Les' point about data is a good one - CPDN now has about 70TB of stored data files, with multiple database records (file, parameters, workunit details &c.) for each of these.

It seems that the staff are willing to order another database server, which can be configured as a slave to the main BOINC database, and also to consider archiving more results. Meanwhile, I have at least got the stats dump to run, so hopefully boincstats will pick this up.

As said many times, ALL results are important to whoever's research project it is.
That's why these data transfers take so long; there's Terabytes of data stored here and there now. Unlike other projects, where a "no good" result means that the data can be dumped, here it ALL gets kept.

The many servers here are scattered all through Oxford, in whatever department has space in a server cabinet. When a server needs a hard reset, Milo has to walk to whichever building houses it, and go through a "I need to reset a server. Can I get into your server room please?" routine.

In the case of Kraken, Milo's only allowed to use the network in that area for data transfer during working hours. So, about a third of a day. And, as the full transfer takes a day or two, this is going to take a few more days.

Apologies to all for the problems.

I think the scripts ran about 23 hours ago because this forum slowed down though not for long compared with what happened previously.

It will be worth waiting for our credits on the stats sites for a week to avoid the terrible slowdowns on this forum and the CPDN database.

Presently, I am running four computers on various Boinc projects (CPDN and the Clean Energy Project at WCG), but I would love to use the extra GPU power to do some useful work.

If I am going to run these computers 24/7, I might as well give it all the work it can handle. Does anyone know if they will conflict? How will the other version of Boinc effect the running of my other Boinc projects? Although I can choose to have no screen saver, does anyone know if the two different screen savers will conflict (as it did when I tried to add Folding@home to my GPUs)?

Something to do with installing new servers, and some rather serious changes to trickles/credits. Including shutting down the BBC CCE project.
As this is being done by the project people, they already know about it.

I'll post something though.

For God’s sakes, is everyone obsessed with credits? It’s the work that’s important, not the meaningless cobblestones. If we don't stop global warming we are all in serious trouble.

We're waiting for Monday to arrive in the UK, so that Milo can look at the server.

I think it's fairly clear that all of us have noticed. The reported values have been a little suspect since 23rd actually.

There's also an elephant in the room.

On a project that has apps for both CPU and GPU, this is what's going on. Until and unless BOINC and the projects find robust ways of dealing with the credit disparities between tasks run on CPU and GPU, the moderators, programmers and researchers here would have no time or inclination to expose CPDN to these shenanigans.

I am getting plenty of work from SETI. All 3 types, MB, AP and AP_V5.

Pirates also started back up.

Sort of a bad week for my BOINC projects, SETI is not generating new work nor apparently will it until next week sometime, Malaria has not generated production work for over three months, the Einstein primary server crashed this morning and are completely offline until they get things working again, and about two hours ago, the Milkyway project went offline totally (generating 404 messages on the home page), so the Climate trickles/credits reporting problem (now solved for the moment) was actually the least of the BOINC project woes for me.

I\'ve joined a total of 10 projects -- two closed down (Climate BBC - gracefully and Predictor - ugly), so for this week the only totally clean projects for me have been Spinhenge, POEM, Rosetta and World Grid)