Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 24th March 2006

[Bennah]

Argh!!!

Just fired up my system today, F@H loaded up as normal and I loaded up FahMon. Looked at the status, it was @ 64% of a 5,000,000 WU, it waited for a while then came up with...

[10:39:03] Completed 3200000 out of 5000000 steps (64)
[10:39:03] Extra SSE boost OK.
[11:09:04] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[11:12:53] Size of work/wudata_06.xtc not what saved.
[11:12:53]
[11:12:53] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FILE_IO_ERROR
[11:12:56] CoreStatus = 75 (117)
[11:12:56] Error opening or reading from a file.
[11:12:56] Deleting current work unit & continuing...
[11:13:00] Trying to send all finished work units
[11:13:00] + No unsent completed units remaining.

It then got a new WU and just started it now...

[11:14:39] Writing local files
[11:15:09] Extra SSE boost OK.
[11:15:12] Writing local files
[11:15:14] Completed 0 out of 125000 steps (0)
[11:45:16] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[12:15:18] Timered checkpoint triggered.

You know what 'Timered checkpoint triggered' means?

Kinda takes a long time between the different steps. Only got this firefox browser open, looking around the forums. Its the rig show in my sig.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

That bites, mate. Timered checkpoint triggered means that it reached its alotted checkpoint time. If it does not finish 1% in less than the amount of time you specified when you installed it, it will create a checkpoint. A checkpoint is just a save location where it will back up what it has done so far. The default time is 15 minutes.

 

[Bennah]

Ah thanks for the info.

New WU has started ok. Guess I have to wait till this one finishes, I hope it does anyways.