New Rosetta Member

[Pete Church]

Thanks for the welcome! Maybe the team can help me determine if this is normal or not, but i am seeing quite a few of the WUs I push up as "Validation error". I look in the stderr of the WUs and I don't see anything wrong.

Some examples:
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I hate to be throwing garbage up there, but I have a stable rig, that churns SETI WUs with no errors. Let me know what you think.


OH: as a completely aside question... saw some of you are able to show multiple group memberships with your avatar (, etc). I can figure out how to show one at a time, but not both. How do you do that?

 

[drshivas]

Welcome! Glad to have you while SETI gets sorted out.

As for the errors, try resetting the project.

 

[Bobnova]

There are some WUs out there that error out in a matter of seconds, don't worry about those. They're borked, or something got lost in the download, or something like that.

If a sizable chunk of WUs are erroring out, something is wrong.
Rosetta is a different sort of stress then some other DC programs (FAH for instance), so I could see clocks that work in SETI not working in rosetta (and vice versa).

 

[Pete Church]

Ok, in all the cases I found, my wingman also got a validation error, so maybe it isn't just me, its the WU. I'll keep an eye out.

 

[drshivas]

Also, last I checked, Rosetta doesn't use the wingman strategy like SETI.

 

[Pete Church]

Also, last I checked, Rosetta doesn't use the wingman strategy like SETI.

Yeah, looks like you're right. It does look like 2 people work on the WU, but they don't have to agree before credit is granted.
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In one case both of us got errors, in the other I only did. Anyway, will still keep an eye out for too many errors.

 

[Bobnova]

They tend to run it through two or three people, but they give credit right away.
Don't know what happens if it comes in 2-1 against you having the proper result.


I think you're probably ok, the only times I've had instability issues it's either BSOD'd, or borked an entire load of WUs within five minutes. It hasn't been especially subtle for me!

 

[HankB]

Yeah, looks like you're right. It does look like 2 people work on the WU, but they don't have to agree before credit is granted.
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In one case both of us got errors, in the other I only did. Anyway, will still keep an eye out for too many errors.

If you click on 'explain' for that column:

Validate error: The task was reported but could not be validated, typically because the output files were lost on the server.

I don't think that has anything to do with the processing on your PC.

 

[Pete Church]

Haha i guess not then. But sucks that you actually see that a lot even for other people. Lots of lost credit for everyone.

 

[Bobnova]

There was a massive, massive storage system crash last month, it's fairly amazing that this much stuff still exists, the raid died two weeks from being replaced.
I'd guess that's probably where that message is coming from.

 

[psionic98]

Anyone else notice oddities on the rosetta webpage yesterday for their stats? I was showing an overall rac of like 41xx when my systems combined were actually posting about 49xx or more.. looks like its fixed now though.