Chaps

Since the hooha about uploading files to the server I have had nothing to work on for the past 2-3 days.

climateprediction.net Message from server: Project has no tasks available

1) Is this happening to everyone else?
2) Anyone know when more models will be available for download?

Cheers

I too have had no work for a while ...

Fri 15 Jun 2012 11:25:25 BST climateprediction.net Message from server: Project has no tasks available


But the servers are all showing 'no problem' ...

Help?

A.

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As the server status page shows, there are no tasks available. Well, actually there have been some today but they have been snapped up by whichever machines put in the request in the short window before they are all gone again. I am afraid those of us who don't have the luck to be sending the request at the right time will have to wait till a fresh batch of tasks is released.

Lately -- the last few months anyhow -- when the project releases new work (aside from retries) it's been in big batches of several tens of thousand at a time. When that may happen again -- who knows -- but it probably will happen fairly soon.
Meantime I accept work from other projects that have real short turnaround.
CPDN is the one project I focus my computing resources on whenever work is available.

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This project doesn't always have work.

When one of the four groups of researchers decide what they want to do next, they contact the project people, and give them the information that's needed to create a new batch of work units.

However, the Southern Africa group, based in South Africa, haven't been running models for a while, so they may have finished. Or not. :)

So, everyone just has to wait until more work is available. And then there'll be 35,000 plus computers after it.

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Backups: Here

Andrew

Your computer has crashed every work unit sent to it.
Perhaps you should use this lull to find out why.

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Backups: Here

Thanks for the feedback guys :)

Interesting, there seem to be a fair number of tasks being released, I have just got one. - I had expected to be down to using one core but now one core has a pnw while the other is slowly making it's way through a full ocean model.

In fact, 4 tasks downloaded including an saf, though this is probably a re-issue.
The number of tasks in progress seems to be going up or at least not changing very much which implies other tasks are going out and anyone who is patient will grab one/some of these tasks if they are patient.

I got a new SAF WU for one of my machines the same way. The problem appears to be that the demand is greater than the supply. When a small number of WU�s are dumped into the hopper (mainly reissues) the thousands of machines calling for new work snap them up immediately.

And I guess the ration will get worse till a new batch is issued.

You can tell if a model is an original or a reissue by the name.
On an original, the last number is a zero.

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Backups: Here

Still all out, had to reconfigure my systems to other projects yet. :-(

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Linux Users Everywhere @ BOINC

Still all out, had to reconfigure my systems to other projects yet. :-(

Hi, Desti,
Me, too. However, we must keep in mind that the different science teams require time to evaluate results (would we have it any other way?) before releasing the next set. These chopped-up tasks are a far different management problem than when we ran entire models; of course, as you know, they required months at 24/7 and some peoples' whining/whinging resulted in the operation we have today -- including its large up- and down-loads.

We must also remember that our two support staff were thrown into the deep end of a very complex years-old project and have not yet developed miraculous instantaneous turnaround skills.

And, should we mention all the firefighting required by the wondrous server system? That, too, will require time and money to rectify. Meanwhile, brute force ...

I'm reminded me of an old saw, from decades ago: The difficult we do right away; the impossible takes a bit longer.

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"We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo
Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest.

For the miracles we have to equip ourselves (so in Italy goes the saying).
Tullio

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At least I grabbed some of the spare WU's to feed my processors.

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Linux Users Everywhere @ BOINC

Looks like there is a batch of pnw tasks released - they keep appearing in small numbers on the server status page and number of tasks in progress has gone up by about 3K

Dave

Looks like a few thousand PNW - just been growing and growing - probably re-issues. But anyhow plenty work for now

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The 6 that I'm working on are new.

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Backups: Here

I'm getting a few hadam3p_pnw new tasks that fail to download with the message "file not found".

Anyone else with this problem?

John