Some information on the other projects I participate in or try to participate in:

Rosetta@home is working on a number of diseases, including malaria. However, they currently have a few problems that may not make them a good choice for everyone. One is that they recently switched to a new fileserver and expect to take about one more day to finish transferring all the files on the old fileserver to the new one. Another is their minirosetta 1.40 program has a number of problems with its new features, but they are still using it. Looks like it will eventually be a good choice for when malariacontrol.net doesn't offer enough workunits, though.

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

World Community Grid is a large site with a number of projects, including one for dengue (another mosquito-bourne disease), but the center for that project is in the area of Texas hit by Hurricane Ike and is currently inactive. They also have one for improving rice, and so on.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/index.jsp

Cels@Home is currently going inactive for a transfer to a different server.

Predictor @ Home has been essentially inactive for several months.

boincsimap expects not to create any more workunits for the rest of this month; they usually have new workunits only the first few days of each month.

POEM@HOME is a possibility.

http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/

I'm glad I was able to do my bit for the project! I hope the results we have helped to generate make a difference to the spread of malaria.

Live long and BOINC!
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I'm glad I was able to do my bit for the project! I hope the results we have helped to generate make a difference to the spread of malaria.

Live long and BOINC!

Rosetta@home is working on a number of diseases, including malaria. However, they currently have a few problems that may not make them a good choice for everyone. One is that they recently switched to a new fileserver and expect to take about one more day to finish transferring all the files on the old fileserver to the new one. Another is their minirosetta 1.40 program has a number of problems with its new features, but they are still using it. Looks like it will eventually be a good choice for when malariacontrol.net doesn't offer enough workunits, though.

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

Rosetta@home is now moving to minirosetta 1.45. Not enough information yet on how problem-free that version is, but so far it looks likely to be relatively problem-free by Dec 10th. However, some of their new features are RAM memory-hungry enough that they've already get up a way of letting how much memory your machine has available influence which workunits it gets.

Now with less of work unit we need a deadline of 7 days.
I hope this project will go on……..
Please admin people do this adjustment; My computers will go crazy with this 3-4 days report deadline.


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Thanks again for keeping us informed

Regards

robo53

We have now stopped the remaining model-fitting runs, so that from today there will be no regular supply of work for some time. We expect that it will be at some point early next year that we will have more work of the type that generates a constant flow of workunits.

We still have one simulation experiment that we will run this year. It will comprise several hundred thousand workunits, and we will soon be ready to start. The batches will go out over the next few days.

We hope that we will also be ready to start testing a new application before the end of the year, so you'll occasionally get a few workunits if you stay attached.
Thanks
Nick

I haven't been BOINCing for a while but when I allowed new tasks I got many work units from malariacontrol.

boincsimap expects not to create any more workunits for the rest of this month; they usually have new workunits only the first few days of each month.

POEM@HOME is a possibility.

http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/

I haven't run out of work yet. Appears to be heaps in the pipeline, but people should attach to a backup project - just in case.

I haven't run out of work yet. Appears to be heaps in the pipeline, but people should attach to a backup project - just in case.

Rosetta@home is working on a number of diseases, including malaria. However, they currently have a few problems that may not make them a good choice for everyone. One is that they recently switched to a new fileserver and expect to take about one more day to finish transferring all the files on the old fileserver to the new one. Another is their minirosetta 1.40 program has a number of problems with its new features, but they are still using it. Looks like it will eventually be a good choice for when malariacontrol.net doesn't offer enough workunits, though.

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

Rosetta@home is now moving to minirosetta 1.45. Not enough information yet on how problem-free that version is, but so far it looks likely to be relatively problem-free by Dec 10th. However, some of their new features are RAM memory-hungry enough that they've already get up a way of letting how much memory your machine has available influence which workunits it gets.

Hi.
I'm getting this now why server page says there is plenty.

Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:05 EST|malariacontrol.net|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 10181 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work sent
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net test version
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Prediction of Malaria Prevalence
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Estimation of parameters of infection dynamics (variable duration, max 4h)

pete.
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Hi.
I'm getting this now why server page says there is plenty.

Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:05 EST|malariacontrol.net|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 10181 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work sent
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net test version
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Prediction of Malaria Prevalence
Fri 19 Dec 2008 12:34:10 EST|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Estimation of parameters of infection dynamics (variable duration, max 4h)

pete.

It's odd, because I just now noticed this thread.

I haven't had any problems getting work. I've got 2 WUs right now waiting. Maybe I wasn't looking at the right times.
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The Final Front Ear

I couldn't get WUs on and off over a couple of days, but now I have nine :)

I have never had nine queued up before and I can't imagine why my client wanted nine, but it did and it got them :)

Hi.

Yes well, my quad has been hungry lately. ;)

Trying to help them get threw the work before Xmas, is all.

pete.

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Hi.

Yes well, my quad has been hungry lately. ;)

Trying to help them get threw the work before Xmas, is all.
pete.

I have a quad core, and never have trouble getting work from Malaria.

The shortage of WUs announcement was a bit premature, but it is still coming. We just haven't reached it yet. Sometime in the next week or so?


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Seems like all the WU's have dried up now...

Seems like all the WU's have dried up now...

Seems like all the WU's have dried up now...

I agree. I've gotten zip in three days. :-(

Well, they did say intermittent ...

SIMAP is issuing ...

Though if history is a guide they will be dry by the end of next week ... Then a long 3 weeks before they have work again ... sigh ...

{edit}and Just when I was going to try to "push" Malaria harder to get it over my total for SaH ... so much for my planning I suppose ... well, I will just have to work on other projects in the mean time ... WCG is almost ready to go over and Cosmology is running up nicely too ... oh, and so is GPU Grid .. wow! in two weeks ... {/edit}
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Pretty soon I won't even be able to post. :-(
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The Final Front Ear

Well, I switched my PC's over the other projects. However, I am still keeping this one accepting new task so that if there is any new work, I will get some. I am looking forward to switching my PC's back full time once there is new work.

Well, I switched my PC's over the other projects. However, I am still keeping this one accepting new task so that if there is any new work, I will get some. I am looking forward to switching my PC's back full time once there is new work.

Darn! Two of my main projects -- malaria & Rosetta -- seem not to be issuing new work units. What's a fella to do? Go back to World Community, I guess. Boo hiss!
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Is it known when there will be some new workunits?

Darn! Two of my main projects -- malaria & Rosetta -- seem not to be issuing new work units. What's a fella to do? Go back to World Community, I guess. Boo hiss!

Darn! Two of my main projects -- malaria & Rosetta -- seem not to be issuing new work units. What's a fella to do? Go back to World Community, I guess. Boo hiss!

Rosetta is issuing work -- they just went through some changes and updates over the past week or so. On the other hand, it looks like Malaria is going turtle as far as new work is concerned. 'Intermitemt' shouldn't mean rarely or not at all for a month or more. Oh well, I've lots of other projects still running.

Darn! Two of my main projects -- malaria & Rosetta -- seem not to be issuing new work units. What's a fella to do? Go back to World Community, I guess. Boo hiss!

Well, there is the new sub-project if you don't have your gold badge yet ...

If you have a GPU there is also GPU Grid ...

Docking, POEM ...

Rosetta is issuing work -- they just went through some changes and updates over the past week or so. On the other hand, it looks like Malaria is going turtle as far as new work is concerned. 'Intermitemt' shouldn't mean rarely or not at all for a month or more. Oh well, I've lots of other projects still running.

Rosetta is issuing work -- they just went through some changes and updates over the past week or so. On the other hand, it looks like Malaria is going turtle as far as new work is concerned. 'Intermitemt' shouldn't mean rarely or not at all for a month or more. Oh well, I've lots of other projects still running.

I went thru this type of thing last year with a genealogy program I use, they said the update would be ready on such and such a date, it wasn't. HOLY HELL was raised by those that thought the date was something that should not have been missed. Even when the head programmer said there were some last minute glitches found and the program could not be released with them, there were those that still were not happy. IMHO saying nothing is sometimes better than saying something and then being wrong. I personally will wait and keep checking back and restart the crunching when I can. Crunching for a cure for Malaria, or at least a chance for a cure, is better than crunching for a project that does not utilize the data returned!

Apparently they've turned down the juice to the boards too. It took nearly five minutes to load this page, & post this.

Thank God I don't have dial up!
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Click Me

The Final Front Ear

Apparently they've turned down the juice to the boards too. It took nearly five minutes to load this page, & post this.

Thank God I don't have dial up!
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Click Me

The Final Front Ear

Darn! Two of my main projects -- malaria & Rosetta -- seem not to be issuing new work units. What's a fella to do? Go back to World Community, I guess. Boo hiss!

Poem@Home is where I went
http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/index.php?section=about
Rosetta is back giving out units again though, aren't you getting any from them?

Darn! Two of my main projects -- malaria & Rosetta -- seem not to be issuing new work units. What's a fella to do? Go back to World Community, I guess. Boo hiss!

I also use the World Community Grid (WCG):
One of the studies is Dengue drugs - that tackle malaria! So this should interest anyone contributing to malaria control.

The WGC is the only project that offers work units from several different research groups at once, so it is always running (with only part of the web server going offline, when updating stats every night for an hour).

The WCG gives you the option to participate in different groups or opt out; so if you are not so keen on nutritious rice, you can opt out!

You could for example select to participate in:

Discovering Dengue Drugs,
FightAIDS@Home,
Help Conquer Cancer,
The Clean Energy Project,

But opt out of the others.

The points system is a bit different, with each project having points, and you can earn badges for participation levels:

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/images/pb/faah_2.jpg
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/images/pb/cep1_0.jpg

You can also make a 'widgit' for your website, that shows your WCG scores.

PS, I think WCG is the only project that directly offers people the opportunity to participate in researching Clean Energy!

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Hydrogen will be doing that ... if they can ever get the project going ... serious teething troubles over there ...
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We seem to have some problems with the network at the University of Geneva, where this server is hosted. The server was completely unreachable after some maintenance work on Thur, Jan 8th. On Friday it was back, but since yesterday Sun it seems to be reachable on and off. The engineers in Geneva are working on this.

As you may have seen, all remaining workunits have completed last week. It will be a while until there is more work available. The first work that will become available (within the next few weeks) will be for a new implementation of the main malariacontrol application. We'll post more information at time the application is ready.

Thanks
Nick

We seem to have some problems with the network at the University of Geneva, where this server is hosted. The server was completely unreachable after some maintenance work on Thur, Jan 8th. On Friday it was back, but since yesterday Sun it seems to be reachable on and off. The engineers in Geneva are working on this.

As you may have seen, all remaining workunits have completed last week. It will be a while until there is more work available. The first work that will become available (within the next few weeks) will be for a new implementation of the main malariacontrol application. We'll post more information at time the application is ready.

Thanks
Nick

Must be getting close!

We seem to have some problems with the network at the University of Geneva, where this server is hosted. The server was completely unreachable after some maintenance work on Thur, Jan 8th. On Friday it was back, but since yesterday Sun it seems to be reachable on and off. The engineers in Geneva are working on this.

As you may have seen, all remaining workunits have completed last week. It will be a while until there is more work available. The first work that will become available (within the next few weeks) will be for a new implementation of the main malariacontrol application. We'll post more information at time the application is ready.

Thanks
Nick

Must be getting close!

I HOPE so! Malaria is a Project that needs to get back on line before people give up and move on. I KNOW there will always be new people but the old regulars feel like a bunch of comrades in arms and to lose them would not be good. NO I do NOT want Malaria to come back just so we can recrunch old work just to be crunching. I DO want them to come back so that we can contribute to the eventual curing of the disease though!!

What are the Scientists and Admins plans to get the project sending out work again.

It is a long time since I did any real work here, and it is about time I reconnected.

Looking forwards to hearing when a likely work issue restart date is announced!
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Go away, I was asleep

Said a Russell, 3 Shih-Tzus & a Bischeon Frize

Yes, more work please. I hope you guys don't attach to LHC@home while waiting for more MC work. 25% of the work you crunch at LHC@home goes straight to the trash, nothing but wasted CPU time and electricity.

Yes, more work please. I hope you guys don't attach to LHC@home while waiting for more MC work. 25% of the work you crunch at LHC@home goes straight to the trash, nothing but wasted CPU time and electricity.

And this has got something to do with Malaria Control how? Give it a break.

And this has got something to do with Malaria Control how? Give it a break.

My post is hurting you somehow? You can plonk me so you don't have to read my posts but I'm not going to tell you how. So give it a break?

And this has got something to do with Malaria Control how? Give it a break.

My post is hurting you somehow? You can plonk me so you don't have to read my posts but I'm not going to tell you how. So give it a break?

This post is in wrong topic, sorry for the red X mark Dagorath.

Ratakisko

It looks like the next batch of available work will be available in 3 weeks airport time. Airport time -- if they say delayed flight will take off in 30 minutes, and you come back in 30 minutes, they tell you that the status hasn't changed, it will take off in 30 minutes. The deal is, it is 30 minutes from whenever you ask. Several weeks ago there was a message suggesting more work would be available here in a few weeks or so, and so if you ask *now* the answer is reset, there will be work available in several weeks from *now*.

That being said, it would be *lovely* to get a better sense on whether this project is going into Predictor mode, or will have future work and if so, which month would be a good time to expect it.

What are the Scientists and Admins plans to get the project sending out work again.

It is a long time since I did any real work here, and it is about time I reconnected.

Looking forwards to hearing when a likely work issue restart date is announced!

That being said, it would be *lovely* to get a better sense on whether this project is going into Predictor mode, or will have future work and if so, which month would be a good time to expect it.

There you go -- you clearly understand the concept of 'airport time'. <g>

That being said, it would be *lovely* to get a better sense on whether this project is going into Predictor mode, or will have future work and if so, which month would be a good time to expect it.

That would be the month where work is created ... :)

There you go -- you clearly understand the concept of 'airport time'. <g>

That being said, it would be *lovely* to get a better sense on whether this project is going into Predictor mode, or will have future work and if so, which month would be a good time to expect it.

That would be the month where work is created ... :)

Honestly, why do trolls come barking to project forums about lack of work when there are tens of other BOINC projects to subscribe to? I guess that I answered my own question...
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Honestly, why do trolls come barking to project forums about lack of work when there are tens of other BOINC projects to subscribe to? I guess that I answered my own question...

I think that is the case. I'd like something of a 'we're hoping for this timeframe, but it could well be later' sort of information. It isn't that I *depend* on running this project -- I've joined something like 10 projects over the years (I first started with the old SETI project, pre BOINC, eight years ago). Of the ten, Climate BBC went offline gracefully, with a lot of notice and no surprises -- full marks to them; Predictor has gone offline very UNgracefully, with broken promises, forum censorship, and a lot of ill-will from the project and to the project. Malaria is the third project to go offline -- I'm hoping they return to generating work as their goal is a clearly good one. The other seven projects I've joined have gone through outages (ranging from hours to days and in some cases weeks), but precisely because of the BOINC approach, shifting CPU cycles from one to another has been pretty painless.

One of the reasons this particular thread gets traffic is that the home page points folks here for 'more information' -- so folks do ask to be informed specifically in this thread. It should be noted there has been essentially no new information posted here (or on the home page) for the last month -- so in an informational vacuum, folks tend to get a tad twitchy.

A quick glance at the Total Credit, number of posts and the Join Dates of posters in this thread (and a few other threads) seems to indicate that almost all of them are regulars who are concerned about the health and future of this project.

Could be -- personally, I'd like to see some sort of best guess (+/- some number of weeks perhaps). But that's my preference and not yours -- no big deal on the disagreement.

By the way, go take a look over at the threads on the Predictor newsgroup -- you should observe the difference in tone there compared to here.

For me, its no big deal, I did a lot of processing for Malaria last year, and then began to back off in the fall, before the current nearly two month outage, and the administration folks here were clear in December that there was going to be a hiatus, so I changed the project to 'Suspend' status on my workstations if only to reduce the traffic level for the admins here.

I think they are scared, is that the right word, to give us a date and then miss it. Even if they said the date was purely a guess, people would hold their feet to the coals screaming bloody murder if they missed it. No I think it is better for the Project to keep quiet until they have a really good feel for when work will be available. Like let us know a day or so before the work is actually ready for us. Then give us all the gory details about your Predictor units, any other kind of special units and how this will help mankind etc.

[quote]For me, its no big deal, I did a lot of processing for Malaria last year, and then began to back off in the fall, before the current nearly two month outage, and the administration folks here were clear in December that there was going to be a hiatus, so I changed the project to 'Suspend' status on my workstations if only to reduce the traffic level for the admins here. [quote]

I did the Suspend too but did it because I read that if you let it keep connecting it is building up Long Term Debt that is then 'owed' to a project. Meaning all your cycles will be spent here and not your other projects. When I come back I want to do it slowly, not slam them with requests and returns.

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I did the Suspend too but did it because I read that if you let it keep connecting it is building up Long Term Debt that is then 'owed' to a project. Meaning all your cycles will be spent here and not your other projects. When I come back I want to do it slowly, not slam them with requests and returns.

I did the Suspend too but did it because I read that if you let it keep connecting it is building up Long Term Debt that is then 'owed' to a project. Meaning all your cycles will be spent here and not your other projects. When I come back I want to do it slowly, not slam them with requests and returns.

All this micromanaging of BOINC is completely unnecessary.

I have 17 computers currently crunching for different Boinc projects, not micro-managing them is not an option. But if doing things your way works for you, I just wish I had the freedom. I Have been crunching since 1999 and feel the need to do it the way it works for me.

Right -- that might be the case. Regarding avoiding slamming a project. I do something similar with SETI. Every Tuesday they have a 4 hour outage, followed by 4 to 8 hours of being slammed due to the backlog (they are the busiest BOINC project by a large margin). So what I do is get in an update before the outage to report completed work, then suspend the project until late Tuesday. By the time I generate more updates to the project, things have settled down a bit.

I did the Suspend too but did it because I read that if you let it keep connecting it is building up Long Term Debt that is then 'owed' to a project. Meaning all your cycles will be spent here and not your other projects. When I come back I want to do it slowly, not slam them with requests and returns.

I agree with you on this one. For some projects one can simply 'let them fly' -- Spinhenge, Einstein, Climate, Rosetta are examples. For SETI, some degree of extra attention is needed. For POEM, I find it doesn't download new work unless it gets a bit of encouragement. MilkyWay was running quite well for quite a while, then last week they had a pretty ugly set of outages -- they actually suggested folks do a reset to resolve matters. A month or so ago, Rosetta had some problems which required more than a reset, they recommended a detach and reconnect in order to get any new work (they had some IP changes to cope with).

There are some folks who advocate the 'set them and forget them' -- if it works fine for them, that's fine with me, I won't suggest they change how they handle things. The flip side is when they suggest that the approach which works for me is 'unnecessary' -- well, I figure they can have the same sort of hands off approach regarding *MY* comfort zone.

I did the Suspend too but did it because I read that if you let it keep connecting it is building up Long Term Debt that is then 'owed' to a project. Meaning all your cycles will be spent here and not your other projects. When I come back I want to do it slowly, not slam them with requests and returns.

All this micromanaging of BOINC is completely unnecessary.

I have 17 computers currently crunching for different Boinc projects, not micro-managing them is not an option. But if doing things your way works for you, I just wish I had the freedom. I Have been crunching since 1999 and feel the need to do it the way it works for me.

I agree with you on this one. For some projects one can simply 'let them fly' -- Spinhenge, Einstein, Climate, Rosetta are examples. For SETI, some degree of extra attention is needed. For POEM, I find it doesn't download new work unless it gets a bit of encouragement. MilkyWay was running quite well for quite a while, then last week they had a pretty ugly set of outages -- they actually suggested folks do a reset to resolve matters. A month or so ago, Rosetta had some problems which required more than a reset, they recommended a detach and reconnect in order to get any new work (they had some IP changes to cope with).

There are some folks who advocate the 'set them and forget them' -- if it works fine for them, that's fine with me, I won't suggest they change how they handle things. The flip side is when they suggest that the approach which works for me is 'unnecessary' -- well, I figure they can have the same sort of hands off approach regarding *MY* comfort zone.

I have 17 computers currently crunching for different Boinc projects, not micro-managing them is not an option. But if doing things your way works for you, I just wish I had the freedom. I Have been crunching since 1999 and feel the need to do it the way it works for me.

I have 12 hosts at the moment, but I've had over 20 at one time, crunching for 3 to 30+ projects, some of which I have access to only seldom. In the 10+ years that I've been crunching, BOINC has finally given me the freedom to let the client sort out any issues. With BAM, I don't really see the need to have access to the hosts, except to update the BOINC client.

If a BOINC project dries up, the BOINC client will schedule other projects according to the priorities that I defined. If a BOINC server is not responsive, the BOINC client automatically backs off for a day.

Indeed, you're trying to second guess the BOINC client and ignoring all the work that its developers put into it to do away with human intervention. In all likelihood, you're doing more harm than good.

Regarding avoiding slamming a project. I do something similar with SETI. Every Tuesday they have a 4 hour outage, followed by 4 to 8 hours of being slammed due to the backlog (they are the busiest BOINC project by a large margin).

I do understand the theory here. As I noted before (and others have chimed in as well), there seem to be perhaps several different approaches with their advocates. For me, my approach seems to work well. I don't try to push it as an approach on others, particularly those who are in the 'fire it up and forget it' school such as yourself. As I noted, I don't push my approach on others, but do tend to push back when folks such as you talk about alternative approaches to yours as uneducated and obsessive.

I have a large number of computers running BOINC at various locations. For those at locations I don't get to frequently, I do run the approach you suggest -- but I do that with low maintenance projects (Climate, Spinhenge, Einstein). Until this extended outage here Malaria was in that set.

For computers I can readily get to I run some other projects such as SETI, POEM, Milkyway). These periodically do need some 'care and feeding' (from my perspective, not yours). In some cases we are talking Beta and Alpha projects so one should actually expect some closer involvement, in others (particularly SETI) they are running close to the edge of their capacity and so are in some ways like a beta or alpha project.

I figure I don't need to explain further to you the thinking behind my approach but would suggest that you not be so obsessive about promulgating the fire up and forget approach as the only reasonable and rational approach.

What the BOINC client will do in the scenario above is to back off for an incrementally longer period, from a few minutes to several hours, giving the SETI servers a break. And it is not necessary to refresh the project if you set the option "Maintain enough work for an additional x days" to a couple of days.

IOW, educate yourself about BOINC. It's a pretty good distributed computing platform that scales to tens if not hundreds of hosts without requiring the manual intervention that some are so obsessed about.

HTH

I apologize for my poor choice of words.

Peace.

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Works for me. I do hope I was not seen as 'uncivil' in my reply.

I agree that with reasonably well running projects, setting them up and letting them run works at least reasonably well. If it didn't I'd not be able to set BOINC up on remote workstations. The trick is to be selective in terms of projects. I think some of the folks in the SETI boards have gotten a bit defensive about SETI in terms of the issues there. SETI has a weekly outage of 4 to 5 hours (not the 2 to 4 hours they note on their home page Tuesday announcement). With their post outage recovery cycle of over one hour per hour of outage that makes for a half day outage. With other things being so close to the edge there, SETI is typically either out of work, or offline, or bouncing uploads, or something else is amiss about 15% of the time these days. In large part it is simply a function of being by far the most popular BOINC project -- lot's of I/O lots of processing in general, and a limited budget.

I understand that for the SETI folks and tend to cut them at least some slack recognizing their constraints. The thing is, their limited budget is not as limited as a lot of other (and much smaller projects). So when some SETI advocates get defensive or press hard for donations (say to get 'Fiber up the hill'), in the current economic times, they run into some resistance.

Then when some SETI folks do the 'we are the standard and BOINC projects should conform to us' -- that too can get on one's nerves a bit.

One other reason for doing some tweaking, is to respond to the fairly frequent client changes, not just the major moves from 3x to 4.x to 5x to 6x (gosh that reminds me of my NetWare days) but also the various 'semi-major' moves within the major versions. The relatively recent move from 6.19 to 6.45 with 'Cuda support is a prime example. That certainly requires a bit of hand holding when making the switch, especially with GE8x or 9x video cards. Add to that traffic the fairly active user testing of client beta releases. These all need some of that manual attention that some might consider 'obsessive' -- but that activity is in fact in support of the BOINC concept -- those clients need testing by active users.

I'll close this by reaffirming that for many (probably most) BOINC 'users' an install and forget approach makes a lot of sense. For those supporting more workstations (with a broad range of hardware and OS involvement), a more hands on approach also makes sense. I'm one of those big tent guys I guess <smile>.

I apologize for my poor choice of words.

Peace.

The lack of 'official' feedback in this thread for the past month or more (which the home page points people to) suggests the possibility that the project folks have run into some significant impass in development which might result in this project staying offline for many many months. Clearly it isn't a case of a few weeks as it has been two months since new work was available here.
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The lack of 'official' feedback in this thread for the past month or more (which the home page points people to) suggests the possibility that the project folks have run into some significant impass in development which might result in this project staying offline for many many months. Clearly it isn't a case of a few weeks as it has been two months since new work was available here.

The lack of 'official' feedback in this thread for the past month or more (which the home page points people to) suggests the possibility that the project folks have run into some significant impass in development which might result in this project staying offline for many many months. Clearly it isn't a case of a few weeks as it has been two months since new work was available here.

I personally sure hope that is not correct. As you say it could be, but I can certainly hope not!!

Presumably you have all seen that the project is advertising for a software engineer.
It's therefore not unreasonable to expect some more dedicated activity around the development of the science apps when the new recruit has been through their orientation, and not so much before then.

There's nothing to suggest that this project is anywhere near closing down, so if we exercise a little more patience, I think we'll be rewarded. :) In the mean time we could just let boinc do its thing elsewhere...

Presumably you have all seen that the project is advertising for a software engineer.
It's therefore not unreasonable to expect some more dedicated activity around the development of the science apps when the new recruit has been through their orientation, and not so much before then.

There's nothing to suggest that this project is anywhere near closing down, so if we exercise a little more patience, I think we'll be rewarded. :) In the mean time we could just let boinc do its thing elsewhere...

Agreed -- the thing is, in the absence of information, the speculative mode can kick in.

I personally sure hope that is not correct. As you say it could be, but I can certainly hope not!!

Yes -- both WCG and Rosetta are active projects for me.

The dengue subproject at WCG is getting more active.

Rosetta@home is now using minirosetta 1.54, with a number of bug fixes, and is recovering from a hardware problem yesterday. RALPH@home is already testing minirosetta 1.58, with even more.

I hadn't seen that -- but thanks for that information. As to BOINC doing its thing -- yup -- I've supported 10 projects over time, 7 of which are still very active in addition to this one which, as you suggest, may well have work to be done at some time in the future.

Presumably you have all seen that the project is advertising for a software engineer.
It's therefore not unreasonable to expect some more dedicated activity around the development of the science apps when the new recruit has been through their orientation, and not so much before then.

There's nothing to suggest that this project is anywhere near closing down, so if we exercise a little more patience, I think we'll be rewarded. :) In the mean time we could just let boinc do its thing elsewhere...

Hello,
Malaria@Home has a part of my heart , friends that have this Disease, and how, really a cure is needed.Plaquenil, could be maybe used on a National level.I know the All Mighty Dollar dictates
what happens in this World, good, or, Bad.I hope the years of crunching have helped in some small way.
I hope I can get some work soon.

Good Luck Malaria@home, the scientists, Forum Mods, and too all you Crunchers "Coodos"
too Everyone
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Hello,
Malaria@Home has a part of my heart , friends that have this Disease, and how, really a cure is needed.Plaquenil, could be maybe used on a National level.I know the All Mighty Dollar dictates
what happens in this World, good, or, Bad.I hope the years of crunching have helped in some small way.
I hope I can get some work soon.

Good Luck Malaria@home, the scientists, Forum Mods, and too all you Crunchers "Coodos"
too Everyone

Hello,
Malaria@Home has a part of my heart , friends that have this Disease, and how, really a cure is needed.Plaquenil, could be maybe used on a National level.I know the All Mighty Dollar dictates
what happens in this World, good, or, Bad.I hope the years of crunching have helped in some small way.
I hope I can get some work soon.

Good Luck Malaria@home, the scientists, Forum Mods, and too all you Crunchers "Coodos"
too Everyone

Dengue is issuing work again ... not sure how much, but I have seen some float by these last few days ...

I have received work now, not sure how long this will last bad good to get something going!

I had problems a while back - 2 different BOINC managers fired up so my stats were messed up for a while. Before that I had problems with ClimatePrediction - it took control of all my time so I had to set it to a really low priority.

I started out with 4 different projects on each of my machines just because I could not choose between them. On WCG I limit my choices by what badge I have earned so far. I really like the BOINC concept except sometimes I worry about the power consumption but...
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I'm looking for work on this project for a while.
When will it restart ?
Does anybody have an idea about it ?
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I'm looking for work on this project for a while.
When will it restart ?
Does anybody have an idea about it ?

A new application is being tested. You will get work if you have selected to run 'test' apps.

See thread https://malariacontrol.net/forum_thread.php?id=848

A new application is being tested. You will get work if you have selected to run 'test' apps.

See thread https://malariacontrol.net/forum_thread.php?id=848

I haven't seen any work since the two test WUs I got. All they managed to do was raise my RAC from 0 to 7.

I'm cued up waiting for something. My 'puter is hungry.

I finally got some work. Thanks!

We're slowly starting to send out new workunits now. Sorry, I was completely absorbed with non-malariacontrol.net work for the last two weeks, and only now managed to fix the problem with the assimilator. This was necessary before it made sense to send out new work.
Note that there may be times again in the next few weeks where there is no new work even for the test app, as we may stop sending workunits if we find critical bugs.
Thanks
Nick

Greetings!
Do we have any updates as to what work we can process ?
Thanks Much,
Ed Stites

PS: As one who had to deal with Malaria as a teenager ANYTHING that I can do to help Wipeout the scourage, I Want to do!!!

for 64bit windows machines is it not working?

for 64bit windows machines is it not working?

please admin when there are no WUs available send out a server message in responce to schedulers such as the ones sent by SIMAP and superlink@technicon

at least you can see then that there is nothing wrong.

Good idea !

By the way, how was the WU test ? When are you going to produce some ?

My computers is getting hungry, I need some mosquitos to kill…..
When is new work available?

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Maybe Bill Gates money has run out and they need to apply for more.

I'd love to crunch mossies again!
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Paul
(S@H1 8888)

According to the server status report, you have 12,414 work units ready to send.
Yet my machine seems unable to get any even though I am signed up to accept everything. This is a dual hyperthreaded Xeon machine with 8 GBytes RAM running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.

Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:09 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 72576 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work sent
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net test version
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Prediction of Malaria Prevalence
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Estimation of parameters of infection dynamics (variable duration, max 4h)

Any ideas why I am unable to get work? This goes on for months now, even though sometimes work is shown to be available.
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are you sure you are accepting "test" jobs?
as I understand, the last few months all jobs sent out have been test ones.
Mark

According to the server status report, you have 12,414 work units ready to send.
Yet my machine seems unable to get any even though I am signed up to accept everything. This is a dual hyperthreaded Xeon machine with 8 GBytes RAM running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.

Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:09 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 72576 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work sent
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net test version
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Prediction of Malaria Prevalence
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Estimation of parameters of infection dynamics (variable duration, max 4h)

Any ideas why I am unable to get work? This goes on for months now, even though sometimes work is shown to be available.

are you sure you are accepting "test" jobs?
as I understand, the last few months all jobs sent out have been test ones.
Mark

According to the server status report, you have 12,414 work units ready to send.
Yet my machine seems unable to get any even though I am signed up to accept everything. This is a dual hyperthreaded Xeon machine with 8 GBytes RAM running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3.

Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:09 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 72576 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work sent
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net test version
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Prediction of Malaria Prevalence
Mon 13 Apr 2009 05:50:14 AM EDT|malariacontrol.net|Message from server: No work is available for Estimation of parameters of infection dynamics (variable duration, max 4h)

Any ideas why I am unable to get work? This goes on for months now, even though sometimes work is shown to be available.

Finally, some non-test jobs again.

If there aren't enough for you, here's some news about other projects elsewhere:

WCG now has a reasonable supply of dengue workunits again, as well as a few new projects, such as the one on swine flu.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

Rosetta@home has a low error rate again, although currently with relatively low emphasis on malaria. minirosetta is now up to 1.67.

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/

GPUGRID allows you to accumulate BOINC credits fast if you have any of their list of suitable Nvidia graphics cards. Their descriptions of what types of medical science problems they are working on do not make it clear to most people whether their work has any relation to malaria. Requires a BOINC version too new to be especially stable; 6.6.20 currently recommended.

http://www.gpugrid.net/

Avoid 6.6.20... though it was recommended it has some interesting and severe bugs including one that causes tasks to run way long. Get 6.6.28 though you may have to fiddle with GPU preferences to get the GPU running again (they changed from opt-in to opt-out as the default)...

6.6.28 is now the new recommended version (or was the lat time I looked).

Other disease / folding type projects Robert did not list include IBERCIVIS ( at least one sub-project), Docking@Home, Poem@Home ...

Not that you should abandon all work here ... :)

Greetings!
Do we have any updates as to what work we can process ?
Thanks Much,
Ed Stites

PS: As one who had to deal with Malaria as a teenager ANYTHING that I can do to help Wipeout the scourage, I Want to do!!!