Hi Everyone!

Sorry for a lot of silence on our end -- things have been quite hectic this summer! I accepted a new position and now am at Rochester Institute of Technology and busily getting a new lab set up (and having some students migrate along with me).

I'm going to let some of the work units clear out of the system and set up some new runs which should help fix some of the issues you've been seeing with bad workunits. In the longer term, I've started work on an updated binary which should also allow for the use of GPUs, which should hopefully allow the runs to scale a bit better without running into these problems.

I'll be keeping you posted as that comes along, but right now we're all just trying to get settled in a new place! Thanks again for all your support. The results coming in are definitely interesting ones!

Hi, mmonnin,
" part of each individual project. There's nothing we can do about it"
You say, "we can do"... are you a moderator for this project, or otherwise on the project team?

Message 7581 - Posted: 9 Sep 2018, 1:29:09 UTC :
"By aborting units you are contributing to the problems ..."

On rare occasions I have to abort a WU, for various reasons.
Surely CSG can distinguish between a real compute error and an abort by the user.
If not, THIS needs to be fixed.
Thanks,
LLP, PhD PE

It is not something that should be open to a vote. He seems to know the basic rules of BOINC. The credit here is quite obviously not in line with other projects. Sure, it is not easy to get all projects exactly matching, there are many reasons why it could never be that way, The premise within BOINC is that the projects should be ROUGHLY the same. As things are right now here, they very clearly are not.

I apologize for slow loading on the flights this morning. Our IT staff has been doing some things which I think resulted in this. Looks like things are back up and going thankfully. If I hear any more I'll let you know.

Is there a page that clearly associates the different applications with the subprojects? I am a returning user from the old (pre-CSG) Wildlife@home, and would like to dedicate my resources to that particular subproject. The DNA@Home app was pretty obvious, but the CNN/EXACT apps are not as much so.

Could the deadline be increased? I allowed for work from CSG from the new app and nearly all the tasks went to high priority and interrupted other work. Some tasks have only about 10 hours before deadline. D/L about 3:45PM, deadline of next morning 1:42AM. They will all complete but I only had 0.5 days of work.

The deadlines are generated somewhat automatically depending on the size of the work unit. The ones that initially get sent out at the start of a search are really small and should only take a few minutes, that's why the deadline is so short.

What I could do is keep that the same except also have a minimum deadline of 1 day -- so the deadline would always be at least one day. Would that work better?