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jravin Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 744 Credit: 62,501,511 RAC: 46,841	Message 1217319 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 16:48:14 UTC
In the Account window, there is a Tasks button that produces counts of the WUs by various categories, including Application (also, by machine in the Your Computers window). It would be very helpful for the case of "Seti Enhanced" to have a further breakdown as to CPU/GPU or even CPU/NVIDIA/ATI. Since the WUs are tagged by the server, not the user client, the info is there at the server to do this. There are times when a particular machine has been having problems getting CPU or other kinds of WUs, and this would provide quick knowledge of whether that status has improved (or not). What say you, users and/or developers? "Some say WHY, I say WHY NOT?" ____________
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HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,570,979 RAC: 60,519	Message 1217325 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 17:12:50 UTC - in response to Message 1217319.
This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like: State: All (n) \| In progress (x) \| Pending (x) \| Valid (x) \| Invalid (x) \| Error (x) Application: All (n) \| Astropulse v505 (x) \| AstroPulse v6 (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced (x) \| SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) \| Astropulse CPU (x) \| Astropulse GPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x) ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
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msattler Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 34720 Credit: 355,449,205 RAC: 374,885	Message 1217329 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 17:15:50 UTC
I am all for the additional info. If some think this would get too confusing for some users, perhaps it could be toggled by a 'simple view/advanced view' button or some similar fashion. ____________ ****** "Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty." As it is kitten, so shall it be done.
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LadyL Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Sep 11 Posts: 1679 Credit: 5,230,097 RAC: 1	Message 1217336 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 17:31:02 UTC
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Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7670 Credit: 40,286,657 RAC: 21,258	Message 1217339 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 17:34:04 UTC
We were discussing the same thing at Einstein, and Bernd asked me to put it on their Wish List so he didn't forget. Where it remains to this day - they haven't even got round to 'filter by application' yet.
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N9JFE Send message Joined: 4 Oct 99 Posts: 2880 Credit: 8,780,988 RAC: 11,056	Message 1217359 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 18:48:51 UTC - in response to Message 1217339.
While we're asking for minor things to make the tasks pages more user friendly, how about a page selector for those of us who have large numbers of tasks per host? It can take a while to go through 800 tasks in progress, clicking "Next 20" over and over. The web code can't be difficult; every search engine, shopping site, and web-based email system uses some form of it. We were discussing the same thing at Einstein, and Bernd asked me to put it on their Wish List so he didn't forget. Where it remains to this day - they haven't even got round to 'filter by application' yet. I would love to see Einstein implement even as much functionality as Seti has now. ____________ David Sitting on my butt while others boldly go, Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.
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Richard Haselgrove Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 7670 Credit: 40,286,657 RAC: 21,258	Message 1217369 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 19:27:53 UTC - in response to Message 1217359.
While we're asking for minor things to make the tasks pages more user friendly, how about a page selector for those of us who have large numbers of tasks per host? It can take a while to go through 800 tasks in progress, clicking "Next 20" over and over. The web code can't be difficult; every search engine, shopping site, and web-based email system uses some form of it. If you know roughly where you're headed for, you can edit the 'offset=' value in the page url (in the address bar) to go directly there - but I agree, a more user friendly way of doing it would be preferable.
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perryjay Send message Joined: 20 Aug 02 Posts: 3359 Credit: 9,976,470 RAC: 12,398	Message 1217373 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 19:41:03 UTC
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KneeDeep Send message Joined: 27 Sep 99 Posts: 129 Credit: 3,666,524 RAC: 4,778	Message 1217381 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 20:03:11 UTC - in response to Message 1217325.
This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like: State: All (n) \| In progress (x) \| Pending (x) \| Valid (x) \| Invalid (x) \| Error (x) Application: All (n) \| Astropulse v505 (x) \| AstroPulse v6 (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced (x) \| SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) \| Astropulse CPU (x) \| Astropulse GPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x) Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ... Hardware: All (x) \| GPU (x) \| CPU (x)
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Claggy Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 5 Jul 99 Posts: 3516 Credit: 26,400,716 RAC: 18,387	Message 1217383 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 20:12:41 UTC - in response to Message 1217381.
This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like: State: All (n) \| In progress (x) \| Pending (x) \| Valid (x) \| Invalid (x) \| Error (x) Application: All (n) \| Astropulse v505 (x) \| AstroPulse v6 (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced (x) \| SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) \| Astropulse CPU (x) \| Astropulse GPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x) Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ... Hardware: All (x) \| GPU (x) \| CPU (x) So how would you select between ATI and Nvidia then? Claggy
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Horacio Send message Joined: 14 Jan 00 Posts: 536 Credit: 33,728,002 RAC: 114,734	Message 1217391 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 20:22:34 UTC - in response to Message 1217383.
This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like: State: All (n) \| In progress (x) \| Pending (x) \| Valid (x) \| Invalid (x) \| Error (x) Application: All (n) \| Astropulse v505 (x) \| AstroPulse v6 (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced (x) \| SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) \| Astropulse CPU (x) \| Astropulse GPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x) Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ... Hardware: All (x) \| GPU (x) \| CPU (x) So how would you select between ATI and Nvidia then? Claggy Hardware: All (x) \| NVIDIA GPU (x) \| ATI GPU (x) \| INTEL CPU (x) \| AMD CPU (x) (Another way might be taking off the unwanted one form your host? LOL) We can have also (LOL, not really): Operating System: All (x) \| GOOD ONES (x) \| Others (x) ____________
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KneeDeep Send message Joined: 27 Sep 99 Posts: 129 Credit: 3,666,524 RAC: 4,778	Message 1217402 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 21:06:00 UTC - in response to Message 1217383. Last modified: 12 Apr 2012, 21:09:51 UTC
This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like: State: All (n) \| In progress (x) \| Pending (x) \| Valid (x) \| Invalid (x) \| Error (x) Application: All (n) \| Astropulse v505 (x) \| AstroPulse v6 (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced (x) \| SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) \| Astropulse CPU (x) \| Astropulse GPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x) Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ... Hardware: All (x) \| GPU (x) \| CPU (x) So how would you select between ATI and Nvidia then? Claggy Hardware: All (x) \| Nvidia GPU (x) \| ATI GPU (x) \| CPU (x) How's this? Edt: (Oops ... didn't read Horacio's reply ...) The general idea being that the state, application, and hardware are selected as separate entities.
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HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 3297 Credit: 78,570,979 RAC: 60,519	Message 1217406 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 21:30:15 UTC - in response to Message 1217383. Last modified: 12 Apr 2012, 21:32:24 UTC
This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like: State: All (n) \| In progress (x) \| Pending (x) \| Valid (x) \| Invalid (x) \| Error (x) Application: All (n) \| Astropulse v505 (x) \| AstroPulse v6 (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced (x) \| SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) \| Astropulse CPU (x) \| Astropulse GPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x) Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ... Hardware: All (x) \| GPU (x) \| CPU (x) So how would you select between ATI and Nvidia then? Claggy My original thinking didn't account for mixed types of GPU's. From the sUser task list it is easy to get a mixed list of GPU tasks, but from the computer view it would generally only be one or the other. Except in those rare cases where both exist. So this might be more fitting & uses the current syntax for anonymous apps. As the stock apps use cuda, cuda23, or cuda_fermi they should be included in the filter for NVIDIA GPU, obviously. Other Coprocessor would be for the yet unknown types that may exist in the future. Such as the MIC devices & other dedicated coprocessor cards. State: All (n) \| In progress (x) \| Pending (x) \| Valid (x) \| Invalid (x) \| Error (x) Application: All (n) \| Astropulse v505 (x) \| AstroPulse v6 (x) \| SETI@home Enhanced (x) \| SETI@home v7 (x) Processor Type: All (n) \| CPU (x) \| NVIDIA GPU (x) \| ATI GPU (x) \| Other Coprocessor(x) Sure it is all just smoke in the wind right now, but maybe one of the guys somewhere will think it isn't such a bad idea. Then bang it out in one of their other, other, other, other, other, or other free moments. Which is probably that brief moment between waking up and opening their eyes. EDIT: As for state sub types the invalid would be nice as well as the actual pending ones. So would a filter for different error types. I think one for each error type should do... ____________ SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!
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Arvid Almstrom Send message Joined: 23 Mar 00 Posts: 86 Credit: 126,995,177 RAC: 28,499	Message 1217413 - Posted: 12 Apr 2012, 21:56:04 UTC - in response to Message 1217406.
If we are going to ask for changes to the Tasks screen I would also like to see an option to be able to sort the tasks based on Time Reported. When you make changes to your computer and just want to quickly compare your new setup against the previous one this would be very handy, rather than trying to scroll through lots and lots of pages trying to find the latest results. Arvid ____________ Arvid Almstrom
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john3760 Send message Joined: 9 Feb 11 Posts: 331 Credit: 3,391,932 RAC: 4,833	Message 1217486 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 2:01:22 UTC
I would like to see a dancing rabbit in the top left corner( to indicate servers are up) to be replaced with a dancing bird ( servers are down ) ;) john3760 ____________
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Wembley Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Sep 09 Posts: 415 Credit: 882,507 RAC: 144	Message 1217491 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 2:23:07 UTC - in response to Message 1217413.
If we are going to ask for changes to the Tasks screen I would also like to see an option to be able to sort the tasks based on Time Reported. When you make changes to your computer and just want to quickly compare your new setup against the previous one this would be very handy, rather than trying to scroll through lots and lots of pages trying to find the latest results. Arvid ^ This! +1 ____________ Donate with your searches and online buys: http://www.goodsearch.com/toolbar/university-of-california-setihome
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Graham Middleton Send message Joined: 1 Sep 00 Posts: 260 Credit: 32,388,991 RAC: 39,554	Message 1217512 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 3:59:01 UTC Last modified: 13 Apr 2012, 3:59:58 UTC
These all seem like good ideas, however my comment would be that all this would put a lot of additional load on the "Data-driven Web Pages" and database servers, I would suggest that these already have a lot to do at the moment. An alternative might be to offer a "download tasks list as CSV" option; then the sorting / statistical analysis and summary can be done at will by the users' PCs, or BOINCstats, or other, external system to the main S@H servers. Just my 2p'worth ____________ Happy Crunching, Graham GPUUG Officer graham@gpuug.org
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jravin Send message Joined: 25 Mar 02 Posts: 744 Credit: 62,501,511 RAC: 46,841	Message 1217526 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 4:25:27 UTC - in response to Message 1217512.
These all seem like good ideas, however my comment would be that all this would put a lot of additional load on the "Data-driven Web Pages" and database servers, I would suggest that these already have a lot to do at the moment. An alternative might be to offer a "download tasks list as CSV" option; then the sorting / statistical analysis and summary can be done at will by the users' PCs, or BOINCstats, or other, external system to the main S@H servers. Just my 2p'worth The counts already exist, except for the (really minor) change I asked about at the beginning of the thread, so that's relatively trivial. The d/l tasks list would (for a big cruncher, anyway) really hit the DB and the bandwidth, so that is less likely, and would take a lot more code to produce. Let's start small! And easier for DA to produce with a minimum of effort, like the counts we get now, which were done (apparently) easily when he became convinced to do them. ____________
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Horacio Send message Joined: 14 Jan 00 Posts: 536 Credit: 33,728,002 RAC: 114,734	Message 1217550 - Posted: 13 Apr 2012, 5:12:46 UTC - in response to Message 1217512.
These all seem like good ideas, however my comment would be that all this would put a lot of additional load on the "Data-driven Web Pages" and database servers, I would suggest that these already have a lot to do at the moment. An alternative might be to offer a "download tasks list as CSV" option; then the sorting / statistical analysis and summary can be done at will by the users' PCs, or BOINCstats, or other, external system to the main S@H servers. Just my 2p'worth The load on the servers will be almost the same requesting the list of tasks grouped by App, status, hardware or wathever other filter you use and AFAIK the web pages are hooked to the mirror server to avoid interference with the project throughput... But, yes, the web server itsel will have to deal with extra load... I dont know which server hosts the pages, but it was said that the pages go through the gigabit link so I think is not one the main servers of the project... Of course, if I have to choose between better project response or fancy filters I'll go for the performance. ____________
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In the Account window, there is a Tasks button that produces counts of the WUs by various categories, including Application (also, by machine in the Your Computers window). It would be very helpful for the case of "Seti Enhanced" to have a further breakdown as to CPU/GPU or even CPU/NVIDIA/ATI. Since the WUs are tagged by the server, not the user client, the info is there at the server to do this.

There are times when a particular machine has been having problems getting CPU or other kinds of WUs, and this would provide quick knowledge of whether that status has improved (or not).

What say you, users and/or developers?

"Some say WHY, I say WHY NOT?"
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This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like:

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I am all for the additional info.
If some think this would get too confusing for some users, perhaps it could be toggled by a 'simple view/advanced view' button or some similar fashion.
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I asked DA the other day but didn't get any reply.
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We were discussing the same thing at Einstein, and Bernd asked me to put it on their Wish List so he didn't forget.

Where it remains to this day - they haven't even got round to 'filter by application' yet.

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While we're asking for minor things to make the tasks pages more user friendly, how about a page selector for those of us who have large numbers of tasks per host? It can take a while to go through 800 tasks in progress, clicking "Next 20" over and over. The web code can't be difficult; every search engine, shopping site, and web-based email system uses some form of it.

We were discussing the same thing at Einstein, and Bernd asked me to put it on their Wish List so he didn't forget.

Where it remains to this day - they haven't even got round to 'filter by application' yet.

I would love to see Einstein implement even as much functionality as Seti has now.

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While we're asking for minor things to make the tasks pages more user friendly, how about a page selector for those of us who have large numbers of tasks per host? It can take a while to go through 800 tasks in progress, clicking "Next 20" over and over. The web code can't be difficult; every search engine, shopping site, and web-based email system uses some form of it.

If you know roughly where you're headed for, you can edit the 'offset=' value in the page url (in the address bar) to go directly there - but I agree, a more user friendly way of doing it would be preferable.

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While we're dreaming, what I would like to see is a button for inconclusives.
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This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like:

State: All (n) | In progress (x) | Pending (x) | Valid (x) | Invalid (x) | Error (x) Application: All (n) | Astropulse v505 (x) | AstroPulse v6 (x) | SETI@home Enhanced (x) | SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) | Astropulse CPU (x) | Astropulse GPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x)

Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ...

Hardware: All (x) | GPU (x) | CPU (x)

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This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like:

State: All (n) | In progress (x) | Pending (x) | Valid (x) | Invalid (x) | Error (x) Application: All (n) | Astropulse v505 (x) | AstroPulse v6 (x) | SETI@home Enhanced (x) | SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) | Astropulse CPU (x) | Astropulse GPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x)

Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ...

Hardware: All (x) | GPU (x) | CPU (x)

So how would you select between ATI and Nvidia then?

Claggy

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This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like:

State: All (n) | In progress (x) | Pending (x) | Valid (x) | Invalid (x) | Error (x) Application: All (n) | Astropulse v505 (x) | AstroPulse v6 (x) | SETI@home Enhanced (x) | SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) | Astropulse CPU (x) | Astropulse GPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x)

Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ...

Hardware: All (x) | GPU (x) | CPU (x)

So how would you select between ATI and Nvidia then?

Claggy

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This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like:

State: All (n) | In progress (x) | Pending (x) | Valid (x) | Invalid (x) | Error (x) Application: All (n) | Astropulse v505 (x) | AstroPulse v6 (x) | SETI@home Enhanced (x) | SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) | Astropulse CPU (x) | Astropulse GPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x)

Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ...

Hardware: All (x) | GPU (x) | CPU (x)

So how would you select between ATI and Nvidia then?

Claggy

Hardware: All (x) | Nvidia GPU (x) | ATI GPU (x) | CPU (x)

How's this?

Edt: (Oops ... didn't read Horacio's reply ...)
The general idea being that the state, application, and hardware are selected as separate entities.

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This was asked or purposed when they counts were added. I'm not sure if they decided not to do it or what occurred. It would start to get crowded, but it would be nice to see something like:

State: All (n) | In progress (x) | Pending (x) | Valid (x) | Invalid (x) | Error (x) Application: All (n) | Astropulse v505 (x) | AstroPulse v6 (x) | SETI@home Enhanced (x) | SETI@home v7 (x) Hardware: All (n) | Astropulse CPU (x) | Astropulse GPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced CPU (x) | SETI@home Enhanced GPU (x)

Actually, you would only need CPU/GPU/All on the hardware line ... The applications are already selectable on the line above ...

Hardware: All (x) | GPU (x) | CPU (x)

So how would you select between ATI and Nvidia then?

Claggy

My original thinking didn't account for mixed types of GPU's. From the sUser task list it is easy to get a mixed list of GPU tasks, but from the computer view it would generally only be one or the other. Except in those rare cases where both exist.

So this might be more fitting & uses the current syntax for anonymous apps. As the stock apps use cuda, cuda23, or cuda_fermi they should be included in the filter for NVIDIA GPU, obviously.

Other Coprocessor would be for the yet unknown types that may exist in the future. Such as the MIC devices & other dedicated coprocessor cards.

Sure it is all just smoke in the wind right now, but maybe one of the guys somewhere will think it isn't such a bad idea. Then bang it out in one of their other, other, other, other, other, or other free moments. Which is probably that brief moment between waking up and opening their eyes.

EDIT: As for state sub types the invalid would be nice as well as the actual pending ones. So would a filter for different error types. I think one for each error type should do...
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If we are going to ask for changes to the Tasks screen I would also like to see an option to be able to sort the tasks based on Time Reported.

When you make changes to your computer and just want to quickly compare your new setup against the previous one this would be very handy, rather than trying to scroll through lots and lots of pages trying to find the latest results.

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I would like to see a dancing rabbit in the top left corner( to indicate servers are up)
to be replaced with a dancing bird ( servers are down )

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If we are going to ask for changes to the Tasks screen I would also like to see an option to be able to sort the tasks based on Time Reported.

When you make changes to your computer and just want to quickly compare your new setup against the previous one this would be very handy, rather than trying to scroll through lots and lots of pages trying to find the latest results.

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These all seem like good ideas, however my comment would be that all this would put a lot of additional load on the "Data-driven Web Pages" and database servers, I would suggest that these already have a lot to do at the moment.

An alternative might be to offer a "download tasks list as CSV" option; then the sorting / statistical analysis and summary can be done at will by the users' PCs, or BOINCstats, or other, external system to the main S@H servers.

Just my 2p'worth
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jravin

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These all seem like good ideas, however my comment would be that all this would put a lot of additional load on the "Data-driven Web Pages" and database servers, I would suggest that these already have a lot to do at the moment.

An alternative might be to offer a "download tasks list as CSV" option; then the sorting / statistical analysis and summary can be done at will by the users' PCs, or BOINCstats, or other, external system to the main S@H servers.

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The counts already exist, except for the (really minor) change I asked about at the beginning of the thread, so that's relatively trivial.

The d/l tasks list would (for a big cruncher, anyway) really hit the DB and the bandwidth, so that is less likely, and would take a lot more code to produce.

Let's start small!
And easier for DA to produce with a minimum of effort, like the counts we get now, which were done (apparently) easily when he became convinced to do them.
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These all seem like good ideas, however my comment would be that all this would put a lot of additional load on the "Data-driven Web Pages" and database servers, I would suggest that these already have a lot to do at the moment.

An alternative might be to offer a "download tasks list as CSV" option; then the sorting / statistical analysis and summary can be done at will by the users' PCs, or BOINCstats, or other, external system to the main S@H servers.

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The load on the servers will be almost the same requesting the list of tasks grouped by App, status, hardware or wathever other filter you use and AFAIK the web pages are hooked to the mirror server to avoid interference with the project throughput...

But, yes, the web server itsel will have to deal with extra load... I dont know which server hosts the pages, but it was said that the pages go through the gigabit link so I think is not one the main servers of the project...

Of course, if I have to choose between better project response or fancy filters I'll go for the performance.

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