I finally got around to replacing my CPU fan so I'm back folding again. I used an old one that I had lying around and it reminded me why I replaced them. My PC is noticeably louder than it was, even though I turned down the rest of the case fans that I had turned up to make sure the CPU didn't overheat while it wasn't working. Oh well.
What's that you say? Eh??? Let me turn off my big box fan that I have running to drown out the sound of my 11 running computers!
Did I mention that it's 80 degrees in my room? (Yes, my one room BQ room). But it's only 45% humidity!
Man, did I mention my stupid 56K dial-up service? It was going really good there for a while and then there was yet another outage at the provider side, but now that it's back, I'm having a hard time again getting stuff to upload.
Watching my Ubuntu System Monitor, the Sending graphic is fluctuating between 0.0 - 1.5 - 3.0 - 1.5 - 4.5 - 0.0 - 1.5 - 3.0 - 3.0 - 1.5 - 0.0 - 0.0 - 1.5 - 3.4 - 4.5 - 0.0 - etc.... Oh, and yes, that's KB/s. On a good day I can maybe upload a work unit in 4 or 5 hours. It's usually 6 to 10 or more. Lately, it's back to more of "Unit 4's deadline has passed." D'OH !!
Gonna hit 11m today. It looks like we have about 8 consistent folders in the top half of the list. But we're being overtaken faster than than we're conquering. We need more power. I had to back off on a few cores on my big servers so they could do 9-5 work. But even If I put them back on to folding it wont be enough to start the climb up the rankings. We need like 10 more good teammates.
BS, dude you should write a books on how to get the most out of a dial-up connection. You definately deserve an award for that. Imagine if you had to use one of these.
I'll have to check out that youtube when I get to work. Those things take forever on the dial-up system!
If we ever get the DSL we are being promised maybe things will get better. (Last I heard though, our max upload will only be 1 Mbps and it will cost probably over $50/month.)
Until then I still see a lot of this:
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[13:09:25] + Attempting to send results [April 5 13:09:25 UTC]
[13:13:30] Completed 70000 out of 500000 steps (14%)
[13:18:05] Completed 75000 out of 500000 steps (15%)
[13:22:47] Completed 80000 out of 500000 steps (16%)
[13:24:28] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[13:24:28] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:24:28] (130.237.165.141:8080)
[13:24:28] + Retrying using alternative port
[13:27:31] Completed 85000 out of 500000 steps (17%)
[13:31:03] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[13:31:03] (Got status 408)
[13:31:03] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[13:31:03] (130.237.165.141:80)
[13:31:03] Could not transmit unit 02 to Collection server; keeping in queue.
Although... I sometimes wonder if the problem is Stanford, or my setup? This particular machine is a Windows Vista machine:
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8 cores detected
If you see this twice, MPI is working
If you see this twice, MPI is working
[12:06:09] MPIexec present
--- Opening Log file [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]
# Windows SMP Console Edition #################################################
###############################################################################
Folding@Home Client Version 6.34
http://folding.stanford.edu
###############################################################################
###############################################################################
Launch directory: C:\Users\bs\Desktop\fah634
Executable: C:\Users\bs\Desktop\fah634\FAH6.34-win32-SMP.exe
Arguments: -advmethods -smp
[12:06:09] - Ask before connecting: No
[12:06:09] - User name: bs_texas (Team 36480)
[12:06:09] - User ID: 129C3D2F11F6AD59
[12:06:09] - Machine ID: 1
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Loaded queue successfully.
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Project: 7154 (Run 0, Clone 50, Gen 23)
[12:06:09] + Processing work unit
[12:06:09] Core required: FahCore_a3.exe
[12:06:09] + Attempting to send results [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]
[12:06:09] Core found.
[12:06:09] Working on queue slot 07 [April 5 12:06:09 UTC]
[12:06:09] + Working ...
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] *------------------------------*
[12:06:09] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[12:06:09] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Preparing to commence simulation
[12:06:09] - Looking at optimizations...
[12:06:09] - Created dyn
[12:06:09] - Files status OK
[12:06:09] - Expanded 1769031 -> 1957708 (decompressed 110.6 percent)
[12:06:09] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=1769031 data_size=19
57708, decompressed_data_size=1957708 diff=0
[12:06:09] - Digital signature verified
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Project: 6961 (Run 0, Clone 7, Gen 15)
[12:06:09]
[12:06:09] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[12:06:09] Entering M.D.
[12:06:15] Mapping NT from 8 to 8
[12:06:15] Completed 0 out of 500000 steps (0%)
[12:11:01] Completed 5000 out of 500000 steps (1%)
[12:15:53] Completed 10000 out of 500000 steps (2%)
[12:20:41] Completed 15000 out of 500000 steps (3%)
[12:21:17] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[12:21:17] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[12:21:17] (128.143.199.96:8080)
[12:21:17] + Retrying using alternative port
[12:22:37] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[12:22:37] (Got status 503)
[12:22:37] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[12:22:37] (128.143.199.96:80)
[12:22:37] - Error: Could not transmit unit 01 (completed April 2) to work serve
r.
[12:22:37] + Attempting to send results [April 5 12:22:37 UTC]
[12:25:28] Completed 20000 out of 500000 steps (4%)
Fortunately I get a few of these to:
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[10:45:22] + Attempting to send results [April 4 10:45:22 UTC]
[11:18:22] + Results successfully sent
[11:18:22] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[11:18:22] + Number of Units Completed: 151
That upload only took about 30 minutes. But it was only about 3MB. In the recent past the work units uploading have all been around 42MB and can take 6 to 10 hours to upload. One of these days I'll take the time to figure out what's going on and see if I can get to a more reliable, steady state.
If we ever get the DSL we are being promised maybe things will get better. (Last I heard though, our max upload will only be 1 Mbps and it will cost probably over $50/month.)
The scary thing is that 1 meg for $50 a month is about what I had up until very recently.
Well, I hope I'm back on track. Discovered an issue with the 8 port Netgear gigabit switch I was using. But, not sure if it was the switch itself, or one of the NICs went nuts and was overloading it. I swapped it out anyway and I'll see how it goes.
BS, dude you should write a books on how to get the most out of a dial-up connection. You definately deserve an award for that. Imagine if you had to use one of these.
Just got around to viewing that youtube video today.
The first time I used a modem in college, it was one like that, without the fancy box. The very first text I saw that came across the wire... the guy on the other end typed, "Stand back!"
It was a technically awe-inspiring miracle of modern times.
(9600 baud modems were about $500 back then, or was it $300. For me in college, it was the same as being a Million dollars! )
[06:25:28] Completed 283674 out of 500000 steps (56%)
[06:25:33] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[06:25:33] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[06:25:33] (128.143.199.96:8080)
[06:25:33] + Retrying using alternative port
[06:25:33] Connecting to http://128.143.199.96:80/
[06:26:43] Completed 285000 out of 500000 steps (57%)
[06:26:53] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[06:26:53] (Got status 503)
[06:26:53] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[06:26:53] (128.143.199.96:80)
[06:26:53] - Error: Could not transmit unit 05 (completed May 17) to work server
.
[06:26:53] - 19 failed uploads of this unit.
[06:26:53] + Attempting to send results [May 20 06:26:53 UTC]
[06:26:53] - Reading file work/wuresults_05.dat from core
[06:26:53] (Read 3527457 bytes from disk)
[06:26:53] Connecting to http://130.237.165.141:8080/
[06:27:14] - Couldn't send HTTP request to server
[06:27:14] + Could not connect to Work Server (results)
[06:27:14] (130.237.165.141:8080)
[06:27:14] + Retrying using alternative port
[06:27:14] Connecting to http://130.237.165.141:80/