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Greg_BE
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 9, 2016 Post Count: 82 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It seems there was debt to other projects.
I stopped all the others and increased my queue to test if i would get some work. I got some MCM. So I am resuming everything. A lot of fuss over nothing apparently. |
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Yavanius
Senior Cruncher Antarctica Joined: Jan 21, 2015 Post Count: 191 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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@Grumpy Swede, Folding@home has a lot of GPU work, if that is your priority. They have very good medically-related projects and publish papers fairly frequently. Nothing against Folding@home, they have a strong system with volunteer moderators on their forums. I use to run F@H too before. The one down side is you can only indicate a research preference. However, if there is a large load of a certain research area, the server will feed you that. Also, more of a nuance. But CPU and GPU work are not necessarily tied in together. A research area may only have work for one or the other, although it may well be you might get work for say cancer research for both CPU and GPU but they are actually different research projects. Other than that, it takes a little playing to get them balanced with each other. IIRC, I think you can increase the priority of Folding@home within the client (it's been a whiles). Similar to BOINC, you can dig deeper with advanced settings for those power users out there that like to fine-tune things. ;) Last I looked, you had to dig around for the info, but I think they were transitioning to a new web system at the time so things had incorrect or missing links/info (some stuff you had to go back to the old website links). |
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Yavanius
Senior Cruncher Antarctica Joined: Jan 21, 2015 Post Count: 191 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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The team is aware of the previous existence of community moderators for forums, and we understand that... Our team does its best with limited resources to investigate... I was kind of hoping for a response from the Doc, but I'm not surprised nothings really changed in the responses which ignore and contradict. WCG prefers to use their own staff. We said that, repeatedly. But you don't have enough staff... I give up interacting especially as I see WCG is going to be down 2 days... if there is work, great, but if there's not then I'll just focus on other projects and check back in 2-3 days. Now, WCG says it doesn't enough staff... DENIS@home seems to be releasing a lot more work recently. They are maybe 3 folks over there total, but the project admin is VERY communicative. The project isn't even his primary focus. He is a professor so he has important priorities that at times have to him focus away from the project. (The project was down for a long time as he could not get the time to restore it, but he finally managed to bring it back relatively recently). YET... if you just look at the news, he regularly posts updates about results from runs and what they will be focusing on and trying to accomplish on the next runs. AND... he's pretty good about responding to posts. I'd mention SETI@home...but that's been mentioned before and WCG has ignored it, So like I said I give up. If WCG goes offline, that'll be sure a shame. It's your project, you want to ignore your volunteers and alienate them, have at it... |
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Robokapp
Senior Cruncher Joined: Feb 6, 2012 Post Count: 249 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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the enthusiasm does seem a little low... I wonder how well the current leadership is attracting new crunchers...
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12434 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I wonder if they even want to attract new members.
Krembil is synonymous with MCM, and SCC is another cancer project. Mike |
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alged
Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2360 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well we have to "endure a lot of tribulations" to get some results and a better WCG .more projects may attracts newcomers as well as better interaction and less problems with the works units we crunch.
----------------------------------------I wonder if there is a thread where we could report progress by others scientific teams in the world as this one: Soon a new vaccine against the chikungunya This one is in french but the source in english is refered at bottom There are many articles about results not WCG related but interesting in cancer research,neuro muscular diseases,tropical diseases (that coming north) etc Hoping that WCG keep sharing in the global research . Regards  |
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ZeFerby
Cruncher Joined: Jun 11, 2020 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hello, sorry if I mis-post, I am usually only a reader here...
My two Raspberry Pi4 have been happily crunching for WCG for about 3 years (apart from the datacenter moving period of course), but they did not get any tasks for a while and the activity has flatlined. Ironically I get the notice to re-enroll : "World Community Grid: We miss you! We see that you haven't contributed to World Community Grid lately, and we need your help! We encourage you to start participating again today, so download the software and begin contributing again." Both PI4 were running buster and were running boinc-client 7.14.2, so I took the risk to upgrade one of them "in-place" (not a brand new install) and ended up with a boinc-client 7.16.16 and a Boinc Manager crashing everytime I try to use it. Anyway I used BoincView on a Windows to connect to the 7.16.16 boinc-client and the symptom is still the same on both RPi4, with boinc-client either 7.14.2 or 7.16.16 : Host Project Date Message raspi4-8G-130 --- 02/07/2023 18:29:32 Checking presence of 43 project files raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 No tasks sent raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 No tasks are available for OpenPandemics - COVID 19 raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 No tasks are available for OpenPandemics - COVID-19 - GPU raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 No tasks are available for Africa Rainfall Project raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 No tasks are available for Help Stop TB raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 No tasks are available for Mapping Cancer Markers raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 No tasks are available for Smash Childhood Cancer raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 Tasks for NVIDIA GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 Tasks for AMD/ATI GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them raspi4-8G-130 World Community Grid 02/07/2023 18:29:33 Tasks for Intel GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them ==> Question : Is the Arm platform now phased out of WCG ? |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7695 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Question : Is the Arm platform now phased out of WCG ?
----------------------------------------The answer to that question is no. However, at least for the moment, since June 17, there has been no more Open Pandemic work units. I believe that is the only project at the moment with android work units. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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ZeFerby
Cruncher Joined: Jun 11, 2020 Post Count: 2 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ah thanks Sarge !
That also explains why I never had any work unit for other projects by the way. |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12434 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sgt.Joe
I am still running my Android tablet with MCM1 units, however I haven't had SCC1 units for a while. That is ARM. Mike |
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