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Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:01 pm**

Running on a 3Ghz MacPro Octo-core
Just got this WU and it's displaying unusual behaviour:

[16:38:56] Project: 306- Starting from initial work packet
[16:38:56] 
[16:38:56] Project: 3065 (Run 2, Clone 257, Gen 11)
[16:38:56] 
[16:38:56] Entering M.D.
NNODES=4, MYRANK=2, HOSTNAME=8Core.local
NNODES=4, MYRANK=0, HOSTNAME=8Core.local
NNODES=4, MYRANK=1, HOSTNAME=8Core.local
NNODES=4, MYRANK=3, HOSTNAME=8Core.local
NODEID=3 argc=15
NODEID=0 argc=15
NODEID=1 argc=15
NODEID=2 argc=15
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[16:39:02] cpfilenamepfilename: 
[16:39:02] Rejecting checkpoint
starting mdrun '66728 p3065_lambda5_99sb_big'
2500000 steps,   5000.0 ps.

[16:39:03] Protein: 66728 p3065_lambda5Extra SSE boost OK.
[16:39:03] oost OK.
[16:39:03] 
[16:39:03] Extra SSE boost OK.
[16:39:03] Writing local files
[16:39:03] Completed 0 out of 2500000 steps  (0 percent)
[16:59:03] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[17:19:03] Timered checkpoint triggered.
[17:39:05] Timered checkpoint triggered.

unitinfo.txt reports that it's still at 0% after an hour.

Activity Monitor shows that it is only sporadically using CPU time, the four instances of FahCOre_a1.exe are jumping between 0% and 25% CPU utilization (most cores run steady at around 95% - 96%). There's lots of idle time on the system.

Posted: **Sat Mar 07, 2009 6:14 pm**

Hi Grant - Thanks for reporting this strange problem. Funny, I have a p3064 (r3, c192, g21) on a Mini, which was doing something similar this morning. Just quit working some time after the 13th frame, while still in 'running' status. The cores and client were all visible in activity monitor but using 0% CPU. I stopped the WU (cores and client all quit immediately) and restarted it. It came back up smoothly and is now cranking along well, though it will probably miss the deadline after spending around 24 hours stalled.

Try stopping and restarting yours, monitoring the client and core utilization in Activity Monitor as you do so. I'd be interested to see whether the simple restart is enough to get your work unit back on track.

No one else has turned in results partial or complete for this unit, and the preceding generation was submitted for credit early this morning, meaning that you are the first recipient for this generation of the unit.

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2009 12:30 am**

I didn't leave the WU running at reduced output very long, there was no way it was going to complete on time at that rate.

So, as you suggested, I stopped the WU, restarted it and it started up at full speed, now having completed 31%

Will let you know how it ends.

Posted: **Sun Mar 08, 2009 6:36 pm**

Seemed to complete and upload the result OK

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