1) Message boards : Number crunching : Fairer distribuiton of work(Flame Fest 2007) (Message 16513)
Posted 10 Mar 2007 by tekwyzrd
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@tekwyzrd: It's too bad that instead of working within the scope of this project (such as it is) you would instead decide to consider leaving it simply because you don't seem to have very good luck with receiving work.

Have you made sure that you do not have a cache set larger then 2-3 days in your preferences? if you have a 10 day cache (or anything larger then 5 days for that matter), chances are you will not get any work. I currently have my cache preference set to 2 days and I seem to be able to get work consistently, but only on 1 or 2 of the 5 PC's I have attached to this project whenever work is sent out. Also, if you suspend the project or have "Won't get new tasks" enabled for the project you will not get any work.

If you want to leave that's your right to do so and no one will likely beg you to stay, but your reasoning for wanting to go is not making sense because there's no way for you to not know about how truly sporadic the work is that comes from this project.

If you're in it for the credits only, then this is probably not the best project to participate in as someone looking here for the instant gratification that comes from crunching a large number of WU's on a regular basis will most likely be very disappointed.

ed. spelling & grammar


My motivation for interest in this project is, to put it most simply, to support science for science's sake. This is one of the projects that is truly science oriented rather than a thinly disguised as beneficial to mankind when it is actually designed to use volunteered resources for the benefit some pharmaceutical company.

I have my connection interval set to 2 days, the same setting as I've used for over 2 years. I've never used anything over 3 days. I currently have three computers that do work for BOINC projects, and though two of them have P3 processors they are duals.

I guess the best way to explain is that it looks like there are obviously more computers doing work for this project than are needed. It's nothing against this project, just a simple fact. Or, some may say, opinion. I'll keep an eye on the site for work but I have it suspended in BOINC. I have noticed that when debt builds it can affect the work that is requested from other projects, sometimes severely enough that I can't get even one full day worth of work. When that happens I zero out all the debts in client_state.xml and requests are back to normal. I also see no sense at hammering away at the scheduler when there's no work. No sense in putting unnecessary stress on the servers. If and when I see work I'll un-suspend this project, and the next time I see the "unable to connect to database - too many connections" on the front page I'll un-suspend and let my computers make their requests along with the multitude of others.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Fairer distribuiton of work(Flame Fest 2007) (Message 16506)
Posted 9 Mar 2007 by tekwyzrd
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There are many other projects out there in the BOINC universe that have a steady and long term supply of work available so why make focusing only on LHC a priority for some?? When LHC has no work (which is often) why not crunch something else along with LHC? I won't make specific recommendiations for backup projects but it shouldn't be too hard to find one that would meet someones needs quite nicely.

*** edited to correct spelling, grammar & clarity of thought mistakes....


I run a number of other projects, and periodically check this project to find out if work is available. I have seen a pattern repeating. I visit the website. No work available. Then for a couple days I see unable to connect to the database - too many users. I interpret this to mean there's work but I'm too late - the servers are busy distributing work to the lucky few. Then no work available again. Maybe it's time for me to give up on this project.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Pending Credit (Message 10072)
Posted 11 Sep 2005 by tekwyzrd
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I have a work unit that was returned before the deadline that's still pending.

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/workunit.php?wuid=345962

My connect to is 3 days. The result was received 24 Jul 2005 16:29:48 UTC and returned 26 Jul 2005 15:16:52 UTC. Unfortunately it seems a quorum was reached prior to the return of my copy of the work unit. It looks like my result page will have have a permanent reference to a unit I'll never get credit for.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange! (Message 9080)
Posted 1 Aug 2005 by tekwyzrd
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I'm running BOINC version 4.72. I just noticed that the Number of times client has contacted server entry for my computer is 0. I've returned 25 completed work units. This number is updated on the seti site but not here. The free disk space info isn't updated on either site.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange! (Message 9077)
Posted 1 Aug 2005 by tekwyzrd
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> > Another strange thing here:
> > http://lhcathome.cern.ch/result.php?resultid=1864418
> >
> > It looks like result of a BURP WU
> >
>
> Looks like their machine is sending LHC mostly BURP wu's.
>
> http://lhcathome.cern.ch/results.php?hostid=34918
>
>
>

Re: Host ID above
Comparing the wu times of the machine in question and the wu times of other machines running the same units it looks like there's a major problem. Someone might want to look into the result details. There's an awful lot of invalid units there.

EDIT: I just saw reference to this machine in another message.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Strange! (Message 9069)
Posted 1 Aug 2005 by tekwyzrd
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> Otherhands: this host's resultspage show my a WU (from jul.20.) which I don't
> have on this host to crunch (in the cache).


I noticed a unit on my result page that's I never received.

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/workunit.php?wuid=353216



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