Posts by Agent001
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(Message 6352)
Posted 11 Sep 2019 by 
Agent001
Post: I wonder why no developer, Project Admin is making any remarks to this problem. Post 6317 was posted in Jul with a suggestion that might work yet we have no input from the Admins of this project since that time. I wonder what we should in in the absence of an Admin. Should we boycott the project because of no Admin Support. After-all the cost of a new GPU is not cheap and if used it would facilitate a faster completion of the Task, benefiting the project. If I am to take my new GTX 1660 to a new project, I would not bother staying here just to crunch CPU. |
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(Message 1167)
Posted 28 Apr 2013 by
Agent001
Post: My apologies. I quoted $80.00 for the cost of Electricity in my previous message. Due to miscalculations, it is in fact just over $20.00 a day. Even so, should I work this project or any project for three months since we are billed quarterly, it is $1,800.00 and clearly this is not sustainable when we do not get sufficient support to say what is going on and especially so when you are on a pension... Good luck guys, keep on crunching and have a nice day... |
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(Message 1166)
Posted 28 Apr 2013 by
Agent001
Post: Further to what I said in message 1165, the situation has now changed. Not because the Admins have not answered fast enough but because I genuinely feel that most Project Admins, Project Scientist and Project testers have too much on their to do list to maintain the project and as such do not talk to the Volunteers often enough to advise them what is going on. The News folder is often empty for weeks to months yet there is a problem and they are aware of it. Some don't even bother to answer a Message. Unfortunately, they have no time for doing everything on their own. My personal opinion is that the days of BOINC as we know it is numbered due to the influx of cell phones, tablets etc. They are not efficient enough to contribute to the ideals of BOINC and as the cost of Electricity raises so does the support for BOINC go down. For this reason I just returned over 1500 WU's and placed this project in No more Tasks. I am sorry to say that I can not support a project that only updates their credits and do not export but once a day. In that 24 hours, I would have spent over $80.00 just to support this project yet I will not know that I have wasted that money because the work is in error, and it is not given credit for it. We have been told that this will not change until a new Server is found. Until than I will watch and see...I am moving to another project that is more reliable. |
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(Message 1165)
Posted 28 Apr 2013 by
Agent001
Post: I wonder if the problem is at my site or the server? I am shown as having received 2264 errors in the last few days on different machines not just one. The error reads: Download Error. In addition, I have not received any credits for the last daily update which is unusual for my station since there are over 331 waiting for validation. Could it be Server Error? I am pointing this out just in case it is and you are not aware of it.. |
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(Message 1140)
Posted 21 Apr 2013 by
Agent001
Post: I am wondering if it could be possible to adjust your exporting credits more frequently than once a day. I and others am sure that they would like to see how everybody around them are doing and once a day comparison is not good enough for it tells nothing how fast or slow they are at any particular time. Most project exports stats every hour which would be more realistic. In your case, if you look at Top Participants, the Average seems to be updated more frequently than the total scores which often are more than a day behind, so it appears... |