Posts by Hal Bregg

1) Message boards : News : Request for feedback (Message 650) Posted 14 Oct 2020 by Hal Bregg Post: Let's guess who is Nonexistent_Admin https://nanohub.org/groups/ncn/contact
2) Message boards : Number crunching : exceeds disk limit errors (Message 563) Posted 17 Jun 2020 by Hal Bregg Post: It looks like they are failing for everyone (check the work units in your "computer tasks" list). It is a problem they will have to fix. The same, old error that probably has never been fixed strikes back. Server coughs up dozen of new WUs and then goes quiet for weeks. Admin of the project as his nickname suggests doesn't exist. Feels like this project is science lab for students.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Quite a few of my tasks end with 197 (0x000000C5) EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED (Message 553) Posted 29 Mar 2020 by Hal Bregg Post: Has this problem been replicated when running 90% of available Boinc cpus? The project didn't splutter out any WUs in weeks. Without new work, no one can tell if problem still exists.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : ARM support? // No tasks (Message 548) Posted 13 Mar 2020 by Hal Bregg Post: Does Nanohub have tasks for ARM (Android)? Also, it appears you have no tasks. Project doesn't support ARM? Speaking of WUs, there were none in a while.
5) Message boards : News : nanoHUB@Home server relocation (Message 531) Posted 4 Jan 2020 by Hal Bregg Post: Any update on server relocation? Is uploading finished WUs still broken?
6) Message boards : News : nanoHUB@Home server relocation (Message 515) Posted 26 Dec 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: A new admin on board and still updates are rare as diamonds.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Transient upload error (Message 512) Posted 24 Dec 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: I can't upload either, but I think you can still download. That will create a big traffic jam soon. Indeed. I don't understand what was the point to allow new WUs to be downloaded and block upload. If your WUs past the deadline you will upload invalid results. Unless admins decide to give credit for those.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Transient upload error (Message 510) Posted 23 Dec 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: Maybe you didn't see this ? So I think it is normal and I also think the admin will consider the tasks overdue. Server status shows that everything is normal but I cannot upload any completed WUs.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Invalid rate. (Message 480) Posted 3 Nov 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: They have bad batches, due to the large number of apps they are running from different users. The admin posted a while ago that they fix them as they find them, but with over 400, it takes a while. Check your machine to ensure that you have enough memory and are not overclocking, etc. Otherwise, it is something they have to fix. I guess that whoever submits WUs should pay a closer look at what is broken and what needs fixing. In the end, they want good results not a pile of s..t. Plus adding an option for server to abort those dodgy tasks would be great.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : How do I get my pc to run more than one task at a time? (Message 465) Posted 26 Oct 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: How much memory do you have on the host running nanoHUB? Additionally, can you post log entry from BOINC manager so we can see what it says about the project?
11) Questions and Answers : Windows : Lots of WUs with 'Validate error' status (Message 464) Posted 26 Oct 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: I suspended the project some time ago for the same reason. I had only added it to one machine, a 4GHz i7 running Windows 8.1. No overclock. The applications are faulty. Yet again some after wave of faulty batch there was a stable flow of good ones. Until the server dried up. Whoever is submitting WUs should listen to crunchers and do something about faulty ones instead of pushing continuously broken WUs. I like this project because tasks are short and can be cruched adhoc without running hosts for days if that is what cruncher wants. Project doesn't pay well in terms of points but that is not major problem for me. I wish that literally Nonexistent Admin became more involved in this project.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Cannot register the DVD image (Message 451) Posted 15 Oct 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: I have some errors, whit this message: <message> (unknown error) - exit code -2135228415 (0x80bb0001)</message> 2019-10-14 22:09:28 (12176): Error Description: Cannot register the DVD image 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox5/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' {47b2fbd6-f468-49d3-94a8-043035b26700} because a CD/DVD image 'C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox5/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso' with UUID {8570f27b-eb8b-4bee-ad50-f8d2d442386f} already exists 2019-10-14 22:09:28 (12176): Could not create VM [/quote] Have a look here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36857343/virtualbox-import-error-cannot-register-the-dvd-image
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Lots of WUs with 'Validate error' status (Message 446) Posted 12 Oct 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: I just found out 269 tasks ended up with 'Validate error'. For example this task 07525704_138_0 Another faulty batch? I am not keen on babysitting this project again. Please sort it out.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Why do I not receive any Tasks? (Message 438) Posted 28 Sep 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: Just be patient. Tasks are not always available immediately.
15) Message boards : News : Request for feedback (Message 435) Posted 22 Sep 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: No, I don't blame the students. It is the applications that have to be fixed; I think it has been said there are over 400 of them, and when errors are encountered they are fixed. That is why the error rate is slowly decreasing. But couldn't they be packaged up into longer units? I don't either. And I am glad to hear that the error rate is decreasing. I didn't have a chance to crunch tasks from every new batch. From my personal experience, my last batch was the most successful. And I am hoping current one will be the same. I wish that project admins could make their presence on this forum more often.
16) Message boards : News : Request for feedback (Message 431) Posted 22 Sep 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: The tasks only run for several minutes on a CPU, in a VM. I am wondering why they are so short. They are presumably created by students/researchers on a notebook. Why not just crunch them there? They don't seem long enough to send out. Good ones are relatively short. You get a lot of bad eggs amongst them which can run for much longer and end up as faulty. It's been reported numerous times but not much has been done so far. Considering what you said about WUs being created by students it might mean that every new batch of WUs will have some tasks not done correctly.
17) Questions and Answers : Web site : Sluggish website (Message 421) Posted 10 Sep 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: Hello, Every time when I try to check task for each of my hosts it takes ages to get page loaded. Could this be improved?
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Validate error (Message 420) Posted 10 Sep 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: Nothing changed. Same problems with WUs running for nearly 2 hours until they eventually error out, wasting CPU time unnecessarily. And no updates or any news from admin(s).
19) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : How to preview headless VirtualBox machine (Message 415) Posted 4 Sep 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: Hi all, On Windows 10 I can preview running instance of nanoHUB project. How can I do it on Linux. I have boinc-virtualbox package installed only. Do I need to install full VirtualBox package?
20) Message boards : Number crunching : Validate error (Message 392) Posted 19 Aug 2019 by Hal Bregg Post: Try to stick to VBox version supplied with Boinc installation file and limit amount of tasks running consecutively. nanoHUB is real memory hogger.

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