When your PC reboots faster than your router.

Aren't the Weather At Home 2 (wah2) v8.24 the ones that crash on restart? Or has this been solved?

I don't think it has been 100% solved but the overwhelming majority now survive.

I can answer that! I've just had a brief (1 or 2 seconds) power outage, and everything shut down. On power up (and after waiting ages for the router to restart), I can see that the four tasks I got from this batch (v8.24 app, batch 1019 data) have picked up and restarted running from the point they'd reached.

wah v8.24 has the bug in the code that causes the failed restarts; it just happens alot less on the smaller domains, which NZ25 is. Any version after 8.24 has the fixed code.

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Just wondering whether to abort the one that I've got. It's survived 2 restarts so far, so if there is still a problem, its luck must run out soon.

From my experience, either the WUs quickly fail on restart, or it's just fine. For my previous 8.24 batches, every WU survived from an unexpected restart completed successfully. So I see no reason to abort them when they are happily crunching.

I would let it run if only because, it has failed on the two previous attempts, once with an inability to access a storage block and the other timed out so it may have been the computer running it crashed. - It made it to 14 trickle up messages on that occasion. Though it being from February, it may be too late to be of value. Glenn would have a much better idea of that than I would though.

Just got a resent task from batch 1006 eas25 win-8.29. It is from February, still useful to run? (was thinking of shutting the box down...)

If the batch was of no use, the resends would have been turned off. But it's your machine and if you want it off, feel free to Abort.

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Some tasks were sent out as batch 995. This was a mistake. The correct batch is 1019. If you have a task from 995 it can be aborted. Don't waste time running it as the results are not needed. It's an previously run batch.

I've just read your message here. And, of course, in 4h the 995-Workunit recieved 24th june on my machine will finish. :-/

Is there no other way in boinc server to declare tasks as not needed, so they will be instantly aborted on the clients?

Can we please keep this thread to just about New Work for 2024? Discussions on other topics are best made in new threads to make it easier to find the right information.

Thanks.

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If it's just for announcements then it should be closed to comments.
Eager to get new Linux work.

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If it's just for announcements then it should be closed to comments.
Eager to get new Linux work.

That would entail either Making Glenn a moderator or his not being able to post to this thread..

I have done some cleaning up of the thread and will leave this and the message quoted for a few days before moving these to the off topic thread in cafe cpdn.

If it's just for announcements then it should be closed to comments.
Eager to get new Linux work.

It's not just for announcements as sometimes we need to post updates on batches in progress. But it's clearly not the right thread for discussions on installing versions of boinc etc. (and I'm not interested in moderating).

There won't be any Linux work for some time AFAIK. The focus is on Weather@Home (windows) at the moment, expecting some more EAS25 batches soon. We'll get back to Linux once they're done.

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expecting some more EAS25 batches soon

That answers the question I was about to ask - Thanks :-)

Weather@Home East Asia 25km : new batches

New batches to be released in next couple of days. Windows only. These are similar batches to previous EAS25 but using updated input data files and some code improvements. Note these will use a new version 8.32.

The workunit names will be prefixed with: CLIM, ALL, NAT, GHG, AER, P15, P20 & P30. For interest, these mean:

CLIM - Climatological baseline batch. Model runs span years 1985 to 2010.
ALL - 'All' forcings. Model runs span 2009 to 2022. 'All' here means human induced changes to greenhouse gases (GHG) and aerosols (AER) are included i.e. 'real world' scenario.
NAT - 'Nature' run. As 'ALL' but with the human induced changes to greenhouse gases & aerosol removed.
GHG - As 'NAT' but add in changes just from greenhouse gas changes.
AER - As 'NAT' but add in changes just from aerosol changes.
The NAT, GHG & AER batches are known as 'attribution' runs, to look at relative impact of these changes over the East Asia region.

There will also be 3 future scenario batches covering years: 2089-2101. These will assume different levels of global warming:
P15 - 1.5 degree warming.
P20 - 2.0 degree warming.
P30 - 3.0 degree warming.

The number of workunits per batch is not equal but there are thousands per batch. So plenty of workunits :)

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First new W@H EAS25 batch going out today, 5000 workunits. A total of 42,800 Windows workunits will go out this week.

The workunit names will be prefixed with: CLIM, ALL, NAT, GHG, AER, P15, P20 & P30. For interest, these mean:

Hmm, just got wah2_eas25_a1m1_199512_24_1020_012303216, and no, I can't see any of the mentioned prefixes...

My mistake. The CPDN internal files have those prefixes. Apologies.

Batch 1020 is the CLIM batch.

The others will come out as:

1021 : ALL : 6048 workunits
1022 : NAT : 5040 "
1023 : GHG : 5040
1024 : AER : 5040
1025 : P15 : 5544
1026 : P20 : 5544
1027 : P30 : 5544

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All Weather@Home batches mentioned in the previous post have now been submitted.

Any issues/problems please do report them as they can be useful when debugging the code remotely. Please post to a new thread & not this one, it makes searching alot easier. Thanks and enjoy!

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Please post to a new thread & not this one, it makes searching alot easier. Thanks and enjoy!

Preferably this one created for these batches.

I'd rather it was a thread specific to the problem/issue, not all the recent batches. That's how forums normally work. Sorry Dave.

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With the summer break, there will be no more batches released for a while. The current weather@home batches are working well with the new app; we're seeing a much reduced error rate.

The next project to go out will be using the HadAM4 N216 application, linux only. Expect these around the end of August.

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