Posts by John C MacAlister

1) Message boards : Malaria Control : Status update (Message 18524)
Posted 344 days ago by John C MacAlister

Many thanks for the encouraging update.

John

2) Message boards : Number crunching : openMalaria test version v6.63 (Message 18225)
Posted 370 days ago by John C MacAlister

The Run Time ranged from 955.82 to 12 508.49 sec on my 21 tasks.

3) Message boards : Number crunching : openMalaria test version v6.63 (Message 18224)
Posted 370 days ago by John C MacAlister

I have processed 21 of these tasks using an AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.8 GHz,4 GB memory, with the following results:

Average Run time: 4016.71 sec
Average CPU Time: 3088.73 sec
Average points/h Run Time 28.20283

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Validating results (Message 16861)
Posted 520 days ago by John C MacAlister

I too have more than 260 wu pending validation. Does anyone know what's happening?

Hello Aon.
I am like you and I hope to have a concrete answer.

WUs flowing again....I have 250 pending validation. I guess we will just have to wait.

5) Message boards : Number crunching : Validating results (Message 16841)
Posted 521 days ago by John C MacAlister

No WUs available for about 8 hours, validation stalled.......??

6) Message boards : Malaria Control : MSP3 vaccine interesting. (Message 16828)
Posted 522 days ago by John C MacAlister

Maybe I missed it, but I found no mention of the Malaria Control project or BOINC in this article or others cited. There was a passing reference to bed nets at the end of one article.....

:((

7) Message boards : News : Situation on malariacontrol.net back to normal (Message 16633)
Posted 547 days ago by John C MacAlister

what in gods green earth is this all good for? what is happening?

Hi, vinz:

Maybe you could elucidate "this". I don't understand the problem to which "this" refers.

John

8) Message boards : Number crunching : Linux or Windows ? (Message 16461)
Posted 578 days ago by John C MacAlister

Hi All
I'm coming back to this project after a bit of an hiatus. I recall that the project only had Linux apps a while ago but see it now has Windows as well. As I have a number of dual boot computers. Which app is the fastest/most efficient or do they pan out equally ?

EDIT: I was confusing Malaria Control with one of the WCG projects when I mentioned Linux only. however the main question stands about the best app to use.

Brodo

Hard to say: little difference on my dual boot PCs.

9) Message boards : Number crunching : Give more credits, please (Message 16460)
Posted 578 days ago by John C MacAlister

I haven't been back to this project for quite some time because, at that time, it didn't "play well" with my other Boinc project "SETI@Home". I like to keep my SETI queue at about 10 days for te times SETI has equipment prob's (like now). In the past, if I had a 10 day queue Malaria would fill it with WU's with a 4 day deadline, this would create a lot of "running in high priority" WU's and a lot of timeout/dead WU's i.e. wasted cpu time. I now only come back here when I can set my queue to .25 days and wait for SETI to come back up.

Does this project "play well" with a queue set to 10 days? I would LOVE to dedicate a couple of CPU's to it ... but the "clean up" in the past was too painful.

As for credit? Who the H--- cares? I want a project mix that needs NO supervision and gets science done!

(BTW is there a GPU WU generator in the works??)

Ed F

I want to see the eradication of malaria and the immense suffering it causes. I just crunch the tasks and hope my crunching will contribute eventually to a positive result. This was my first project and I will continue here as well as with WCG projects (C4Cw, HCC, HPF 2, DDDT, etc) hoping this work will help people suffering from the effects of filthy water and disease. Credits? These are OK but not the goal.

10) Message boards : Number crunching : Maximum elapsed time exceeded (Message 16288)
Posted 602 days ago by John C MacAlister

We need a project to solve the disease of downsizing now running rampant all over the world. :(

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