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Send message Joined: 12 Feb 11 Posts: 407 ![]() |
If the closed projects don't tell that they have closed (there is a projects email list they can email that to), nor the new projects say that they are new and in production, it's no wonder the developers don't know about these things. New projects that are still in alpha/beta stage will generally not be added to the projects list. So, create a thread in which volunteers (that are more "ready" to projects than developers) can report the closed projects is a bad idea? |
Send message Joined: 12 Feb 11 Posts: 407 ![]() |
I'm not sure when the projects list is updated, but its accuracy depends on input from the science projects. BOINC itself has no control over them rather providing an advertising hoarding for projects that are using the BOINC environment. I know that Boinc's admins has no control over the projects. But, if i'm a "fresh" volunteer (without any experience) and i see the list of projects and connect to one, i'm happy if this project is not closed... Otherwise i connect to Science United. |
Send message Joined: 5 Oct 06 Posts: 5044 ![]() |
Projects which have closed down usually - eventually - make that visible publicly. Either they post a polite notice of thanks on their website, or their domain registration lapses and gets taken over by a spammer.If the closed projects don't tell that they have closed (there is a projects email list they can email that to), nor the new projects say that they are new and in production, it's no wonder the developers don't know about these things. New projects that are still in alpha/beta stage will generally not be added to the projects list.So, create a thread in which volunteers (that are more "ready" to projects than developers) can report the closed projects is a bad idea? If you come across one of those, it's worth posting the information to the mailing list Jord mentioned. But a message board thread is an inefficient tool in those circumstances - the people you most want to be aware of and act on the information, are the least likely to read it here. |
Send message Joined: 12 Feb 11 Posts: 407 ![]() |
Projects which have closed down usually - eventually - make that visible publicly. Either they post a polite notice of thanks on their website, or their domain registration lapses and gets taken over by a spammer. A lot of times, admins of closed project forget to make that visible and server remain on-line.....for nothing!! For example, the last message from Citizen Science Grid admin is March 2019 and the last wus are 3 years ago. And the project is still in the list. If you come across one of those, it's worth posting the information to the mailing list Jord mentioned. But a message board thread is an inefficient tool in those circumstances - the people you most want to be aware of and act on the information, are the least likely to read it here. Mailing list? Where?? If the message board is inefficient, i think also mailing list is not so good. |
![]() Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15389 ![]() |
Mailing list? Where?? https://groups.google.com/a/ssl.berkeley.edu/forum/?pli=1#!forum/boinc_projects That gets directly into the inbox of the developers and those project admins that have signed up to that list. These forums are for volunteers to help people with problems, the developers of BOINC have moved on to Github |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Mar 11 Posts: 163 ![]() |
I'm currently attached to: Einstein, Rosetta, WCG & LHC. Professor Ray You ran Seti for a number of years .. in fact you signed up on May 17, 1999 exactly one day before I did on May 18, 1999. The Milkyway project has been running for about 12 or 13 years now and appreciates people like you and me. Good hard science that is Space related. Take a look maybe you can find some clock cycles for it too. Thanks Bill F In October 1969 I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; There was no expiration date. ![]() |
Send message Joined: 30 Oct 11 Posts: 6 ![]() |
NumberFields@Home is down with what appears to be a hard drive crash. NumberFields@home should be back momentarily. The project has been reinstalled on the new hard drive and we are about to restore the database. |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 05 Posts: 103 ![]() |
Asteroids@home is back up after a 12-week outage. "The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
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ithena is dead again as it seems. Tasks won't upload, homepage won't open. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310 ![]() |
It looks like Cosmology is really gone this time. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 Sep 20 Posts: 39 ![]() |
ithena is dead again as it seems. ithena currently working again. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 65 ![]() |
Jim1348 wrote: It looks like Cosmology is really gone this time.Progress! Cosmology@Home web pages are still not secure and many do not work but all the servers are running and I have received new work. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310 ![]() |
Thank you. I had stopped looking, but have a new machine I could try on Cosmology. |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Mar 11 Posts: 163 ![]() |
While Cosmology might be in limp along mode I personally would not invest any more clock cycles into it until it is actively managed again. They have not posted a Science document in years and the Lead professor is not active with the project admin who has disappeared. Maybe someday they will be worth volunteer time again but not right now. There are lots of other deserving projects out there. Thanks Bill F In October 1969 I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; There was no expiration date. ![]() |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310 ![]() |
It looks like WCG is down. I guess it is OPNG overloading the servers, or something like that. But I had several MIP's erroring out at the same time too, which may be related. It is all rather unusual, and I don't see any way to check on it, as the website is down too. EDIT: The website is now up, but slow to respond. I have several OPNG stuck in download. |
Send message Joined: 8 Nov 10 Posts: 310 ![]() |
MLC@Home is down. I think they are changing their server, so maybe it is planned. EDIT: Back up. |
![]() Send message Joined: 1 Oct 15 Posts: 391 ![]() |
https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu seems to be awol right now ... ![]() |
![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 17 Nov 16 Posts: 831 ![]() |
Milkyway@home has disappeared also. |
![]() Send message Joined: 10 May 07 Posts: 1229 ![]() |
https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu seems to be awol right now ... According to their Facebook page there's NETWORK ISSUES AT THE UNIVERSITY causing the outage. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3970168069756771&id=589753444464934 |
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