1) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 4.06 (alpha) trashes CPDN WUs on Win98SE (Message 23101) Posted 7 Sep 2004 by brownbar Post: Thanks, Pascal Yes, finally (I know it took a long time) I see what you are saying. Windows98 is very clearly not supported by classic climateprediction. I just happen to have come in from the point of view of BOINC and there is no clue whatsoever on that route that it will not work.

2) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 4.06 (alpha) trashes CPDN WUs on Win98SE (Message 23096) Posted 7 Sep 2004 by brownbar Post: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/host_requirements.php

3) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 4.06 (alpha) trashes CPDN WUs on Win98SE (Message 23092) Posted 6 Sep 2004 by brownbar Post: Win 98 and nt are not on the approved or supported list.........for CPDN and BIONC Pascal, tell me where you get your information from. The words below are copied from the system requirements of climateprediction.net, just two minutes ago. I believe that Windows 98 counts as above Window95! System requirements Last modified 12:09 PM, June 09 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The BOINC core client is available for the following platforms: Windows (95 and up) Linux (on X86 and perhaps others) Solaris/SPARC Mac OS X

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Application Stop Crunching after a while (Message 23084) Posted 6 Sep 2004 by brownbar Post: Just got home. Window XP SP2 laptop running BOINC 4.07 has a "running" work unit which is frozen at a CPU time of 00:00 and the climateprediction model is still showing preempted. So nothing useful has been happening for several hours. Easy to get it working again but is this only happening with service pack 2?

5) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC 4.06 (alpha) trashes CPDN WUs on Win98SE (Message 23078) Posted 6 Sep 2004 by brownbar Post: BOINC 4.07 also trashes CPDN models but seems to fix the problem with setia@home work units which were previously bringing Windows 98SE systems to their knees. So far I have yet to see a warning not to dowload to Windows 98 systems on either site. It's about time somebody did something about that.

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Way to go SETI/BOINC!!! (Message 16211) Posted 21 Aug 2004 by brownbar Post: It's working? What's working? Sure it uploads and downloads units but schedulers do not respond, pending credit is still switched off, the "work" page does not represent reality; messages from the website are pitifully brief, infrequent and and out of date before they get posted. Half my team has already packed up and started saving electricity. Setiathome classic was a world class best and the University of California is, arguably, where the modern computer era was invented. So I'm not criticising people trying their best. This is simply not up to standard.

7) Message boards : Cafe SETI : "ET phone home" had better success (Message 15935) Posted 20 Aug 2004 by brownbar Post: Why do people keep talking about whether you like BOINC or not? What's to like or dislike about something that simply fails to function. For all practical purposes it does not exist. You were probably lucky not to get any work units because you can't upload them when they are finished anyway. Then the whole shebang disappears and you find you have duplicate machines. I think you are being far too tolerant of a complete shambles.

8) Message boards : Cafe SETI : BOINC does not and never has worked (Message 15929) Posted 20 Aug 2004 by brownbar Post: I keep seeing messages that the project is up and running but it never works. Schedulers never respond. Is there anyone out there who can claim that it appears to work even sometimes?

 
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