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June 7, 2007 Large-Scale Test and Limited Registration
Next week, we will be conducting a larger-scale test (greater than 50,000 workunits) of the project in order to see how it holds up under greater stress. It is vital that we test as many architectures as we can, so if you would like to participate in testing, send me an email at [skruger2 at uiuc dot edu] some time before Monday.
Best watch this one as it's downloaded 100 WUs. Luckily they're only between 7 and 18 seconds but it seems to have made this computer really sluggish. Possbly because I've all ready got over a page full of 'Upload pendings!'
I'll do these 100 and have a little break! (Addicted to ABC at the moment!)
I can`t say I like the WUs I`m getting. Mine are taking between 12 and 15 seconds to complete. The 200 a day download limit won`t go very far at this rate.
Hope they give us some longer ones next week.
I just checked the site and they have
suspended registration for the time being. I just got in in time!
Last edited by UBT - Rick Horn on Fri Jun 08, 2007 5:10 pm, edited 2 times in total.
June 8, 2007 Project Down
The project will be down for a while until we can make the necessary upgrades to our server and application. We will not be creating any more WUs until the test next week.
June 8, 2007 No More Invitations for Now
Thanks to everybody for such a tremendous showing of support for testing Cosmology@Home. I've had more than enough requests to help with testing at this point, so for now, registration is closed again.
Thanks again for all of those who volunteered to help test our project!
Hi all who have signed up to this project, is it my machines or the Boinc Manager or the WU's that are being sent, because the Boinc Manager is very slow and takes for ever to respond. Its almost like it will only allow you to work with the manager every 10 seconds or so?
I have also noted that although the WU's are short there seems to be 3 or 4 files to upload per WU? My machine was crunching faster than it can upload the results?
Any suggestions
Timby wrote:Hi all who have signed up to this project, is it my machines or the Boinc Manager or the WUs that are being sent, because the Boinc Manager is very slow and takes for ever to respond. Its almost like it will only allow you to work with the manager every 10 seconds or so?
I have also noted that although the WUs are short there seems to be 3 or 4 files to upload per WU? My machine was crunching faster than it can upload the results?
Any suggestions
That's exactly what happened with mine this morning. I think you'll just have to leave it to it - all gets done eventually. Hopefully, as a BETA project, this will have been addressed before the next batch is released.
UBT - The Prof.... wrote:Having problems downloading WUs :(
Keep getting messages like :-
08/06/2007 21:19:42|Cosmology@Home|[error] MD5 check failed for params_060707_222521_0.ini
08/06/2007 21:19:42|Cosmology@Home|[error] expected c46a19ca03fb55a011b333d44573898a, got 5782467cbbc1a14a78870367c054de99
08/06/2007 21:19:42|Cosmology@Home|[error] Checksum or signature error for params_060707_222521_0.ini
Could be because it's only it test mode do you think :?:
What you should be getting now is...
08/06/2007 22:00:44|Cosmology@Home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user
08/06/2007 22:00:44|Cosmology@Home|Requesting 1423 seconds of new work
08/06/2007 22:00:49|Cosmology@Home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 509]
08/06/2007 22:00:49|Cosmology@Home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
08/06/2007 22:00:49|Cosmology@Home|Reason: requested by project
08/06/2007 22:00:49|Cosmology@Home|Deferring communication for 1 hr 34 min 5 sec
08/06/2007 22:00:49|Cosmology@Home|Reason: no work from project
June 11, 2007 New Test WUs Available
New test WUs are available, although these are considerably different than the last set of test WUs. Whereas previous WUs ran for about 15-30 seconds, these should run for about an hour. We are making a relatively small batch of WUs to see how well these work.
The admin is supposed to be sorting out the credit level this week. Hope he cranks it up a bit, it`s not exactly generous is it?
Average time per WU is around 20 minutes. Still no sign of the XML stats export which was supposed to have been sorted out last week. I left him a message today about it but I suppose he`ll be too busy celebrating the 4th of July.
At least we`ve got some WUs to crunch. Keep up the good work guys.
Managing to get a few wu's at the moment. As stated, time scale on wu means zilch, just runs as it feels like doing and ends when good and ready :!:
Ah well, beggers can't be choosers I suppose :roll:
I've suspended the 2 I had going - don't want to finish them until the project is back. As the server is down we can't get any but it'll be no problem as once it's been kicked we'll be able to download and carry on - hopefully!
Rockinfroggi wrote:Just tried to get some work and I'm getting communication deferred for 1 day?
No doubt I've missed a post somewhere while I've been in Costa del UCH.
Gary.
I get that sometimes. Update sometimes does it.
What I do is make sure that I haven't got any left (if you haven't managed to get any yet you'll be OK on that!) then 'reset project' . If that doesn't work, a manager shutdown/restart normally sorts it. This is the only project I have to keep an eye on for this problem. I've got ABC set at 5% just in case!
Rockinfroggi wrote:Just tried to get some work and I'm getting communication deferred for 1 day?
No doubt I've missed a post somewhere while I've been in Costa del UCH.
Gary.
I get that sometimes. Update sometimes does it.
What I do is make sure that I haven't got any left (if you haven't managed to get any yet you'll be OK on that!) then 'reset project' . If that doesn't work, a manager shutdown/restart normally sorts it. This is the only project I have to keep an eye on for this problem. I've got ABC set at 5% just in case!
Thanks Mike, just reset and it's brought it down to 9 minutes, so I'll see what happens then.
August 14, 2007 New URL for the Project
The new URL for Cosmology@Home is www.cosmologyathome.org. The old URL will still work to ensure there aren't any problems.
First returned result on my rig and came up against what will be my next cpu. http://www.cosmologyathome.org/workunit.php?wuid=380224
On that work unit i kicked its butt.
Shame it has twice the amount of cores.
Still won't be long and i will be quad too.
8/21/07 @ 5:11 PM CST - Post Rating and Work Generation
I've disabled post ratings since certain users are childishly down-rating posts made by people they don't like. Besides, does anybody really consider post ratings anyway?
Also, no more new work will be generated until the pending work count goes down. Users may find that work is hard to come by, but this will be a temporary roadblock.
8/21/07 @ 5:11 PM CST - Post Rating and Work Generation
I've disabled post ratings since certain users are childishly down-rating posts made by people they don't like. Besides, does anybody really consider post ratings anyway?
Also, no more new work will be generated until the pending work count goes down. Users may find that work is hard to come by, but this will be a temporary roadblock.
The suspension of work seems crazy to me with a fixed credit scheme.
Why not have a quorum of 1, then the backlog will go instantly?
I've just been looking at my pending WUs for Cosmology and I've got some that I received on 12th Aug which I returned within 24hrs that still haven't been sent to a second person yet. I think they should be looking at the reasons behind the backlog and doing something about it rather than just withholding WUs.
Cosmology on the other hand is engaged in a real battle with UBT: The difference was about 4500 last time I checked which is less than half a days crunching at current rates. :shock: Which is why I'm rating it as a more urgent priority.
Anyway with the founders' crunch power climbing it'll be easier to juggle our priorities.
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Willie the Megacruncher
Post dated the 14th August
Thought you all might find it of interest
If Megacruncher sets up his stall, we don`t have much of a chance with his crunching power unless Temujin comes to our rescue again. We`re still in front of them, but this could change within hours.
Thanks for that ,even so its more than half a days crunching and would need someone with a fair amount of computers to crunch a 4500 rac and to leval us,then would need an higher rac to overtake us.
There is an undefined problem with the Cosmo server. All new completed WUs are going straight to "pending", and it seems that there are no more WUs downloading at the moment
Short story: I'm cancelling every WU and granting every "in progress", "error", or "successful" result credit.
Long story: the old URL is associated with every WU that was released in the 2.04 era, so I have to clear out *all* of them in order for the new results. People are going to get a gigantic amount of credit when this is all done, and I will be making a bunch of new WUs for crunching and things should *finally* be back to normal.
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Scott Kruger
Project Administrator, Cosmology@Home
So, if you have any Cosmology WUs and they aren't uploading, just detach and use the new URL to re-attach:
Gawd i love this project.
WU's all over the place taking anything from 1 hr 30 to 9 hours all for 80/100 credits.
My little AMD xp2000 loves them . WU's settling at 3 hrs....600 credits a day
Cosmology WUs are good value for your money these days.
They`re all coming at 50 credits each and complete in less than an hour, (average 52 mins. with a 2.4 GHz CPU).
And there`s plenty of them at the moment. Fill your boots!
I think Scott, (Cosmology admin) is winding us all up.
This project, until recently, has had one of the best credit levels available.
Now, I think it is probably worse than WCG.
I hate to say this, but if you are looking for maximum credit, detach from Cosmology until such time that their admins take a serious look at the real world!
You should read the message boards.
The "reason" for the high credits before were because sooo many failed, and the high credits were to make up for it.
Now that it work as it should (err what?) the credits are at a proper level, yeah 70 credits for 9 hours work.
Some peep over there is ranting about 150,000 - 180,000 of lost credits (due to pending credit that they won't get due to the application changing)
Good way to Kill your project Scott....
You may have got funding from NASA, but if no-one does the work, how long is said funding going to last
Something funny seems to be going on here. Last night I suddenly got given an extra 5000 points :D . Couldn't see anything about this on their message boards when I looked tho.
April 28, 2009
A total of 5000 credits have been added to profiles of all active Csomo@home users. This is meant for expired/failed WUs due to project down-time and to compensate for the earlier low credit per WU payment for resource intensive CAMB 2.16 WUs. Also, the time bound for these new WUs has been incresaed from 10 days to 15 days which should be enough to complete crunching them even on machines ~5 years old
April 28, 2009
A total of 5000 credits have been added to profiles of all active Csomo@home users. This is meant for expired/failed WUs due to project down-time and to compensate for the earlier low credit per WU payment for resource intensive CAMB 2.16 WUs. Also, the time bound for these new WUs has been incresaed from 10 days to 15 days which should be enough to complete crunching them even on machines ~5 years old
It seems that everyone has been given 5000 credits, even zero rated crunchers. :roll:
Hope they saved some of that funding for a laptop :lol:
Come on :shock: