workloads are significantly under optimised i believe .... and often crash a AMD 64Bit 8 core system with 8gb+ ram and this really is anoying... :/

http://esa-space.blogspot.com/2016/02/zika-virus-further-research.html
http://esa-space.blogspot.rs/2016/02/zika-virus.html

*****
boinc - enhancing research workloads for the benefit of mankind

Observing the workloads of many beneficial projects we find that commonly the workload data set is small,
In addition to the memory set being smaller or larger than a machine can compute optimally; we find that feature sets such as fae and avx have commonly not been implemented,

Some projects like asteroids at home and the seti project are using enhanced computation instruction sets ... like avx and memory loads that benefit from the 4gb or more ram that is available on decent gaming and home laptops.

Not all modern machines have loads of ram; However research and or university establishments use sufficiently powerful machines that can glow on the boinc record in full glory with a 256mb to 768mb workload,

In addition the machines are operand,xen ... commonly and servers may have such as Sparc or power pc specific hardware and instruction sets,

In order to examine examples .. below we can see workloads include small data arrays; in the 40mb to 79mb range..

In line with servers and gaming rigs .. we have 1gb of ram per core, of course not all issues require a larger array in the workload and some machines have 256mb per core !

However much Ram you allocate to the projected workload; small memory loads can and will be sufficient for data swapping and or paging (like DNA Replicators)...

Some task can sufficiently benefit from larger thread and data models, to my mind DNA and mapping data are fine examples of specific workloads; Where memory counts,

In addition thread count can be 4 or other numbers and i suggest that a single task can use more than one core and instruction set (neon for example or Symmetric threading FPU, SMT)

Please examine the issue further.

Rupert S

by the way boinc burkeley needs a modernisation of it's TLS SSL Config !

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/

http://esa-space.blogspot.rs/2017/04/boinc.html

i was under the impression that task and validation are part of the flow that ultimately leads to success ... the tribute of this is the cure.

thank you kindly RS

Well, kind of yes.

The problem that however is the subject of this thread is about the fact that I/we notice that this flow is interrupted. And an interruption of that flow means that there is also an interruption of the flow that leads to success...

Things in the computer world do not happen automagically, there are (have to be) human souls responsible for keeping that flow going and take care of any interruption...

Ralf

Fortunately for this project the new work assignments do not depend on the immediate return and validation of completed tasks like HST1 and FAH2 are i.e. production is not stalled in any way :o)

Sinister, from Italian sinistra... left, so better watch out for Jeremy Corbyn 😱