Posts by Michael H.W. Weber

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Badges? (Message 1872)
Posted 19 Feb 2024 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Just an information: First voices of our team-members announced to discontinue support for Rakesearch as a result of this decision.

Michael.
2) Message boards : News : Future of the RakeSearch project (Message 1834)
Posted 19 Sep 2023 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Tasks are back but the project's percentage indicator now shows >100% completion. ;-)))

Michael.
3) Message boards : Cafe : New Business Card Design to promote RakeSearch (Message 1833)
Posted 17 Sep 2023 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Our e-mail probably ended up in spam?

No, we checked before I posted this.

Let us know if you'd like some of the text changed, we want this card to be a useful promotional tool for you :). I'll dm you the email address we sent to

Will check back with the colleagues regarding the text.
The email you used is not ours, will send a correct one...

Michael.
4) Message boards : Cafe : New Business Card Design to promote RakeSearch (Message 1829)
Posted 15 Sep 2023 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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To the best of my knowledge, not a single one of the three active Rechenkraft.net BOINC projects have been contacted regarding this topic.

Michael.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Badges? (Message 1772)
Posted 3 Jun 2023 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Good Day and Hello hoarfrost,
you are really very quick with the Month May Badges

...is there a list with the contributors, too, for this month? Couldn't find it this time...

Michael.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Scheduler issues (Message 1765)
Posted 9 May 2023 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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No, it is actually a permanent issue and for good reason, I don't want to cache tasks.
Caching will load a max of allowed tasks and if you are "unlucky", these might have quite long runtimes adding up (as, strangely, they appear to be sent out in chunks not randomly - if you expect them to be randomly distributed, as a mathematician maybe some bells should now ring and a broader check initiated for clear statistics) that are unforseeable by BOINC (remember, it believes they all run just a few seconds).
Moreover, if you add a second project, due to the initial short runtime indication of Rakesearch tasks (few seconds each), BOINC has trouble managing proper sequential completion of the queue.
I encountered this strange behavior when combining Rakesearch with Ramanjuan Machine in combination with queuing entirely turned off (although Rakesearch as the single only project still queues up...) - not sure what's going on there...

On top of that and as said above, for unknown reason, Rakesearch sometimes doesn't fetch new tasks for quite some time after it's queue has been completed. You have to manually have it check the server. I could supply screen shots proving it sitting idle as a single hooked-up project for 10 min at least. And I don't like my machine to sit idle as temperature changes are bad for its lifetime. ;-)

Michael.
7) Message boards : News : New experiment in RakeSearch (Message 1762)
Posted 7 May 2023 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Well, I think it was for April.
:)
Michael.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Scheduler issues (Message 1761)
Posted 7 May 2023 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Well, the topic of my question was the scheduler (result discovery just a side remark).

Michael.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Scheduler issues (Message 1758)
Posted 5 May 2023 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Somehow the Rakesearch scheduler doesn't work as required:

1. Even when the queue is set to zero, sometimes dozens of tasks are queued up. Result: It is difficult to return any as the first finder (which is the prime goal in mathematics projects).
2. By contrast, at other times, Rakesearch simply doesn't fetch tasks although the server is loaded. I have to manually make it fetch tasks and since most of these are running only a few seconds, it is tedious - to say the least.

I use BOINC v7.20.2 under Win10 with no other project running than Rakesearch (Diagonal Latin Squares App, only).
Maybe you find the time to look into this (idle machines are a bit energy costly these days).

Michael.
10) Message boards : News : Experiment of calculating the spectra of DLS characteristics (Message 1629)
Posted 3 Jul 2022 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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How are the monthly badges going to be handled in context with the new app?
So far it was handed out for ODLS findings, but the new sub-project is something different (sorry, I can't understand the russian links above and I am a bit too busy to push the whole thing through DeepL right now)?

Michael.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Badges? (Message 1628)
Posted 2 Jul 2022 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Any ideas for the June badge yet? ;-)

Michael.
12) Message boards : News : Experiment of calculating the spectra of DLS characteristics (Message 1626)
Posted 2 Jul 2022 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Nice.
But 65% completed already? Wow.

Michael.
13) Message boards : News : The Square 12/30192/3855983322 finally confirmed! (Message 1543)
Posted 16 Dec 2021 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Excellent news.

Michael.
14) Message boards : News : New experiment in RakeSearch (Message 1531)
Posted 4 Dec 2021 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Hello Michael!

Are the individual ODLS findings going to be added to the user accounts as before?

It's impossible. The number of found orthogonal squares for some workuinits is counts of tens thousands.

...ok, so juast as in Amicable Numbers project.

Michael.
15) Message boards : News : New experiment in RakeSearch (Message 1528)
Posted 2 Dec 2021 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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That's nice.
Are the individual ODLS findings going to be added to the user accounts as before?

Michael.
16) Message boards : Number crunching : Badges? (Message 1518)
Posted 16 Nov 2021 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Despite the regular credit badges, will there also be monthly special badges as before?

Michael.
17) Message boards : News : Joint search of ODLS9 with Gerasim project (Message 1465)
Posted 16 Nov 2020 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Nice. And where do I find the list of people who already got that badge?

Michael.
18) Message boards : News : SAT-CMS-based search badge! (Message 1424)
Posted 1 Oct 2020 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Nice.

Michael.
19) Message boards : News : SAT-CMS-based search badge! (Message 1406)
Posted 27 Sep 2020 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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...Each solution contains at least one pair of ODLS.
...After post-processing of results we are planning to publish full results of this search.

Has this post-processing been completed and the results been published anywhere yet?

Michael.
20) Message boards : News : SAT-CMS-based search badge! (Message 1396)
Posted 7 Sep 2020 by Profile Michael H.W. Weber
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Congrats to all the badge earners. I'm a little bummed because I crunched and crunched, but didn't find an SAT-CMS pair. (Really wanted that badge! :) )

I second that. ;-)

Well, what is going to happen now?
Any plans to extend the search based on the fact that something was found with this rough screening approach?

Michael.


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