KWSN Orbiting Fortress

[Grawlfang]

Hi fellow Kniggats,

I am toying with the idea of firing up a BOINC based project to run simluations of simple genetic algorithms and have setup a project within a virtual machine to see if this is viable and workable.

Any volunteers out there willing to run a few scrubs against it for me ?

At present it requires a Linux client, but I'm trying to build a windows one too (my original code was designed to work on Amiga, VAX, AIX, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows).

Any takers please go to http://genlife.is-a-geek.org/genlife/

There are some small work units available (each runs 100million cycles) and takes around 1-2 minutes to complete - and I'm preparing a range of larger simulations (1000million cycles).

In addition, if anyone reads my original article and is interested in creating a 'creature' to run in the simulator just let me know.

ttfn and Ni!
Fang
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[Al Dente]

I should have a Linux shrubber (my first) up and running this weekend, so I'll definitely give it a go. Expect to see me (hopefully) early next week.



Al
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[KWSN imcrazynow]

When you get the windoze version up i'll give it a shot too.

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And a few that won't update for some reason.

4870 GPU

[Grawlfang]

Thanks Guys,

There is a Windows version up there now....It's taken all day to get the damned thing to compile cleanly (and many downloads from the MS site).

Ni!
Fang
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[Killerrabbit]

This will have to wait until I come back from summer school because I will not be around to baby BOINC if something goes wrong.

Ni
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[ohiomike]

1) 72 second Linux WUs (when available) are a might on the short side. You are going to wear out a server handing out WUs. Might be because of:
Unrecognized XML in parse_init_data_file: fraction_done_update_period
Skipping: 1.000000
Skipping: /fraction_done_update_period
called boinc_finish
As shown in http://genlife.is-a-geek.org/genlife/result.php?resultid=143
Note: Don't worry about Boinc Version 5.99.0 (It is V5.9.0 modified to run on a SSI Cluster).
2) Server Status Page needed.
3) Message Boards needed (so I can bitch at you there).
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Proud member of the "Fry a CPU for breakfast club"

[Sir Furry Mark]

Hmmmm.... attached to the project with a Windows client (Q6600 quad).
System went slurp, burp - first few units processed in about 5 seconds. Subsequent ones (EL5000 series) run for about a minute (14% complete?) then bomb with an unhandled memory exception.

Checking the tasks on the account page I also noticed that I have received the same unit several times - most projects prevent this from happening (systems shouldn't validate themselves!)

I've set the project to "No New Tasks" until you advise there is an update.



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[Grawlfang]

[Grawlfang]

[Al Dente]

By the way (I haven't been to the site yet)....

What is the purpose and eventual aim of this project?


I'm certain it MUST be the search for the eternally elusive Big Boob Gene.


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[Grawlfang]

[mohrorless]

[KWSN imcrazynow]

Everything seems to be erroring out. I've set to no new tasks and will continue to check back here or on the elusive message boards(so you can be bitched at) for any updates. .

Here are the messages I've gotten so far.
6/21/2008 9:18:29 AM||Fetching configuration file from http://genlife.is-a-geek.org/genlife/get_project_config.php
6/21/2008 9:19:10 AM|geneticlife@home|Master file download succeeded
6/21/2008 9:19:15 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: Project initialization
6/21/2008 9:19:15 AM|geneticlife@home|Requesting 1 seconds of new work
6/21/2008 9:19:20 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:19:20 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
6/21/2008 9:19:20 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: requested by project
6/21/2008 9:19:23 AM|geneticlife@home|[file_xfer] Started download of file ga_1.0_windows_intelx86.exe
6/21/2008 9:19:23 AM|geneticlife@home|[file_xfer] Started download of file wu_5000.dmp
6/21/2008 9:19:28 AM|geneticlife@home|[file_xfer] Finished download of file wu_5000.dmp
6/21/2008 9:19:28 AM|geneticlife@home|[file_xfer] Throughput 8280 bytes/sec
6/21/2008 9:19:30 AM|geneticlife@home|[file_xfer] Finished download of file ga_1.0_windows_intelx86.exe
6/21/2008 9:19:30 AM|geneticlife@home|[file_xfer] Throughput 14435 bytes/sec
6/21/2008 9:19:31 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
6/21/2008 9:19:31 AM|geneticlife@home|Requesting 208799 seconds of new work
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|[error] State file error: missing file wu_2_test.dmp
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|[error] State file error: missing input file wu_2_test.dmp
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|[error] Can't handle task sample_AI in scheduler reply
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|[error] State file error: missing task sample_AI
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|[error] Can't handle task sample_AI_2 in scheduler reply
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|[error] State file error: missing task sample_AI
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|[error] Can't handle task sample_AI_3 in scheduler reply
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
6/21/2008 9:19:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: requested by project
6/21/2008 9:19:47 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
6/21/2008 9:19:47 AM|geneticlife@home|Requesting 208793 seconds of new work
6/21/2008 9:19:52 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:19:52 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:19:52 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: no work from project
6/21/2008 9:20:52 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work
6/21/2008 9:20:52 AM|geneticlife@home|Requesting 208793 seconds of new work
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM||General prefs: from geneticlife@home (last modified 21-Jun-2008 09:11:37)
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM||Host location: none
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM||General prefs: using your defaults
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM||Reading preferences override file
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1380.68MB
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1534.09MB
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 72.98GB
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:20:58 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: no work from project
6/21/2008 9:21:16 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_1__2
6/21/2008 9:21:16 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_1__2 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:21:16 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_1__3
6/21/2008 9:21:16 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_1__3 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:24:38 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:24:38 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_1__3 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:24:38 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_1__3 finished
6/21/2008 9:24:38 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_1__3_0 for task sample_LEL5000_1__3 absent
6/21/2008 9:24:38 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_2__2
6/21/2008 9:24:38 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_2__2 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:24:39 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:24:39 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_1__2 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:24:39 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_1__2 finished
6/21/2008 9:24:39 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_1__2_0 for task sample_LEL5000_1__2 absent
6/21/2008 9:24:39 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_3__2
6/21/2008 9:24:39 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_3__2 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:25:43 AM||Time passed...reporting result now.
6/21/2008 9:25:43 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks
6/21/2008 9:25:43 AM|geneticlife@home|Reporting 2 tasks
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM||General prefs: from geneticlife@home (last modified 21-Jun-2008 09:13:49)
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM||Host location: none
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM||General prefs: using your defaults
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM||Reading preferences override file
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1380.68MB
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 1534.09MB
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 72.98GB
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
6/21/2008 9:25:49 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: requested by project
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_2__2 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_2__2 finished
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_2__2_0 for task sample_LEL5000_2__2 absent
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_3__2 finished
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_3__2_0 for task sample_LEL5000_3__2 absent
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_3__3
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_3__3 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_4__2
6/21/2008 9:27:04 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_4__2 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:28:05 AM||Time passed...reporting result now.
6/21/2008 9:28:05 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks
6/21/2008 9:28:05 AM|geneticlife@home|Reporting 2 tasks
6/21/2008 9:28:10 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:28:10 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
6/21/2008 9:28:10 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: requested by project
6/21/2008 9:29:29 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:29:29 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_4__2 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:29:29 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_4__2 finished
6/21/2008 9:29:29 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_4__2_0 for task sample_LEL5000_4__2 absent
6/21/2008 9:29:29 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_4__3
6/21/2008 9:29:29 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_4__3 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:29:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:29:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_3__3 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:29:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_3__3 finished
6/21/2008 9:29:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_3__3_0 for task sample_LEL5000_3__3 absent
6/21/2008 9:29:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_5__2
6/21/2008 9:29:36 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_5__2 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:30:41 AM||Time passed...reporting result now.
6/21/2008 9:30:41 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks
6/21/2008 9:30:41 AM|geneticlife@home|Reporting 2 tasks
6/21/2008 9:30:46 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:30:46 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
6/21/2008 9:30:46 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: requested by project
6/21/2008 9:31:56 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:31:56 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_4__3 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:31:56 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_4__3 finished
6/21/2008 9:31:56 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_4__3_0 for task sample_LEL5000_4__3 absent
6/21/2008 9:31:56 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_6__2
6/21/2008 9:31:56 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_6__2 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:32:03 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:32:03 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_5__2 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:32:03 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_5__2 finished
6/21/2008 9:32:03 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_5__2_0 for task sample_LEL5000_5__2 absent
6/21/2008 9:32:03 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_6__3
6/21/2008 9:32:03 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_6__3 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:33:07 AM||Time passed...reporting result now.
6/21/2008 9:33:07 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks
6/21/2008 9:33:07 AM|geneticlife@home|Reporting 2 tasks
6/21/2008 9:33:12 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:33:12 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
6/21/2008 9:33:12 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: requested by project
6/21/2008 9:34:19 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:34:19 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_6__2 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:34:20 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_6__2 finished
6/21/2008 9:34:20 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_6__2_0 for task sample_LEL5000_6__2 absent
6/21/2008 9:34:20 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_7__2
6/21/2008 9:34:20 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_7__2 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:34:28 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 1 min 0 sec
6/21/2008 9:34:28 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: Unrecoverable error for result sample_LEL5000_6__3 ( - exit code -1073741819 (0xc0000005))
6/21/2008 9:34:28 AM|geneticlife@home|Computation for task sample_LEL5000_6__3 finished
6/21/2008 9:34:28 AM|geneticlife@home|Output file sample_LEL5000_6__3_0 for task sample_LEL5000_6__3 absent
6/21/2008 9:34:28 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting sample_LEL5000_7__3
6/21/2008 9:34:28 AM|geneticlife@home|Starting task sample_LEL5000_7__3 using genlife version 100
6/21/2008 9:35:28 AM|geneticlife@home|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user
6/21/2008 9:35:28 AM|geneticlife@home|Reporting 2 tasks
6/21/2008 9:35:33 AM|geneticlife@home|Scheduler RPC succeeded [server version 603]
6/21/2008 9:35:33 AM|geneticlife@home|Deferring communication for 7 sec
6/21/2008 9:35:33 AM|geneticlife@home|Reason: requested by project
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And a few that won't update for some reason.

4870 GPU

[Grawlfang]

Cheers chaps,

Looks like I will have to rewrite the 'creature' memory allocation code - windows especially does not seem to be keen on maintaining linked lists and I may have to go back to using a simple array for storing the creature control blocks.

Will work on that tonight and see if I can't get a new windows version out tomorrrow when I get back to work (which is the only place I have access to windows machines).

ni!
Fang
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[KWSN imcrazynow]

I also noticed that on your BOINC page / my tasks that it's showing me with two more shrubs to plant. According to my tasks on my computer i've done all that I downloaded.
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And a few that won't update for some reason.

4870 GPU

[KWSN-HoC]

Added some boxes (also the dual quad xeon) to the project ......

If you'll need to have some logs just let me know.

Got 4 credits so far with my old HP Omnibook but there are 2 wu's left (id 20) which I can't find on the Omnibook but are "in process" looking at the "My account" section ..... the other boxes didn't got a wu until now (they were added later as the Omniook which is probably the cause).

Cheers

HoC
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Mastrumistulo de Kameloto

(also a Member of the Migratory Coconuts)

'My name is Homer from Borg. Resistance is fu ..... Oh doughnuts!'

[belenus]

I'll try to bring back to life my Linux machine and attach the project.

ni.
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[Grawlfang]

if anyone downloaded a work unit before 23:50 on Monday night then I suggest you abort it and reset the project - i have a new binary for linux ready now (duh - one that i compiled as well as linked).

Ni!
Fang
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[Grawlfang]

Hi all,

thanks for you support so far.

I've a new version of the linux and windows apps available that I think have resolved the memory exception issue on Windows - took a little longer than I hoped to rewrite - when I first developed a version of this application we were using computers with 1-4MB of memory and so I had to be extremely careful about memory allocation and used linked lists. This version has taken all that out and now just uses a large array (giventhat computers now have 1-16G of memory I'm not going to make a dent now).

Probably a good idea to reset the project and then process any work units available during my current tests.

All being well I'm going to work on the project forum this week.

ttfn & Ni!
Fang
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I'm in.....

Ni!
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