It used to be that the credit script was run only once a week early UTC Sunday. But I thought that had changed recently. Respond back to this thread if no credit shows up by Monday and we'll alert Andy to the problem.

Pretty certain it still just runs once a week. I haven't had any work for a while but looking at the steps on the graph from BOINC manager makes it pretty clear that if it has changed it is only in the past week.

Is CPDN planned to be able to run on Windows 10 / 11 in the future? If not, could CPDN run in a Linux VirtualBox system?

It worked for 21.10

That's for another forum. I've posted about it at WCG.

Another possibility, is that you're running Linux in a VM on a Windows machine.

I've found it best not to make life too complicated for a computer running climate models.

That is certainly my experience. I lose a lot more CPDN work units running Ubuntu 20.04.4 under WSL/Win10 than I do on a native Ubuntu 20.04 machine.
And there is nothing wrong with BOINC 7.16.6 for CPDN, or the later ones either (7.18.1, 7.20.2) that I have found.

I'm using an older PC which is running Win10. I've not had any work packets for some time now and I'm wondering if there is a minimum spec required to participate.

A number of people are using WSL to run the tasks from Windows machines. While tasks will run on most Intel/Amd processors less than ten years old, towards the older end of that range they will be quite slow and I wouldn't bother on a machine with less than 8GB of RAM.

New Scientist: Every heatwave occurring today is more intense due to climate change

I am getting quite a few fails of late, with the error "CPDN process is not running", being a bit of a Linux n00b can someone let me know how to check if it is running / how to restart.
It was working fine for the last lot of units I got, not sure if OS updates have borked things?
Running Linux Mint in a VM.

So the project is now more or less officially dead for Windows clients?

I wonder what they have against the OpenIFS code? too European?.

Tasks have started appearing on the server. Linux only for this lot unless you use WSL or a VM of some description. In three minutes time when my box updates after the backoff from last attempt to get work I will be able to confirm that they are downloading OK..

I'm experiencing an odd behavior in BOINC running CM3s in VBox VM Mojave on Windows 10. The progress bar has stalled (values are stuck on a number and not going up) on all tasks but the Elapsed and Remaining times are still counting. No trickle ups in a couple of days even though before it was at least once a day. Suspend/Resume seems to get things going again. Has anyone experienced anything like this before?

The newer machines are an awful lot cheaper to run than older ones in terms of compute per watt

I've actually had better luck with just killing the VM entirely than trying to suspend tasks if I need to power cycle something - suspend/resume cycles are likely to kill 40-60% of the running tasks, and a power cut kills fewer. I'm trying not to do that, though - like all the CPDN tasks, they're best left running, non-stop, until completion.

@wateroakley
I'm used to pretty good performance of Linux VMware guests on this PC (4 threads of an i7 7700HQ, 16 MB of RAM allocated to VM, 100 GB fixed HD space in VM). I'm noticing considerable mouse lag as I move the cursor around in the VM window. Are you noticing the same thing too? I did perform some of the MacOS tweaks for VM performance listed at https://github.com/sickcodes/osx-optimizer.
The mouse does not lag on this macOS VM. Did you enable the guest additions, which provide better integration for mouse and keyboard ?

Nice! Glad to see the 32-bit MacOS love extended to Windows.
You don't need 4GB per CPU core, though. The current MacOS tasks only use a few hundred meg per task, tops. I only see ~150MB working set size per task running in my "Mojave on Linux" VMs. I'm running 4C/4GB VMs without any issues at all.

There's no way to blacklist hosts who are just endlessly erroring tasks?.

We now have passed one month since the last post, and apparently there is still no work for Windows PC's.
That's a pity, as I was running climateprediction calculations for around 2 decadeds (!) now.
Boinc and climateprediction is installed on all of our office PC's, and we are #2 in Norway, and #139 worldwide.