I see that OpenIFS 43r3 Baroclinic Lifecycle has appeared as a third OpenIFS task type.

Yes, I described this back in message https://www.cpdn.org/forum_thread.php?id=9149&postid=66191 I'm also working with a student at U. Oxford on another customized version of OpenIFS for seasonal forecasts with perturbations to the surface model. The plan is for several batches of ~3000 workunits each, though this will be a while yet as it's still being developed & tested. I'm not sure what the workunit count will be for the lifecycle model.

This is for the ANZ regional models so Windows tasks. The tasks in testing completed a while ago but other work prevented further progress till now.

Since 2019 ... the user appears to have 4470 devices attached.
Scanning down the sorted list for credits, somewhere around 90% have not successfully returned task completions.

I think there is a case for deleting the SU account.

Unfortunately, it'll keep getting re-created like a bad penny.

I think the only guaranteed solution is for BOINC project administrators - collectively - to speak truth to power. They'll have to decide whether the 'power' in question is David Anderson in person, the Regents of the University of California corporately, or both.

BBC article here

Though I am old enough to have seen articles suggesting nuclear fusion is only 10-15 years away from commercial viability for quite a while!

It looks like Microsoft is making it easier to run Linux GUI apps from Windows. Only on "insider" builds now, but hopefully coming in a Windows update sometime this year.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-now-lets-you-seamlessly-run-linux-gui-apps/

So can you actually buy a laptop you can use on your lap now? The last one I used would overheat instantly, since the intake vent was underneath, where your lap is blocking it! It should have been sold as a tabletop.

And I thought a lot of gamers were going for laptops now, so surely they're adding a lot of power for that, or is that all in the GPU?

So, I found one machine had stopped responding by a vnc connection. I went and checked the machine and found its keyboard UN-responsive as well. So there was no way to shutdown Boinc. The mouse was still working so the machine was shutdown.

Well we all know what this might mean for those weak and feeble climate w/u. On startup 2 w/u had fainted and died. Some 11 days of processing lost between them. But a grain of sand in the history of climate processing.
I have bucket of ARP w/u to do instead. They love a restart, in-case there is a fault with the machine and it needs a restart.
I really do get frustrated just how easy these climate w/u pass-out and die for any reason.

Pretty sure part of the problem is that as more is learned about the scientists learn more, the work they are doing has got more complex and that means bigger models that require faster computers with more memory to run in a reasonable time. That many batches are linked to student's PhDs accounts for much of the erratic nature of work availability.

I would question whether it was, "ordinary people" donating their computer time at the start however when tasks on even fast computers would take over six months to complete or not as the case may be.

Legally the mechanical part is your property, you can burn it or take a sledgehammer to it. Operating System is not. You can void your warranty.
“Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.”

Incorrect, they just say that to stop you meddling. They also say you're not allowed to upgrade your desktop (eg. insert a graphics card) or the warranty is void. But they can't void a warranty legally.