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[StefanR5R]

Addendum: I tried one ARP1 task. Downloading the input files took two hours with countless retries, but I did not rely on BOINC's built-in retry periods... Executing the task took 21 h on my Haswell Xeon E3 (with all other CPU threads busy with concurrent work, mostly MilkyWay nbody). The seven result files were 94 MB big in total, but they uploaded within a quarter hour without a single interruption. (I had BOINC configured to only 1 transfer/project and 100 kB/s cap on upload speed, which this ARP1 upload fully used.) Either I was lucky and met an unusually quiet point in time at WCG for the upload, or WCG's HTTP troubles only affect downloads, not uploads. Or maybe all work of the current ARP1 batch had already been distributed to hosts and WCG's HTTP errors are over... until the next ARP1 batch.

 

[Orange Kid]

Universe@Home is ending...
My dear friends,

For over 10 years, I have taken care of the Universe@Home project.

Unfortunately, since the passing of Prof. Krzysztof Belczynski, we have not been able to find a way to continue the project. Therefore, as funding ended at the end of August this year, I am no longer formally associated with the project. Still hoping that a scientific team will be found to carry it forward, I have continued to handle the ongoing maintenance of the server, and I intend to keep doing so in my free time until either a successor to Krzysztof is found or CAMK decides to shut down the servers.

I truly regret that such a long history of our shared work is coming to an end. Unfortunately, I lack the scientific expertise needed to continue the research myself.

I would like to thank all of you for years of support and express my hope that we may someday meet again on another project that I could manage from the BOINC side.
11 Nov 2024, 15:52:47 UTC · Discuss