Posts by PDW

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Server reports work aviable, but client don't load anything (Message 146) Posted 30 Aug 2024 by PDW Post: It's not you, it's them ! They introduced a new version of "LIReC using BOINC instead of AWS (beta test)" on the 28th (and another version in the early hours of today). It would seem they also took the opportunity to delete the Linux app under "Ramanujan Machine New Key" at the same time on the 28th. Only the beta "blind delta algorithm" has a Linux app now. I haven't mentioned it to them as the last time they 'fixed things' in April they wiped out over ten thousand (probably a lot more) pending validation tasks that users had completed but got no credit for. I have been waiting for my pending tasks to reduce as much as possible before telling them. Of course they could have chosen to no longer offer a Linux app for their main project but not tell anyone. Windows can still get work.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : No Work Available (Message 143) Posted 29 Aug 2024 by PDW Post: OK but not having tasks to crunch during a competitive sprint is not ideal. I suppose the outage affected all participants. You could have used the opportunity to run benchmarks on your hosts that don't have them !
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Colour strips Badges ?? (Message 17) Posted 15 Mar 2023 by PDW Post: The badges relate to specific batches that were run quite some time ago. The first set of badges were the long stripes, later badges got shortened to squares, it was over a year ago that 'proper' badges were said to be in the pipeline but haven't appeared. The project is mostly run by undergraduates, one leaves with the knowledge they learnt and a new one starts from scratch. The batches I have badges for, in order from the top: [RNM_zeta5_134200] [RNM_zeta5_132191] [RNM_zeta5_132593] [RNM_zeta5_133396] [RNM_zeta5_136210] [RNM_zeta5_136344] [RNM_zeta5_136880] [RNM_zeta5_3__099528] [RNM_general_25_12_a2_b-1_2213] [RNM_general_25_12_a3_b-2_2235] [RNM_general_25_12_a4_b-4_2235] [RNM_general_25_12_a6_b-1_2259] [RNM_general_25_12_a7_b-6_2211] [RNM_general_25_12_a10_b-9_2211] [RNM_zeta4_doms__lead_a_2_14162] [RNM_DEG2_2ROOTS_a_2_b_-1_-4_52710] [RNM_DEG2_2ROOTS_a_2_b_-1_-4_52613] [RNM_DEG2_2ROOTS_a_2_b_-1_-2_50960] [RNM_DEG2_2ROOTS_a_2_b_-1_-3_51811] [RNM_DEG2_2ROOTS_a_2_b_-1_-3_51746] [RNM_DEG2_2ROOTS_a_2_b_-2_-2_51745] [RNM_DEG2_2ROOTS_a_2_b_-2_-3_52645] Have only seen gold and silver, no idea what the cutoff for qualification is. No idea if they still have the data to create badges for the later batches, the first set of badges appeared some time after the work had been done, much like the GPUGrid "Contribution to scientific publications" badges. I suspect the biggest problem is having an undergraduate who wants to get the badges done properly and learns how to do it.