Posts by Dark Angel

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Project is out of work (Message 1373) Posted 28 Aug 2020 by Dark Angel Post: For the record, there is a substantial amount of work still in progress holding up other people's already completed work. This seems to be being held by some high core-count machines that only recently registered. It's become known that Team Anand Tech uses a tactic of collecting as much work as possible at the beginning of a sprint with no intention of completing it but rather just denying other teams the opportunity of earning the credit, and then simply aborting it after the sprint is over. For regular volunteers of this project this is probably more of a minor inconvenience since you'll get your work units back for re-issue. It is however dirty play and disrespectful of both the project and the intent of the Formula Boinc competition.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Project is out of work (Message 1368) Posted 27 Aug 2020 by Dark Angel Post: The project has been selected as the Formula BOINC sprint project for 08/27/2020 22:00 (UTC) to 08/30/2020 21:59 (UTC). This tends to bring a lot of attention and extra participants to a project. However, the project is currently out of work. Is there a possibility of creating more work both for those who have been working on this project regularly, as well as those who will be joining the project new for the sprint race? We were not aware of the sprint, sorry about that. Unfortunately, all workunits of the current experiment have already been generated, so we have nothing to generate at the moment. It would be better to choose another project for this purpose. It has been repeatedly suggested to the Formula BOINC administrators that they ask projects if they actually want to be involved before marking them eligible for a sprint. Thus far that suggestion has fallen on deaf ears. The result of a project not being ready for the sudden increase in work capacity in the past has been considerable frustration on the part of both project administrators who didn't know what was about to hit them as well as Sprint participants who for the most part just want to get as much work done as possible and get frustrated because they can't get work.
3) Message boards : News : Formula BOINC Sprint 2019 (Message 880) Posted 13 Apr 2019 by Dark Angel Post: Hello @jozef j You should be aware that in the wider BOINC community there are many institutions that make their systems, hundreds of them, available for distributed computing projects as part of their own community engagement policies. Some organisations allow their systems to be controlled by one or more of their system administrators who can choose which projects they participate in. while others choose a single project and stay with it. There are also a number of people who have more money than space, so they rent system resources in the form of virtual cloud instances, sometimes very large numbers of them at any given time. While some feel neither situation is in the "spirit" of the challenges, both are participating legally and honestly, neither are the thieves you have accused them of being. Making use of system resources without proper authorisation is referred to as "borg'ing", named after The Borg, a race of Star Trek aliens. It is strongly discouraged across the wider crunching and folding (Folding at Home project participants) communities and has resulted in people being both banned from projects entirely and the police being involved. Please do not call people thieves just because they are capable of utilising more resources than you.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimized RakeSearch app for rank 9 (computations finished) (Message 521) Posted 30 Jul 2018 by Dark Angel Post: If anyone wants the binaries: https://www.dropbox.com/s/qhp8c2vd5prcmy8/rakesearch_linux_i686_sse2.tar.gz?dl=0 Same app_info.xml as the other files. Compiled from Danial's source code (I claim no credit) compiled on kernel 3.13.0-151-generic, 4 core 32bit system (Sossaman CPUs) with latest BOINC from git. I don't plan on leaving them up forever though, so grab 'em if you want 'em.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimized RakeSearch app for rank 9 (computations finished) (Message 518) Posted 29 Jul 2018 by Dark Angel Post: Thanks I got it going. Just have to wait and see if everything validates. Cut 24 hour work units down to two hours or less.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimized RakeSearch app for rank 9 (computations finished) (Message 503) Posted 28 Jul 2018 by Dark Angel Post: I realise this is a low priority, but is there any chance of a Linux 32bit sse/sse2 app, or at least instructions on how to build from source?