Posts by Bill F

1) Message boards : Number crunching : 2 Hour Deadline (Message 1974) Posted 1 May 2025 by Bill F Post: I don't really give a F if they are short. A 2 hour deadline means BOINC Mgr will interrupt ALL other task to run it. Some projects do not have any checkpoints and hours of work could have been wasted for 2 min of Rakesearch work. No deadline should be less than several days. Excellent point ... not fair to other Projects or Volunteers Bill F
2) Message boards : Number crunching : 2 Hour Deadline (Message 1965) Posted 21 Apr 2025 by Bill F Post: Well if they are expected to be short .. they are not. They are loading into my system at 11 hours and taking longer. Bill F
3) Message boards : News : Future of the RakeSearch project (Message 1882) Posted 10 Apr 2024 by Bill F Post: Not quite everything is at 100% Joint search of ODLS12 with Gerasim project (%) 98.963
4) Message boards : Number crunching : New BOINC versions 22 May 2023 (Message 1782) Posted 29 Jun 2023 by Bill F Post: A new version of the BOINC client is available for Windows, Mac, and Android Available at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php
5) Message boards : News : New experiment in RakeSearch (Message 1490) Posted 6 Nov 2021 by Bill F Post: My first task shows completed successfully but the Task detail throws and error at the beginning.... Error: startup_info.hStdInput is invalid. See below <core_client_version>7.16.20</core_client_version> <![CDATA[ <stderr_txt> 20:30:36 (29116): wrapper (7.9.26016): starting 20:30:36 (29116): wrapper: running rake_odls12_windows_intelx86_64.exe () Error: startup_info.hStdInput is invalid 11/5/2021 8:30:45 PM Resources freeing: XmlReader 11/5/2021 8:30:45 PM Spstarter finished successfully 20:30:46 (29116): rake_odls12_windows_intelx86_64.exe exited; CPU time 0.000000 20:30:46 (29116): called boinc_finish(0) Thanks Bill F
6) Message boards : News : Joint search of ODLS9 with Gerasim project (Message 1478) Posted 1 May 2021 by Bill F Post: Dear participants! A new search started in the project on September 27 - "Joint search of ODLS9 with Gerasim project". Earlier we performed a full search over the space of row-permutational diagonal Latin squares of order 9, but in this search (that we perform with Gerasim@Home project) we try to find all orthogonal diagonal Latin squares of order 9! At the first glance, the goal is unreachable, but the new search uses an heuristics that allowed to reduce the amount of computations. In this thread we will post news about the new search. I am involved in the Joint Search for ODLS9 my question is what is the future of this project and site. Will there be more work here or should we save the bandwidth, scheduling and electricity by deleting the RakeSearch project from our systems ? Thanks Bill F
7) Message boards : News : The last bunch of tasks were generated (Message 1306) Posted 1 Jun 2020 by Bill F Post: Your initial posting that the last batch of WU's had been distributed implied that the RakeSearch project was coming completely to an end, but did not actually say that it was. For clarity please state if we should expect any future projects / applications from RakeSearch or it we are free to remove the whole project from our BOINC clients. Thanks Bill F Dallas TX
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Updated BOINC Clients (Message 1266) Posted 8 Apr 2020 by Bill F Post: Updated BOINC Clients for Win 64, Mac OS X 64 and Linux 64 have been released for public use https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Release_Notes_for_BOINC_7.16 Bill F
9) Message boards : News : RakeSearch R9 archive published! (Message 1162) Posted 1 Sep 2019 by Bill F Post: Thank you for sharing the positive side of distributive computing. This is what it is all about and why many volunteers work for badges not coins. Bill F
10) Message boards : News : New badges for the total credit! (Message 616) Posted 22 Oct 2018 by Bill F Post: Prey tell what happened to the Flying Bat ? Bill F
11) Message boards : Number crunching : BOINC Version upgrade 7.14.2 (Message 612) Posted 20 Oct 2018 by Bill F Post: The recommended version of BOINC has been raised to 7.14.2 This is for Windows and Mac OS X (64-bit Intel) Version 10.6.0+ Bill F
12) Message boards : News : Server upgrade shifted to May 24th, 06:00-16:00 UTC (Message 413) Posted 25 May 2018 by Bill F Post: Natalia Well how did the upgrade go on May 24th ? Were you able to complete it ? What improvements were involved. ? Thanks Bill F