Posts by Aurora Borealis

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't update preferences. (Message 54394) Posted 12 May 2012 by Aurora Borealis Post: Tk, I was able to update my RS.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Can't update preferences. (Message 54389) Posted 12 May 2012 by Aurora Borealis Post: It doesn't seem to matter what value I put in for Make particles bigger or smaller It comes back as 'not numeric' Since the page doesn't seem to have a default or reset button, could someone suggest the values required. All I wanted to do was change my resource share when this started.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Question concerning News forum. (Message 50299) Posted 20 Jul 2011 by Aurora Borealis Post: This has been brought to the attention of the Admin Team. Thank you Blurf.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Question concerning News forum. (Message 50212) Posted 18 Jul 2011 by Aurora Borealis Post: Just wondering if MW has plans to start feeding news items to the Boinc Notices. It would seem that, of the projects I'm attached to, only Seti and WCG are currently using the feature.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : site redesign (Message 40503) Posted 18 Jun 2010 by Aurora Borealis Post: OK, one last suggestion how about a box with the top 5 teams in it showing work done? Please don't. Crunching should not be about the competition for numbers. Although I acknowledge that teams do contribute a great deal to get new project off the ground, they should not be given such a prominent position. In the long run individual interest in a project is what makes it successful, not catering to the more fickle interest of number chasing individuals or teams as has been shown historically at Seti.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Not Impressed (Message 40435) Posted 16 Jun 2010 by Aurora Borealis Post: The project doesn't control when you do Internet access, you do. Obviously something is incorect with your Boinc settings. I don't use these option so I can't give precise advice on these setting. These are general things to check. Are you using the web based or local Boinc settings? If web based, did you do a project update to let the Boinc software know you made the change. Are you sure do have the correct time setting. The time is your time, not the projects time zone. Have you selected 'Network activity based on preferences' in the Advanced view - Activity menu. If using web based setting, have you cleared the local preference setting since these will override changes made at the project preferences. If you pressed 'OK' button to exit local manager preferences, even if you didn't make any changes, they will override the web based settings. The Boinc message log will record if and when the network access was stopped.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Request for a CPID change in profile. (Message 40321) Posted 10 Jun 2010 by Aurora Borealis Post: No one can change the CPID but your actions. It's done automatically by the server software. A new CPID is generated when you attach a new project. Besides verifying that the same E-mail address is used by all the projects (closely check the spelling and that no Uppercase was used), you also have to run the projects on the same computer so that a unified CPID can be settled on. If using more than one computer it is best to have at least one project in common between them. It can take time (a couple of weeks) before the projects synchronize to the same CPID (usually the older one). It is also a good idea to be using the same username on your projects so that third party site can unify your accounts under the same name and CPID. Stopping the processing of a project before synchronization of the CPID has occurred ensures that it wont happen. Note: You can check if the email is really the same by using the forgot password feature to see if you receive an email reply from the projects.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc 6.10.56 - backup project (Message 40280) Posted 8 Jun 2010 by Aurora Borealis Post: Go to http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/prefs.php?subset=global and change the suspend if CPU option to "0" I made the change, but still get this message: 6/7/2010 8:24:34 PM suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25 % If you have used local manager preferences then the web preferences will be overridden. You will need to clear them for the web preferences to take or make the change in the manager.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc 6.10.56 - backup project (Message 40252) Posted 6 Jun 2010 by Aurora Borealis Post: Go to http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/prefs.php?subset=global and change the suspend if CPU option to "0" Also avalable at Seti or any project with updated software or in Boinc manager if using local preference. Processor usage tab 'While processor usage is less than ??%' - Default is 25% 0 or 100 setting will ignore this option setting.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Boinc 6.10.56 - backup project (Message 40249) Posted 6 Jun 2010 by Aurora Borealis Post: Edit: Deleted incorect information.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : No New WU (Message 37896) Posted 1 Apr 2010 by Aurora Borealis Post: Suspending a project to force a download from another is never a good idea. It just makes the long term (LTD) debt worst which mean you are just delaying the problem. If you feel you are not getting enough work from a project the best way is to increase its resource share (RS). Boinc is design to handle multiple projects and it give each its fair share share of time based on the RS you set. This does not mean that you will always have work from each project on hand all the time, but it will always balance out in the long run. When crunching with a short deadline project in the mix you should set your cache to no more then that half the time of that deadline. Given reasonable settings, Boinc is capable of handling thing on its own.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Now that wasn't a nice thing to do. (Message 36290) Posted 6 Feb 2010 by Aurora Borealis Post: I go away for a couple of weeks and when I get back and check my system, MW isn't asking for work and the Update button doesn't get me work despite having an LTD of 0. It took me a while to figure out that the server updates included changing the default project preferences so that 'use CPU' is set to NO!!! Not good for a cruncher with no GPU. Not a very considerate thing for the admin to do. My RAC has gone from 600 to 300. Maybe I should dial back my RS to leave it at that level.
13) Message boards : Number crunching : No Thankyou (Message 33129) Posted 7 Nov 2009 by Aurora Borealis Post: I dont post here normally as milkyway is my back up project for seti@home. I know some of you also do or did seti. There is a project that has had a lot of server issues. The difference is that seti communicates a hell of a lot better. My one observation is that milkyway will not post a little notice saying that hey we have a problem hang on to your hats a few hours ,days, or what ever. Now I know seti doesnt always give an up to the second account . But in my opinion if your web page is up and you crash , post a blurb, it will work wonders for keeping morale up. Me, i like the science this project does i will stick around and do my small pittance for it. I guess you weren't around at Seti just a few years ago when you were lucky to get a home page news updated once a month. The Dev's avoided posting in the forums because of all the abuse they received. We only started to get regular updates when Matt found the courage to start the Technical forum. Even now, people complain when he takes personal time without warning and skips a few days of posting or when he's too busy fixing things to do an update. I've come to accept that the volunteer denizens of the Boinc project are a very self-centered and demanding bunch. Once I determine a project is worthwhile, it takes a lot more than a few sever/forum hiccups, adjustment of credits for parity, or busy dev's with personal lives to make me go away. I've seen projects with much greater growing pains or victims of their own success. I can be very patient and understanding when necessary or warranted.
14) Message boards : Number crunching : A new BOINC credit system? Ver 2.10.3 (Message 32838) Posted 28 Oct 2009 by Aurora Borealis Post: Personally I long for the really old System (SETI Classic) when you knew if you did 1 Wu you got 1 Credit, it was simple but it worked. Except for all the scripts and programs that hunted out and deleted the VLAR WUs :-) Seti-Classic had more way to cheat than you can shake a stick at. The dev had to run a script to disable a whole bunch of obvious cheats account when the user data base was transfered to Boinc. Entire teams were dedicated to cheating the Credit systems. Those were the good old day alright.
15) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit lowering (Message 32486) Posted 17 Oct 2009 by Aurora Borealis Post: I don't know if they are cheating, but it sounds a lot like the shenanigans that where happening on Seti-Classic and really damaged the credit system as well as compromising the science. It is one of the reason Boinc adopted the concepts of replication, quorum and validation of the work. It provides a certain assurance that good science is being done and that the credit system has some meaning. It would seem that MW is failing on both counts. If you leave the door open, there will always be someone taking advantage of the situation.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Why only one WU at a time ? (Message 31096) Posted 17 Sep 2009 by Aurora Borealis Post: What I'd like to know is how you got 6.10.5 since its not on either the Boinc download_all or Index of /dl pages. Howdy Aurora, Crunch3R released it the other day. See his post here for the DL links. Bill http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/forum_thread.php?id=1135&nowrap=true#30951 Thanks for the link... I think I'll wait for the official alpha version. I don't have a GPU, so I have no pressing need for most of the bug fixes.
17) Message boards : Number crunching : Why only one WU at a time ? (Message 31093) Posted 17 Sep 2009 by Aurora Borealis Post: What I'd like to know is how you got 6.10.5 since its not on either the Boinc download_all or Index of /dl pages.
18) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit lowering (Message 30928) Posted 15 Sep 2009 by Aurora Borealis Post: I have a PM from you from months back that you said your determination for credit was based on the stock MW app as compared to SETI stock app. Now after some months you have gone back and modified that position. I propose that the stock app to stock app the credit per hour was nearly the same. Now however, I can only suppose that SETI will be higher. But really why would you want to compare your credit to SETI? Really? Why? Because that is just the way it is done? Is this a science project or a DA project? Just asking. I would like to point out that the 'stock' Seti apps spend months being optimized in Beta testing before being release in the wild. This does not appear to have been the case here. edit: The original mutibeam app took 80+ hrs to process mid range WU in early testing and under 5 hrs when released.
19) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit lowering (Message 30892) Posted 14 Sep 2009 by Aurora Borealis Post: Just wanted to say hello. I just join MW. I've had a mild interest in the project for some time. The fact that an effort is being made to achieve credit parity is one of the reasons I decide to add the project to my list at this time. My contribution may be miniscule compared to others, but I thought that the effort should be rewarded.