A WU has just finished and a new CP WU has started, but I still have about 330 Mb of data from the old WU. Can I remove it without causing any problem?

you can remove it, the intention was that we had hoped people have lots of hard drive space in case we get an interesting result and you can upload some more files. Sort of like if you were running SETI, and it took a month to run one workunit, but your computer found the alien it would be nice to get more info back rather than put it over to a supercomputer and wait! ;-)

Do you mean that maybe I have an alien in my computer? Oh, no! I have to be carefull with viruses, worms and now aliens! I'm thinking in running BOINC in my old Olivetti typewritter, I'm sure it'll be safer. Thanks for the answer.

G

> you can remove it, the intention was that we had hoped people have lots of
> hard drive space in case we get an interesting result and you can upload some
> more files. Sort of like if you were running SETI, and it took a month to run
> one workunit, but your computer found the alien it would be nice to get more
> info back rather than put it over to a supercomputer and wait! ;-)
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> you can remove it, the intention was that we had hoped people have lots of
> hard drive space in case we get an interesting result and you can upload some
> more files. Sort of like if you were running SETI, and it took a month to run
> one workunit, but your computer found the alien it would be nice to get more
> info back rather than put it over to a supercomputer and wait! ;-)

I do have lots of disk space......so keeping the result files for a time would not be a problem.

How long would you like it kept?

6 months?

A year?

More? Less?

:-)

Steve

> you can remove it, the intention was that we had hoped people have lots of
> hard drive space in case we get an interesting result and you can upload some
> more files. Sort of like if you were running SETI, and it took a month to run
> one workunit, but your computer found the alien it would be nice to get more
> info back rather than put it over to a supercomputer and wait! ;-)


http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=26793

Doesn't look like a successful upload somehow ...

Different problem than http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=1131 but there seems to be something quite unstable with those final uploads

@groucho : If you don't like your alien, send it to me plz., I am mighty curious about it :-)

> @groucho : If you don't like your alien, send it to me plz., I am mighty
> curious about it :-)

Well... I'm getting used to it. The only problem is that I don't know how to feed him, but I'll figure it out. Maybe I could send it to you for the weekend.

if the outcome is "Success/Done" than that's a good sign, the one that looks finished but says "In Progress" is a worry. But I coded it so that by the time the final trickle is sent the files should have been uploaded, otherwise there would be the 5 .zip files in the main CPDN/BOINC directory hanging around. If BOINC got rid of them then I'm pretty confident they were uploaded and it's just a "state" problem from BOINC.