MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 03/27 - Active Members

Active team members report
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                                                     Current          Points
Active member name            Rank      Change       Points        This Period
=========================     =====     ======     ===========     ===========
RT                                1          0     169,884,178         300,561
GeraldRube                        2          0     103,617,136         162,344
judson Somerville MD              3          0      92,183,827         226,169
Coingames                         4          0      71,713,797          95,489
parmesian                         5          0      37,295,565          27,319
NiceMedTexMD                      6          0      35,035,918          13,688
xroule                            7          0      30,993,266          75,898
brown chris                       8          0      25,316,330          20,035
David Autumns                     9          0      22,094,104          50,197
keithhenry                       10          0      21,077,583          16,231
finman                           11          0      18,048,074          45,670
Vuj                              12          0      17,046,711          23,471
nl59056                          13          0      16,097,100          11,051
Esteban69                        14          0      14,005,775             211
dkt                              15          0      13,898,054          27,919
Blueprint                        16          0      13,699,307          21,808
Fanie                            17          0      11,828,735           7,384
darth_vader                      18          0      11,673,784           9,589
Daeloan                          19          0      10,976,147          33,677
PohSoon                          20          0       9,013,544          11,763
lawrencehardin                   21          0       7,866,249          16,762
frans6nl                         22          0       7,543,385             450
smcclarigan                      23          0       4,292,970          11,461
Tomwp                            24          0       4,271,834           3,128
pramodp                          25          0       3,934,700          19,993
Bon Kuhlman                      26          0       3,157,493           1,917
johng                            27          0       3,105,857           4,555
Jonathon Wright                  28          0       2,652,575          27,280
Wunderwuzzi                      29          0       2,624,811           5,650
Jockin                           30          0       2,459,473               0
YellowAV                         31          0       2,428,053           5,424
dubhain                          32          0       1,835,945          12,613
Mechanical                       33          0       1,757,306           5,533
elpe                             34          0       1,583,281             328
Lanscader                        35          0       1,308,374           1,440
newtod                           36          0       1,090,520           1,128
hne12359                         37          0         839,034           1,489
CCH                              38          0         677,240             324
cknotty                          39          0         312,391               0
jan.fratric                      40          0         285,010               0
imdioxin                         41          0         208,675             227
sz2000                           42          0         104,253           1,754
Jean-Guy Germain                 43          0          61,891           3,340
sm217144                         44          0          36,524               0

Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days.

Top Twenty active members returning points today:
01: RT - 300,561 points
02: judson Somerville MD - 226,169 points
03: GeraldRube - 162,344 points
04: Coingames - 95,489 points
05: xroule - 75,898 points
06: David Autumns - 50,197 points
07: finman - 45,670 points
08: Daeloan - 33,677 points
09: dkt - 27,919 points
10: parmesian - 27,319 points
11: Jonathon Wright - 27,280 points
12: Vuj - 23,471 points
13: Blueprint - 21,808 points
14: brown chris - 20,035 points
15: pramodp - 19,993 points
16: lawrencehardin - 16,762 points
17: keithhenry - 16,231 points
18: NiceMedTexMD - 13,688 points
19: dubhain - 12,613 points
20: PohSoon - 11,763 points

Total points returned today: 1,305,270
Active members returning points today: 40
Average points per member active today: 32,631.75

Based on my experiences with BOINC, here's my understanding. BOINC communicates with a server and requests more work at that time, if needed. There can be multiple files that have to be downloaded to get a complete WU. Some projects compress those files into a self-extracting file. Whatever the case, BOINC then knows which WUs it's been given and what files it needs. That shows up in BOINC Manager first with a status of New (very briefly). That changes to Downloading when it starts getting the files. Once completely downloaded, the WU shows as Rady to Start. Those files that are to be downloaded show on the Transfers tab. Under normal circumstances, a file downloads completely and some sort of validation is done to make sure the download was successful. Now, there are a myriad of things that can happen to interrupt a download. If that happens, you'll see a status for that file on the Transfers tab to indicate that. BOINC will try the download again. If the download fails again, it will continue to retry it but wait increasing amounts of time before it does. The Retry Now button allows you to select a file with a failed download and force BOINC to retry downloading it then much like the Update button on the Projects tab can be used to force communications with a server. When you use the Retry Now button on a file listed on the Transfers tab, some, possibly all, of the other files that have failed to download will have their status changed to Download Pending. I've seen some files with a Retry in nn:nn type status not switch to Download Pending until I use the Retry Now button specifically on that file.

Now the typical reason why a download fails is that the project servers go down before you finish downloading. Obviously, if a project is down when BOINC tries to do an update with it, it won't have anything to download as it can't get any new work assigned. I think there can be cases where the scheduler task is running on a server at the project but the server running the download task is down. That would allow you to request more work and have it assigned but not be able to download it. Some projects are rather small and the various server tasks all run on the same server. Larger projects can have multiple servers with the various tasks separated across those servers or multiple instances of tasks running on multiple servers. The other main reason a download can fail is when there is a loss of connectivity. This can be on your end or on the project end. I've seen cases where project servers are up and running fine but they have network problems (eg, router issues) that prevent the servers from communicating outside. Generally, you should be able to check the Messages tab for messages at the corresponding time that the download was attempted and get a pretty good idea what's up. Now it may also be possible that computer is too busy to communicate with the servers during a download and that causes the failure. That's pretty hard to do but there are time limits built in to BOINC (that can vary from one project to another) that are used to keep BOINC from getting "hung" trying to do something.

Do you know what a lert is? One is here I guess I have to raise my queues again.

MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 03/28 - All Members:

Team rank movement report
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                              Prior                New         Current
Member name                   Rank      Change     Rank        Points
=========================     =====     ======     =====     ===========
Barramundi                       52         -1        53       2,431,851
YellowAV                         53         +1        52       2,434,062
Matt Preston                    156         -1       157         208,756
imdioxin                        157         +1       156         208,892
TheRoket                        189         -1       190         105,875
xterm2232@yahoo.com             190         -1       191         104,942
cswchan                         191         -1       192         104,544
sz2000                          192         +3       189         107,528
Oisac                           208         -1       209          63,152
Jean-Guy Germain                209         +1       208          64,529

Points milestones report
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RT reached 170,000,000 points
xroule reached 31,000,000 points
Daeloan reached 11,000,000 points

Runtime milestones report
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No runtime milestones found.

Results returned milestones report
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Mechanical reached 3,800 results

New members report
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No new members found.

Retired members report
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No new retired members found.

For the week as a team:

Statistics  Total Run Time  Points   Results

Date         (y:d:h:m:s)    Earned   Returned
03/28/2012  1:015:22:40:29  1,331,561  2,856 
03/27/2012  1:011:09:39:59  1,305,270  2,851 
03/26/2012  1:003:11:19:36  1,304,470  2,588 
03/25/2012  0:342:15:08:27  1,189,822  2,647 
03/24/2012  1:002:05:25:58  1,292,987  2,793 
03/23/2012  0:356:12:04:28  1,242,625  2,268 
03/22/2012  1:006:03:27:55  1,345,270  2,344

Team Records:
Results Returned: 12/15/2011 4,598
Points: 03/07/2012 2,312,643
Runtime: 12/15/2011 1:125:23:14:23

Good crunching folks!!!!!

................................CONGRATULATIONS RT ON REACHING 170,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!................................