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deltavee
Ace Cruncher Texas Hill Country Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 4848 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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For those still looking for projects, I highly recommend Milkyway@home. Dataman, Milkyway@home is where I'm moving my crunchers too.  |
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alver
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 30, 2007 Post Count: 245 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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For those still looking for projects, I highly recommend Milkyway@home. ... Both [videos] are excellent. Wow - agreed (I made it through both, and feel as though I even understand some of it: the power of good communicators). I've signed up. I've always tended more toward life sciences (apart from starting with SETI@Home back in '99), but for now any science is better than no science, and the fact that it works 'straight out of the box' in BOINC swings it for me. Thanks for the recommendation - much appreciated. WCG is still selected, and I'll be back processing here as soon as any work is available, but maybe with a view to 'splitting my time' a bit from now on.  (previously known as 'proxima' on SETI, UD, distributed folding, FaD, and Rosetta) [Edit 1 times, last edit by alver at Feb 19, 2022 7:48:55 PM] |
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yoerik
Senior Cruncher Canada Joined: Mar 24, 2020 Post Count: 413 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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thanks for the info about milkyway, dataman! I flirted w their WUs when I first started BOINC, happy to return even just a bit - to help.
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Stiwi
Advanced Cruncher Joined: May 19, 2012 Post Count: 73 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Another option (not boinc) for Android devices could be Dreamlab:
https://www.vodafone.com/vodafone-foundation/focus-areas/dreamlab-app There are currently a covid and a cancer project |
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Dayle Diamond
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jan 31, 2013 Post Count: 450 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As of my post, Milkyway has 10968 tasks remaining.
----------------------------------------90% of the tasks are completed in twenty minutes, the rest in eight minutes. That's roughly 3656 CPU hours of work left. WCG volunteers could tap that dry in a day. Hopefully we do. https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/server_status.php I don't see anything proposed that's big enough to sustain all our donations at once, except FAH. And even they've seen a drop in total jobs since I last posted - 430,000 multigeneration GPU units to 280,000. Time will tell, but it would be great if some version of this thread made it to the placeholder page. Like, a list of places us donors have recommended, and instructions on setting backup project priority to zero. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Dayle Diamond at Feb 20, 2022 8:58:26 PM] |
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Acibant
Advanced Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 15, 2020 Post Count: 126 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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As of my post, Milkyway has 10968 tasks remaining. 90% of the tasks are completed in twenty minutes, the rest in eight minutes. That's roughly 3656 CPU hours of work left. Looking at their applications and doing some testing... "Milkyway@home N-Body Simulation" does indeed complete quickly on the CPU, though it is a multithreaded task so that's giving it a big boost from all the threads at once. The average for "Milkyway@home Separation" is brought down by the use of GPUs for it. CPU tasks for the latter take closer to an hour. It may be prudent to only allow GPU tasks and then have a CPU-only backup project so that your hardware is used most efficiently.  |
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Dayle Diamond
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jan 31, 2013 Post Count: 450 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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That's good advice, Acibant.
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BobbyB
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Apr 25, 2020 Post Count: 603 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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My machines have not seen any "downtime" since the Downtime. Joined Rosetta, TnGrid, and SiDock.
Finally gave SiDock my Ryzen 9 today to see how it works out. |
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True54Blue
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 97 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Tried to switch over to MilkyWay but they are obviously having server problems and now communication is deferred for 24 hours! Guess I'll try something else.
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Unixchick
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 16, 2020 Post Count: 859 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I got my account set up on Milkyway earlier, but like True54Blue I'm seeing MW having issues... guessed we swamped it. If there isn't already a team there for us, I'll create one once they get the system stable.
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