Posts by TLSI2000

1) Message boards : News : New website info (Message 196) Posted 5 Sep 2012 by TLSI2000 Post: I like the web site, but would offer a few constructive comments. The black background is nice and a good choice The really nice logo is a little visually lost on the dark background. The dark-brown text area, with the darkish font color unfortunately does not show up well for readability. I do appreciate the effort to not do a 'black text on white' background for those of us who work in the dark ! Thanks for all of the work.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks to Send (Message 159) Posted 26 Aug 2012 by TLSI2000 Post: In reviewing the numbers, it seems that there are 55 WU still out, and there have been just 4 users report in the last 24 hours. This probably means that there are just a very few users that have WUs on their machines. In particular (and I am not in any way trying to target anyone), I found two machines have 8 and 9 still out; and these machines have 5 days and 13 days of average turn around time, respectively; and with deadlines of Sept 5th - 12th. That is one-third of the total. If the machines with a number of WUs can redistributed those that they won't get to in a timely manner (a day or two), then aborting them would help us all to finish the current series. Unfortunately, part of the problem is the number of 'inconclusive' results for each WU, myself having only two thirds finish was valid. This has meant that there has been a large quantity of re-processing done. Some of the WUs that I have run were in their 6/7/8 iteration. It follows that even if the currently captured WUs are redistributed, there is no guarantee that the WU's next host will be able to produce a valid result and clear it from the queue. So, this will go on for a while longer. Here is hoping for a successful conclusion to this situation. But there may come a time where intervention may be necessary. ---- I apologize in advance if I offended anyone.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks to Send (Message 140) Posted 12 Aug 2012 by TLSI2000 Post: After a quick look through the tasks that I have in the pending state (albeit: 'inconclusive').... For the last computer sent for each of the tasks: ... The deadline date is in the range of Aug 21th - Aug 27th ... The 'time since sent' is not yet up to the 'average turnaround time' Only about 350 have cleared in the last 7 days. This may be a long wait.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : No Tasks to Send (Message 131) Posted 3 Aug 2012 by TLSI2000 Post: There are no more tasks in the queue ready to send. Hopefully this is just temporary.
5) Message boards : Windows : Application for Windows (Message 126) Posted 1 Aug 2012 by TLSI2000 Post: In order to participate, I pulled down a copy of VirtualBox (Oracle/Sun), and set up a simple VM. Then I pulled the latest Ubuntu and set it up. It took a few hours to get it all correct. This allows me to run the Linux application. There is some overhead with the setup, but it does let me contribute during the wait.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Download and Processing Errors (Message 125) Posted 1 Aug 2012 by TLSI2000 Post: I will have to agree with the post above. Running 12+ hours and actually finishing, and then to get an 'inconclusive' status is a bit defeating. It not like we didn't do all that was asked of us. Still, it is all for the 'greater good '.