Current Version: mm_ACTR_3.45

Graphics: Yes

State: Working
Working (some systems have problems running SBCL)
Available for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista

Process List:
mm_ACTR_graphics_X.XX_windows_intelx86.exe - graphics
mm_ACTR_X.XX_windows_intelx86.exe - Lisp wrapper and interface to BOINC
mm_sbcl.exe - (ver 1.0.14.22) Lisp process doing the science
mm_watchdog.exe - monitor in the background to ensure a child mm_sbcl process does not persist after mm_ACTR exits

Know issues: SBCL is not running on some Windows systems -- it requires at least 512MB of available RAM (no patch should be required) -- SBCL 1.0.19 reports better windows support via dynamic memory allocation; however heap exhaustion has been experienced by this version with 3.40-3.43


Notes:
3.4 - patch is no longer required for 64-bit and Vista computers to run SBCL
--3.44 is using the patch file as default (3.4-3.43 attempted to use 1.0.19)
--1.0.19 returns output from the time function in a different format than previous version however once we accommodate this difference, 1.0.19 will be tried again

ACTR_3.40 allows for independent versions of SBCL (per platform) therefore upgrading of application can now happen asynchronously

In version 3.00 and above mm_ACTR should take very little CPU and mm_SBCL should monopolize everything doing the science

SBCL is now run with the --dynamic-space-size 512 within the application

Starting with 3.4 the application has been more aware of when something did not run correctly.

MM Unique Computation Error Codes have been added to help identify problems:
MM Unique Error codes are in 900s - An error code is generated every time a "Compation Error" occurs. These values can be determined in one of two way.

1. Check the web page under your account(preferred)
2. Create a file called 'debug' in the project directory (MindModeling.org_beta subdirectory). This will create a DELETE_ME_TO_CONTINUE file in a respective slots directory with the return value and a message. The WU will never finish as long a that file is present -- Be sure to remove the file (debug) to return to normal crunching.

BOINC Error Codes(-100 : -213)

General Error Codes

• 0: "No Errors"
  
• 1: "Child process return value: app error running lisp: 0x1"
  
  --SBCL did not run on your computer
  
  • RAM is normally the culprit
    
  • Recommend 512 MB of RAM per instance of the application (per core)
    (plus a little for OS overhead)
    

  
  

MindModeling Custom Codes (900 : 999)

• 900: "Error reading jobinfo.xml";
  --Probably a bad WU (reset project)
  
• 901: "Can not copy ACTR folder to slots dir";
  --Out of Hard drive space?
  --Do you have security permissions to write to your projects directory?
  
• 902: "Could not change directory to Slots Dir";
  --Should not occur - Application bug?
  
• 903: "Could not change directory to Project Dir";
  --Should not occur - Application bug?
  
• 904: "Can not unzip LISP"
  --On the First WU of a new application version for multi-processor machines; there is a chance of a race condition could occur where multiple processes are trying to get the LISP unzipped -- a WU could error. This should happen only once (after LISP is unzipped it is not unzipped again each WU)
  --Reoccurring 904 errors -- Out of Hard drive space? (manually unzip mm_sbcl zip file to projects directory)?
  
• 905: "Could Not unzip ACT-R"
  -- Out of Hard drive space? (every on unzips to there slots directory removing the ACT-R race condition)
  
• 906: "Couldn't find input file, resolved name"
  
• 907: "Couldn't find Lisp_Command_line_Parameters file, resolved name"
  
• 908: "Model died";
  --LISP (SBCL) had a problem
  --The cognitive model had a bug
  
• 999: "ACT-R failed to loaded"
  --LISP (SBCL) had a problem
  --The cognitive architecture had a bug
  

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