1.) This science app is currently very IO intensive. Your hard disk drive will get used quite frequently.
2.) We recently switched to a new server, so if you find something broken please let us know about it.
3.) The work here is generated dynamically. Shortly after the account creation is opened, I would expect the available work to dry up. Don\'t worry about it too much. Just try again a little while later as more work gets generated. After enough time has passed and all the new hosts are happily crunching, the available work will even out and the \"no work\" messages will become less frequent and eventually disappear altogether.
4.) You\'ll find that we\'re actually quite a friendly bunch on this project, but we don\'t usually say all that much unless there\'s a problem being discussed. If you need help with something, the \"being nice\" approach will probably work better for you.
5.) Try and have a little fun while you\'re participating and enjoy yourself!
6.) Welcome to MCDN. :)
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Welcome all new users from the malariacontrol.net team!
We are now at a stage where we have more work ready than can be processed by the (very active) user base as of beginning of 2007. In order to complete these simulation runs, we hope that we can increase the computation rate by a factor two or three over the next couple of weeks. At that point we will close account creation again.
Please read Chris\' post above. A few more words on the application status: The science part of the current application is now well tested, but there remain a few issues with BOINC specific sections of the code(e.g. the checkpointing/IO issue mentioned above). We are working on that and hope to have a solution soon.
We are very happy to have you here and hope you enjoy crunching mcdn workunits and the friendly atmosphere!
All the best
Nick
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Nicolas Maire
Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
http://www.swisstph.ch
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I have to say, that I\'ve been waiting to join this project. Now waiting is over. :)
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I\'m happy to be on board too! I\'ve put my 4 computers to crunching, and they all seem to run fine :-)
Thanks for the welcome and a happy new year!
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I have to say, that I\'ve been waiting to join this project. Now waiting is over. :)
Welcome aboard !
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Just joined, I hope I can make a useful contribution here :)
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I just joined an hour or so ago. Processed two homework assignments already. Machine has two 3.06GHz hyperthreaded Xeon processors and 8 GBytes RAM, so they run pretty fast. malariacontrol is assigned 20% of the BOINC processing available. (The other biggie I have is climateprediction that gets 50%.)
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Just joined, I hope I can make a useful contribution here :)
Welcome aboard Ady! Always good to see a familiar personality here and helps me get my finger out. Best wishes
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Just joined aswell, after waiting for months. Atm it\'s just my little 1.3 GHz Celeron Laptop that\'s attached, but I\'m planning on attaching my 3500+ workstation aswell- not full time, though, since I also do Einstein@home (on both PCs) and CPDN on the workstation. Anyway, I\'ll see what I can do, and maybe persuade a few more people to donate crunching time since you are taking volunteers again. Happy to be aboard finally :-)
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Just joined, I hope I can make a useful contribution here :)
Welcome aboard Ady! Always good to see a familiar personality here and helps me get my finger out. Best wishes
Cheers Orakk - better get moving, I\'m comin\' to get ya!!!! *hehe*
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:-) i am here folks :-) it did take a while.LoL.
Regards
Masud.
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Just joined and attached my Pentium D running Vista.
;-)
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Welcome all new users!
Live long and BOINC.
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Krunchin-Keith [USA]Volunteer moderator
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Posts: 1733
Credit: 2,468,020
RAC: 883
I wish to welcome any new participants to the project.
I would like to refresh some of the original points by Chris and add a few suggestions and notes.
- Try and have a little fun while you\'re participating and enjoy yourself!
- This project is in beta test stage. Expect a few errors from time to time. This is the goal of beta testing to smooth out any problems that might be accidentally introduced by the developers. They do their best to release bug free applications, but with so many different computer configurations it can not be guaranteed to always be perfect, as much as we all would like it to be.
- Due to the nature of beta testing, there is the possibility for loss of credit or interruption of work. While it is a goal during beta testing to keep this to a minimum it does happen from time to time. Try to be understanding in this. If you cannot accept this then you should consider waiting until the project has finished this phase and join us then.
- Kindly report any errors, problems or any questions in the message boards. Try to check the message board first to see if a thread has already been started covering your topic. Try to include some useful information so that others reading might understand the problem better and can better give assistance to the problem.
- Please see the additional rules listed beside a new post. Lets keep things friendly and pleasant here as it has mostly been for the last year or more.
- Try and have a little fun while you\'re participating and enjoy yourself!
Krunchin-Keith
Kruncher and Sometimes Forum Moderator.
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I have only had to delete 1 message out of the 2000+ messages posted here so far. I am very pleased and proud of the good conduct by most all the participants here. You have my thanks for making me useless.
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Are there Optimized Versions of Boinc allowed here like in Seti? I am new here but a long time Seti person.
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I here for my FRIEND...Dennis Peters.
WE miss ya DB!
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Hi, I\'m Dr. Rafael L. Ignacio, PhD; I have a question! How come I just did 6 projects with MC, two of us finish the work on time and the 3rd computer did not responded in time. Now it seems that work have been lost. the report comes out as no credit, as follow
Workunit details
application malariacontrol.net
created 8 Feb 2008 13:26:07 UTC
name wu_102_312_95798_0_1202477167
minimum quorum 3
initial replication 3
max # of error/total/success tasks 5, 20, 10
errors Couldn\'t send result
Task ID
click for details Computer Sent Time reported
or deadline
explain Server state
explain Outcome
explain Client state
explain CPU time (sec) claimed credit granted credit
8 Feb 2008 13:45:46 UTC 9 Feb 2008 6:32:11 UTC Over Success Done 2,814.69 6.08 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:36:39 UTC 12 Feb 2008 0:56:39 UTC Over No reply New 0.00 --- ---
8 Feb 2008 13:33:08 UTC 10 Feb 2008 5:41:37 UTC Over Success Done 2,694.72 10.61 0.00
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Workunit details
application malariacontrol.net
created 8 Feb 2008 13:24:13 UTC
name wu_94_517_95797_0_1202477053
minimum quorum 3
initial replication 3
max # of error/total/success tasks 5, 20, 10
errors Couldn\'t send result
Task ID
click for details Computer Sent Time reported
or deadline
explain Server state
explain Outcome
explain Client state
explain CPU time (sec) claimed credit granted credit
8 Feb 2008 13:36:39 UTC 12 Feb 2008 0:56:39 UTC Over No reply New 0.00 --- ---
8 Feb 2008 13:30:30 UTC 8 Feb 2008 21:05:11 UTC Over Success Done 5,659.34 17.91 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:33:08 UTC 10 Feb 2008 4:54:14 UTC Over Success Done 6,544.69 25.77 0.00
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Workunit details
application malariacontrol.net
created 8 Feb 2008 13:24:13 UTC
name wu_94_416_95797_0_1202477053
minimum quorum 3
initial replication 3
max # of error/total/success tasks 5, 20, 10
errors Couldn\'t send result
Task ID
click for details Computer Sent Time reported
or deadline
explain Server state
explain Outcome
explain Client state
explain CPU time (sec) claimed credit granted credit
8 Feb 2008 13:30:44 UTC 8 Feb 2008 22:21:12 UTC Over Success Done 6,015.38 24.25 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:32:43 UTC 9 Feb 2008 13:49:12 UTC Over Success Done 7,071.39 17.44 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:39:30 UTC 12 Feb 2008 0:59:30 UTC Over No reply New 0.00 --- ---
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Workunit details
application malariacontrol.net
created 8 Feb 2008 13:24:13 UTC
name wu_94_416_95797_0_1202477053
minimum quorum 3
initial replication 3
max # of error/total/success tasks 5, 20, 10
errors Couldn\'t send result
Task ID
click for details Computer Sent Time reported
or deadline
explain Server state
explain Outcome
explain Client state
explain CPU time (sec) claimed credit granted credit
8 Feb 2008 13:30:44 UTC 8 Feb 2008 22:21:12 UTC Over Success Done 6,015.38 24.25 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:32:43 UTC 9 Feb 2008 13:49:12 UTC Over Success Done 7,071.39 17.44 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:39:30 UTC 12 Feb 2008 0:59:30 UTC Over No reply New 0.00
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Workunit details
application malariacontrol.net
created 8 Feb 2008 13:19:41 UTC
name wu_103_515_95796_0_1202476781
minimum quorum 3
initial replication 3
max # of error/total/success tasks 5, 20, 10
errors Couldn\'t send result
Task ID
click for details Computer Sent Time reported
or deadline
explain Server state
explain Outcome
explain Client state
explain CPU time (sec) claimed credit granted credit
8 Feb 2008 13:33:08 UTC 9 Feb 2008 12:34:32 UTC Over Success Done 13,944.92 47.62 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:28:13 UTC 8 Feb 2008 20:35:02 UTC Over Success Done 7,492.95 19.33 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:26:31 UTC 12 Feb 2008 0:46:31 UTC Over No reply New 0.00 --- ---
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Workunit details
application malariacontrol.net
created 8 Feb 2008 13:07:41 UTC
name wu_103_517_95793_0_1202476061
minimum quorum 3
initial replication 3
max # of error/total/success tasks 5, 20, 10
errors Couldn\'t send result
Task ID
click for details Computer Sent Time reported
or deadline
explain Server state
explain Outcome
explain Client state
explain CPU time (sec) claimed credit granted credit
8 Feb 2008 13:33:08 UTC 10 Feb 2008 5:13:05 UTC Over Success Done 7,774.11 30.61 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:18:04 UTC 9 Feb 2008 12:18:02 UTC Over Success Done 8,240.77 22.16 0.00
8 Feb 2008 13:26:31 UTC 12 Feb 2008 0:46:31 UTC Over No reply New 0.00
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What will happen now? We spend money, time and efford to mantain our PC, so that they can perform well for you, and all this work is just wipe out. Not even a single point for our effors.
Is there any way to have this problem fix. The system now says \"Couldn\'t send result\". What you want us to expect. I understand that at times things go the wrong way, but there should be some attemp to recognize the effors put by others.
Thanks
Dr. Rafael L. Ignacio, PhD
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Hi, I\'m Dr. Rafael L. Ignacio, PhD; I have a question! How come I just did 6 projects with MC, two of us finish the work on time and the 3rd computer did not responded in time. Now it seems that work have been lost. the report comes out as no credit, as follow
Is there any way to have this problem fix. The system now says \"Couldn\'t send result\". What you want us to expect. I understand that at times things go the wrong way, but there should be some attemp to recognize the effors put by others. Thanks
Dr. Rafael L. Ignacio, PhD
See here: https://malariacontrol.net/forum_thread.php?id=615 They ARE working on it.
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Hello all
Although I joined a few months ago, and crunched very slowly. I have now turned my 2 main rigs to MC. I hope they help with the required increase in crunching power.
As TGG says ... Live long and BOINC
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Go away, I was asleep
Said a Russell, 3 Shih-Tzus & a Bischeon Frize
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G'day all.
Just joined up with my new little quad, happy to help out.
pete
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G'day all.
Just joined up with my new little quad, happy to help out.
pete
G'day buddy!
Welcome aboard. It's not the best credit project around, but it's definitely more than a good cause!
Live long and BOINC!
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Paul
(S@H1 8888)
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I have a collection of 4 machines crunching. I have tried to enlist others at my Community; Bryn Gweled Homesteads, a cooperative housing development in Southampton, PA, USA. I hope the project helps someone have a better life!
Bob Eckel, Grouchy Old Geezer
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I do not know if I count as a new user or not. I have received no work units in quite a while (I am not surprised by this). However, I notice the following files lying around that I do not suppose should be there. Should I remove any of them?
boinc[~/BOINC/projects/malariacontrol.net]$ ls -l
total 4148
-rwxr-xr-x 1 boinc boinc 4088828 Mar 28 2008 malariacontrol_5.57_i686-pc-linux-gnu
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 26423 Mar 12 2008 wu_134_504_105886_0_1205311805
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 25696 Mar 12 2008 wu_138_411_105965_0_1205340544
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 34749 Mar 12 2008 wu_138_517_105879_0_1205309617
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 28474 Mar 12 2008 wu_138_522_106006_0_1205354262
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 28026 Mar 12 2008 wu_64_518_105935_0_1205328365
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I do not know if I count as a new user or not. I have received no work units in quite a while (I am not surprised by this). However, I notice the following files lying around that I do not suppose should be there. Should I remove any of them?
boinc[~/BOINC/projects/malariacontrol.net]$ ls -l
total 4148
-rwxr-xr-x 1 boinc boinc 4088828 Mar 28 2008 malariacontrol_5.57_i686-pc-linux-gnu
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 26423 Mar 12 2008 wu_134_504_105886_0_1205311805
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 25696 Mar 12 2008 wu_138_411_105965_0_1205340544
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 34749 Mar 12 2008 wu_138_517_105879_0_1205309617
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 28474 Mar 12 2008 wu_138_522_106006_0_1205354262
-rw-r--r-- 1 boinc boinc 28026 Mar 12 2008 wu_64_518_105935_0_1205328365
The files that start with wu_ can be deleted with out any problems.
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I'm a relatively new user to MC and so far have the following impressions:
- MC WUs has short "lifespans" (3 days or so) and tend to hog Boinc.
- Some of the WU's use a tremendous amount of memory! (1.2 Gb!).
Based on this, I've done the following:
- disabled MC on one of my PC's (I've got 2) that only has 2 Gb. When a large WU was running, response time became horrendous.
- Cut down the percentage of time devoted to MC to 16% (3 other projects share the rest).
* Often click "no new tasks" for the project to stop MC from running shortlived WUs that won't finish in time.
I do not leave my PC's on 24/7 (better things to do with my life/money) and I am sure that has much to do with the short deadline problems, but hey it's my PC and it is a volunteer organization. Based on my experiences I'm thinking MC may not be the "best" fit for me, am I right? I'll continue to give MC a shot, but so far I'm liking WCG better...
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I'm a relatively new user to MC and so far have the following impressions:
- MC WUs has short "lifespans" (3 days or so) and tend to hog Boinc.
- Some of the WU's use a tremendous amount of memory! (1.2 Gb!).
Based on this, I've done the following:
- disabled MC on one of my PC's (I've got 2) that only has 2 Gb. When a large WU was running, response time became horrendous.
- Cut down the percentage of time devoted to MC to 16% (3 other projects share the rest).
* Often click "no new tasks" for the project to stop MC from running shortlived WUs that won't finish in time.
I do not leave my PC's on 24/7 (better things to do with my life/money) and I am sure that has much to do with the short deadline problems, but hey it's my PC and it is a volunteer organization. Based on my experiences I'm thinking MC may not be the "best" fit for me, am I right? I'll continue to give MC a shot, but so far I'm liking WCG better...
You could be correct, MC has short deadlines because they tend to use the data resulting from our crunching in a more timely manor than projects that tend to collect alot more data. When a person 'catches' Malaria they could get up to like 17 different varieties of it, so giving one treatment to everyone would be silly. We crunchers have shown that some treatments work better with some strains than other treatments, that means that people ARE better off because of our crunching, hopefully other projects can say the same! There are also treatment differences based on how many of the different variations a person has and how old they are too, as well as how long they have had a particular variation as compared to another variation. Lots of things to consider means lots of possibilities for different treatments, meaning they need our results fast. And to be honest 24/7 crunching is better for MC than occasional crunching, which leads to alot of us having multiple pc's each crunching for our favorite project. There are a ton of Boinc projects out there and although you WILL be missed just keep crunching, who knows one day you just may find your way back here!
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