Posted 2300 days ago by ..
Hello Hendrik,
just a friendly reminder...
... the favicon and the beta certificate?Btw, if I close the doors first, they can not run that far...
Regards
Alex
Posted 2300 days ago by ..
Just a few comments:
- The Ubuntu 64bit Live-CD runs great on my notebook (1 GB RAM, Athlon64 'Clawhammer' with Windows XP on the harddisk), see my post here at the Beta forum.
- Approx. one month ago I downloaded the VMware Workstation Beta 6.0 both for Windows and for Linux from their website for free. Maybe that's still possible, so you won't be restricted to the free VMware player and you could install any supported OS (wanna try some Solaris for example :-) ) The only thing required was a registration. However, please check the license, it might not free for commercial use.
- And concerning Damn Small Linux (which is based on Knoppix) I agree, it's very cool. I ran it from a live-CD on an old laptop with Pentium II 233, 96 MB RAM and no harddisk at all and I could crunch some Einstein, ABC and other workunits with small memory footprint. Remember that the 96 MB RAM has to hold the ramdisk as a substitute for the harddisk and still provided enough memory for the operating system (with GUI) and BOINC to run.
Btw concerning SMP and 64bit support the VMware WS Beta 6.0 manual says:
Multiprocessor systems supported
64‐bit systems supported: AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon 64, AMD Turion 64, AMD
Sempron, Intel EM64T; support for 64‐bit guest operating systems is available only
on the following specific versions of these processors:
AMD Athlon 64, revision D or later
AMD Opteron, revision E or later
AMD Turion 64, revision E or later
AMD Sempron, 64‐bit‐capable revision D or later
Intel Pentium 4 and Core 2 processors with EM64T and Intel Virtualization
Technology
My Athlon 64 is unfortunately a Clawhammer which does not meet above specifications (rev. D was codenamed Venice and came later). There is a small test programm available on the VMware site to test this or you could use CPU-Z or similar programs.
Regards
Alex
Posted 2315 days ago by ..
There must also be something special with you, that somehow
forces the client to parse the main homepage.
Don't forget that he is on an UMTS connection. UMTS providers are using special compression mechanisms that might alter the data exchanged between client and server. After all, that is why the option 'Skip image file verification?' (which apparently didn't help much here) was introduced to BOINC, for example. Another issue with UMTS are quite high ping times.
Regards
Alex
Posted 2316 days ago by ..
17/01/2007 21:08:46|ABC@home|(not requesting new work or reporting completed tasks)
This is not a server side problem, your client is not requesting new work.
This usually happens only if you are attached to more then one project and BOINC thinks that you 'do not need' any workunits because you have others still to crunch and/or you have already crunched 'too long' for ABC according to the resource share provided and therefore other projects come first.
The mysteries of the BOINC scheduler and work fetch policy are much easier to understand if you know the so-called long term and short term debts for each project.
BoincView (a third-party program) might be a big help here, because you can set it to show these debts on the 'projects' tab. To put it simple: a project with a higher (= more positive or less negative) debt will come first.
You should be able to force download of new ABC workunits if you set all other projects in the BOINC manager to 'stopped'. However, be sure not to miss deadlines for the stopped projects.
Regards
Alex
EDIT: Well, anyway, I keep this post, maybe it's useful to someone.
Posted 2316 days ago by ..
To motivate all your colleagues and friends, I fixed up the certificate.
Thank you.
Uhm... maybe over at the Beta site, too?
[runs away and hides ...]
Posted 2316 days ago by ..
Ahh, SETI is wrong for the first spell. Try a protein folding spell first. Later, when you have them under your power hit them with a maths spell.
lol. And what's SETI then? The final curse for eternal perdition?
Posted 2316 days ago by ..
how can i do a dns flush?:)
At the commandline "ipconfig /flushdns" might help.
However, I tend to agree with Hendrik that this is a timing issue, because I had similar issues when using UMTS connections for BOINC. Some more options:
- if you can, attach with a wired network connection instead. Getting workunits and uploading results might work once you are attached.
- change location to get better connection
- try to connect with GPRS instead (most UMTS cards should have this fallback), of course it's much slower, but worth a try
- try to install a local proxy between BOINC and UMTS connection, this improved the connection for me (however, this has been some time ago with other BOINC manager and server versions than now)
Wireless connection even depend on factors like weather and amount of users connecting to the same cell at the same time. I find that they are very unpredictable.
Maybe you should take Hendriks invitation instead.
Regards
Alex
Posted 2316 days ago by ..
My first 'long' workunit (ID = 1688) took 3 hrs. 50 sec. on a 2 GHz Athlon64.
Wow, we both got 65.99 credits granted for this one, not bad at all.
Alex
Posted 2316 days ago by ..
For the records: I just noticed when I log into my account at the ABC@home (main project) website, then I am automatically logged into my account at the ABC@home beta site, too.
This is not really a bug or even an issue, but I thought I mention it anyway.
I guess it's a side effect of the import of the Betatester's data into the main project and, of course, the fact that both sites are on the same server. So it might only apply to the former betatesters not to those who joined the main project later.
Regards
Alex
Posted 2316 days ago by ..
@german people: zu dem problem mit den holländischen servern fällt ma was ein.
Es sprechen zwar nur wenige Deutsche Holländisch, aber viele Niederländer verstehen Deutsch ... also Voorsicht!
^^ wenn einer fragt: ist natürlich Tabak.