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LanDroid · Last edited by LanDroid on Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:22 pm; edited 1 time in total

Leiden Classical allows scientists and students to easily develop physics experiments to crunch.

http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/

Link to Leiden wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden_Classical

Here's info on classical mechanics which is the focus of this project:

LanDroid · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 3:12 pm Post subject:

Starting stats:
17th place
1,349,563. points
6,632. RAC
20,215 points yesterday

Milestones today:
ohiomike passes 25,000
Adam Alexander passes 4,000
Sir Papa Smurph passes 4,000

ohiomike · Prince Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Sometimes

As a note: Their work scheduler is a little wimpy. I would try to keep at least a 2 day cache- if the Boinc Client makes 3 calls for work when the scheduler doesn't have any you will get a 24 hour "back-off". Unless you catch this your machine will sit there for 24 hours with no work.
#Microwave

This is a common problem with projects that run homogeneous redundancy.
(*This assigns WU's in sets to similar machines. If you have a XXX CPU running YYY as an O/S you will only get WU's assigned to this combo.
If the project only has WU's for XXX running ZZZ, you don't get any work.*)

This was killing my AMD/Linux machines, I finally gave up and cooked up a version of the Boinc Client that traps the 24 hour back-off and changes it to 1 hour.

PS- It is almost 2007 again:

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ohiomike · Prince Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Sometimes

Second note: At least on the Linux X86_64 machines, I am seeing WU's failing in groups (almost no CPU time involved):
http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/forum_thread.php?id=397&nowrap=true#2509
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ohiomike · Prince Joined: 20 May 2007 Posts: 858 Location: Sometimes

Ouch- no work on 9 of my machines. This could be the worse POTM ever for me!
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Yankton · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 4:06 pm Post subject:

Looking at my logs I see a lot of no work for my platform but work available for other platforms....My backup project is Docking atm, it's going full bore.
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject:

I am getting more than a few failed wu's and it just will not give enough work to my laptop so that it will stay fed when I am on the road. I may have to reconsider the allocation of PotM. Confused

Another rather sharp irritation is that they always give the smallest credit when granting credit......
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stooper101 · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject:

I'm getting pretty much the same thing here. No WUs and a bunch of errors.
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LanDroid · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 9:20 pm Post subject:

Lots of stuff is broke-did, not sure if all this should be green tho:

http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/status.php

16.5K WU's ready to send...

Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 10:56 pm Post subject:

when I went there it said 5371 wu's in progress...
I have over 200 Shocked

how many people do this project??? #Sleep

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Idan · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:36 am Post subject:

Any reason to attach to this project?
Work's available? o_O
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:01 am Post subject:

Idan · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:32 am Post subject:

LanDroid · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 12:31 pm Post subject:

Well we do seem to be off to a slow start on this one - crunched 20K yesterday. Maybe once everyone gets some WU's in da Q! Ohhh, da good Dr. Vornoff is crunching a lil bit o' Leiden...

Milestones last 2 days:
The Knights Who Say Ni! passed 1,400,000
ohiomike passed 60,000
Sir Papa Smurph passed 10,000
Adam Alexander passes 8,000
Adam Alexander passed 7,000
Yankton passed 5,000
LanDroid passed 2,000

Nuadormrac · Prince Joined: 13 Sep 2009 Posts: 506

If it's that difficult to get work; I might have to sit this one out. Let's put it this way; unemployment sucks, and I'm on the verge of getting my phone and Internet disconnected. I simply can't pay the bill now, and being unemployed, income (or the lack there of) is a major problem. I've been going through unemployment since March, and without benefits no thanks to some pencil pushers finding a loop hole of "you worked the required number of weeks, but because you weren't payed a min amount in each pay week period...." When I started, they didn't have numbers, so the employer had to bundle the pay for when I began there onto the first pay check as "additional pay". #ni-1

I'm not even sure I'll be able to connect often enough for my current runs of Milkyway and not not; which might mean projects like CPDN with very little network uptime needed is the only go. If I take the HD to my father's computer (BOINC is on a USB external drive), and do the upload there, it's like a 20 min drive there; again unemployed, gas costs money... I'm simply not looking at the prospects of being able to go through projects that will fail often and have backoff algorithms when my time online is about to hit close to 0% of the time.
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stooper101 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject:

Well, today I have a whole bunch of WUs, go figure. Hope things turn around for you Nuadormrac.
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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject:

I have 19 cores running on this and I only put in 1500 credits in the last 24 hours.

It's no wonder we are off to a slow start.

However to be honest I do have 2000 in pending but because of the way they award credit I am sure it will end up being less that that.

This could be as bad or even worse that the disaster that was Sha-1
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LanDroid · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 6:12 am Post subject:

Sorry to hear about your tough situation, Nuadormrac. Hope something turns up for you soon!

Eeegadz, only 11K crunched yesterday. Let's not panic (yet), if we hang in there and this project settles down, there are easy pickens - we can pass about 8 teams in the next few weeks... Leiden d-base claims about 14K WU's ready to send out and about 22K in process...
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LanDroid · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:09 pm Post subject:

We just passed our first team, Guru Mountain.

C'mon team, let's crunch for da Wabbit! He's been pimping this project for 5 months!
#ni-1

Killerrabbit · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:12 am Post subject:

This project might not be the biggest credit giver, but it is for the Dutch and a different science than math or the stars.

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