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jonnieb-uk
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Morning Update

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a Personal Milestone in yesterday's crunching: biggrin

Wicksman moves above 9,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #8,993

Maugan moves above 4,500 in the Points Rankings to #4,488

Scribe 150,000 Results smile

SnaxMuppet 3,000 Results

djerram passes 19,000 Results for the UK team
SnaxMuppet passes 3,000 Results for the UK team

Congratulations also to the following UK team members on setting new PBs biggrin

	Scribe           	Runtime	          	Points	        	Results	  147

UK team - Individual Ranking Movements

					        
RunTime     		                Points		                        Results	
ChrisUK     	up   1 place  to  67	Kashi Gorton	up   1 place  to  24	Scribe      	up   5 places to 109
SnaxMuppet  	up   1 place  to 133	djerram     	up   1 place  to  27	            	        
sapient     	up   1 place  to 143	Scribe      	up   5 places to 107	            	        
Scribe      	up   4 places to 156	Labinopper  	up   1 place  to 141	            	        
Labinopper  	up   4 places to 221	            	        	            	        
                        	   	MarkRM      	down 1 place  to  25	l3xs        	down 1 place  to 113
                        	   	                        	   	SiPates     	down 1 place  to 111
                        	   	                        	   	bzsmith     	down 1 place  to 110

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime, Points, Results

			                          	Hours		Points		      Results	
Yesterday's Production	0:301:03:58:23	  		7,227		1,107,730		2,391 	
Average per cd									
October    	          336.6			        8,064		1,236,767		2,459	
September    	          343.2			        8,232		1,290,578		3,648	
August    	          334.4			        8,016		1,228,108		4,228

Average Daily Crunching Comparison

         	RunTime			Points		        	        Results		
         	08-Oct	07-Oct	  +/-	08-Oct	        07-Oct	        +/-	08-Oct	07-Oct	+/-
 7day Avg	336.62	346.47	 -9.86	1,236,767	1,279,726	-42,959	2,458	2,518	 -60
14day Avg	358.23	358.89	 -0.67	1,324,311	1,328,997	 -4,686	2,733	2,741	  -9
28day Avg	342.87	343.14	 -0.26	1,291,926	1,293,264	 -1,338	3,181	3,270	 -90

Milestone Targets for the UK team

	       	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate	
	RunTime	  1,250 years		      388,760	     67,490	    336.6	  200 days Apr-26-2014	
	Points 	1,500,000,000 		1,312,956,413	187,043,587	1,236,767 	  151 days Mar-08-2014	
	Results	    3,000,000		    2,760,071	    239,929	    2,458	   98 days Jan-14-2014

No. Of Members Active Yesterday

       				Total	        58	        out of	117	
				Group 1    	30	        ,,  ,,	 31	
				Group 2    	12	        ,,  ,,	 14	
				Group 3    	13	        ,,  ,,	 16	
				Group 4    	 3	        ,,  ,,	 13	
				InAct New	 0	        ,,  ,,	  1	
				InActive	 0	        ,,  ,,	 42	
				New/Restart	 0	        ,,  ,,	  0

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[Oct 8, 2013 7:47:08 AM]

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Morning Update II

Daily Global5000

    	         RT(days)  #			Points 	     #		     Results	     #	
crooks_uk   	 39.1	  241	crooks_uk   	143,833	    225	crooks_uk   	 293	    292	
Thargor     	 27.6	  416	Soong       	 99,077	    429	Thargor     	 222	    466	
Mike D Green	 24.2	  504	Mike D Green	 90,389	    488	themoonscres	 219	    474	
themoonscres	 22.8	  552	Thargor     	 89,274	    494	Mike D Green	 157	    751	
Scribe      	 18.2	  753	themoonscres	 85,211	    522	Scribe      	 147	    829	
Soong       	 17.1	  813	Maugan      	 63,050	    798	Ian_UK      	 117	  1,154	
arkangath   	 12.6	1,297	Scribe      	 56,195	    953	Soong       	  98	  1,520	
Maugan      	 11.5	1,480	Ian_UK      	 45,993	  1,283	Maugan      	  91	  1,697	
gordoncarrut	 10.8	1,598	arkangath   	 36,851	  1,793	arkangath   	  91	  1,697	
Ian_UK      	  9.3	1,946	djerram     	 29,309	  2,491	SnaxMuppet  	  78	  2,168	
stroudwaterb	  7.5	2,724	RussellBest 	 28,395	  2,585	djerram     	  71	  2,475	
RTS48       	  6.7	3,167	SnaxMuppet  	 28,213	  2,623	gilesk      	  69	  2,564	
jonnieb-uk  	  6.1	3,561	stroudwaterb	 27,004	  2,799	stroudwaterb	  64	  2,841	
ChrisUK     	  6.1	3,565	gilesk      	 26,026	  2,939	RussellBest 	  61	  3,058	
SnaxMuppet  	  6.0	3,710	RTS48       	 23,671	  3,349	RTS48       	  57	  3,343	
Wicksman    	  5.6	4,040	Barnsley_Tat	 21,578	  3,755	Barnsley_Tat	  54	  3,569	
djerram     	  5.5	4,057	jonnieb-uk  	 18,781	  4,400	jonnieb-uk  	  46	  4,323	
			        Wicksman    	 16,840	  4,983

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[Oct 8, 2013 7:50:15 AM]

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Re: In Other News

Saw a comment elsewhere from SekeRob about the BOINC workshop 10 days ago.

A series of videos were made and are available to view

Watched Keith Uplinger and Kevin Reed: Update on World Community Grid and Results of our User Participation Study

Thanks for flagging this up jonnieb-uk [oops, I had thought that the OP was from Scribe], I just watched it too.

I picked out that a lot of the recent activity comes as a result of a change of sponsoring executive within IBM and I think it's good that they've been given a bit of a kick from on high. It seems to be forcing them to re-focus on the volunteers, and I found the results of the survey work interesting.

All in all I'm pretty happy with what's going on and look forward to the re-launch of the web site so we can see the results of all the work that they're currently doing.

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[Oct 8, 2013 10:26:22 AM]

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Re: In Other News

I picked out that a lot of the recent activity comes as a result of a change of sponsoring executive within IBM and I think it's good that they've been given a bit of a kick from on high. It seems to be forcing them to re-focus on the volunteers, and I found the results of the survey work interesting.

All in all I'm pretty happy with what's going on and look forward to the re-launch of the web site so we can see the results of all the work that they're currently doing.

I found that interesting as well. I think it symptomatic of WCG's underlying communication problem that we (the volunteers) had to find it out from an obscure video on a 3rd party site.

I should say that I'm generally happy crunching at WCG and have no desire to look at other projects. I'm doing GPU at Collatz because it doesn't reduce my WCG crunching whilst we're waiting for them to find another GPU capable project.

But it's not my nature to unquestioningly accept the status quo so I'll continue to post when things grab my attention - badges; project mix; forum software etc etc.

I dread to think how opinionated/grumpy/cantakerous/unreasonable I'll be in 15 years time when I get to Scribe's age!

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[Oct 8, 2013 12:08:02 PM]

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Re: In Other News

I dread to think how opinionated/grumpy/cantakerous/unreasonable I'll be in 15 years time when I get to Scribe's age!

....Oi, watch it youngster......blasted young generation, no respect! wink

[Oct 8, 2013 12:56:09 PM]

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Re: In Other News

I won't roll over and let them tickle my tummy either. But the IBMers only have limited time and resources and they have to juggle getting the science done and keeping their paymasters happy with keeping us loud-mouths on board. I don't think they have an easy job and I'm sure that they're dedicated and hard-working. I have a lot of respect for them.

One other thing I picked up on in the video and have been thinking about is a comment to the effect that they'd like to see BOINC stop the client application running if it detects too much swapping. This is aimed at reducing the impact on the volunteer's computer.

I like the idea in general, but what I think this is showing is that it's the HDD thrashing about that really slows things down. On win-doze systems that have plenty of RAM I tend to run with no swap file 'cos I don't have anything that eats memory, but there are still times when CEP2 gets in the way. It seems to be primarily due to the large amount of I/O that's triggered when a new WU fires up, though I also notice it when a large result file is being uploaded. So personally I'd look at I/O rates in general, and not just to the swap file.

[Oct 8, 2013 1:35:15 PM]

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Re: In Other News

I see there are quite a few in the team that list themselves as International, rather than in the UK! nerd

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=bwcg&team=2210#

[Oct 8, 2013 1:59:42 PM]

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LunchCrunch Report

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in the lunchtime update: biggrin

ChrisUK 7,000 Results

Thargor moves above 1,200 in the Results Rankings to #1,199

UK team midday crunch:

			                    	Hours				
RunTime		        160.9		        3,863				
7day Avg		147.8		        3,533				
October		        153.0		        3,671				
September		166.4

 No. Of Members Active This Morning:								
				Total	        43	out of	117	
				Group 1    	27 	,,  ,,	 31	
				Group 2    	10 	,,  ,,	 12	
				Group 3    	 6	,,  ,,	 17	
				Group 4    	 0	,,  ,,	 12	
				InAct New	 0	,,  ,,	  3	
				InActive	 0	,,  ,,	 42	
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[Oct 8, 2013 2:19:43 PM]

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Re: In Other News

I see there are quite a few in the team that list themselves as International, rather than in the UK! nerd

http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=team&proj=bwcg&team=2210#

I think it's because the default setting on sign-up is "International". You actually have to choose "UK". It's the same as the issue with disclosing email addresses to Team Captains when signing up for a team. Default is "don't disclose". knreed talked (in the video) about the difficulties new users have in deciding on Project selection (when there are projects to select).

New users need to be spoonfed so:

geographical location should be auto-detected with option to override
Project selection should default to Project with shortest running WUs with option to add additional projects
Joining a team - automatically join the team's mailing list with option to override

@ crooks_uk

See para 2 in Apis Tintinnambulator post above. Is it "swapping" that causes you problems when rendering?

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[Oct 8, 2013 2:41:59 PM]

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Re: In Other News

New users need to be spoonfed so:

geographical location should be auto-detected with option to override
Project selection should default to Project with shortest running WUs with option to add additional projects
Joining a team - automatically join the team's mailing list with option to override

....entirely agree, put it in a post in the Feedback?suggestion forum. We then may start a trend and push through to the Admins biggrin

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