All my jobs that start the ClimatePrediction are encased in a few seconds with the message "computation error ". This occurred after changing to a computer with AMD PhenomII Windows 7 Ultimate edition. Only problem with this occurs ClimatePrediction, with four other projects running on this same machine.
Excuse me for English, but this text is the result of translating Brazilian Portuguese into English by the translator of google.

It looks like a problem with access to the Boinc data folder, C:\ProgramData\BOINC.

Check the permissions on this folder and its sub-folders, Projects and Slots. The user "boinc_projects" should have "Full Control" permission.

Also, some virus checking software can cause this trouble. Check the virus checker settings are so that it allows all access to the C:\ProgramData\BOINC folder.

( From your task http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/result.php?resultid=12783932:

<core_client_version>6.10.60</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
 - exit code -2 (0xfffffffe)
</message>
<stderr_txt>
Could not launch model process. Last Error=87
Regional yearly means requires 12 input files got 0
Called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>

)

I hope this helps.

Sorry for the delay in responding, but only today I returned my attention to BOINC and tried again to release it to receive new tasks. However, it is not even able to receive tasks to perform. Are showing the following messages:

10/10/2011 09:34:42 | climateprediction.net | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
10/10/2011 09:34:42 | climateprediction.net | Requesting new tasks for CPU
10/10/2011 09:34:49 | climateprediction.net | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
10/10/2011 09:34:49 | climateprediction.net | Project has no tasks available

The folder C: \ ProgramData \ BOINC was no release of BOINC for some customers, as had been asked by the user Greg (thanks for the attention). Have full access to all liberated. I look forward guidance for this new situation presents itself.

The answer is in the messages that you posted: Project has no tasks available

You can check the Server Status page in the blue menu to the left for this.

This project doesn't always have work.
There was some about a week ago, but it's all gone.

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Hi... I have been running a 1100 hour climate prediction model since August 30 as well as a few other boinc projects. It has been running great until the other day, my son accidentally hit the power switch on my computer and the next morning the project is now listed as "computation error"... I was so disappointed. The task had less than 100 hours remaining. I was so looking forward to the completion. The workunit is: http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/workunit.php?wuid=7629634

Is there any way to resume computation on it? It seems that 3.5 million seconds of my cpu time were wasted.

Also I have been unable to login to this website since Oct 20. The task would have completed by now.
mdc_on_ca

If you have a backup it should be possible to restore the BOINC directory. See [http://www.climateprediction.net/board/viewtopic.php?t=5895] for how to back up and restore. However the data is useful even if the model does not complete so your computer's time has not been wasted.

Dave[

I?m afraid that the short answer is no. Unless you have a recent backup made before the model crashed there is not way to resurrect it.

The project has been offline since Oct. 18 due to an attack on the servers. It now is back up and running.

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I'm writing on behalf of Bunts (http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/hosts_user.php?userid=663630) an Old Weather team member. He had 1 wu complete successfully, but 2 failed with "Error while computing". Would someone please take a look and see if they can tell what the problem is?

I've run CPDN for about 4 years, with very few problems, but until now I never really looked at the details. Now that I am co-founder of a team I have been trying to learn more (reading my way through the forums), but I still have a LONG way to go.

Thanks

Not obvious to me, but looking at the work unit from one of the crashed tasks, both the other tasks in the work unit also failed to complete. May not be too relevant as they were both on Darwin OS machines as opposed to Windows. If you click on the + next to Stderr you will get a list of the error messages. It doesn't seem to be any of the ones indicating that the model has produced a climate model outside of the allowed parameters e.g. a world with a negative atmospheric pressure.

Dave

As far as I know, Bunts is running Windows XP.

The pertinent messages from stderr on both failed tasks appear to be:

forrtl: The requested operation cannot be performed on a file with a user-mapped section open.

forrtl: severe (38): error during write, unit 6, file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC\projects\climateprediction.net\hadam3p_eu_670t_2003_1_007471114\dataout\xaakg.out

Searching on the net for that error, a lot of the responses in diagnosing that error have to do with another program accessing the file while the main program (cpdn in this case) is trying to write to it. They suggest a possible antivirus conflict. You could suggest to your friend that he/she exclude the BOINC directories and subdirectories from virus scanning and see if that clears up the problem.

... odd that it should be the same file each time.

Thanks a lot.
Would it also work if he shut down BOINC before scanning that directory?

If BOINC shut down first it should work, it is I understand the conflict with BOINC trying to write to the file while the virus scanner is accessing it that causes the problem.

Dave

OK - Thanks Dave

Well now my computer is running 1900 to 1940, over 1100 hours to go high priority. I hope this one does not crash.

The To Completion time of 1100 hours is to high. On my 1.5 GHz machine the CM3ns only take about 870 hours. Running on your 3.2 GHz machine these long WUs should much less.

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I had 2 projects over 1000 hours. I made sure that everyday they had at least 50% of my CPU time. They were running great.

The First one is 1900_1940 hadcm3n_y8gw
It ran for about 500 hours and for about a week now it is stuck at 49.882% 07/04/1921 00:00 on the grapic, 484:27:26 hours of computing.
Usually, I can see the graphic updating every few minutes.
The Task is showing 589:02:xx and is still counting up.

Since the graphic and the task% are stuck has this project become corrupted?

I has another 1000 hour project running and also about a week ago around 50%. My computer ran a windows update, I suspended boinc tasks, shut boinc down and rebooted. When it came back up, the task showed corruption. WHen it updated, there was 2 more smaller hsdam3p tasks.

I am worried that I am wasting my cpu time running the stuck y8gw.

What should I do? Is there a way to check the dates inside the data files?

Thanks,
Mike

Controller:: CPDN process is not running, exiting, bRetVal = 1, checkPID=0, selfPID=1108, iMonCtr=1
Model crash detected, will try to restart...
Suspended CPDN Monitor - Suspend request from BOINC...
forrtl: Access is denied.

Probably done-in by a virus scan locking a file the CPDN program wants. (It is a super-computer program and doesn't expect competition for its resources and crashes if a conflict.) Our time-honored advice: best to set anti-virus program to skip boinc Data folder.

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Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest.

And, yes, abort that stuck model.

These models are rather sensitive to being interrupted around the time that they're collecting the created data to make a zip file to return to the project. This occurs every 25% of the way, although BOINC doesn't always show it as exactly this number.

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