Hi

Noticed that a new gravity wave search was added and wanted to test a few tasks.
They seem to run fine all to the end but fail with a file upload error.

Task #839748 failed to upload the file "h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0_1" resulting in a computation error.

The event log in Boinc for that tasks finishing is as follows:

19/05/2013 00:55:47 | Albert@Home | Computation for task h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0 finished
19/05/2013 00:55:47 | Albert@Home | Output file h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0_1 for task h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0 absent
19/05/2013 00:55:50 | Albert@Home | [fxd] starting upload, upload_offset -1
19/05/2013 00:55:50 | Albert@Home | Started upload of h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0_0
19/05/2013 00:55:50 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] URL: http://einstein4.aei.uni-hannover.de/AlbertAtHome/cgi-bin/file_upload_handler
19/05/2013 00:55:52 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] http op done; retval 0 (Success)
19/05/2013 00:55:52 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] parsing upload response: <data_server_reply> <status>0</status> <file_size>0</file_size></data_server_reply>
19/05/2013 00:55:52 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] parsing status: 0
19/05/2013 00:55:52 | Albert@Home | [fxd] starting upload, upload_offset 0
19/05/2013 00:55:53 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] http op done; retval 0 (Success)
19/05/2013 00:55:53 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] parsing upload response: <data_server_reply> <status>0</status></data_server_reply>
19/05/2013 00:55:53 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] parsing status: 0
19/05/2013 00:55:53 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] file transfer status 0 (Success)
19/05/2013 00:55:53 | Albert@Home | Finished upload of h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0_0
19/05/2013 00:55:53 | Albert@Home | [file_xfer] Throughput 129386 bytes/sec
19/05/2013 00:55:58 | Albert@Home | [sched_op] Deferring communication for 1 min 41 sec
19/05/2013 00:55:58 | Albert@Home | [sched_op] Reason: Unrecoverable error for task h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0

When I checked the project directory I found a few files that ended with "-LV" e.g. "h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0_0-LV" and I'm now wondering if these are actually the files that should have been uploaded.

I also noticed that the plan class has a minor spelling error in the word "search".

/Johan

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Hi,

Same here, three WUs ended ok but error when uploading, in Linux.

I continue downloading units even if I've unchecked them in my preferences.

regards,

<core_client_version>7.0.56</core_client_version>
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<stderr_txt>
2013-05-18 21:57:53.5121 (3520) [normal]: This program is published under the GNU General Public License, version 2
2013-05-18 21:57:53.5121 (3520) [normal]: For details see http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/license.php
2013-05-18 21:57:53.5221 (3520) [normal]: This Einstein@home App was built at: May 17 2013 14:28:42

2013-05-18 21:57:53.5221 (3520) [normal]: Start of BOINC application 'projects/albert.phys.uwm.edu/einstein_S6CasA_1.00_windows_intelx86__SSE2.exe'.
Activated exception handling...
command line: projects/albert.phys.uwm.edu/einstein_S6CasA_1.00_windows_intelx86__SSE2.exe --skyRegion=(6.12377129663,1.02645722192) --refTime=960541454.5 --Freq=50.55 --FreqBand=0.05 --dFreq=3.86541207503e-07 --f1dot=-4.37304962779e-09 --f1dotBand=4.85894403088e-10 --df1dot=4.33159664371e-12 --gammaRefine=41 --f2dot=5.6457110445e-19 --f2dotBand=1.1291422089e-18 --df2dot=7.41461509016e-17 --gamma2Refine=31 --computeLV --LVrho=0 --LVuseAllTerms=0 --nCand1=3000 --SortToplist=3 --recalcToplistStats=0 -o ../../projects/albert.phys.uwm.edu/h1_0050.45_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.55Hz_8_0_0 --printCand1 --semiCohToplist --ephemE=../../projects/albert.phys.uwm.edu/earth_09_11 --ephemS=../../projects/albert.phys.uwm.edu/sun_09_11 --tStack=692550.000000 --nStacksMax=32 --Dterms=8 --DataFiles1=..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\h1_0050.45_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\l1_0050.45_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\h1_0050.50_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\l1_0050.50_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\h1_0050.55_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\l1_0050.55_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\h1_0050.60_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\l1_0050.60_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\h1_0050.65_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\l1_0050.65_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\h1_0050.70_S6Direct;..\..\projects\albert.phys.uwm.edu\l1_0050.70_S6Direct -d1
2013-05-18 21:57:53.5621 (3520) [debug]: Flags: LAL_NDEBUG, OPTIMIZE, HS_OPTIMIZATION, GC_SSE2_OPT, i386, SSE, SSE2, GNUC X86 GNUX86
2013-05-18 21:57:53.5621 (3520) [debug]: Set up communication with graphics process.
Code-version: %% LAL: 6.10.0.1 (CLEAN d19849679d6ec6097e9f6483f01c5a1fc6dd8dcc)
%% LALApps: 6.12.0.1 (CLEAN d19849679d6ec6097e9f6483f01c5a1fc6dd8dcc)

2013-05-18 21:57:53.7821 (3520) [normal]: Reading input data ...  done.
% --- GPS reference time = 960541454.5000 ,  GPS data mid time = 960533565.0000
2013-05-18 21:58:13.3122 (3520) [normal]: dFreqStack = 3.865412e-007, df1dot = 4.331597e-012, df2dot = 1.129142e-018
% --- Setup, N = 32, T = 692550s, Tobs = 22144994s, gammaRefine = 41.000000, gamma2Refine = 31.000000
2013-05-18 21:58:13.3122 (3520) [normal]: INFO: No checkpoint checkpoint.cpt found - starting from scratch
% --- Cpt:0,  total:114,  sky:1/1,  f1dot:1/114
2013-05-18 21:58:13.3122 (3520) [normal]: 1/1/1
% --- CG:4166560 FG:129363  f1dotmin_fg:-4.375175964314e-009 df1dot_fg:1.056486986271e-013 f2dotmin_fg:1.821197111129e-020 df2dot_fg:3.642394222258e-020
2013-05-18 22:01:06.9924 (3520) [normal]: 1/1/2
INFO: Major Windows version: 6
c
2013-05-18 22:04:02.8427 (3520) [normal]: 1/2/1
2013-05-18 22:06:55.0129 (3520) [normal]: 1/2/2
c
............
c
2013-05-19 08:52:50.1172 (3520) [normal]: 1/113/1
2013-05-19 08:55:58.6474 (3520) [normal]: 1/113/2
c
2013-05-19 08:59:09.1577 (3520) [normal]: 1/114/1
2013-05-19 09:02:18.6179 (3520) [normal]: 1/114/2
c
2013-05-19 09:05:27.9782 (3520) [normal]: Finished main analysis.
2013-05-19 09:05:27.9782 (3520) [debug]: Writing output ... 2013-05-19 09:05:28.0482 (3520) [debug]: toplist2 ... done.
FPU status flags:  COND_0 PRECISION
2013-05-19 09:05:28.1382 (3520) [normal]: done. calling boinc_finish(0).
09:05:28 (3520): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
<message>
upload failure: <file_xfer_error>
  <file_name>h1_0050.45_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.55Hz_8_0_1</file_name>
  <error_code>-161</error_code>
</file_xfer_error>

</message>
]]>

Year, sorry, there seems to be a general problem. I'm not sure we'll be able to fix this before Tuesday (Monday is a public holiday here), so for now I have "deprecated" the new S6Directed apps. Feel free to suspend or cancel any that you received alraedy.

Cheers
HBE

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When I checked the project directory I found a few files that ended with "-LV" e.g. "h1_0050.80_S6Direct__S6CasAa_50.9Hz_9_0_0-LV" and I'm now wondering if these are actually the files that should have been uploaded.

Yes, this is correct. This problem should be fixed with the App version 1.01 which I just issued. The files with names ending in "-LV" can and must be deleted manually, the Client can't do this. Apologies for the inconveniences.

I also noticed that the plan class has a minor spelling error in the word "search".

Good catch! Should be fixed now, too.

BM

Thank you for the fast fix on a weekend and holiday!

I've just downloaded 2 new version 1.01 tasks and will report back about how they behave.

/Johan

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Thank you for the fast fix on a weekend and holiday!

I've just downloaded 2 new version 1.01 tasks and will report back about how they behave.

/Johan

Both tasks finished and uploaded normally, waiting for validation now.

Looking at performance the new tasks take almost twice as long as the gravity wave search currently running on Einstein, I assume this is by design.

Good work and once again thank you for the fast response and fix!

/Johan

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Both tasks finished and uploaded normally, waiting for validation now.

Good!!

Looking at performance the new tasks take almost twice as long as the gravity wave search currently running on Einstein, I assume this is by design.

Indeed. The code is more or less the same, but the parameters of the tasks which tell the code 'where' to look for what kind of signals, is radically different. In fact, there has probably never been so much difference between a E@H run to the previous run in this respect, so we are now verifying and possibly tweaking the set-up of this run, and that's what the test here on Albert is all about. The final run parameters on Einstein might be different, but hopefully we got it about right in the first attempt already :-).

Thanks for testing and feedback,
Cheers
HBE

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Well, I have finished 6 tasks but they all couldn't be validated because WUs were cancelled.

Just curious, did you find any fundamental problem in the WUs?

21/05/2013 23:45:42 | Albert@Home | update requested by user
21/05/2013 23:45:47 | Albert@Home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
21/05/2013 23:45:47 | Albert@Home | Requesting new tasks for NVIDIA
21/05/2013 23:45:50 | Albert@Home | Scheduler request completed: got 1 new tasks
21/05/2013 23:45:50 | Albert@Home | Resent lost task p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3248_0
21/05/2013 23:45:52 | Albert@Home | Started download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3248.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:52 | Albert@Home | Started download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3249.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:55 | Albert@Home | Finished download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3248.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:55 | Albert@Home | Finished download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3249.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:55 | Albert@Home | Started download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3250.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:55 | Albert@Home | Started download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3251.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:56 | Albert@Home | Finished download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3250.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:56 | Albert@Home | Finished download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3251.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:56 | Albert@Home | Started download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3252.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:56 | Albert@Home | Started download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3253.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:58 | Albert@Home | Finished download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3252.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:58 | Albert@Home | Finished download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3253.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:58 | Albert@Home | Started download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3254.bin4
21/05/2013 23:45:58 | Albert@Home | Started download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3255.bin4
21/05/2013 23:46:00 | Albert@Home | Finished download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3254.bin4
21/05/2013 23:46:00 | Albert@Home | Finished download of p2030.20121030.G202.28+01.88.N.b3s0g0.00000_3255.bin4

21/05/2013 23:47:15 | Albert@Home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
21/05/2013 23:47:15 | Albert@Home | Requesting new tasks for CPU and NVIDIA
21/05/2013 23:48:58 | Albert@Home | update requested by user
21/05/2013 23:49:17 | Albert@Home | Scheduler request failed: HTTP internal server error

850575 353076 5305 20 May 2013 | 21:55:51 UTC 21 May 2013 | 10:39:18 UTC Aborted by user 21,814.99 21,780.51 --- Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.01 (SSE2)
850570 353074 5305 20 May 2013 | 21:55:51 UTC 21 May 2013 | 10:39:18 UTC Aborted by user 21,461.36 21,424.49 --- Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.01 (SSE2)
850568 353073 5305 20 May 2013 | 21:55:51 UTC 21 May 2013 | 10:39:18 UTC Aborted by user 19,587.53 19,536.02 --- Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.01 (SSE2)
847030 349665 5305 20 May 2013 | 21:55:51 UTC 21 May 2013 | 10:39:18 UTC Aborted by user 22,814.17 22,777.72 --- Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.01 (SSE2)
847028 349648 5305 20 May 2013 | 21:55:51 UTC 21 May 2013 | 10:39:18 UTC Aborted by user 4,097.57 4,097.57 --- Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.01 (SSE2)
847023 351365 7301 20 May 2013 | 11:42:23 UTC 21 May 2013 | 15:18:40 UTC Completed, can't validate 50,847.58 50,521.94 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.01 (SSE2)
846881 347959 7301 20 May 2013 | 11:42:23 UTC 21 May 2013 | 15:19:43 UTC Aborted by user 49,082.53 48,775.90 --- Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.01 (SSE2)
843242 349676 7301 19 May 2013 | 22:22:27 UTC 20 May 2013 | 21:03:27 UTC Completed, can't validate 49,570.98 49,297.72 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.01 (SSE2)
839725 347993 7301 18 May 2013 | 22:44:21 UTC 20 May 2013 | 21:03:27 UTC Error while computing 49,826.95 49,562.81 --- Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.00 (SSE2)
839663 347966 7301 18 May 2013 | 22:44:21 UTC 19 May 2013 | 12:40:11 UTC Error while computing 48,304.57 48,093.35 --- Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) v1.00 (SSE2)
831382 344205 5305 21 May 2013 | 22:45:49 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 14:05:57 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4cuda32nv301)
831330 344179 5305 21 May 2013 | 13:37:08 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 13:33:23 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831322 344175 5305 21 May 2013 | 13:32:11 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 13:28:30 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831305 344166 5305 21 May 2013 | 13:15:27 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 13:11:43 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831289 344158 5305 21 May 2013 | 13:01:30 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 12:58:07 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831279 344153 5305 21 May 2013 | 12:56:55 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 12:53:20 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831274 344151 5305 21 May 2013 | 12:52:05 UTC 21 May 2013 | 13:15:27 UTC Completed, waiting for validation 1,265.45 211.79 pending Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4cuda32nv301)
831266 344147 5305 21 May 2013 | 12:43:18 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 12:40:04 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831247 344137 5305 21 May 2013 | 12:25:42 UTC 21 May 2013 | 12:48:29 UTC Completed and validated 1,275.21 214.27 500.00 Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4cuda32nv301)
831223 344125 5307 21 May 2013 | 11:43:56 UTC 21 May 2013 | 17:02:31 UTC Completed, waiting for validation 1,936.60 514.99 pending Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4cuda32nv301)
831211 344119 5307 21 May 2013 | 11:25:15 UTC 21 May 2013 | 16:16:32 UTC Completed, waiting for validation 1,927.69 490.30 pending Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4cuda32nv301)
831207 344117 5307 21 May 2013 | 11:15:48 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 11:15:48 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831205 344116 5305 21 May 2013 | 11:17:39 UTC 21 May 2013 | 20:49:41 UTC Completed, waiting for validation 26,525.78 26,330.07 pending Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831202 344115 5305 21 May 2013 | 11:13:10 UTC 21 May 2013 | 20:49:41 UTC Completed, waiting for validation 26,216.15 26,028.83 pending Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831195 344111 5307 21 May 2013 | 11:06:48 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 11:02:53 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831192 344110 5307 21 May 2013 | 11:01:50 UTC 4 Jun 2013 | 10:58:27 UTC In progress --- --- --- Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
831150 344089 5305 21 May 2013 | 10:38:14 UTC 21 May 2013 | 17:54:08 UTC Completed and validated 25,494.55 25,334.25 500.00 Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
828983 343216 7301 14 May 2013 | 16:18:41 UTC 15 May 2013 | 17:39:52 UTC Completed and validated 28,401.36 26,972.85 251.25 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
828981 343215 7301 14 May 2013 | 16:18:40 UTC 15 May 2013 | 15:58:36 UTC Completed and validated 29,514.99 27,885.87 251.25 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
827148 342385 7301 14 May 2013 | 8:00:04 UTC 15 May 2013 | 9:46:22 UTC Completed and validated 67,887.71 63,667.53 500.00 Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
826996 342309 7301 14 May 2013 | 6:28:46 UTC 15 May 2013 | 7:44:42 UTC Completed and validated 67,940.93 63,786.92 500.00 Binary Radio Pulsar Search v1.33 (BRP4X64)
812126 335723 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:47 UTC 6 May 2013 | 20:20:31 UTC Completed, can't validate 13,478.16 13,434.51 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
808764 334160 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:52 UTC 7 May 2013 | 16:29:32 UTC Completed, can't validate 12,904.09 12,878.74 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
808757 334157 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:45 UTC 7 May 2013 | 20:03:49 UTC Completed, can't validate 11,857.24 11,824.67 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
808755 334156 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:45 UTC 7 May 2013 | 16:02:19 UTC Completed, can't validate 13,048.89 13,010.31 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
808746 334151 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:38 UTC 7 May 2013 | 1:34:23 UTC Completed, can't validate 12,149.98 12,101.98 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
808648 334102 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:49 UTC 6 May 2013 | 5:31:47 UTC Completed, can't validate 13,547.16 13,501.23 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
808646 334101 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:49 UTC 7 May 2013 | 20:12:42 UTC Completed, can't validate 11,837.55 11,801.90 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
808644 334100 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:45 UTC 7 May 2013 | 19:36:19 UTC Completed, can't validate 12,065.20 12,035.21 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)
808642 334099 5305 5 May 2013 | 15:57:40 UTC 6 May 2013 | 6:42:26 UTC Completed, can't validate 13,549.18 13,503.88 0.00 Gravitational Wave S6 LineVeto search (extended) v1.04 (SSE2)

I didn't abort the tasks, so why doesn't the site say "server aborted"?

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The selection section in the profile is not working for these units, I continue downloading them even if I have deselected the option to receive such units.

Hi

Thanks for the feedback.

We are still fine tuning and fixing things, so expect some hickups. We are aware of the app selection problem, and we fixed some work generation problem.


Please keep testing this, at this point in testing we *want* to see errors and problems (better now than later in production :-) ).

Cheers
HB

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I've completed a few task from version 1.02 and all seems fine so far, but as there doesn't seem to be any validator running I can't tell if they will validate against results from other hosts.

Edit: Changed the thread title because the original problem is solved and the thread has developed to a general feedback thread.

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One thing we need to test most is the workunit generator, which in a sense is very different from the ones we used before. When we find it doesn't produce the workunits as we want it, we will need to cancel the workunits and start over again, even if there is nothing technically wrong with the workunits it already produced. We try our best to detect errors as early as possible, in this case before too many tasks are sent out, but I suspect canceling S6CasA workunits will happen rather frequently in the next few days. After all, this is our test project.

BM

Thanks for the information about the cancelled work units. I noticed that even running ones have been cancelled, but if you don't need those work units, then you don't need those work units.
I have at least 13 work units now that "can't validate" due to the work unit being cancelled, so I will get no points for them I suppose, even though they were successful and appeared error free.

I know it is a test project and understand about fine tuning and cancelling work to get the results you are after.
I have run a few other test projects so understand your reasoning.

But it would be nice if some credit is given for the successful testing of these work units as they take many hours to run.

Thanks

Conan

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Just happened to open the Windows task manager and noticed that each of the three running S6 Directed Search tasks was using ~600 MB of RAM each, compared to the S6 LineVeto search over at Einstein where each task use ~110-115 MB of RAM.
I'm now wondering if this is to be expected of the new run or is this temporary during testing?
I don't mind as I have 16 GB of RAM but other volunteers will probably have less RAM available.

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Just happened to open the Windows task manager and noticed that each of the three running S6 Directed Search tasks was using ~600 MB of RAM each, compared to the S6 LineVeto search over at Einstein where each task use ~110-115 MB of RAM.
I'm now wondering if this is to be expected of the new run or is this temporary during testing?
I don't mind as I have 16 GB of RAM but other volunteers will probably have less RAM available.

One of the (many) differences between this and the previous run is that work units will vary a lot more, both in memory consumption and in the data volume that is required for a specific task. Among the currently generated test work units will be some of the most demanding in this respect, kind of a worst-case test.

BOINC allows to configure limits both for RAM and disk usage by BOINC, so it's possible with some care to make sure that BOINC will not take more ressources that the user is prepared to contribute.

Cheers
HB

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I attached my i7-2600K/GTX460/HD7770 host to Albert@home to generate a RAC so i could post my Android Bug report,
i initially got a CPU, Nvidia and AMD Gamma-ray pulsar search Wu each, then i got some SSE2 Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) Wu's, but the scheduler timed out with an Internal Error,
some of these Wu's got resent on the two scheduler requests, a little later these tasks got cancelled by the project, the stderr.txt of Wu's started says so too:

<core_client_version>7.0.64</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
aborted by project - no longer usable
</message>
<stderr_txt>
2013-05-26 11:32:25.0107 (6716) [normal]: This program is published under the GNU General Public License, version 2
2013-05-26 11:32:25.0107 (6716) [normal]: For details see http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/license.php
2013-05-26 11:32:25.0107 (6716) [normal]: This Einstein@home App was built at: May 24 2013 11:16:55

But the task page is wrong, it says the user aborted them:

All Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) tasks for computer 7514

At Seti Beta, the cancellation of Wu's causes a Cancelled by server message:

Error tasks for computer 45274

The combination of the timed out Wu's and the Cancelled by Project Wu's have lowered my Max Tasks perday for this app_version to 1,
while i accept the timed out Wu's probably should lower this, if the project cancels them then it shouldn't.

Claggy

First result validated, nice!

Link to workunit #371351

At a first glance on my machine the new run takes about 11000s or 3 hours longer per task to run than the LineVeto search over at Einstein but got the same amount paid. I suspect that this is going to be adjusted before we go live on Einstein, right?

Now if only a few more would like to run some task then this new GW-search should be ready for Einstein before the current one runs dry.

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But the task page is wrong, it says the user aborted them:

All Gravitational Wave S6 Directed Search (CasA) tasks for computer 7514

At Seti Beta, the cancellation of Wu's causes a Cancelled by server message:

Error tasks for computer 45274

Claggy

Sorry, missed that one - I was busy elsewhere.

That's due to a missing update to result.inc on the web server.

Full details at Status 'Cancelled by server' changed

Apropos, why are the auto-format buttons like [url] so far off-screen to the right here? I'm using Chrome on Windows XP.

Apropos, why are the auto-format buttons like [url] so far off-screen to the right here? I'm using Chrome on Windows XP.

It's the same on IE 10 on Win 7

Claggy