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#2 Software unusuable with 8-gen intel CPU
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2019-04-26
2019-04-08
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I'm using this software on different PC, and two of them use an intel i7 8 gen CPU (i7-8700 and i7-8750H). On these 2 PC the program crash to desktop as soon as I start a fit. No message is displayed.
Any possibilities to have this problem fixed?
Thanks,
Jacopo
Hi Jacopo,
I can try to take a look at it in the next month or so. I haven't worked on
it in several years, and I have to see how easy it is to get building
again. It's also complicated in that I don't have those chips. I'll try to
get back to you in the next week or two. Job and life are busy right now.
If you have an older computer, I would try that in the interim. I believe
in contributing to the scientific community, so I'll see what I can do.
Steve
P.S. If your computer's language session is not set to English, try that.
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 3:09 AM Jacopo Remondina jacorem@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
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Thanks for your answer. Anyway, I try what youn suggested (switching language to U.S. english, including changing the decimal separator to the point), but without any result. I will wait for some more details in the next weeks. Sorry to bother you with this almost dead project, but I found it very nice and easy to use, expecially if one doesn't really know how is his sample layered for XRR.
Thanks again,
Jacopo
What regional settings were you using? And was it just a standard install?
Are you able to install it on any computers?
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:45 AM Jacopo Remondina jacorem@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
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I was using the Italian setting (comma and dot switched). The installation was standard except for the destination folder (using an ssd so move it to the normal hdd). The installation was fine with all the computer I tried it (as I said, 2 modern 8gen i7 and an hold one; don't know the spec because it was an old PC in the office). Other colleague are also using it with somewhat modern PC (like 7 gen CPU) without so many problem, just some crash now and then or some bad fits
Hi Jacopo,
Could you try uninstalling and installing to the default directories? All
of the computations happen in memory and on chip. There will be no
improvement in the calculation using an SSD.
Also, due to the stochastic nature of the algorithm, they sometimes have
very strange fits. This can occur from not reaching the global minimum in
the solution space.
~ Steve
On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 12:43 PM Jacopo Remondina jacorem@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
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Sorry for the delayed response. However, I tried what you ask (new installation with default settings) but without any improvement: when I tried to fit the built-in example file, the software crashed after creating the files pop.dat and test1refl.txtsettings.xml (note: I had to move the example file in a different folder because the software does not have write rights in its own folder).
I'm attaching a list of all the visual c++ lihbraries installed in my system, hoping it can help you find the problem.
I haven't found an option to obtain a log/debug file, but in case I can try it
Some updates:
I tried to debug the software myself (maybe it was just a problem of outdated runtime executables) starting from the last snapshot (128), and it worked a bit. After installing:
1) visual studio 2017
2) intel xe parallel studio 2019
3) the latest windows sdk for windows 10
and including the openMP when was called, I managed to get to the end of the compiling process (but with some warnings).
The obtained executable work on my laptop (where I installed everything), but cannot find some .dll (probably because it's a bit messy the fact that you used different programming languages) for some advanced stuff. Anyway, it can perform some fitting without crashing or incouring in the "resource already in use" message that often appear on the distributed executable. The used CPU was around 80%, so I think that it was working in parallel through all the available core.
The same compiled version however cannot start on my home PC, so probably I still missing something there (latest SDK maybe?).
Instead, the executable downloaded from this website still crash whenever I start the fit.
Hope this can help,
Jacopo
Last edit: Jacopo Remondina 2019-04-26