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Former Member
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I have two machines running Linux x86_64 and currently have 3 beta units in the oven now (2 on one machine and 1 on the other) been running about 11 hours now. All 3 should be ready to come out in about an hour.
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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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am getting "The Clean Energy Project is not available for your type of computer". Is this problem specific to x86_64? Or is there something else going on? As discussed in posts before yours beta testing for Linux and Mac have just restarted a few days ago. The distribution of normal work for CEP for Linux and Mac will start only when techs are reasonably happy with this beta testing. Things seem to be not too bad, so it might be a matter of days now. Regarding receiving beta WUs it's some kind of lottery: there are so few when compared to volunteer beta testers. And no, the fact that a client is 32-bit or 64-bit does not matter, all WCG science applications are 32-bit currently, and 64-bit systems run them well in 32-bit mode. Good luck. Jean. |
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widdershins
Veteran Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 677 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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What's the current distribution of 32 bit versus 64 bit computers? I'd imagine most of the hardware bought in th elast year would be 64 bit, but suspect most only has 32 bit windoze installed.
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Dark Angel
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Nov 11, 2005 Post Count: 728 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm guessing I'll admit, but I'd say that pretty much all machines bought as packages are running 32bit and many that have been custom built as well. I have 64bit on every machine I have with compatible hardware, but then ... ya know ... I'm like that.
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Former Member
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Thanks. I guess my specific question would be whether the message I am getting is consistent with my having everything set up correctly and there just being a paucity of work units available. (The message text doesn't really evoke that image.) But I take it that the answer is "yes".
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widdershins
Veteran Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 677 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The message you get is the same as I get. CEP is only available for MS operating sysxtems at present. CEP is still in beta for LInux & Mac getting the errors ironed out, so it isn't available for your computer unless your OS is a MS one.. The only reason I have some CEP units is because of Beta testing CEP for linux. There are only a small number of CEP beta units sent out so you would have been very lucky to get any.
The beta test appears to have gone fairly well this time (unlike the last couple of attempts to get CEP running on non-MS boxes), so I'm hopeful that the project should become fully available to linux & mac crunchers in the next couple of weeks. It was quite soon after the MS beta returned satisfactory results that they made it available to start crunching. If you are interested in running CEP only your setup will probably be correct. One way of checking things are configured properly would be to make a change, e.g. tick the "Do work for other projects if no work is available for my chosen project". If some work units start appearing from Discover Dengue Drugs, Help Cure Cancer, etc. Then you can be fairly sure that when CEP work does become available for your machine you'll get it and the other units will stop appearing. |
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AppleTV
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beta? LOL.. I've been signed onto betas since 2007 and never received one! Those who have received them have bettered the odds of being hit by a lightning strike! ;)
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Former Member
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When did the original Clean Energy Windows client come out?
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Dark Angel
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Nov 11, 2005 Post Count: 728 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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beta? LOL.. I've been signed onto betas since 2007 and never received one! Those who have received them have bettered the odds of being hit by a lightning strike! ;) I've had two so far this round. I think the trick is to run REALLY short work cues on your hardware (like 6hrs or 0.25 days) so it's constantly asking for more, rather than having a day or more sitting ready to go. Currently being moderated under false pretences |
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Former Member
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I've had two so far this round. I think the trick is to run REALLY short work cues on your hardware (like 6hrs or 0.25 days) so it's constantly asking for more, rather than having a day or more sitting ready to go. Yes, or try 0.1 instead. Then when you see a planned outage, bump it up to 1 or 2 days so you don't run out of work. Then when the outage is done go back to 0.1 days of cached work. |
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