Posts by KWSN - A Shrubbery

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Message boards : Number crunching : Declining tester numbers?

( Message 794 )
Posted 3963 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
We got at least one PPC Mac user as well, just waiting on the client for it.
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Message boards : Number crunching : My Cheating Mac

( Message 780 )
Posted 3963 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
It's not just this user, I've seen several using BOINC client 5.5 which overclaims by at least a factor of 4. The user is usually listed as Anonymous (I know, shocking).

Glad to see you're working on a fix. It's a pity that some people feel they have to resort to unethical means to 'win' something that isn't even a contest.
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Message boards : Number crunching : zero credits for valid result??

( Message 734 )
Posted 3965 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
Actually I am looking into this problem. I have an old PIII 667 running linux and it went from all invalid to some invalid. I don't think it's the ammount of credit requested as I have seen that for the same WU a 3 GHz claimed more... I will bring this up at the weekly meeting in the mean time any ideas are welcome. Thanks for all the support and CPU time that you all have given to the project.


Not sure if BOINC will even give you the tools to address this problem. From what I've picked up on various other message boards it won't let you assign work based on processor speed. I'm pretty certain that would be the fix if it could be implemented.

Every PIII I've run across in the results table here (running Windows at least) is exhibiting the same problem. On my system I ran it over two versions of BOINC and both the 5.02 and 5.03 Docking applications. Every result is still marked invalid and zero credits.

As always let me know if you need further results and I'll run a batch through.
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Message boards : Number crunching : Declining tester numbers?

( Message 725 )
Posted 3965 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
Seems to me that a percentage of our origional testers are no longer active. This is becoming increasingly evident in the posts about results not able to be validated because there just aren't enough systems downloading work.

What I propose is handing out invitation codes to active crunchers. Say two or three per person to be forwarded to team members, friends, enemies, etc who might be able to contribute here.

We'd even be willing to accept restrictions such as only users who have Sun running OS XV.

Course I'm just a cog in the wheel, but if the powers that be are like minded, you know how to contact me. After all, my phone is bugged and there is that pizza delivery van parked out front for the last couple weeks.
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Message boards : Number crunching : Validator and Quorum

( Message 698 )
Posted 3967 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
It's not running homogenous validation. This has been discussed in another thread that I can't find at the moment.

If the admins would like to address this issue, I ran a few more results on my PIII system with the new (5.4.11) version of BOINC to see if it made a difference, it hasn't.

Host is here.

Needless to say, I won't be running any results on that system until this issue is addressed. If you need further testing, let me know and I'll put through something.
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Message boards : Cafe Docking : Welcome to Docking@Home

( Message 692 )
Posted 3967 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
Maybe I'm biased as a team member, but I prefer the more intricate design of Miss Booty's. Shift the color a little more towards the blue spectrum, overall it evokes the main webpage very nicely.
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Message boards : Number crunching : Validator and Quorum

( Message 691 )
Posted 3967 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
Same thing is happening to Intel PIII as well. It would be something to do with the application.

The results calculated on different platforms are just too different to validate at this point. Whether that means the science is accurate or not I couldn't say.

It is something the project needs to address prior to Beta or release though.

*Edit, forgot to mention PIII running Windows. Linux seems to handle it better.
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Message boards : Windows : Pentium III not validating

( Message 608 )
Posted 3972 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
Not so much a Windows issue per se, but the systems in question are running Windows.

If you could check the results from PIII Intel systems and see if there is a compatibility issue validating.

Relevelent discussion is here.
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Message boards : Number crunching : zero credits for valid result??

( Message 607 )
Posted 3972 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
Actually it appears to be a validation issue. That host is still running Boinc 5.4.9 (although I'm sure many others are as well) but I'd be inclined to believe it's a computation difference between CPU architecture.

If the admins could look into PIII results and see if they are properly validating in general. It might be necessary to go to homogenous results for those systems (All results for that work unit going to similar type CPUs).
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Message boards : Number crunching : zero credits for valid result??

( Message 605 )
Posted 3972 days ago by Profile KWSN - A Shrubbery
Same problem here on my older system: here.

I finally just detatched it as every result it has downloaded was completed successfully and awared zero credit.


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