Posts by ritterm

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Completed WAH WUs will not upload (Message 57763) Posted 1 Feb 2018 by ritterm Post: Are the servers down??? A lot of discussion on that in the Stuck upload issue thread.
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : tasks crash on start (Message 57744) Posted 30 Jan 2018 by ritterm Post: After some month I'm starting boinc again on my main computer, CPID tasks are downloading, but at start they always brake with computational error. The computer was not changed.. same hardware, operating system... I've already ~1mil credits on this machine, so it was working and will be working somehow... Please post a link to one or more recent tasks where this has happened.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Export (Message 57599) Posted 8 Jan 2018 by ritterm Post: Happy days... Two weeks in a row for a stats export. When was the last time that happened? :-) db_dump.xml 2018-01-08 10:08 749 host.gz 2018-01-08 10:08 90M tables.xml 2018-01-08 10:08 3.1K team.gz 2018-01-08 10:08 779K user.gz 2018-01-08 10:04 13M
4) Message boards : Number crunching : New work Discussion (Message 57598) Posted 8 Jan 2018 by ritterm Post: I see we have some new work. Some wah2_pnw’s (batch 695) and wah2-global’s (batch 696). Not sure how many as they seem to all be gone now. Yes, indeed. I've been lucky enough to get a few...sorry. ;-)
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Export (Message 57482) Posted 13 Dec 2017 by ritterm Post: Well done Sarah, new export files with data from the stats update from Monday night... And BOINCstats picked up the update at 14:09 today. Thanks to all who helped make this happen.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Export (Message 57473) Posted 12 Dec 2017 by ritterm Post: Does anyone know the url of the CPDN page that BOINCSTATS and other external sites poll so I can bookmark it? Also, how often does BOINCSTATS poll for updates? I've PM'd the BOINCstats admin and will pass on what he says (if he doesn't reply in the forum himself).
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57434) Posted 4 Dec 2017 by ritterm Post: ...Can someone who looks at these things tell me if it has been picked up by external sites yet? thanks. Not yet at BOINCstats; however, I don't think they pick up any available update until later in the day. That also assumes they are looking in the right directory for the export (which has been an issue in the past).
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57373) Posted 16 Nov 2017 by ritterm Post: The result of the latest credit run isn't shown in Boincstats, so it seems export doesn't work. It could be that the export part is still to be handled on the weekend run.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Inactive Accounts to be Removed (Message 57315) Posted 5 Nov 2017 by ritterm Post: In case you missed the this recent post in the News forum: From Andy at CPDN staff: To comply with the Data Protection Act 1998, we are required to only keep personal data for as long as it is absolutely necessary. We will therefore only keep records of inactive volunteers for three years from now on. Initially any records inactive since 2014 or before that date will be removed. We will continue to remove records that have been inactive for three years or more on an ongoing basis. Therefore anyone who signed up prior to this and has been inactive for over three years but wishes to renew their engagement will need to set up a new account. If you have been inactive for the last couple of years and wish us to retain your email and username, please reactivate your account as soon as possible. Project credits from these accounts will be retained but will no longer be linked to an email address or username. Current, active, volunteers, or those who have been active in the last three years, will not be affected by this policy.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 57081) Posted 9 Oct 2017 by ritterm Post: And the update has gotten gotten picked up by at least one of the stats sites. Thanks to the project staff and those who have been keeping us updated.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 56782) Posted 4 Sep 2017 by ritterm Post: Any more news will be posted when it is available... Thanks for the update, Dave. Appreciate the effort.
12) Questions and Answers : Windows : Do I need virtualbox? (Message 56748) Posted 30 Aug 2017 by ritterm Post: Under project tab it says work done = 0. The "Work done" column on the Projects tab of the BOINC manager refers to how much credit you have been awarded by the project. Since the two tasks you have were sent only two days ago, no credit for the computing power performed on those tasks has been awarded because the credit script hasn't run for over two weeks (see the Credit Status thread I referred to earlier for more details).
13) Questions and Answers : Windows : Do I need virtualbox? (Message 56739) Posted 28 Aug 2017 by ritterm Post: A virtual machine is not required to run tasks for this project. However, what do you mean by "zero work has been performed"? If you mean to say that you haven't been awarded any credit, that might be because the project's credit script hasn't run in the last couple of weeks. It's supposed to be run once a week, but that often doesn't happen. You can check the Credit Status thread for more information on that.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit Status (Message 56728) Posted 26 Aug 2017 by ritterm Post: I do wonder what effect the infequent credit updates (together with the large work unit sizes) have on the work allocation between projects on my PC... The BOINC manager considers many factors when allocating run time between projects, but I don't think project credit is one of them.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : stats exsport (Message 55418) Posted 3 Jan 2017 by ritterm Post: Andy Bowery wrote: Stats now available at: https://www.cpdn.org/cpdnboinc/stats/ And, it looks like BOINCstats and Free-DC have picked that up. Thanks to all for the good work.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : stats exsport (Message 55376) Posted 17 Dec 2016 by ritterm Post: Dare I ask about a stats export? :-) If the URL has changed, can that be published so the stats site admins can be made aware?
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit (Message 55299) Posted 4 Dec 2016 by ritterm Post: Les Bayliss wrote: The update can take a while to show on stats sites, as it's up to them to get the data and put it on their sites... True, but new data has to be provided by the project. What's the date on the most recent export? I think I knew once where to look, but don't remember...sorry.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit (Message 55137) Posted 15 Nov 2016 by ritterm Post: Les Bayliss wrote: Lets see if the external sites do something with this. It looks like both BOINCstats and Free-DC picked up today's CPDN export.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit (Message 55132) Posted 14 Nov 2016 by ritterm Post: Jim Marshall wrote: Not for me - BOINCstats show me at 587,571 yet my BOINC hosts show the credit at 612,689. Hi Jim, I think Les was referring to the update that BOINCstats and Free-DC picked up three weeks ago on 24 October. My stats haven't changed on those sites since then, either. It sounds like the credit export script needs some encouragement... :-) MarkR
20) Message boards : Cafe CPDN : Windows 10 (Message 55038) Posted 29 Oct 2016 by ritterm Post: Les Bayliss wrote: In case some haven't come across this yet: Windows 10 – Disable automatic shutdown after Windows Update This looks like a great workaround, Les. I've put this in place on a couple of my BOINC-only PCs and will test. Just to make sure I understand... This will allow updates to be downloaded and installed, but will prevent the auto-restart. Is that correct?

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