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| 21) Message boards : Questions and problems : Large team deleted - impossible?
Message 31255 Posted 28 Feb 2010 by StandardbredHorse |
Thanks, Richard. Keep in mind that these are updates from today, with large negatives on 2/25 (Einstein's update w/o RDRFS team) and 2/27 (SETI's, which was delayed due to general problems w/SETI reporting to stats sites, where there were no updates for a couple of days). Thanks for noting...appreciate the attention and work you've put in so far. I had an archive from 2/25 with SETI's exact figures, team ID, and relevant data intact, but because we didn't think it was relevant, we passed it along without keeping a copy, so we'll see if someone has an archived copy. At the time, we thought it was confined to Einstein, so the SETI data was complete, but we didn't think it was relevant until later in the day when reports started to come in of problems here too. StandardbredHorse |
| 22) Message boards : Questions and problems : Large team deleted - impossible?
Message 31253 Posted 28 Feb 2010 by StandardbredHorse |
Can you elaborate a bit for the uninitiated to the affair in question, Les? Thanks...any anecdote may help. Best regards, StandardbredHorse |
| 23) Message boards : Questions and problems : Large team deleted - impossible?
Message 31251 Posted 28 Feb 2010 by StandardbredHorse |
This is correct - we've begun building the team from the ground up, given the lack of alternatives. However, yes, we indeed had tens of millions of credits (~15,000,000 overall; it was our 2nd biggest project to CPDN). The team ID is the new team ID; the one previously was issued in 2005 or 2006. It was archived on the stats sites until last night's update. I'll investigate and see if I can find the original TeamID - I'd only kept track of #s and members. For reference see http://boincstats.com/stats/boinc_team_graph.php?pr=bo&id=133060; I believe both incidents happened 2/25; 10,000,000 for Einstein and 15,000,000 for SETI - also see members Thank you so much for the attention. Also please see the member add/remove (quit) list, in which members were unwillingly removed from a team that had disappeared: http://boincstats.com/stats/team_member_movement.php?pr=bo&id=1d7612acc19506bca7c27499d3156e15 which were 'removed' on 2/27, the stats update that was delayed for SETI for a couple of days; we knew the team had disappeared a couple days prior and had been trying to catch the problem and notify the appropriate personnel here prior to that update so it wouldn't make it any more difficult to roll back if that was possible. Best regards, StandardbredHorse |
| 24) Message boards : Questions and problems : Large team deleted - impossible?
Message 31236 Posted 28 Feb 2010 by StandardbredHorse |
Hello, Overnight, from SETI and Einstein projects, the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science disappeared from the projects' databases. Can anyone explain? Here's what I know: 1) Even if a vandal is intent on destroying a team, they can't delete a team with existing credit. I tested this (with my team's consent) on a few smaller projects, and it won't let me do it. The worst it'll do is let me kick out individual members (if I'm the founder), but that still doesn't wipe out any credit accumulated while on the team. 2) The team's name simply vanished from the database, and the founder is (was) the founder of the team on *many* different projects and has been for years. 3) All credits disappeared, which also should be impossible. 4) Not a stats export site issue, as it disappeared from the projects' databases themselves and team is intact on all other projects. We're not a small team - we lost over 15,000,000 credits and had several hundred members lost overnight from the database of both projects. What kind of issue are we dealing with? If it's not a flaw/malfunction in the BOINC software, which when tested on other projects prevented a recreation of what happened, how should I posit this problem to the projects? A database error? Thanks to anyone who can help, StandardbredHorse |
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