1) Message boards : Number crunching : Hard Drive Space Question (Message 69966) Posted 26 Jun 2020 by Jonathan Melusky Post: Hmmm, I am also connected to Einstein Project, but currently it only uses 1.42 GB of space on my hard drive. Should I use Maximum preference settings or Custom preference settings?

2) Message boards : Number crunching : Hard Drive Space Question (Message 69962) Posted 25 Jun 2020 by Jonathan Melusky Post: I was curious about crunching some giant work units. So I increased my hard drive space that BOINC can use from 10 gigs to 200 gigs. But BOINC only uses 5.54 gigs of space on my computer. MilkyWay only uses 24.81 MB of space. Can MilkyWay send me larger work units to crunch? Or are there other projects that do have large work units?

3) Message boards : MilkyWay@home Science : Nbody Science (Message 69872) Posted 29 May 2020 by Jonathan Melusky Post: The last 4 years have been brutal to science budgets in the US. In 2018 alone, the budget for NASA was cut by over $19 billion so money and grants for Milkyway public outreach most likely took a hit in funding. In 2017, the NASA budget was also cut, but not by as much. Here is a quote from an article I found. "Out of all the federal agencies that received budget plans from President Donald Trump yesterday, NASA fared pretty well. The space agency is only facing a 0.8 percent cut in its overall budget — a relatively mild change compared to the Environmental Protection Agency, which could see its funding slashed by 31 percent. But packed within NASA’s small budget decrease are some pretty sizable cuts. A few major upcoming missions are canceled, and NASA’s entire education program, which is responsible for outreach and grants, is eliminated. The budget request also proposes wasting technologies already in space."

4) Message boards : Number crunching : Why Validation Inconclusive? (Message 69869) Posted 29 May 2020 by Jonathan Melusky Post: Maybe the writer also dabbles in real estate? "A pending sale status means the seller has accepted an offer from a hopeful buyer, but the deal hasn't closed yet. (This is different from a contingent sale.) A property is placed in pending status the minute a contract is executed." At dictionary.com website lists pending as either a preposition or an adjective. The "preposition while awaiting; until: pending his return. in the period before the decision or conclusion of; during: pending the negotiations. adjective remaining undecided; awaiting decision or settlement; unfinished: pending business; pending questions; pending litigation. about to take place; impending." Or perhaps the writer dabble in the law and sees pending as "pending litigation"? Inconclusive is only defined as an adjective....so less confusion perhaps in its use? "adjective not conclusive; not resolving fully all doubts or questions: inconclusive evidence. without final results or outcome: inconclusive experiments." That said... many movies of late, especially sci-fi, use the word "inconclusive" to mean "not resolving fully all doubts or questions" and people seem to linger over the word "doubts" instead of using the first basic definition of "not conclusive" and conclusive being related to conclusion of the double-check of the WU. However, "Double-Checking" or "Being Peer Reviewed" could be better than "Validation Inconclusive" or "Validation Pending"?

5) Message boards : Number crunching : problem with de_nbody tasks never finishing (Message 69868) Posted 29 May 2020 by Jonathan Melusky Post: I wish I read this thread a few days ago. On May 16, I got 52 de_nbody WUs and they all were due on May 28th. The WUs that were estimated to take 3 hours all seemed to function normally, but the WUs that were estimated at 8 hours did reversal countdowns and would stall unmoving for hours at a time. I ended up having to abort 28 WUs with a few of them half-completed as the deadline today was a few hours away and I could see they were not going to make it in time and they were causing other projects to miss their deadlines as well.

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