Quake-Catcher Network Sensor Monitoring

Posts by JBDAV8888

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Using Old and New Sensor on Same Computer System (Message 3072)
Posted 681 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello

What are the ramifications of using an Old (beige) sensor with a New sensor? I am considering purchasing the new sensor.

I am using a Windows 7 Pro 64bit OS I know the overhead is very minor so processor usage is not an issue.

I also have running WCG, GPUGrid with an NVidia 9800 GTX+ in CUDA mode.

besides my main question, what is the possiblity of using the GPU to run work-units ?

I seem to also fall into the "completed, not validated" group, any ideas?

Thanks

JBDAV8888

2) Message boards : Cafe : PC World and Quake Catcher Network (Message 1883)
Posted 1385 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello

Have a look at the article on BOINC and QCN

http://www.pcworld.com/article/171126-6/12_worthy_causes_seek_your_spare_pc_cycles.html

Jones

3) Questions and Answers : Windows : PC World and Quake Catcher Network (Message 1882)
Posted 1385 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello

Have a look at the article on BOINC and the QCN project

http://www.pcworld.com/article/171126-6/12_worthy_causes_seek_your_spare_pc_cycles.html

Jones

4) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1845)
Posted 1410 days ago by JBDAV8888

Update:

Well it seems that the BOINC project or the default settings on the QCN work unit defaults to the priority of "below normal".

This causes a connection error in the BOINC software which doesn't allow the QCN part to connect to the servers, it has a time out error.

On suggesting from Marj earlier in this thread I manually set the priority of the QCN in task manager to "normal" then it will download the next work unit after it completes the one it is working on.

so what does this mean?

several things I believe, if the software work unit was (if possible) set to a default priority of "normal" end of story.

however I think that the BOINC program itself is the one assigning the priority and I haven't found a way to set that different.

this is where Carl and Marj could weigh in and possiblly put in a switch or do a reset to allow the priority at a "normal" rate instead of the "below priority".

if this is not possible then maybe a contact with the Berkley people to allow this switch in the next several BOINC updates?

What do you think?

Jones

System:OS Windows 7 RC (soon to be RTM) ASUS PQ5-EM motherboard with a Pentium D 940 3.2 Dual Core Processor, 4Gb of DDR 1066 memory, 1RAID (striped) 950Gb, 1 200Gb RAID (mirrored), 1 500gb , and 1 320gb all SATA drives, Joywarrior sensor, using a Clear WiMAX 3Mb high speed always on Connection.

5) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1794)
Posted 1448 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello Carl, Marj

Well I have stopped use on the older machine (running WIN 7 RC) and moved it to a newer machine

Vista SP2, Pentium D 3.2Ghz, 2 Gb of memory. Plenty of drive space.

I believe that will take care of the downloading work unit problem.

If not then it would have to be a problem using WiMAX Broadband connection.

I will report the results in a day or so.

Thanks for all the help on this vexing problem.

Jones

6) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1729)
Posted 1455 days ago by JBDAV8888

Carl

I will set the WCC at 80% and see if that makes a difference.

I may move the sensor to a faster machine with more memory if this doesn't do it

as I do not wish to use too much of your time. (I'm pretty sure your really occupied)

My machine is not doing anything but running WCC and QCN

I have also found that the "Blink" anti-virus and firewall is even less intensive resource hog than the Win 7 firewall alone. (that is good)

it is the only anti-virus and firewall that works with Win 7 RC and Vista.

I will update

Thanks again

Jones

7) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1724)
Posted 1457 days ago by JBDAV8888

Marj

Yes I had to reset each time it downloaded a new work unit.

Now it will not even download a workunit

it says it has reached a limit and there are no work units available.

I would ask, can't your server reset the priority for all workunits to be set as normal.

My WCC is running well at IDLE and it is not having a problem.

Can you advise?

Thanks

8) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1690)
Posted 1469 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello again,

Ok it looks like it may be updating properly now, I had an automatic update
about 2hr and 45min ago.

Thank

Jones

9) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1682)
Posted 1471 days ago by JBDAV8888

Marj

Ok, I downloaded and installed the "EnhanceMySe7en 1.1.4" utility.

It was able to reset the priority easily to normal, (and it has a bunch more stuff I will look at later)

I will wait and see what happens and report most likely later tonight or tomorrow.

Thanks

Jones

10) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1680)
Posted 1471 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello

Does anyone have any ideas?

My other Boinc project seems to be working great, WCG (worldcommunitygrid)

I can manually reset the project QCN and it will show work units being logged.

all my network communications seem to be working ok.

if you look at my other post earlier you will see the error progression.

any advice?

by the way I cannot seem to be able to change the priority so any suggestions on that (by the way I know the usual way to change the priority)

Thanks

Jones

11) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1653)
Posted 1484 days ago by JBDAV8888

Thanks for the reply

Is there a way to set the time the work unit will wait for the server to respond?

Could that be the problem? what does things look like on your end i.e. server?

The WCG is working great, I have even set the BOINC to download an extra work unit and it won't do it for QCN however it has downloaded an extra work unit for the WCG

Any Suggestions?

I have gone to set the priority higher and the system will not let me, (Win 7 RC problem I will figure out)

Thanks

Jones

12) Questions and Answers : Windows : Not Able to Report (Message 1649)
Posted 1484 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello
here is a copy and paste from my QCN on Boinc

5/22/2009 5:52:55 PM Quake-Catcher Network Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks
5/22/2009 5:58:02 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
5/22/2009 5:58:03 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
5/22/2009 5:58:05 PM Quake-Catcher Network Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
5/22/2009 6:09:30 PM Quake-Catcher Network Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message.
5/22/2009 6:09:30 PM Quake-Catcher Network Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks
5/22/2009 6:14:37 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
5/22/2009 6:14:38 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
5/22/2009 6:14:40 PM Quake-Catcher Network Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
5/22/2009 6:40:10 PM Quake-Catcher Network update requested by user
5/22/2009 6:40:10 PM Quake-Catcher Network Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
5/22/2009 6:40:10 PM Quake-Catcher Network Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks

I have changed my internet service provider to CLEAR (WiMAX in Portland, OR) I have a great connection.

I have also changed my firewall and Anti-Virus to "Blink Personal Edition" (from e-Eye Digital Security) away from LiveOneCare (which is going away the first of next year replaced by something called Morro) I am running Win 7 RC (with admin rights) everything ran great with Win7 Beta.

I have tried with and without the firewall,and Anti-Virus it appears that I have a good internet connection when I test it.

I am able to manually reset the project and then it will download all items needed to run and work great until it reaches 100% then it will not upload (see above error)

Oh, Yes I should say that my WorldCommunityGrid BOINC project that I am running is uploading and downloading work units fine.

any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks

Jones

13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Download Failure for qcn_4.82_windows_intelx86__nci.exe (Message 1642)
Posted 1489 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello, I am having a similar problem, (not exactly the same however similar)
here is a copy and paste from my QCN on Boinc

5/22/2009 5:52:55 PM Quake-Catcher Network Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks
5/22/2009 5:58:02 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
5/22/2009 5:58:03 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
5/22/2009 5:58:05 PM Quake-Catcher Network Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
5/22/2009 6:09:30 PM Quake-Catcher Network Sending scheduler request: To send trickle-up message.
5/22/2009 6:09:30 PM Quake-Catcher Network Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks
5/22/2009 6:14:37 PM Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site
5/22/2009 6:14:38 PM Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
5/22/2009 6:14:40 PM Quake-Catcher Network Scheduler request failed: Timeout was reached
5/22/2009 6:40:10 PM Quake-Catcher Network update requested by user
5/22/2009 6:40:10 PM Quake-Catcher Network Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
5/22/2009 6:40:10 PM Quake-Catcher Network Reporting 1 completed tasks, requesting new tasks

I have changed my internet service provider to CLEAR (WiMAX in Portland, OR) I have a great connection.

I have also changed my firewall and Anti-Virus to Blink (from e-Eye Digital Security) from LiveOneCare (which is going away the first of next year) I am running Win 7 RC (with admin rights)
/

I have tried with and without the firewall,

any suggestions would be appreciated.

thanks

Jones
what do you suppose is going on

14) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC and Windows 7 Beta (Message 776)
Posted 1614 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello

Windows 7 Beta is the newest MS OS.

It works reasonably well at this time, however it will under go evolution as things proceed.

I do enjoy being on the forefront of change.

Thanks

Jones

15) Questions and Answers : Windows : BOINC and Windows 7 Beta (Message 765)
Posted 1615 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello,

Installed Windows 7 BETA , and of course the QCN Boinc would not seem to run, after doing some discovery I found that Win 7 has a Compatibility Tool, (right clik on program to run) after using this, explaining what the perceived problem was (would not run) and the last OS that it would run under (Win XP) a restart and away it goes.

Running well now, also the QCN Live application now also runs well.

I would say that the Compatibility Tool is far and away more useful than the Vista tool.

Thanks

Jones

16) Message boards : Science : USB accelerometer (Message 713)
Posted 1638 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello,

Up here in Portland, OR. we are having a snow storm (most snow in 40 years) I plan on mounting my USB sensor (with proper weatherproofing) outside on a old grounding post. I will be using a modified "re-bar" protector (looks like a orange mushroom, goes on top of re-bar at a construction site to keep people from impailing themselves) to attach it to the top of the post.

This will give a ground conduction of a higher magnitude than inside.

What are anyones thoughts on this? Good, Bad, or indifferent?

Running on BOINC with WorldCommunityGrid, since the QCN does not use many clock cycles I am receiving what appears to be great results on both

Look forward to processing and contributing to furthering science in my own little way.

Jones

17) Questions and Answers : Windows : HP laptops currently being looked at (Message 666)
Posted 1661 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello

I suppose that someone somewhere did think to ask the respective laptop companies for data on this?

yes it does seem, less than bright to ask this however I have seen stuff like this before.

by the way I have sent in for a sensor (with check) any idea when they will be shipped?

thanks

Jones

18) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Accelerometer (Message 493)
Posted 1722 days ago by JBDAV8888

Hello,

I realize that this may be a redundant question, however what about using the LEGO mindstorm Accelerometer module? There is already easily editable software available, and it is fairly inexpensive with an easy interface.

why reinvent the wheel?

thanks

Jones