I have 4 wu's sitting on "ready to report" completed from 1 to 48 hours ago - please advise.

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what's it say in the messages tab? You can highlight the relevant portion with a click & drag, the click the "copy selected" box, then paste it to your reply. basically the last dozen or so lines. you might also look under the "activity" menu and make sure "network always available" is checked.

Or you could go to the "advanced" menu, and click "retry comms".

OR you could go to the "projects" tab, highlight "rosetta....." with a left mouse click (I.E select the project itself), then click the "update" box.

I have one troublesome work unit. It hit 95% complete and then refused to go any farther. I suspended and resumed once and it managed to get to 96% before it stopped. Another suspend and resume and its at 100% progress, 04:59:02 CPU, dash marks for time to completion and not advancing to report stage. I've suspended this work unit and am not accepting further work from project. When all other work units finish (hopefully), will abort this problem work unit.

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pascal, please open the graphic display and see what model you are on, and see if the steps are counting up. If so, don't worry too much about the 10min. time to completion not declining one second per second. More details if you are still on model 1.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Help me out here. I get nothing whatsoever from clicking on the Show Graphics button. I've never used this. I don't know what is supposed to happen. Even the online Help files are not particularly informative in this regard since it only vaguely resembles the options on my screen. But this is not particularly urgent since there are other work units to crunch. In the meantime, I'll keep the problem work unit suspended.

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Sorry for not being more specific. The show graphics button is only enabled when the task is actively running.

What is the "Status" shown in the tasks tab for this task? I now realize I hadn't read your original description closely enough. You are saying that it now shows 100% and dashs for a time to completion?? But it still uses CPU time when it is not suspended?

To see what model it is on, go to the tasks tab in the advanced view of the BOINC Manager, click on the task, then click the show graphics button. It should bring up a new window showing the protein or RNA structure that you are working on. Something like is shown here. In all the white lettering at the bottom, on the right hand column, on the second line you will find model and step.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Pascal, if you've installed BOINC as a service then you can't see the graphics (unless you go into Computer Management > Services > BOINC and change the log-on to system service and check allow service to interact with desktop, and then restart BOINC).

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After I resume the work unit, the status shows Running, of course. However, the CPU is stuck at 04:59:03 and does not advance at all. Progress is at 100.00% and there are dashes in the "To completion" field. I've not seen a work unit inexplicably grind to a halt as this one did when it was at 95% Progress. At 100.00% Progress, I would have expected it to upload and go to Report status. Neither of those things are happening. I'll let it Run for an hour or so and if it still fails to clear from the Task list, I'll put it back to Suspend and crunch other waiting work units.

I'll also try to bring up Graphics using the suggestions from dcdc. Bear with me on this. I'm normally content to simply let BOINC crunch away in the background.

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Whatever it was seems to have corrected itself over a system reboot. With the new stability in Windows XP, we may not get frequent system crashes and blue screens, but there is now an indefinable "funk" when things aren't working as they should.
The problem work unit was still Running when I had to reboot to clear up this overall sense of things being "not quite right". On BOINC restart the status of the work unit had changed to Uploading. On connection to the Internet, I was able to do the Transfer, Update and finally dispose of the completed work unit. Problem resolved.

Oh, and I can now call up Graphics for a running work unit. I didn't have to change anything. Merely reboot.

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Oh, and I can now call up Graphics for a running work unit. I didn't have to change anything. Merely reboot.
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Just open BOINC manager and then highlight the WU you want to view and then click on the tasks tab and then click on the "show graphics" button on the left scroll menu. This will open up a separate graphics window for that WU.

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