The part I took away from the BOINC videos was from the first part by Kevin Reed who show charts from BoincStats saying we have been losing participants regularly since 2014. And the trend has not been improving. Less and less processing power to process ever increasing amounts of data. Not looking good at all. And nothing from the committee indicating any progress for stemming the continuing losses.

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Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours

A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association)

Hopefully they will improve the server situation and WOW can give it a good test. :-)

Methinks WOW will break S@H for a while as it always has done.

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Did anyone notice, the 18dc09aa WUs are gone.

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SETI@home classic workunits 4,019
SETI@home classic CPU time 34,348 hours

Did anyone notice, the 18dc09aa WUs are gone.

Yup you did Bill then I noticed because you brought it to my attention. I dear say this means we will be able to split MB work a lot faster

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Hopefully they will improve the server situation and WOW can give it a good test. :-)

Methinks WOW will break S@H for a while as it always has done.

. . Thia always surprises me because all you have to do to be part of WOW is register and there is no NEED for any increased impact on the servers. But very competitive individuals begin to do lots of things to gain falsely large numbers. It starts from those who dig out their old disused hardware and fire up everything except the kitchen sink (unless it has a GPU too) through those who play the "bunkering game", somehow managing to 'save' their results from days or maybe weeks before WOW starts them dumping them all on the servers in a massive hit when WOW begins. That is the one that probably breaks things ... :(

Stephen

<shrug>

Did anyone notice, the 18dc09aa WUs are gone.

. . Not until now :)

Stephen

:)

Hopefully they will improve the server situation and WOW can give it a good test. :-)

Methinks WOW will break S@H for a while as it always has done.

. . Thia always surprises me because all you have to do to be part of WOW is register and there is no NEED for any increased impact on the servers. But very competitive individuals begin to do lots of things to gain falsely large numbers. It starts from those who dig out their old disused hardware and fire up everything except the kitchen sink (unless it has a GPU too) through those who play the "bunkering game", somehow managing to 'save' their results from days or maybe weeks before WOW starts them dumping them all on the servers in a massive hit when WOW begins. That is the one that probably breaks things ... :(

Stephen

<shrug>

It's not a problem that is caused by us regulars Stephen, it's the many problems that are caused by a lot those who arn't regulars here hitting the system up hard and then leaving work unfinished in limbo that takes many weeks (more like a couple of months) after the event to clear.

All that stress on the servers over all that time (say 3 months in all) usually breaks something (if not several things) and that is the reason behind some of us regulars' views on this to us "Pointless Event" and that's not to mention the spamming of others Inboxes and emails. ;-)

Cheers.

+1

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. . This always surprises me because all you have to do to be part of WOW is register and there is no NEED for any increased impact on the servers. But very competitive individuals begin to do lots of things to gain falsely large numbers. It starts from those who dig out their old disused hardware and fire up everything except the kitchen sink (unless it has a GPU too) through to those who play the "bunkering game", somehow managing to 'save' their results from days or maybe weeks before WOW starts them dumping them all on the servers in a massive hit when WOW begins. That is the one that probably breaks things ... :(
Stephen
<shrug>

It's not a problem that is caused by us regulars Stephen, it's the many problems that are caused by a lot those who aren't regulars here hitting the system up hard and then leaving work unfinished in limbo that takes many weeks (more like a couple of months) after the event to clear.
All that stress on the servers over all that time (say 3 months in all) usually breaks something (if not several things) and that is the reason behind some of us regulars' views on this to us "Pointless Event" and that's not to mention the spamming of others Inboxes and emails. ;-)
Cheers.

. . I think the only reason some us get spammed with WOW messages is our status in the team. I don't think such emails are sent to everyone (?)

Stephen

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Ah, that new great brand "The Kitchen Sink Gpu" brought to you by the international Skunk Works, Inc in Podunk, NY.
:)
Tom

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A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association).

Thanks for the details on this thread and others. I was getting excited seeing the Results out in the field way over 5 million. I now understand this is just a WOW anomaly.

Good Luck to those of you who participate.

Bloomin' heck, it's still 24 days, 11 hours and 44 minutes until it starts. That's a bit heavy on the pendings.

Yes I agree totally Richard, a week out would have been better me thinks.. :(

Currently results are then returned at over 129,000

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I just wish I never mentioned "Cheat" was a poor choice of words that spiralled out of control and sorry for this.. Advantage is more suited...

Bloomin' heck, it's still 24 days, 11 hours and 44 minutes until it starts. That's a bit heavy on the pendings.

Hear! Hear!

. . Some people are getting a little tooooo enthusiastic.

. . Fun to take part ... but ...

Stephen

<shrug>

Yes I agree totally Richard, a week out would have been better me thinks.. :(

. . in my opinion, at most 1 week, but more like 24 hours ...

Stephen

:)

And some still wonder why I don't enjoy this time of year and the stupidity that this pointless event brings.

Bad luck if they break something serious just at kick off time.

No cheers here on this subject.

Again I was unaware just how desperate people can be, I joined this to find stuff not to be part of a compition ( I don't have 100 PC's)... Settle down and enjoy why we are here :)

Pendings on the rise.

Me thinks they think they are playing for sheeps stations lol.

Yes you are all right, they have started this way to early.

Scratches head and crunches on.

Cheers