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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As for getting OET WUs, first, yes, you have to have the project selected (checked) in the device profile on the website. However, OET doesn't have very many WUs yet and you won't get many if you also have other projects selected as well. The best way to get OET WUs is to have only OET selected. From my experience, it seems that I get some OET WUs that way 3-4 times a day. I tried getting the OET WUs at first by selecting OET only, but I ran out of WUs for my laptop. No work at all was being done, so I selected ugm as well and had no problems with the amount of work I got. I am still sitting on my hands for OET. I used to get 2 to 3 OETs a day, but I haven't gotten any since New Year,s eve. Okay, obviously the "News" item that Sgt. Joe referred to explains a lot. Not real surprising given how OET went out the door prematurely. Still, Between Xmas and New Year's, I snagged enough that I will be real close to Bronze in the next day or two if I don't make it completely. When you have a short supply project like OET, you want to have that project as your only project with your machines frequently asking for work in order to stand a decent chance at actually getting work for that project. However, that's a real good way to have your machines completely run out of work too. With a small tweak and a little human work, you can manage both. First off, don't bother changing your project selections in My Projects. That's nothing more that an overall default. For that to work effectively, you'd need to go delete all of your device profiles and recreate them. Your project settings in My Projects get used with you create a device profile. Once created, changes to My Projects don't update device profiles. So, first, I'd recommend increasing your cache to 2-3 days. Don't go more than 3 days. Hit the Update button in BOINCManager on each machine and keep doing so until you don't get any more new work (this is with your current project selections). Now go into Device Manager and change your project selections in each profile assigned to a device, select OET only and be sure to uncheck the box for "If there is no work available for the project(s) I have selected above, please send me work from another project." Now you are telling WCG you want OET work only and nothing else. Click on Tools-Computing Preferences in BOINCManager on each machine and change your cache to double what it was. Now your machines will request OET work frequently which, when WCG has OET work, will maximize your odds of getting some. When enough time passes that you are nearing the normal cache size, you probably will be getting low on work for your normal projects. If you get OET work, you'll have that to crunch if it hasn't started already. OET has a 10 day deadline while other projects have 7 days so, if you get OET work, you will probably see BOINC "jump ahead" and crunch some of them even though you have work with earlier deadlines. All else being normal, BOINC crunches WUs in the order of when they were received. The "skipped" WUs were actually received after the OET WU despite the earlier deadline. You can now click on the Clear button in Tools-Computing Preferences to reset your cache size to normal and go back into Device Profiles and change your project selections back to normal. That will keep your machines from running out of work. BOINC will work down your cache of work (assuming you got some OETs). Once it starts getting new work for your normal projects, you can repeat all this again to try getting more OET work. No, none of this should be necessary but it's the reality of dealing with projects released before there is an adequate pipeline of work in place. |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As for getting OET WUs, first, yes, you have to have the project selected (checked) in the device profile on the website. However, OET doesn't have very many WUs yet and you won't get many if you also have other projects selected as well. The best way to get OET WUs is to have only OET selected. From my experience, it seems that I get some OET WUs that way 3-4 times a day. I tried getting the OET WUs at first by selecting OET only, but I ran out of WUs for my laptop. No work at all was being done, so I selected ugm as well and had no problems with the amount of work I got. I am still sitting on my hands for OET. I used to get 2 to 3 OETs a day, but I haven't gotten any since New Year,s eve. Okay, obviously the "News" item that Sgt. Joe referred to explains a lot. Not real surprising given how OET went out the door prematurely. Still, Between Xmas and New Year's, I snagged enough that I will be real close to Bronze in the next day or two if I don't make it completely. When you have a short supply project like OET, you want to have that project as your only project with your machines frequently asking for work in order to stand a decent chance at actually getting work for that project. However, that's a real good way to have your machines completely run out of work too. With a small tweak and a little human work, you can manage both. First off, don't bother changing your project selections in My Projects. That's nothing more that an overall default. For that to work effectively, you'd need to go delete all of your device profiles and recreate them. Your project settings in My Projects get used with you create a device profile. Once created, changes to My Projects don't update device profiles. So, first, I'd recommend increasing your cache to 2-3 days. Don't go more than 3 days. Hit the Update button in BOINCManager on each machine and keep doing so until you don't get any more new work (this is with your current project selections). Now go into Device Manager and change your project selections in each profile assigned to a device, select OET only and be sure to uncheck the box for "If there is no work available for the project(s) I have selected above, please send me work from another project." Now you are telling WCG you want OET work only and nothing else. Click on Tools-Computing Preferences in BOINCManager on each machine and change your cache to double what it was. Now your machines will request OET work frequently which, when WCG has OET work, will maximize your odds of getting some. When enough time passes that you are nearing the normal cache size, you probably will be getting low on work for your normal projects. If you get OET work, you'll have that to crunch if it hasn't started already. OET has a 10 day deadline while other projects have 7 days so, if you get OET work, you will probably see BOINC "jump ahead" and crunch some of them even though you have work with earlier deadlines. All else being normal, BOINC crunches WUs in the order of when they were received. The "skipped" WUs were actually received after the OET WU despite the earlier deadline. You can now click on the Clear button in Tools-Computing Preferences to reset your cache size to normal and go back into Device Profiles and change your project selections back to normal. That will keep your machines from running out of work. BOINC will work down your cache of work (assuming you got some OETs). Once it starts getting new work for your normal projects, you can repeat all this again to try getting more OET work. No, none of this should be necessary but it's the reality of dealing with projects released before there is an adequate pipeline of work in place. Or you could run all projects like Gerald or MCM, OET and FAAH like I do. (lots less manual work). |
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cht!
Cruncher Joined: May 23, 2011 Post Count: 39 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Pierre (hope I have that right), for the run on battery setting, first confirm that that is unchecked in teh device profile assigned to the laptop (via Device Manager on the website). If that is unchecked, then go to BOINCManager on the laptop and click on Tools-Computing Preferences-Processor Usage and see if it is unchecked there too. If that is checked, that setting overrides the device profile. You can uncheck it there and save that or, better yet, click on Clear. Clear will remove any local overrides and set things to match the device profile. As for getting OET WUs, first, yes, you have to have the project selected (checked) in the device profile on the website. However, OET doesn't have very many WUs yet and you won't get many if you also have other projects selected as well. The best way to get OET WUs is to have only OET selected. From my experience, it seems that I get some OET WUs that way 3-4 times a day. Yes, you're right :) I've checked the "run on battery settings" on the website and in the Boinc Client Configuration, everything is OK.. It seems like Boinc don't detect that the computer run on battery... I've reset local boinc preference (clicked on clear as suggested) to be sure nothing was defined but the problem persist. I will reinstall Boinc and try again! For OET I've other projects selected and currently no WU's are available so I will keep the actual configuration and see if some WU's arrived on my computer! I've received 1 OET WU since the start of the project, I think the configuration is working but no WU are available when Boinc request some new WU! Thanks for all the help! Pierre  |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 01/04 - All Members:
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Points milestones report ======================== Mechanical reached 7,500,000 points  Wunderwuzzi reached 3,500,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= No runtime milestones found.  Results returned milestones report ================================== No results returned milestones found. New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 11/13/2012 8,777 Points: 01/06/2013 3,311,422 Runtime: 04/05/2012 1:197:18:06:42 Team Streaks: - Streak begins - Streak continues - Streak endsResults Returned: Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 01/04 - Active Members
----------------------------------------Active team members report ==========================
Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 279,657 points 02: judson Somerville MD - 199,074 points 03: dkt - 102,228 points 04: insane.codernaut@gmail.com - 96,350 points 05: GeraldRube - 95,471 points 06: nanoprobe - 60,358 points 07: jpenning - 48,617 points 08: Tomwp - 43,717 points 09: largethunder - 42,553 points 10: brown chris - 36,695 points 11: darth_vader - 34,687 points 12: xroule - 31,960 points 13: PohSoon - 20,002 points 14: smcclarigan - 19,965 points 15: Lanscader - 17,812 points 16: Hintsala - 17,204 points 17: keithhenry - 15,068 points 18: Fanie - 12,752 points 19: Wunderwuzzi - 10,829 points 20: Mechanical - 10,384 points Total points returned today: 1,216,377 Active members returning points today: 25 Average points per member active today: 48,655.08 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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...........................CONGRATULATIONS Mechanical ON REACHING 7,500,000 MOT POINTS !!!........................... |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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.........................CONGRATULATIONS Wunderwuzzi ON REACHING 3,500,000 MOT POINTS !!!......................... |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 01/05 - All Members:
----------------------------------------Team rank movement report =========================
Points milestones report ======================== nanoprobe reached 7,000,000 points Runtime milestones report ========================= RT reached 375 years of runtime judson Somerville MD reached 193 years of runtime dkt reached 66 years of runtime Results returned milestones report ================================== No results returned milestones found. New members report ================== No new members found. Retired members report ====================== No new retired members found. For the week as a team: Statistics Total Run Time Points Results Team Records: Results Returned: 11/13/2012 8,777 Points: 01/06/2013 3,311,422 Runtime: 04/05/2012 1:197:18:06:42 Team Streaks: - Streak begins - Streak continues- Streak endsResults Returned: Good crunching folks!!!!! |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 01/05 - Active Members
----------------------------------------Active team members report ==========================
Note: Active members are those who earned points in the prior 30 days. Top Twenty active members returning points today: 01: RT - 290,740 points 02: judson Somerville MD - 175,012 points 03: dkt - 114,376 points 04: nanoprobe - 83,732 points 05: insane.codernaut@gmail.com - 83,496 points 06: GeraldRube - 80,454 points 07: xroule - 72,484 points 08: brown chris - 49,567 points 09: jpenning - 47,426 points 10: largethunder - 40,410 points 11: darth_vader - 39,067 points 12: Tomwp - 33,649 points 13: Hintsala - 30,198 points 14: smcclarigan - 25,427 points 15: keithhenry - 23,036 points 16: PohSoon - 14,874 points 17: Lanscader - 13,934 points 18: Fanie - 13,915 points 19: Wunderwuzzi - 13,741 points 20: Mechanical - 8,478 points Total points returned today: 1,274,850 Active members returning points today: 28 Average points per member active today: 45,530.3571 |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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............................CONGRATULATIONS nanoprobe ON REACHING 7,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!............................ |
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