Posts by Fardringle

1) Message boards : Number crunching : NWChem 0.11 (vbox64_t1) tasks do not suspend with BOINC preferences (Message 825) Posted 28 Apr 2020 by Fardringle Post: A delay of a few minutes would be annoying but not impossible to work with. The problem is that the tasks in question did not EVER suspend even after hours of actively using the computer, or after manually suspending the entire BOINC manager. I haven't seen the problem in the last week or two, so it was probably a temporary issue.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : NWChem 0.11 (vbox64_t1) tasks do not suspend with BOINC preferences (Message 705) Posted 27 Mar 2020 by Fardringle Post: I have BOINC set to suspend processing when the computer is in use so that it will not conflict with people actually using the computers. Most BOINC projects follow this preference and pause computing when appropriate. However, the NWChem 0.11 (vbox64_t1) tasks do not. They continue running and using full CPU and RAM resources even though the BOINC client itself is suspended. This makes the computer completely unusable and will probably result in many participants like myself being unable to contribute resources to this project. The only way to resolve this is to manually kill the VBox processes in Task Manager (which also renders the results invalid) and that should not be necessary if the tasks are configured to follow the BOINC computing preferences.
3) Message boards : News : Molecules are coming! (Message 526) Posted 7 Feb 2020 by Fardringle Post: What is the expected run time for these long work units?