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indigenous
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Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:45 pm

F@H not continuing WU.

Post by indigenous »

I have started folding again under a new alias. I have folded before, but only for a very short time.

Twice on my laptop the machine has managed to get over half way through a WU, and then all of a sudden it has started from the beginning. Which has left me quite discombobulated. This time it was after a reboot. On both occasions the deadline was over a week away.

Below is the log file. One unknown error found.

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[17:32:29] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=81540 data_size=100020, decompressed_data_size=100020 diff=0
[17:32:29] - Digital signature verified
[17:32:29] 
[17:32:29] Project: 10721 (Run 0, Clone 960, Gen 6)
[17:32:29] 
[17:32:29] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[17:32:29] Entering M.D.
[17:32:35] Using Gromacs checkpoints
[17:32:35] Mapping NT from 1 to 1 
[17:32:35] Resuming from checkpoint
[17:32:35] File work/wudata_01.log has changed since last checkpoint
[17:32:35] mdrun returned 3
[17:32:35] Gromacs detected an invalid checkpoint.  Restarting...
[17:32:37] Folding@home Core Shutdown: UNKNOWN_ERROR
[17:32:40] CoreStatus = 62 (98)
[17:32:40] + Restarting core (settings changed) 
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] + Processing work unit
[17:32:40] Core required: FahCore_a4.exe
[17:32:40] Core found.
[17:32:40] Working on queue slot 01 [November 24 17:32:40 UTC]
[17:32:40] + Working ...
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] *------------------------------*
[17:32:40] Folding@Home Gromacs GB Core
[17:32:40] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] Preparing to commence simulation
[17:32:40] - Looking at optimizations...
[17:32:40] - Not checking prior termination.
[17:32:40] - Expanded 81540 -> 100020 (decompressed 122.6 percent)
[17:32:40] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=81540 data_size=100020, decompressed_data_size=100020 diff=0
[17:32:40] - Digital signature verified
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] Project: 10721 (Run 0, Clone 960, Gen 6)
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[17:32:40] Entering M.D.
[17:32:46] Mapping NT from 1 to 1 
[17:32:47] Completed 0 out of 7000000 steps  (0%)

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.


--- Opening Log file [November 24 17:39:56 UTC] 


# Windows CPU Systray Edition #################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.23

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################


[17:39:56] Loaded queue successfully.
[17:39:56] Initialization complete
[17:39:56] 
[17:39:56] + Processing work unit
[17:39:56] Core required: FahCore_a4.exe
[17:39:56] Core found.
[17:39:56] Working on queue slot 01 [November 24 17:39:56 UTC]
[17:39:56] + Working ...
[17:39:57] 
[17:39:57] *------------------------------*
[17:39:57] Folding@Home Gromacs GB Core
[17:39:57] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[17:39:57] 
[17:39:57] Preparing to commence simulation
[17:39:57] - Looking at optimizations...
[17:39:57] - Files status OK
[17:39:57] - Expanded 81540 -> 100020 (decompressed 122.6 percent)
[17:39:57] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=81540 data_size=100020, decompressed_data_size=100020 diff=0
[17:39:57] - Digital signature verified
[17:39:57] 
[17:39:57] Project: 10721 (Run 0, Clone 960, Gen 6)
[17:39:57] 
[17:39:57] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[17:39:57] Entering M.D.

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.


--- Opening Log file [November 24 17:40:09 UTC] 


# Windows CPU Systray Edition #################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.23

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: C:\Users\Stephen\AppData\Roaming\Folding@home-x86


[17:40:09] + Processing work unit
[17:40:09] Core required: FahCore_a4.exe
[17:40:09] Core found.
[17:40:09] Working on queue slot 01 [November 24 17:40:09 UTC]
[17:40:09] + Working ...
[17:40:09] 
[17:40:09] *------------------------------*
[17:40:09] Folding@Home Gromacs GB Core
[17:40:09] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[17:40:09] 
[17:40:09] Preparing to commence simulation
[17:40:09] - Looking at optimizations...
[17:40:09] - Files status OK
[17:40:09] - Expanded 81540 -> 100020 (decompressed 122.6 percent)
[17:40:09] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=81540 data_size=100020, decompressed_data_size=100020 diff=0
[17:40:09] - Digital signature verified
[17:40:09] 
[17:40:09] Project: 10721 (Run 0, Clone 960, Gen 6)
[17:40:09] 
[17:40:09] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[17:40:09] Entering M.D.
[17:40:15] Using Gromacs checkpoints
[17:40:15] Mapping NT from 1 to 1 
[17:40:15] Resuming from checkpoint
[17:40:15] Verified work/wudata_01.log
[17:40:15] Verified work/wudata_01.trr
[17:40:15] Verified work/wudata_01.xtc
[17:40:15] Verified work/wudata_01.edr
[17:40:15] Completed 12296 out of 7000000 steps  (0%)
[17:40:17] Opening C:\Users\Stephen\AppData\Roaming\Folding@home-x86\MyFolding.html...
[17:40:30] Opening http://foldingforum.org/...
[17:43:03] Opening http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=14...
[17:43:09] Opening http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=indigenous3.141...
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gwildperson
Posts: 450
Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:36 pm

Re: F@H not continuing WU.

Post by gwildperson »

Welcome to the Folding@home and to the help forum, indigenous.

I could be wrong, but it looks like it might be working correctly and you may be underestimating how much work it will take your computer to complete a Work Unit.

If it takes a minute or two for FAH to initialize, running a an extremely low priority while everything else is starting up, it won't have time to do anything useful. If you kill the client and restart it too quickly, it will restart from the beginning.

During one of your brief sessions, some progress was stored and was clearly recovered in the last reboot [17:40:15] Completed 12296 out of 7000000 steps (0%) which shows 0.018% progress, rounded off to 0%.

To complete a FAH Work Unit on a (relatively) slow computer generally requires many days of continuous processing and very brief blocks of processing time contribute very little to the required total.
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indigenous
Posts: 4
Joined: Thu Nov 24, 2011 5:45 pm

Re: F@H not continuing WU.

Post by indigenous »

Hmm possibly. I was following the progress closely, every now and then placing my mouse cursor over the F@h icon in systray.
The 0% you see is due to the loss of the WU after the error.
Previous to the error I had what is shown below.

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[12:00:31] Verified work/wudata_01.log
[12:00:31] Verified work/wudata_01.trr
[12:00:31] Verified work/wudata_01.xtc
[12:00:31] Verified work/wudata_01.edr
[12:00:31] Completed 2506326 out of 7000000 steps  (35%)
[12:07:46] Completed 2520000 out of 7000000 steps  (36%)
[12:45:17] Completed 2590000 out of 7000000 steps  (37%)
[13:26:33] Completed 2660000 out of 7000000 steps  (38%)
[14:28:37] Completed 2730000 out of 7000000 steps  (39%)
[15:10:43] Completed 2800000 out of 7000000 steps  (40%)

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.


--- Opening Log file [November 24 17:32:26 UTC] 


# Windows CPU Systray Edition #################################################
###############################################################################

                       Folding@Home Client Version 6.23

                          http://folding.stanford.edu

###############################################################################
###############################################################################

Launch directory: C:\Users\Stephen\AppData\Roaming\Folding@home-x86



[17:32:26] 
[17:32:26] Loaded queue successfully.
[17:32:26] Initialization complete
[17:32:26] 
[17:32:26] + Processing work unit
[17:32:26] Core required: FahCore_a4.exe
[17:32:26] Core found.
[17:32:26] Working on queue slot 01 [November 24 17:32:26 UTC]
[17:32:26] + Working ...
[17:32:28] 
[17:32:28] *------------------------------*
[17:32:28] Folding@Home Gromacs GB Core
[17:32:28] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[17:32:28] 
[17:32:28] Preparing to commence simulation
[17:32:28] - Looking at optimizations...
[17:32:28] - Files status OK
[17:32:29] - Expanded 81540 -> 100020 (decompressed 122.6 percent)
[17:32:29] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=81540 data_size=100020, decompressed_data_size=100020 diff=0
[17:32:29] - Digital signature verified
[17:32:29] 
[17:32:29] Project: 10721 (Run 0, Clone 960, Gen 6)
[17:32:29] 
[17:32:29] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[17:32:29] Entering M.D.
[17:32:35] Using Gromacs checkpoints
[17:32:35] Mapping NT from 1 to 1 
[17:32:35] Resuming from checkpoint
[17:32:35] File work/wudata_01.log has changed since last checkpoint
[17:32:35] mdrun returned 3
[17:32:35] Gromacs detected an invalid checkpoint.  Restarting...
[17:32:37] Folding@home Core Shutdown: UNKNOWN_ERROR
[17:32:40] CoreStatus = 62 (98)
[17:32:40] + Restarting core (settings changed) 
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] + Processing work unit
[17:32:40] Core required: FahCore_a4.exe
[17:32:40] Core found.
[17:32:40] Working on queue slot 01 [November 24 17:32:40 UTC]
[17:32:40] + Working ...
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] *------------------------------*
[17:32:40] Folding@Home Gromacs GB Core
[17:32:40] Version 2.27 (Dec. 15, 2010)
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] Preparing to commence simulation
[17:32:40] - Looking at optimizations...
[17:32:40] - Not checking prior termination.
[17:32:40] - Expanded 81540 -> 100020 (decompressed 122.6 percent)
[17:32:40] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=81540 data_size=100020, decompressed_data_size=100020 diff=0
[17:32:40] - Digital signature verified
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] Project: 10721 (Run 0, Clone 960, Gen 6)
[17:32:40] 
[17:32:40] Assembly optimizations on if available.
[17:32:40] Entering M.D.
[17:32:46] Mapping NT from 1 to 1 
[17:32:47] Completed 0 out of 7000000 steps  (0%)

Folding@Home Client Shutdown.
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gwildperson
Posts: 450
Joined: Tue Dec 04, 2007 8:36 pm

Re: F@H not continuing WU.

Post by gwildperson »

An error was detected at [17:32:35] Gromacs detected an invalid checkpoint. but the actual error occurred some time after [15:10:43] when the message with no time-stamp was written: Folding@Home Client Shutdown. The log does not tell us anything about how FAH was shut down at that point. If you happen to remember, you might be able to provide some additional information about that shutdown.

My comments are based on the information you've presented, plus a guess or two. It's possible that you had to force Windows to shut down using the power button rather than using the menu selection and then allowing windows to complete an orderly shutdown. If that's actually what happened, you were unlucky in selecting that precise time that force Windows to shutdown. I strongly recommend that you avoid all forced shutdown and allow Windows plenty of time to power the system off after you select shutdown/log-off/reboot menu.

If that's not what happened, I don't have an alternative suggestion, thought I'm sure there are other possibles.
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