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Well, despite having my machines set to cache 2 days of work and being attached to both SETI@Home and Predictor@Home, my first machine completely ran out of work a couple hours ago. :disgust:
The other 6 are at varying stages of being anywhere from 1 hour to 10 hours or so from doing the same.
I really like the concept of BOINC (many projects, dividing priority according to your preferences) and both the current and future projects I've heard about are 'right up my alley'. However, at the same time, after the experiences in the last week, I'm strongly considering putting it aside until the project reaches a greater level of maturity.
I understand that all new DC projects have growing pains, but is it just me, or does anyone else get the impression that the folks from SETI-BOINC don't seem to care much about passing useful information to the users? The last message was the cryptic "The log files are currently being compressed, after thats done the project should return to normal." which was the first thing posted after nearly 2 days of complete outage. So.... what's that mean? Take a couple hours? A day? 10 minutes? Frankly, at this point, what's normal? Fighting desperately for a couple WU's every day or so?
The guys at Predictor are at least passing on better information, but then they're not exactly living up to what they're saying, so I'm not sure which is worse. (They last said their system should be back to giving out work, but it's not)
I've sort of been 'out of the scene' for a while and I don't know whether this is a level of competence and feedback that I should expect from most DC projects or if this is unique to SETI-BOINC.
What are the other 'early adopters' of BOINC thinking on this?
The other 6 are at varying stages of being anywhere from 1 hour to 10 hours or so from doing the same.
I really like the concept of BOINC (many projects, dividing priority according to your preferences) and both the current and future projects I've heard about are 'right up my alley'. However, at the same time, after the experiences in the last week, I'm strongly considering putting it aside until the project reaches a greater level of maturity.
I understand that all new DC projects have growing pains, but is it just me, or does anyone else get the impression that the folks from SETI-BOINC don't seem to care much about passing useful information to the users? The last message was the cryptic "The log files are currently being compressed, after thats done the project should return to normal." which was the first thing posted after nearly 2 days of complete outage. So.... what's that mean? Take a couple hours? A day? 10 minutes? Frankly, at this point, what's normal? Fighting desperately for a couple WU's every day or so?
The guys at Predictor are at least passing on better information, but then they're not exactly living up to what they're saying, so I'm not sure which is worse. (They last said their system should be back to giving out work, but it's not)
I've sort of been 'out of the scene' for a while and I don't know whether this is a level of competence and feedback that I should expect from most DC projects or if this is unique to SETI-BOINC.
What are the other 'early adopters' of BOINC thinking on this?