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Send message Joined: 9 Aug 13 Posts: 6 Credit: 812,333 RAC: 1 |
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Send message Joined: 22 Aug 16 Posts: 441 Credit: 2,058,665 RAC: 737 |
I think part of the issue that started this thread arose was due to what was considered 'cheating' changed several times w/o warning. So as we were playing by the rules it was then no longer acceptable. That happened 3 times. |
Send message Joined: 22 Nov 14 Posts: 4 Credit: 5,419,864 RAC: 939 |
I think part of the issue that started this thread arose was due to what was considered 'cheating' changed several times w/o warning. So as we were playing by the rules it was then no longer acceptable. That happened 3 times. I understand that. And one can understand that changing rules is a part of all systems when exploits/bugs are discovered regarding the primary goal of the system. Primary goal of WuProp is not points or badges which are incentives. The goal of incentives in a system are to encourage good behaviours or to discourage bad behaviours. In WuProp points and badges encourage users to share their compute times and workunits properties to help the community with valuable data and it helps small or unknown projects. But incentives alors work in another way. The community can gives incentives to the administrator, positive or negative, to encourage or discourage him. The Internet should not make us forget that real people are in front of their screens, the distance is just an illusion. Seb is a real person with a real job and he gives you a part of his free precious time. Give him positive incentives to continue working on something you like ! Be positive ! |
Send message Joined: 28 Mar 10 Posts: 18 Credit: 646,770 RAC: 108 |
+ being not happy about what <some people> consider like "unfair change of rules" (in their point of view) was a fairly good reason to - detach from the project since they didn't like it anymore, and stop wasting their own time here trying <whatever they were trying to do> - develop their own boinc project with their own rules, to do something similar and/or better (in their point of view) and propose it to the boinc community |
Send message Joined: 23 Jan 11 Posts: 2 Credit: 642,222 RAC: 0 |
And let see if they will be as successful as Seb... |
Send message Joined: 30 Mar 10 Posts: 222 Credit: 9,024,627 RAC: 1,030 |
I support this project 100%, obviously. WUPROP has kept me BOINC-ing long after chasing credits became boring. Reno, NV Team: SETI.USA |
Send message Joined: 16 Dec 16 Posts: 1 Credit: 154,003 RAC: 0 |
Like WUprop owes them something.... (more like they forgot the point) Would be a shame if he really quits, he created a DB of hardware and it's capabilities even if it is only a guesstimate of project and hardware capabilities. Invaluable to us people that push HW to the edge. Chasing stars is moot compared to that..... I don't run it anymore cause it was effecting my collatz times, I always saw the badges in it as a compilation of nothingness so I never felt the need to chase them.... Is it cheating? no, I don't think so. Does it go beyond the point/intent of the project? yes, it does. His project he can run it anyway he likes.... but he should have stopped the practice before users grew dependent on it.... AS far as the dictator crap? if you don't like it don't run it, the base philosophy of Free Distributed Computing. We are free to choose. That is as far from dictation as possible. |
Send message Joined: 28 Mar 10 Posts: 583 Credit: 1,210,091 RAC: 215 |
I support this project 100%, obviously. WUPROP has kept me BOINC-ing long after chasing credits became boring. Add me to that support list. Conan |
Send message Joined: 28 Mar 10 Posts: 18 Credit: 646,770 RAC: 108 |
Unfortunately it seems Seb got bored over the top, he is not answering us on the AF forum neither... for the moment things are like that. On the other hand he has always been doing most things he does without talking much about it, we would have problems on the <various/many> services he is running (WUProp, SAM, AF forums, StatSeb website, signature system(s), etc), we would complain about them (shame on us) and suddenly they would get fixed and voila. So let's cross fingers, touch wood, eat fortune cookies and wish him the best. |
Send message Joined: 10 Nov 16 Posts: 10 Credit: 126,761 RAC: 74 |
My situation: I run 2 instances of WUProp; I have 2 copies of BOINC running on my computer because I want my weaker graphics card to only run Sieving on PrimeGrid. Anyhow, you do realize that even if you had every boinc project on one client, you only need one WUProp account. If I run Seti, WCG, Primegrid and milkyway for an hour and a half each, I get 1.5 hours of runtime for each project. If I am understanding this thread correctly, then you REALLY don't need 8 instances on a 4 core/2core HT host. You don't need a separate boinc client on your computer for every project you want to run. |
Send message Joined: 28 Mar 10 Posts: 18 Credit: 646,770 RAC: 108 |
Of course ! And I'm not expert in that part but I'm not 100% sure you need to run 2 boinc instance to deal with your PrimeGrid/GPU issue, I think this could be achieved through config files, but again I'm not knowledgeable enough on that part... https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration (for instance see <exclude_gpu>) https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ClientAppConfig (seems quite empty here) I can ask at l'AF forum if you wish |
Send message Joined: 11 Apr 10 Posts: 182 Credit: 8,405,141 RAC: 929 |
Anyhow, you do realize that even if you had every boinc project on one client, you only need one WUProp account. Yes you only need one account. That isn't what is being discussed. What is being discussed is that people were running multiple instances of WUProp work units. What is happening is that people wanted all of their runtime hours to count. And I honestly don't think it picks up all of the clients with the one work unit. So, if I have a rig with 250 clients running (which I do). Each of those clients have 4 work units that are Non-CPU intensive each. I would therefore be running 1,000 work units on that host. I look at my times here, and it shows me with a total of ~700 runtime hours for the day. That is across all hosts I have whether physical or virtual. So, I'm not positive if WUProp was crediting them based on the actual CPU time used or wall clock, but I think people were trying to guarantee they got all the runtime hours rather than just WUProp points. I'm thinking it was based off of wall clock because looking at the numbers, it would line up with total number of physical and virtual hosts rather than total number of clients actually ran in my case. |
Send message Joined: 20 May 15 Posts: 32 Credit: 553,793 RAC: 178 |
Please tell me what "science" Grid Computing Center/Goofyx is doing? When we reach an infinite number of monkeys, we'll know. ;) 'Science' has always been objective. Fool's errands exist until something new is discovered, then suddenly it's a new field of study. |
Send message Joined: 20 May 15 Posts: 32 Credit: 553,793 RAC: 178 |
Well, WUProp only reports in every 6 hours. My logic might be off, but if you wanted to absolutely check, start WUProp at the same time on each server and then after 24 hours, check the report. Incidentally, NCI doesn't always give you all 4 WUs. Sometimes it misses one or two. I don't know if it's just an instance or within a certain timeframe it happens. But times that 1 or 2 by a bunch of machines... Apparently you don't follow the project as the project hasn't had a history of stability. GCC went down last year due to hardware failures and GoofyX has been trying to get things working again coupled with being hospitalized over the holidays. I think GCC is on hold till be can get NCI and CPU stable. Then he wants to combine them under one banner, but separate projects (like yoyo@home). Then maybe then GCC might make a return...but he hasn't said last I saw. But, all that's mostly really beyond the scope of the original intent of this thread... :) |
Send message Joined: 2 Apr 10 Posts: 8 Credit: 108,152 RAC: 0 |
My 2 Cent for the Goofy-NCI: Seb, just kick it out of list. You dont have to worry about your stats anymore, and the ones trying to get a nice colored star for GCC-NCI... Well they can hate us, but they cannot do anything against it. WUPROP is YOUR Project. YOU have the right to take whatever action to keep your databases' sanity well. And if a host is only running monkey and WUPROP your database will ignore his/her monkey time and thus have an "empty" WUPROP - which can easily put out by a simple programming mechanic. For me it is okay if you just "kill" goofyx-NCI from list, for the time being it abused by multiclienting. For me, having more than one boinc client on ONE computer is considered cheating - but as sometimes the host identify process goes awkward (especially when your computing "farm" consists of exact the same computers - for example 20 PIs) banning people which do "most likely" have multiclient sometimes hits the wrong ones. So, just to repreat myself: My opinion: Kick goofyx-NCI out of the list. just let wuprop ignore it. |
Send message Joined: 9 Apr 10 Posts: 2 Credit: 273,471 RAC: 14 |
I support this project 100%, obviously. WUPROP has kept me BOINC-ing long after chasing credits became boring. Same for me. I sign the supportlist too. greetings MB A |
Send message Joined: 19 Apr 10 Posts: 8 Credit: 1,369,919 RAC: 152 |
It seems that Sebastien really stopped any work with wuprop and signature.statseb.fr Does anyone have any informations? |
Send message Joined: 28 Mar 10 Posts: 18 Credit: 646,770 RAC: 108 |
Things not working ? like what ? (examples) |
Send message Joined: 19 Apr 10 Posts: 8 Credit: 1,369,919 RAC: 152 |
Here all looks ok, but at signature.statseb.fr new project DHEP is missing. Also new badges for GPUGrid publications are missing. Maybe something more, but I can not find that :) |
Send message Joined: 28 Mar 10 Posts: 18 Credit: 646,770 RAC: 108 |
Yep DHEP is not considered yet, neither in SAM nor StatSeb, the announcement done by admin that his project is "live" is fairly recent, and it's holidays time around here too. For GPUGRID I can't say, I'm not into it. |
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