1) Message boards : News : Consent required to export statistics (Message 37764)
Posted 15 Jan 2019 by robert.mouris
Post:
[...] I use a false name and a VPN to protect my identity and it is legal to do so. I do not understand why you have to protect my points [...]

This kind of information must also be protected. LHC may use your data only for the purpose you have allowed it to. In particular, LHC is allowed to use it in statistics on its own website, but is not allowed to share it with third parties unless you give your permission to that use.

Article 4, point 1, of GDPR states to what kind of users the Regulation is applicable to:
For the purposes of this Regulation:
(1) ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

Although "Cruncher Pete" is not your legal name, it is your "online identifier" and therefore LHC is forced to protect your data, unless you allow it to share your data with third parties. Just tick the box and you have given your permission. LHC will then export your statistics, since that is what you want.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Could I ask for an update on the frontpage? (Message 16248)
Posted 6 Feb 2007 by robert.mouris
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OK Neasan --

Curiousity forces me to ask: with milk or lemon? With sugar or honey? Oh yes, and what about the crumpets ???


What about some delicious brownies?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Past Due Date (Message 16092)
Posted 10 Jan 2007 by robert.mouris
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In quite a few cases, 4th and 5th results actually get used and do help shorten the overall time taken compared with what it would have been if only three had been issued initially. I'm sure that this is something that the project staff would be well aware of.

In my opinion it depends of the project. Where previous results are needed for the issuing of new WUs (LHC, Chess960...), speed is of utmost importance and the initial replication number should be higher. For other projects where there is just an enormous bunch of WUs to process which takes many months (Einstein, Sztaki...), increasing the replication number is pure waste and actually delays the overall time.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Past Due Date (Message 16088)
Posted 9 Jan 2007 by robert.mouris
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Does this mean then that 2 people could be wasting their computer time for each work unit?

that is what i am thinking

I don't think that it will be for all the units. Because the 5 hosts who get the same WU don't get the same one of the other WUs. Every host gets a different set of WUs that will be crunched in a different order. So for some of them at least the quorum isn't yet reached when they are finished.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc farms. (Message 14413)
Posted 23 Jul 2006 by robert.mouris
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I have no information from the official CPDN site. Just this from forum moderator Les Bayliss on the message board: http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=4647&nowrap=true#23043
and this one:
http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=4065&nowrap=true#20300

He does not say that the WU will be reissued, but that it might be. If you are just interested in BOINC credits, it is fine, you will still get them, but from the point of view of science your processing will be redundant with someone else's.

In your place I would ask the question on the CPDN message board.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc farms. (Message 14410)
Posted 23 Jul 2006 by robert.mouris
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End result - no crunching loss, and a slew of credits when I connect them up again =D


Borandi, please be aware that CPDN expects you to connect every 5 to 6 weeks and send trickle messages. Otherwise they think that you are inactive and they might reissue the work unit.

Robert



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