I'm trying out malariacontrol.net as a backup for SETI@home and SETI@home/Astropulse Beta. I looked at several other projects, but since I live in Africa, this one seemed the most appropriate.

I hooked up to the project yesterday. Workunits are manageable, with crunch times of between 20 minutes and 5 hours on my Intel Core 2 T8100 laptop. Deadlines are very short (four days, it seems), so this is not a project for crunchers who maintain large caches.

And note also ... there is a message on their forum warning that work is likely to dry up for a short while, from around today.

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SIMAP and RALPH are both periodic projects, so I know these will often have no work.

SIMAP will start the new work batches at every 1st in the month. The lenght of the batch depends, so some days till some weeks or month work are available.

Thanks, I did know that about SIMAP. They will often start a new batch a day or two before the 1st of the month, see http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/old_news.php.

My second Malaria task got aborted by BOINC after more than 90% complete and >23.5 hours CPU time with Exit Status -177. Replacement wingman has not returned their task yet either, http://www.malariacontrol.net/workunit.php?wuid=21538831 :-(

Fairly happy with AQUA so far, DCF is currently 5.06. This is the first project I have run that uses both CPUs at once, I know hyper-threading is only a virtual CPU, but it seems to do more work than with hyper-threading off.

LHC@home has started giving some WUs, but only to Windows machines so far. Since I have Linux I got no one. But they seem to be pretty fast. The program is SixTrack, in a new version.
Tullio

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Yes, Einstein@home is a good backup; they almost always have work to do. Both CPU & GPU tasks are available for BOINC clients 6.10.x and higher, though GPU implementation is weak.

LHC@home has started giving some WUs, but only to Windows machines so far. Since I have Linux I got no one. But they seem to be pretty fast. The program is SixTrack, in a new version.
Tullio

Oh, I missed those! Rumors of more in the next few weeks according to http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/forum_index.php

For those interested in SIMAP, see http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/.

Thanks for the heads up. I missed the post until today. I've put my LHC RS back up. Hopefully will catch a few from the next test batch. I'll have to start monitoring the project again and may even hit the update button once in a while, which isn't something I usually do.

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Boinc V7.2.42
Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470

I run GPUgrid for my video card and rosetta for my cpu. GPUgrid gives great credit and rosetta returns about 4600 a day on my i7


Regards

John