Sorry to see you go Ralph, stop back again.

Agreed.
Or maybe he should give it another try... the last few days were very fine here for crunching. :-)

But Al ...all that being said and true ....Travis has also said we are beating the BlueGene supercomputer in both the amount of results returned and the short turnaround time so how can Boinc not be at least an adequate platform?

I hope that BOINC is an adequate platform! I would certainly miss Milkyway if it was no BOINC project anymore. ;-)

Btw: my turnaround time for 20 WUs is about 80 to 85 minutes on my new lappy.
So a 12 hrs deadline would be no problem if there were almost no outages and mostly always WUs available. That way I'd be happy to crunch along Milkyway exclusively on that box 24/7. *grin*

EDIT: when the server is stable enough the deadlines can be decreased again of course, but 12 hours is really short if you participate in more than a few projects.

I agree on this, but then it is simple - for those with numerous projects in which they are participating simultaniously Milky Way simply is the wrong project. The same for slower machines.

Deadlines should be set to the need of the project's science, not the convienience of users.

Science first.

Greetings, Groundhog

Yup. But you'll always need at least one backup project when running out of WUs here. :-)

I have several backup projects :)

Me too. :-) That's why I thought a 12 hrs deadline might be a little tight. *grin*

EDIT: when the server is stable enough the deadlines can be decreased again of course, but 12 hours is really short if you participate in more than a few projects.

I agree on this, but then it is simple - for those with numerous projects in which they are participating simultaniously Milky Way simply is the wrong project. The same for slower machines.

Deadlines should be set to the need of the project's science, not the convienience of users.

Science first.

Greetings, Groundhog

Yup. But you'll always need at least one backup project when running out of WUs here. :-)

I thought it was a rumor that people ran this project :)

haha thanks guys. that's nice. i just took care of the assimilator backup and the server is generating new work again. it just freezes sometimes due to the older version of boinc we're using. so it's needs some assistance occasionally. this usually requires a kill of the boinc software and/or a reboot of the system and is a little bit time consuming. anywho, all should be good as of now. :)

Workunits waiting for assimilation 10,100