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Scott A. Howard*

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Message 5798 - Posted 14 Mar 2010 16:03:13 UTC

Over the last week, I have been seeing a small number of Docking WUs failing with 'Computation error'. This morning I find that nearly 50% of the WUs on my work machine are failing. At this time, there is no similar problem with WUs from other projects. But then I am not processing many WUs from other projects.

The only relevant thing that I can think of doing recently was moving from 6.10.10 to 6.10.36 BOINC manager. (I think I was at 6.10.10 last...). And, since QMC is not putting as many WUs out, almost all my jobs are Docking now. There are no GPU jobs running.

On this particular machine, I am only attached to boincsimap, The Lattice Project (no jobs run yet), Docking, QMC@Home, and Ralph.

Needless to say, I am burning a lot of energy that is being wasted. I will need to disconnect if this continues. I have a dual quad core machine so I am wasting a significant number of cpu cycles.

Here is the description of my machine from the messages pane:

3/12/2010 8:24:15 AM Processor: 8 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33GHz [Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6]
3/12/2010 8:24:15 AM Processor: 6.00 MB cache
3/12/2010 8:24:15 AM Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 sse4_1 nx lm vmx tm2 dca pbe
3/12/2010 8:24:15 AM OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Edition, Service Pack 3, (05.01.2600.00)
3/12/2010 8:24:15 AM Memory: 3.00 GB physical, 10.82 GB virtual
3/12/2010 8:24:15 AM Disk: 368.10 GB total, 296.37 GB free

Any suggestions from anyone on where to go from here?

Edit: Note to the moderator. I am purposely double posting this message here and under the Number Crunchig forum. Feel free to delete it from here if it was not the appropriate forum. :-)

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Scott A. Howard*

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Message 5814 - Posted 17 Mar 2010 19:03:10 UTC

This got a reply under the Number Crunching topic.

Look there for further posts.

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Message boards : Windows : Computation error - now up to 50% of the WUs fail

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