Thanks for this information! Oddly, since changing the name of the old device, the grid software has stopped having problems ... at least temporarily. It is currently up to 1 hour, 5 minutes (19 percent) of its task. Previously, it would not get to 10 minutes typically, and frequently bombed in the first minute or two.

I will keep you posted if the program starts crashing again. Thanks for your advice - I really appreciate it!

Cheers,
Chris

Thanks. I use several of those utilities already, and some of them are really good. I really like the MBM and SIS utilities, for example.

Oddly, though, the computer itself is rock-solid - it is only the grid software that has been having problems. I work as a database administrator, and have some expertise with Windows also, and I'm pretty comfortable making the statement that this doesn't look like a hardware issue (unless you pursuade me otherwise). Too many other things - some of them quite demanding, such as virtual computers and server components - are functioning perfectly.

And that all stopped this morning, when I renamed my old device. So, either (a) there is some condition that can cause problems with duplicate device names, although it obviously doesn't surface for everybody who has duplicate device names, or (b) it is going to start failing again for some reason.

Either way, I'm scratching my head...

Thanks again. I appreciate the brainstorming help!
-Chris

Hi Viktors,

Thanks for the info. It seems like you all really want to work on solving these problems, which is refreshing.

I did, in fact, use the "Contact Us" link, and got an email back from wcgrid@us.ibm.com. However, it wasn't clear how to continue that correspondence. Do I just reply to the email that was sent from wcgrid@us.ibm.com?

Regarding your comments (and those from mycrofth) about hardware: fair enough. I'll run hardware tests on this PC, since that hasn't been done on this workstation (it's new). I'm still optimistic that that won't be the problem, since there are a few graphical applications installed (think "Google Earth" with tilting graphics, etc., and you'll be in the right ballpark) that I think would use the floating point. But you're right, I don't really know how the floating-point is behaving, and until we check that out it's not worth your time to worry about other possible causes. So, I'll check it out Hot CPU Tester Pro 4 Lite is running right now) and get back to you with results.

By the way, here's a new interesting tidbit: the application is working today, but it wasn't last night. I am sitting, physically, at the computer today, but last night was using a console RDP session. My other devices run Rosetta fine, even when in a NON-console RDP session.

So my current status is: DEP is ignoring UD.exe, and the app seems to work well when I am at the computer (which is an improvement). However, it has problems when I'm remote. This made me think two words: screen saver, but my screen saver is the very bare-bones builtin "Blank" screensaver (not to be confused with "None").

Thanks again,
Chris

If it only crashes when you are running the machine remotely?? Do write privileges change for remote execution? Every few minutes each new conformation gets written into a temporary work file in the WorldCommunityGrid directory. Do you have a complex user structure on your new computer?

Just trying to think what remote execution might change.

mycrofth