" for both Windows and Linux.

It's RAM intensive; nearly 0.6 GB per core.

 

[Fardringle]

Virtual Prairie has work. I've been crunching away for a few hours now.

Edit: This is the app: "Application simulating the growth of a prairie of many clonal plants" for both Windows and Linux.

It's RAM intensive; nearly 0.6 GB per core.

Interesting. I haven't received any new work for a long time. I may have to poke around and see if there is a minimum client/OS version requirement for the current jobs.

 

[biodoc]

I think boinc default is to use at most 50% of RAM. At least that was the setting I had on my rigs. I bumped that up to 90%. So a single core processor with 2 Gigs of RAM with a setting of 50% RAM may not run the current app/WUs of Virtual Prairie.