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Stevie G
Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 24 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Unlike all the other BOINC projects I have worked on, WCG does not have a server status page, tab or link on the home page. There is no way to track how the project is running.
Each of my six other current projects has such a page, which provide some idea of what is happening on those projects. Below is the servers status link for Rosetta, which, oddly enough has zeros for the first six categories, indicating that the project has no work. But it has lots of other relevant information about the project. (Example--Rosetta Sever status) Computing status Work Tasks ready to send Tasks in progress Workunits waiting for validation Workunits waiting for assimilation Workunits waiting for file deletion Tasks waiting for file deletion Transitioner backlog (hours) Users With credit 1374929 With recent credit 16794 Registered in past 24 hours 42 Computers With credit 4501481 With recent credit 37544 Registered in past 24 hours 121 Current GigaFLOPS 40073.81 Where is that information on WCG? Nowhere? Why not? Who don't they put it on the Home Page? I want to know why my computer has not gotten any WCG tasks recently. Are other people experiencing a similar absence of work? C'mon, Krembil. Show us your stats. |
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BobbyB
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Apr 25, 2020 Post Count: 603 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Are other people experiencing a similar absence of work? Yes, the forum is full of this type of posts. This is why I joined Tn-Grid. It keeps my hungry machines well fed. Follow the instructions in the Join TN-Grid paragraph.... and there is a status page. The current focus is on the "Homo sapiens genome", so it is medicine related and not connecting to ET or the search for ET. (which probably exist) http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/index.php <comment> Don't blame Krembil. Blame IBM. They had this project for many years and never implemented this. With all the problems Krembil have had and are still having, this is the least of their worries. I have a list of stuff they could do once the problems are over. Not now. </comment) [Edit 2 times, last edit by BobbyB at Dec 31, 2022 3:03:33 PM] |
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Stevie G
Cruncher United States Joined: Apr 10, 2020 Post Count: 24 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I've participated in WCG for two years, so I know it is focused on medical issues.
SETI has been done for two years now. The jury is still out as to whether or not aliens exist. WCG was more stable when IBM ran it. Krembil implied there would be improvements once they acquired it. IBM was remiss in not including a status page. I know that WCG supports a lot of separate projects, so it might be more complicated to show the status of each. But these are smart guys. They could figure it out if they wanted to. Apparently, the program was more complicated than Krembil anticipated when they took it on. i |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7595 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Apparently, the program was more complicated than Krembil anticipated when they took it on. You are probably correct. Based on this they probably did not correctly allocate the appropriate amount of resources to neither effectively accomplish the transition nor provide for ongoing maintenance. Hindsight being 20/20, they should have put Kevin Reed and Keith Uplinger on the payroll for the first six months (or maybe IBM could have "loaned" them for the transition). That being said, Krembil is making progress. They have made some effort to improve communication, but that remains a "work in progress." At the very least they are keeping a steady supply of MCM units (which is their home project). It would be beneficial for the volunteers to periodically hear from the scientists involved in the various projects on some regular basis. Maybe every couple of months or so. Even some followup from the completed projects would be appreciated. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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