1) Forums : Technical Support : URGENT Problems Discussion Thread (Message 5666)
Posted 1 Apr 2008 by Stwainer
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All I\'m saying is that maybe Scott has something else to do now and again. He is an undergrad - maybe he has to attend class from time to time or have a beer with friends occasionally.

Some of the posts have been very \"it\'s the end of the project/world\" sounding to me. It\'s a bump in the road - I\'m sure we\'ll all get over it.

I do agree with Labbie though. Maybe give the validator some time to catch up before releasing more WU\'s.

2) Forums : Technical Support : URGENT Problems Discussion Thread (Message 5655)
Posted 1 Apr 2008 by Stwainer
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I\'m sure glad I\'m not the admin of a BOINC project. It seems that people expect you to be on call 24/7 and if you don\'t tell complete strangers you\'ll be out of town for a few days and disconnected from the project, they get their panties in a bind. I guess admin\'s can\'t have any other bit of life outside the project or \'forget\' about the project for a few days.

Thank you Scott for fixing the problem quickly when you returned.
3) Forums : General Topics : Cosmology@Home Wikipedia page? (Message 3907)
Posted 16 Nov 2007 by Stwainer
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I put up a basic framework of what the entry could look like... I\'m pretty sure it adheres to the Wikipedia guidelines, but I\'m not a frequent editor there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology%40Home

In case someone gets trigger happy with the delete button again, I also copied it to my page which was empty before. Might as well put it to use ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Soriak


edit: obviously anyone should feel free to edit this and add more content (which it direly needs) - for the time being it may be safest to copy all changes to my user page, too, so we have a backup. Once the main article is safely established, we can get rid of the backup copy again ;)

edit2: added the Cosmology@Home logo under the fair use clause for non-public images. (logos of computer software) Hope that\'s ok :p


The current Wiki page looks good, I added a few things, but I think we need to get links *from* other entries to the Cosmology@home entry. I tried looking at the \"cosmology\" and \"cosmic background radiation\" entry in the Wiki with the hopes of finding a good spot to put a link, but it\'s a bit above my head.
4) Forums : Technical Support : there was work but it was committed to other platforms (Message 2866)
Posted 19 Sep 2007 by Stwainer
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Hey Scott,

Similar things today. "Work but committed to other platforms" I'm Win/XP Intel. Can you kick the generator again, please?

Steve
5) Forums : Technical Support : 12,000 + WU's ready to send but no work for XP/Pentium? (Message 2545)
Posted 6 Sep 2007 by Stwainer
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I forgot my cpu info, here it goes:

GenuineIntel
Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz [x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 4]

Running Windows XP with all the latest patches.

Thanks again,

Steve
6) Forums : Technical Support : 12,000 + WU's ready to send but no work for XP/Pentium? (Message 2544)
Posted 6 Sep 2007 by Stwainer
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I will, but suddenly work started flowing again. Strange. Here's the info:

Boinc version 5.10.13

Messages:

9/6/2007 9:07:01 AM|Cosmology@Home|Reason: no work from project
9/6/2007 9:08:01 AM|Cosmology@Home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
9/6/2007 9:08:01 AM|Cosmology@Home|Requesting 2312 seconds of new work
9/6/2007 9:08:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511]
9/6/2007 9:08:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: No work sent
9/6/2007 9:08:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: (there was work but it was committed to other platforms)
9/6/2007 9:08:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
9/6/2007 9:08:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Reason: requested by project
9/6/2007 9:08:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
9/6/2007 9:08:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Reason: no work from project
9/6/2007 9:09:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
9/6/2007 9:09:06 AM|Cosmology@Home|Requesting 2312 seconds of new work
9/6/2007 9:09:11 AM|Cosmology@Home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511]
9/6/2007 9:09:11 AM|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: No work sent
9/6/2007 9:09:11 AM|Cosmology@Home|Message from server: (there was work but it was committed to other platforms)
9/6/2007 9:09:11 AM|Cosmology@Home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
9/6/2007 9:09:11 AM|Cosmology@Home|Reason: requested by project
9/6/2007 9:09:11 AM|Cosmology@Home|Deferring communication for 1 min 43 sec
9/6/2007 9:09:11 AM|Cosmology@Home|Reason: no work from project
9/6/2007 9:10:57 AM|Cosmology@Home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
9/6/2007 9:10:57 AM|Cosmology@Home|Requesting 2312 seconds of new work
9/6/2007 9:11:02 AM|Cosmology@Home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 511]

Looks like the problem started occurring after about 11:00 pm last night (PST)


Thanks!

Steve
7) Forums : Technical Support : 12,000 + WU's ready to send but no work for XP/Pentium? (Message 2541)
Posted 6 Sep 2007 by Stwainer
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Hey guys,

Looks like there's 12,000 + WU's ready to send but I'm not getting any work. I must run one of the most common machines: Windows XP with some flavor of Intel Pentium chip.

Can you shake the server a bit and see if the work doesn't come flying out please?

Thanks
8) Forums : Technical Support : Linux/Windows speed difference? (Message 770)
Posted 3 Jul 2007 by Stwainer
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Code exists that was written in FORTRAN still? I thought being a COBOL programmer meant that I was a dinosaur.
9) Forums : Technical Support : Linux/Windows speed difference? (Message 769)
Posted 3 Jul 2007 by Stwainer
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It's so fun to imagine things though!
10) Forums : Technical Support : Invalid results (Message 710)
Posted 2 Jul 2007 by Stwainer
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What are "Legal Benchmarks" referenced below?
11) Forums : General Topics : Team Recruitment Thread (Message 558)
Posted 28 Jun 2007 by Stwainer
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Looking for a team with few members and a very simple web page? Neither was I. However, I did join FREE TIBET/ TIBET LIBRE anyway. Why? Simple. Keeping the idea of a Free Tibet in peoples minds whenever they see the team name. Join FREE TIBET/ TIBET LIBRE and help propel this idea to the top of the team charts.

Thank you
12) Forums : Technical Support : Linux/Windows speed difference? (Message 488)
Posted 27 Jun 2007 by Stwainer
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SPSS runs on Windows? I think we had it running on a PDP-11/70. Shows you how old *I* am!
13) Forums : Technical Support : Linux/Windows speed difference? (Message 413)
Posted 26 Jun 2007 by Stwainer
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I think I'm going to disagree with you on that. The Standard deviation is in the same units as the measurement of the mean, so if the mean of the Linux results is 598.2 seconds and the standard deviation is 153.16 that means that that of the 27 results the average distance from the mean is 153.16 seconds. That's a big deviation, so the average is not a reliable number. The set of three points that would give the same result is {445.05, 598.2, 751.36}. The windows example would be {869.89 1066.36 1262.85} a much tighter grouping since the mean time is double that of the Linux boxes.

In any event, I think the standard deviations are too high for a valid comparison.

This also made my brain hurt quite a bit. I was a math major 20+ years ago and I absolutely hated my probability and statistics class. It was all theory and made my brain hurt then. I may have got this all backassward. I've had many a beer since then.
14) Forums : Technical Support : Linux/Windows speed difference? (Message 405)
Posted 25 Jun 2007 by Stwainer
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If I remember my maths correctly, I think the standard deviation numbers are telling us that the average, especially for the Linux box, is not a very good number to use for comparison purposes in this situation. There is too much variation in run time per WU.
15) Forums : Technical Support : Invalid results (Message 404)
Posted 25 Jun 2007 by Stwainer
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Credits are fun, but not the reason we do what we do. Some of us are addicted (witness the ATA's), some just haven't admitted it yet.

Whatever the project decides to do in it's alpha stage is fine with me with regards to credit. The "fairest" method would be, I think, to just run the invalid work units back through the newly fixed validator and let it do it's thing.

I'm not really sure how practical that might be, but it's an idea.

16) Forums : Technical Support : Invalid results (Message 346)
Posted 23 Jun 2007 by Stwainer
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Seems like my invalid results run in packs as well. I get a bunch of valid ones, then a patch of those that are invalid. Is there a trend or is it just me reading more into the little data I have?
17) Forums : Technical Support : Can't attach (Message 315)
Posted 21 Jun 2007 by Stwainer
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Never mind. Mu stupidity was apparent when I checked my email.
18) Forums : Technical Support : Can't attach (Message 314)
Posted 21 Jun 2007 by Stwainer
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OK. I know I'm being stupid, I just can't figure out how to attach to the project. I have the correct URL ( the one posted in the announcement today) and the password but no joy.

What is my mental malfunction?