Posts by ChertseyAl

21) Message boards : Projects : iGEM@home launched (Message 55988) Posted 11 Sep 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: I can't even attach to the project properly. The account gets created, I can log in etc, but the client just fails at: 11/09/14 17:04:39\|\|Fetching configuration file from http://igemathome.org/get_project_config.php No message boards either, which is a bit naughty.
22) Message boards : Projects : Bitcoin Utopia not science project (Message 55823) Posted 6 Sep 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: One word ---> LOL! (I even DID IT IN CAPITAL LETTERS for you) ;)
23) Message boards : Projects : Bitcoin Utopia not science project (Message 55821) Posted 6 Sep 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: I personally feel that my equipment is no longer wanted or needed in the Boinc projects I agree completely. GPUs have made my CPU-based contribution virtually worthless for a lot of projects. They are too old to accept decent GPUs, so now when they die I don't bother to repair them, I just throw them away. My single bottom-of-the-range GPU does as much work as most of the rest of my CPU-only machines put together. Depressing, isn't it? I'm just not interested enough to invest any money in a 'decent' machine (most of my stuff is $20 junk, my last couple of machines were free). On the bright side though if more work is being done by GPUs (even if not by me) that's got to be a Good Thing. The whole credit thing is a red herring when in comes to cross-project comparisons. The best thing to do is just stop exporting stats. Just kill that function in the next BOINC server version, the stats sites will all be frozen in time, and everybody will be happy. Seriously, trust me on this.
24) Message boards : The Lounge : Absentee project admins (Message 55244) Posted 6 Aug 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: The Drug Discovery Boards have been completely purged of spam. That didn't last long - The spam is back :( Cheers, Al.
25) Message boards : Projects : Bitcoin Utopia not science project (Message 54928) Posted 17 Jul 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: but no way is Bitcoin Utopia the second-most powerful supercomputer in the world It might not be the second-most powerful general purpose, programmable supercomputer in the world, but those little single-purpose ASICs are orders of magnitude better than any CPU or GPU for the intended task ;) Much like Colossus - Would have been a terrible performer for general tasks, but it was pretty good at cracking enigma codes :) Cheers, Al.
26) Message boards : Questions and problems : Bad things happen on loss of network connectivity (Message 54644) Posted 29 Jun 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: It's a very old problem - I have it on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine running BOINC 5.10.45 - As soon as I power down the router it shreds all of the WUs in the cache. Bit of a nuisnace really as that machine loses it's network connection nearly every day :( Cheers, Al.
27) Message boards : Questions and problems : HELLO?????!!!!!!!! (Message 54591) Posted 25 Jun 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: I think everyone is waiting for you to supply the requested information in your original post: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=9364 Cheers, Al.
28) Message boards : Projects : Anyone know what's going on with 'ibercivis'? (Message 54527) Posted 21 Jun 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: The server status page shows the upload/download server disabled (which might just be the usual server bug), but more relevant, the feeder is not running. Cheers, Al.
29) Message boards : Projects : boinc@fiit (Message 54517) Posted 20 Jun 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: My long running task ended after 2,717,795 seconds. That's 755 hours, or 31 of your Earth days. The outcome? Yeah, you guessed it ... "Completed, too late to validate" Thanks. A. Bunch. No message boards still, no sign of any admin anywhere. Brilliant. Cheers, Al.
30) Message boards : Projects : boinc@fiit (Message 54309) Posted 30 May 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: Message boards have disappeared again :( I thought the admin might be showing a little more interest in his project, so I started another WU. 10 days ago. 251 hours, 53%, no checkpointing, task one day overdue. Oh what fun! Cheers, Al.
31) Message boards : Projects : NRG@Home (Message 53956) Posted 4 May 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: You might want to raise the limit on the number of tasks in progress and lengthen the reporting deadline to make the project a bit more like nearly every other BOINC project out there :) Cheers, Al.
32) Message boards : Projects : boinc@fiit (Message 53940) Posted 3 May 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: Gave up with my one WU - 180 hours, stuck at same percentage for days. Had to reboot, no checkpointing, you know the rest ;) Still no message boards either, which is a bit naughty. I don't think I'll revisit this one as I don't feel a burning need to help mankind by solving reversi puzzles ;) cheers, Al.
33) Message boards : Projects : Need volunteers for Spatialtemporal QoS project (Message 53564) Posted 9 Apr 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: Yes, it's Non-CPU-Intensive. Haven't noticed any impact on my bandwidth at all; I'm a very light internet user so any extra traffic would be obvious. The WUs are short, and there's a 6 hour holdoff between getting new WUs so I can't see it stressing anyones connection. Which is nice. Cheers, Al.
34) Message boards : Questions and problems : Slowest/Oldest BOINC Machine? (Message 53429) Posted 30 Mar 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: My slowest/oldest desktop is a non-HT 1.8GHz P4 running Ubuntu 8.04. Built and rebuilt many times from bits. Only really there for trying out linux-only projects rather than serious number crunching. If there's no new projects to try I just leave it running Asteroids or Primaboinca as at least it scrapes a modest amount of credit on those :) Oh, got a fairly recent dual-core (or is it HT?) netbook thingy running XP that's too small and slow too use for anything useful so that gets used to try out new projects but otherwise just crunches Primaboinca and still gets a dismal amount of work done. Cheers, Al.
35) Message boards : The Lounge : Windows XP dedicated machines (Message 53411) Posted 29 Mar 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: I run all of my machines (mostly XP) without any sort of protection at all, other than being behind the SPI firewall in the router. Never had any sort of virus on any of them. The only machine that gets infected around here is the one operated by an idiot user (the wife, bless her!). I just image that regularly and restore it if needs be. Never, ever, had any infection on any of my headless BOINC farm (more of a flowerpot than a farm to be fair). Cheers, Al.
36) Message boards : The Lounge : Absentee project admins (Message 53206) Posted 17 Mar 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: What is it with project admins? Why do they never check their message boards? The recent torrent of spam has rendered a couple of projects boards unusable. Some project's 'report post' facility doesn't work, other projects it's clearly being ignored. Perhaps these are just zombie projects - The admins are slumped, lifeless, over flickering CRT monitors, festooned in cobwebs, while rats chew at their decaying flesh. Meanwhile the work generators churn out tasks for hungry crunchers who blissfully believe that their work is useful and valued ... Admins: Sort. it. Out. Cheers, Al.
37) Message boards : Projects : Chess@Home (Message 53205) Posted 17 Mar 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: It finished. There might be work in the future, but even the admin doesn't know. Just ignore it :) Cheers, Al.
38) Message boards : News : New BOINC installer includes VirtualBox (Message 52695) Posted 21 Feb 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: Linux runs Boinc 20-30% faster than under Windows. But BOINC itself does very little, the time saving would be negligable. It's the science apps themselves that need performance improvements. Cheers, Al.
39) Message boards : Projects : Synchronised (Message 52468) Posted 9 Feb 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: A good and stable project, then. Lasted longer than some though :) Cheers, Al.
40) Message boards : Questions and problems : NSA-Free projects ? (Message 52018) Posted 18 Jan 2014 by ChertseyAl Post: I would worry more about your operating and ISP ;) Cheers, Al.

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