Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-04-01 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 31 March 2020 23:24:36 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote: > Meanwhile, it looks the Rosetta@home job queue has run completely dry > and my machine has run out of jobs to process, though over a million > jobs are still being processed by other clients. In the Tasks View of the Manager I have

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-31 Thread Andrew
On 31/03/2020 23:24, Patrick Wigmore wrote: Meanwhile, it looks the Rosetta@home job queue has run completely dry and my machine has run out of jobs to process, though over a million jobs are still being processed by other clients. From here:

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-31 Thread Patrick Wigmore
I just read this document about Science United: https://scienceunited.org/doc/implementation.pdf Comparing BOINC's credit system to Science United's, it provides some insight into another reason why credit for BOINC tasks may not appear instantly: > BOINC has a sophisticated credit system for

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 29 March 2020 12:19:12 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > I haven't been following closely, but ‘Credit reporting and display’ in > https://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/credit/text.php may be relevant > to Terry's question. Ralph, Whenever I can't find the answer in Google, you pop up and

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Patrick, I haven't been following closely, but ‘Credit reporting and display’ in https://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/credit/text.php may be relevant to Terry's question. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: BEC, Bournemouth, Tuesday, post-lurgi 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 29 March 2020 12:04:53 BST Terry Coles wrote: > As far as I know, I don't have an account and presumably am computing as > 'Anonymous'. I don't recall being asked to set one up. Correction. I do have an account; I'm very forgetful these days. -- Terry Coles --

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:53:27 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote: > As best I can tell by looking at my own figures, the "Work done for > this project" figure shown in your screenshot corresponds to the total > amount of credit awarded to your user account. The terms "work done" > and "credit" seem to

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:53:27 +0100, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > it seems it requests the latest statistics *before* telling the > server about the work it has just completed Or, possibly, it requests the statistics after telling the server about the work done, but the server hasn't updated the

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Patrick Wigmore
Hi Terry On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:26:46 +0100, Terry Coles wrote: > For several days the 'Work done for this project' read 0 because the > first Task was yet to complete. Yesterday morning I was informed > that the work done was 1, as expected, but I definitely didn't > expect to log in this

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:44:39 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > There is a delay, so it might be you were awarded 2 days of work at once > or something? So the Statistics don't directly reflect how many Tasks that have been completed, but are calculated by the server every now and then?

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
I can't remember, but I ran it for years on a raspberry pi. There is a delay, so it might be you were awarded 2 days of work at once or something? Hamish On 29/03/2020 11:39, Terry Coles wrote: > On Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:33:22 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: >> Work done is more of a

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Terry Coles
On Sunday, 29 March 2020 11:33:22 BST Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Work done is more of a measure of the computational difficulty of the > tasks you completed, not the number of tasks - some tasks are > shorter/simpler than others :) Where does it say that? I couldn't find anything. Even

Re: [Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
Terry, Work done is more of a measure of the computational difficulty of the tasks you completed, not the number of tasks - some tasks are shorter/simpler than others :) Hamish On 29/03/2020 10:26, Terry Coles wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone else out there using the BOINC client? As related a few

[Dorset] BOINC Statistics

2020-03-29 Thread Terry Coles
Hi, Is anyone else out there using the BOINC client? As related a few days ago I had problems with F@H (which Tim is using) so I installed BOINC from the repository and have been running it ever since. As also related, I found it initially overworked my CPUs and caused serious overheating