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Comment on tod man pla by warren

warren — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:44:35 +0000

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Comment on HOWTO: Getting BOINC going on an cluster of Ubuntu machines with a custom algorithm. by Huiping

Huiping — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:25:28 +0000

hi,

The problem I asked last time has been solved,and the wrapper/worker is running normally.
I wanna ask you a question about creating workunits by program. If the project need the wrapper to call legacy program, after I used ./make_project and modified the sample_work_generator.C ,What should I do next?

Any idea is appreciated.

Comment on HOWTO: Getting BOINC going on an cluster of Ubuntu machines with a custom algorithm. by bcg

bcg — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:30:22 +0000

Best thing you can do is join the BOINC mailing list and ask over there. They are more up-to-date with latest versions of the software.

However, all the unrecognised XML errors suggest there is a problem there. It seems your xml is not correct for what the wrapper is expecting. Compare your files to mine and see if you have missed some parameters or misspelt something.

Comment on HOWTO: Getting BOINC going on an cluster of Ubuntu machines with a custom algorithm. by Huiping Yao

Huiping Yao — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:06:06 +0000

Hi
when I used wrapper/worker, there comes a problem.After executing bin/status finding that Daemon sample_worker_generator is not running.
and the messages in sample_work_generator.log is as follows:
[2008/07/11 21:35:01] Executing command: sample_work_generator -d 3
Unrecognized XML in SCHED_CONFIG::parse: cgi_url
Skipping: http://192.168.151.75/boinc080710_cgi/
Skipping: /cgi_url
Unrecognized XML in SCHED_CONFIG::parse: disable_account_creation
Skipping: 0
Skipping: /disable_account_creation
Unrecognized XML in SCHED_CONFIG::parse: log_dir
Skipping: /var/www/boinc_projects/log_debian
Skipping: /log_dir
Unrecognized XML in SCHED_CONFIG::parse: app_dir
Skipping: /var/www/boinc_projects/apps
Skipping: /app_dir
Unrecognized XML in SCHED_CONFIG::parse: host
Skipping: debian
Skipping: /host
Unrecognized XML in SCHED_CONFIG::parse: show_results
Skipping: 1
Skipping: /show_results
2008-07-11 21:35:02.2927 [normal ] Starting
2008-07-11 21:35:02.2928 [debug ] Making 49 jobs
Too few input files given; need at least 2
process_wu_template: -112
2008-07-11 21:35:02.2932 [CRITICAL] can’t make job: -112

is it because the sample_work_generator.c which is suitable for uppercase? Or anyther reasons?

Any idea is appreciated.

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Gamblers doth Idyl » Blog Archive » Recent C++ Interview Questions — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:59:50 +0000

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Comment on HOWTO: Getting BOINC going on an cluster of Ubuntu machines with a custom algorithm. by Bastian

Bastian — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:44:28 +0000

Hi this sounds very interesting I will give it a try. Did you check about the reliability of boinc and the local cluster network.

greetings Bastian

Comment on HOWTO: Getting Condor going on an cluster of Ubuntu machines with a custom algorithm. by bcg

bcg — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:01:53 +0000

I’ll look into that. I find that there is only that delay when you start the whole cluster cold. If the machines all have a chance to get in touch with the master first, they seem to take and compute jobs pretty much straight away. As you would expect given the WANT_SUSPEND, CONTINUE, etc settings.

Comment on HOWTO: Getting Condor going on an cluster of Ubuntu machines with a custom algorithm. by Jan Ploski

Jan Ploski — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:26:31 +0000

Regarding your last “5 to 10 minutes” statement… It will be much quicker if you set

NEGOTIATOR_INTERVAL = 30
UPDATE_INTERVAL = 30

in the configuration. The first one is how often Condor attempts to match jobs with machines, the last one how often machines report back their status to master.