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jonnieb-uk
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Re: UK

Seems solving the validator problems has led to a temporary(?) shutdown of WCG reporting. sad

No one has reported/updated since themoonscrescent at 15:34:12. sad

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knreed World Community Grid Tech @ Jan 9, 2013 6:37:36 PM

We have been experiencing poor database performance. We were investigating how to improve it and we are running the MySQL optimize command on two tables. Unfortunately, this is proceeding much slower than we expected so the BOINC grid is stopped for a couple of hours. We will inform you here when things are started again.

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Re: UK

The system has been restarted! biggrin

It's probably a good idea to hit manual "Update" since depending how many times your computer has tried and failed to commuicate with WCG, BOINC will have set a "communication deferred" flag which might mean the next automatic update is after the midnight cut-off.

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Not sure the manual update is necessary - 34 members updated between system restart and 21:00 smile

The validator issue still appears to be present though I believe it's just extended delay rather than anything more serious.

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[Jan 9, 2013 9:12:13 PM]

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Re: UK

A poor update for me yesterday overall, but I have made it to 100,000 results for the Team biggrin

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Re: UK

Morning All

Talking of first exposure to computers, like Soong, mine was the BBC Model B. Great machine with 32K of RAM and software loaded by tape, until we upgraded to 5 1/4" disks. Top games like Elite, Canyon, Dune Raider, Chuckie Egg, Dare Devil Dennis and the Repton Series all played as well as some program writing in Basic. Used the "mini office" set of applications to do some early word processing and spreadsheets.

Used Acorn Archimedes in College, running RiscOS, and my Dad bought a Packard Bell 386sx from Dixons with a 16MHz processor, 40Mb hard drive, 1Mb RAM (upgradable to 5Mb for a mere £200) Windows 3.1 and a 256-colour monitor.

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Re: UK

The UK team have advanced to #74 in the Points rankings passing EMU--Computer Science. biggrin

Next up Team Norway estimated at 28 days.

In passing I note that we have reduced the time to pass Improbable Island's Distributed Supercomputer in the Points rankings to 395 days and that they have now appeared as a (distant) target in the Results rankings estimated at 1,152 days. wink

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[Jan 10, 2013 10:23:56 AM]

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Re: UK

Well, the downtime yesterday caught the new "testing" server out - I'd been running it with just 0.1 days of cached workunits, on the basis that I might not get to be running it for very long, and to try to minimise "waste" if it did get re-purposed without much notice. As a result, it ran out of workunits quickly, and was idle for a few hours until BOINC came back online...

As a result, I've now switched it to 1.0 days of cache - losing workunits is better than not having any at all, I'd say.

All of my other machines, which are more "stable" in how long they're going to be working, I'm already using 2.0 days of cache...

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[Jan 10, 2013 10:25:34 AM]

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Re: UK

Glancing at results returned (validated) yesterday, suggests that the downtime or validator slowdown affected crooks_uk and Soong as well as Thargor . Together with themoonscrescent temporary loss of a device the UK team was down 700-1000 results. sad

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[Jan 10, 2013 10:43:18 AM]

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Re: UK

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in yesterday's crunching: biggrin

scowy moves above 200,000 in the Points Rankings to #198,866
Soong moves above 1,200 in the Points Rankings to #1,195

sapient moves above 200,000 in the Results Rankings to #199,879

Congratulations also to the following UK team members on setting new PBs biggrin

	fosking          	Runtime	          	Points	   65,093	Results	135

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime

	Yesterday's Production				0:245:07:16:55		  Lowest since 13.09.12 	
	Average RT per cd  		January  		 303.4		  	
	                       		December		 299.0			
	7day Avg per cd	           	Current 		 297.7

Milestone Targets for the UK team

	       	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate		
	RunTime	  900 years		    295,634	     32,866	    297.7	  110 days Apr-30		
	RunTime	1,000 years		    295,634	     69,366	    297.7	  233 days Aug-31		
	Points 	800,000,000 		763,515,391	 36,484,609	2,339,204 	   16 days Jan-26		
	Results	  2,000,000		  1,630,185	    369,815	    4,718	   78 days Mar-29

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[Jan 10, 2013 11:08:32 AM]

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Re: UK

I have tried and tried, but I simply cannot get my Win XP Dual Core to crunch GPU sad

The same GC worked in my failed system (Win 7), so I know it works, but when using the Driver from the CD the system crash's (won't stop restarting), when using Windows own driver (downloaded from Win Update), the GPU's error out straight away and when downloading the newest driver from ATI website, I get the old BSOD crying

Even tried a few tricks mentioned when I googled it, but the system simply refuses to 1: Crunch GPU with just the driver. 2: Be stable once ATI Control Center is installed.

I've given up, I'm not going to spend money installing Win 7 on a system that was about to be dumped (only powered up again to help out while the newer system is down), so it's stuck with just CPU. sad

Edit: Forgot to add, R.I.P Play.com, you've been good to me for so many years, shame your shutting down (only Market Place will remain after March) sad

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[Jan 10, 2013 12:20:30 PM]

Thargor
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Re: UK

The stats later this evening could be interesting, here's my stats for the whole day yesterday and just half of today:

01/10/2013 : 0:032:06:44:20 : 110,308 : 244
01/09/2013 : 0:043:01:38:40 : 122,076 : 278

And, themooncrescent, I've noticed that play.com hasn't been great for quite a while, anyway; I've been using Amazon for ages, after noticing play.com was veering more and more towards a "marketplace" system.

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