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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi,
I have been running the UD agent on a bank of 4 machines for the past year, in which time I have contributed 280,000 points worth of work to the cause. Hooray! However, I have now switched all the machines over to the BOINC client, and don't seem to be able to contribute any more. Boo. The packets of work are all being downloaded with no problems, and they also seem to be uploading back again without reporting any errors. However, no points or work units have been registered on my statistics for the last two days, and no points are showing on the graphs on any of the BOINC clients either. The completed packets have, however, disappeared from the list in the Tasks section of BOINC. The machines are installed in a University and connect via a http proxy cache. The address for this is wwwcache.ex.ac.uk The last block of message reporting showing downloads and uploads follows. There don't appear to be any error messages. I am not a networking person, so any help or thoughts would be appreciated as, like others, I don't want to have to abandon the work after a year because of having to have changed clients. Messages: 06/03/2008 13:19:09|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 11 seconds of work, reporting 1 completed tasks 06/03/2008 13:19:14|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks 06/03/2008 13:19:16|World Community Grid|Started download of X0000042701104200412082102_X0000042701104200412082102.jp2 06/03/2008 13:19:21|World Community Grid|Finished download of X0000042701104200412082102_X0000042701104200412082102.jp2 06/03/2008 13:26:32|World Community Grid|Computation for task X0000042671144200412151506_0 finished 06/03/2008 13:26:32|World Community Grid|Starting X0000042680528200411170904_0 06/03/2008 13:26:32|World Community Grid|Starting task X0000042680528200411170904_0 using hcc1 version 520 06/03/2008 13:26:34|World Community Grid|Started upload of X0000042671144200412151506_0_0 06/03/2008 13:26:43|World Community Grid|Finished upload of X0000042671144200412151506_0_0 06/03/2008 23:34:11|World Community Grid|Computation for task X0000042680528200411170904_0 finished 06/03/2008 23:34:11|World Community Grid|Starting X0000042701104200412082102_0 06/03/2008 23:34:11|World Community Grid|Starting task X0000042701104200412082102_0 using hcc1 version 520 06/03/2008 23:34:13|World Community Grid|Started upload of X0000042680528200411170904_0_0 06/03/2008 23:34:18|World Community Grid|Finished upload of X0000042680528200411170904_0_0 07/03/2008 01:21:12|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 11 seconds of work, reporting 2 completed tasks 07/03/2008 01:21:17|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 1 new tasks 07/03/2008 01:21:19|World Community Grid|Started download of wcg_faah_autodock_5.42_windows_intelx86 07/03/2008 01:21:19|World Community Grid|Started download of faah_image_5.42.tga 07/03/2008 01:21:28|World Community Grid|Finished download of faah_image_5.42.tga 07/03/2008 01:21:28|World Community Grid|Started download of faah_protease_5.42.dat 07/03/2008 01:21:30|World Community Grid|Finished download of wcg_faah_autodock_5.42_windows_intelx86 07/03/2008 01:21:30|World Community Grid|Started download of faah3218_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00_ZINC05182011.pdbqt 07/03/2008 01:21:31|World Community Grid|Finished download of faah3218_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00_ZINC05182011.pdbqt 07/03/2008 01:21:31|World Community Grid|Started download of faah3218_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00_AD4.1_bound.dat 07/03/2008 01:21:32|World Community Grid|Finished download of faah_protease_5.42.dat 07/03/2008 01:21:32|World Community Grid|Finished download of faah3218_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00_AD4.1_bound.dat 07/03/2008 01:21:32|World Community Grid|Started download of faah3218_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00.gpf 07/03/2008 01:21:32|World Community Grid|Started download of 03bfa725b3ea579f32483ebe6818802f.dpf 07/03/2008 01:21:34|World Community Grid|Finished download of faah3218_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00.gpf 07/03/2008 01:21:34|World Community Grid|Finished download of 03bfa725b3ea579f32483ebe6818802f.dpf 07/03/2008 01:21:34|World Community Grid|Started download of faah3218_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00_xMut_md00160.pdbqt 07/03/2008 01:21:37|World Community Grid|Finished download of faah3218_ZINC05182011_xMut_md00160_00_xMut_md00160.pdbqt Many thanks, Mark |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Additional!
I've had a good root around this morning in the results status etc and it seems that some of the data has now actually arrived. A couple are marked as Valid and a couple as Pending Validation. However, the points have not been transferred across into my total. Is it the case that this can sometimes take a while (I know that the system only updates once or twice a day, but some of these were returned a couple of days ago). Also, 3 of my 4 machines have completed work units but the system says that they are not due to be returned back to the grid for a fortnight. Any ideas why this would be? Mark (cursing UD as that was so much simpler!!) |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi Mark!
----------------------------------------First I would like to make sure that you know about the following "Start Here" thread which contains much interesting information for members who have just migrated from UD to Boinc. BOINC: Migration Questions moving from the Old WCG (UD) Agent Regarding the deadline for returning the results this is usually well managed by Boinc and you just have to let it get used to your machine. After a week everything should be perfectly smooth, but during its learning curve it will already make sure that your machine has always enough work to do and that no deadline is missed. What surprises new users of Boinc much is the completed tasks flagged as "Ready to report". The result files of these tasks have already been uploaded and are safe on the servers. However, since the reporting process itself adds some load to the database operations Boinc tries to match them with another operation which needs the use of the database, i.e. requesting new WUs to process. That's why you will often see completed tasks waiting until Boinc needs to fetch more work and reports them in the same call to the servers. Again, nothing to worry about. Cheers. Jean. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Jean,
Thanks for that. It looks like everything is on track to catch up with itself in time, from reading these pieces. I'll keep an eye on it over the next few days to make sure all is well, but it looks promising. Mark |
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