Hi,

I've just started using BOINC, and thought this project looked like a good one. SETI seems to be running alright, but for some reason all of my work units from Rosetta are getting "Unrecoverable error"s when they start calculations. (See messages below)

Any idea what's causing this? Is there anything I can do to fix it, or should I just give up on rosetta?

I'm running BOINC Manager 5.2.13 under Windows 2000 Professional. My ID is a member of the administrators group on this machine.

John

2006-02-10 05:15:59|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
2006-02-10 05:15:59|rosetta@home|Reason: To fetch work
2006-02-10 05:15:59|rosetta@home|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
2006-02-10 05:16:04|rosetta@home|Scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded
2006-02-10 05:16:07|rosetta@home|Started download of cc4ubpA03_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:16:07|rosetta@home|Started download of 4ubp.pdb.gz
2006-02-10 05:16:10|rosetta@home|Finished download of cc4ubpA03_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:16:10|rosetta@home|Throughput 466534 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:16:10|rosetta@home|Finished download of 4ubp.pdb.gz
2006-02-10 05:16:10|rosetta@home|Throughput 36997 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:16:10|rosetta@home|Started download of 4ubpA.psipred_ss2.gz
2006-02-10 05:16:10|rosetta@home|Started download of 4ubpA.fasta
2006-02-10 05:16:11|rosetta@home|Finished download of 4ubpA.psipred_ss2.gz
2006-02-10 05:16:11|rosetta@home|Throughput 6096 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:16:11|rosetta@home|Finished download of 4ubpA.fasta
2006-02-10 05:16:11|rosetta@home|Throughput 679 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:16:11|rosetta@home|Started download of cc4ubpA09_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:16:16|rosetta@home|Finished download of cc4ubpA09_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:16:16|rosetta@home|Throughput 634371 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:16:18|rosetta@home|Starting result BARCODE_30_4ubpA_299_22801_1 using rosetta version 481
2006-02-10 05:16:19|rosetta@home|Unrecoverable error for result BARCODE_30_4ubpA_299_22801_1 (There are no child processes to wait for. (0x80) - exit code 128 (0x80))
2006-02-10 05:16:19|rosetta@home|Computation for result BARCODE_30_4ubpA_299_22801_1 finished
2006-02-10 05:20:08|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
2006-02-10 05:20:08|rosetta@home|Reason: To fetch work
2006-02-10 05:20:08|rosetta@home|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
2006-02-10 05:20:13|rosetta@home|Scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded
2006-02-10 05:20:16|rosetta@home|Started download of 1opd.pdb.gz
2006-02-10 05:20:16|rosetta@home|Started download of 1opd_.psipred_ss2.gz
2006-02-10 05:20:18|rosetta@home|Finished download of 1opd.pdb.gz
2006-02-10 05:20:18|rosetta@home|Throughput 26229 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:20:18|rosetta@home|Finished download of 1opd_.psipred_ss2.gz
2006-02-10 05:20:18|rosetta@home|Throughput 3428 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:20:18|rosetta@home|Started download of 1opd_.fasta
2006-02-10 05:20:18|rosetta@home|Started download of cc1opd_09_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:20:21|rosetta@home|Finished download of 1opd_.fasta
2006-02-10 05:20:21|rosetta@home|Throughput 577 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:20:21|rosetta@home|Started download of cc1opd_03_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:20:24|rosetta@home|Finished download of cc1opd_09_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:20:24|rosetta@home|Throughput 579223 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:20:24|rosetta@home|Finished download of cc1opd_03_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:20:24|rosetta@home|Throughput 337490 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:20:26|rosetta@home|Starting result BARCODE_30_1opd__299_24834_0 using rosetta version 481
2006-02-10 05:20:27|rosetta@home|Unrecoverable error for result BARCODE_30_1opd__299_24834_0 (There are no child processes to wait for. (0x80) - exit code 128 (0x80))
2006-02-10 05:20:28|rosetta@home|Computation for result BARCODE_30_1opd__299_24834_0 finished
2006-02-10 05:24:19|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
2006-02-10 05:24:19|rosetta@home|Reason: To fetch work
2006-02-10 05:24:19|rosetta@home|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
2006-02-10 05:24:24|rosetta@home|Scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded
2006-02-10 05:24:27|rosetta@home|Started download of 1a68_.fasta
2006-02-10 05:24:27|rosetta@home|Started download of cc1a68_03_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:24:30|rosetta@home|Finished download of 1a68_.fasta
2006-02-10 05:24:30|rosetta@home|Throughput 281 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:24:30|rosetta@home|Finished download of cc1a68_03_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:24:30|rosetta@home|Throughput 417379 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:24:30|rosetta@home|Started download of cc1a68_09_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:24:30|rosetta@home|Started download of 1a68_.psipred_ss2.gz
2006-02-10 05:24:31|rosetta@home|Finished download of 1a68_.psipred_ss2.gz
2006-02-10 05:24:31|rosetta@home|Throughput 5949 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:24:31|rosetta@home|Started download of 1a68.pdb.gz
2006-02-10 05:24:32|rosetta@home|Finished download of 1a68.pdb.gz
2006-02-10 05:24:32|rosetta@home|Throughput 34506 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:24:35|rosetta@home|Finished download of cc1a68_09_05.200_v1_3.gz
2006-02-10 05:24:35|rosetta@home|Throughput 609730 bytes/sec
2006-02-10 05:24:36|rosetta@home|Starting result BARCODE_30_1a68__299_24853_0 using rosetta version 481
2006-02-10 05:24:37|rosetta@home|Unrecoverable error for result BARCODE_30_1a68__299_24853_0 (There are no child processes to wait for. (0x80) - exit code 128 (0x80))
2006-02-10 05:24:37|rosetta@home|Computation for result BARCODE_30_1a68__299_24853_0 finished
2006-02-10 05:28:28|rosetta@home|Sending scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi
2006-02-10 05:28:28|rosetta@home|Reason: To fetch work
2006-02-10 05:28:28|rosetta@home|Requesting 8640 seconds of new work, and reporting 1 results
2006-02-10 05:28:33|rosetta@home|Scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta_cgi/cgi succeeded
2006-02-10 05:28:33|rosetta@home|Message from server: No work sent
2006-02-10 05:28:33|rosetta@home|Message from server: (reached daily quota of 25 results)
2006-02-10 05:28:33|rosetta@home|No work from project

I've been running for a while. Seems rosetta has such errors on occaision. Just looking at mine, I've got 9 work units right now, and of the 5 that have been completed, two had errors. One after 22 minutes, the other after only 3 minutes of compute time.

Bottom line, don't worry too much about it. BOINC will get more work when it is needed and report back the errors to the project. This should help them figure out if there's a bug, or erroneous data in the work unit, or if it just means it ran in to a protein sequence that can't exist or something.

If you're in it for the credits, then perhaps Rosetta isn't stable enough for you. If you're just new to it all, it does happen on occaision. And, generally, over time new versions make such problems increasingly rare. That's why you don't see the same with SETI, the project has been around much longer.

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I've been running for a while. Seems rosetta has such errors on occaision. Just looking at mine, I've got 9 work units right now, and of the 5 that have been completed, two had errors. One after 22 minutes, the other after only 3 minutes of compute time.

Thanks for your response.
If I were seeing a failure rate of 40% after a processing period, I wouldn't be so surprised, but I'm seeing a 100% failure rate, and they're failing at startup. (Less than one second of processing time)
I suppose my machine just can't handle rosetta.

Pity.

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