Posts by Fuzzy Duck

1) Message boards : Number crunching : No new amicable pairs (Message 1710) Posted 31 Jul 2023 by Fuzzy Duck Post: Just checked my stats again and I have now found over 1200 amicable pairs today. Quite amazing.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : No new amicable pairs (Message 1708) Posted 31 Jul 2023 by Fuzzy Duck Post: Seems like were are now finding amicable pairs again. I just checked my stats and I have found 346 amicable pairs today. https://sech.me/ap/log/2023/2023-07-31/VOLUNTEERS%40BOINC.txt
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Long running tasks (Message 1702) Posted 29 Jul 2023 by Fuzzy Duck Post: Yes. I run on two machines and have had tasks taking ten times longer than usual.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : No new amicable pairs (Message 1664) Posted 25 Apr 2023 by Fuzzy Duck Post: Just noticed this thread and thought I would check my stats. I have discovered over 58k amicable pairs since 2019. In 2023, I have discovered a grand total of 28 pairs. My RAC is > 3 million, meaning I return close to 500 WU's a day. So far, we have had 114 days in 2023 meaning that I have returned close to 50k WU's so far. With only 28 pairs found, it is safe to say, we are currently in a very lean patch. From a scientific viewpoint, not finding pairs is still important.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Um, Got a Couple of Whoppers? (Message 1611) Posted 3 Aug 2022 by Fuzzy Duck Post: There is no additional credit for longer WU's. Personally, when I see a longer WU I usually abort it.
6) Message boards : Number crunching : 15 Plus Hours to run (Message 1607) Posted 24 Jul 2022 by Fuzzy Duck Post: I am seeing the same on all my machines. None of the long WU's have been validated.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Um, Got a Couple of Whoppers? (Message 1586) Posted 24 Mar 2022 by Fuzzy Duck Post: I'm seeing a lot of multi-hour-long GPU WUs lately. I have one that's been running for 17 hours on an RTX 2060 (three tasks in tandem, admittedly) and it's barely at 50%. Is this to be expected more and more going forward? Any plans to update the credit system to address the task size disparity? Same here Azmodes. Very long tasks showing up... I have the same issue. When I am using one of my machines, I will check BOINC. If I see a multi-hour GPU task running I usually abort it in the hope of getting a normal WU. Obviously, not feasible to monitor my machines 24/7. Anyone able to create a prefs file?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : No new amicable pairs found in 200 WU's. Anyone else? (Message 1578) Posted 28 Dec 2021 by Fuzzy Duck Post: As per my previous post you will see that pairs are currently discovered approximately once every 100 WU's. Given that you are not using a GPU client it will take some time to discover a pair. Historically pairs used to be discovered far more frequently. Based on my all-time stats I have discovered pairs more frequently than every 5 WU's. With larger numbers, it now takes many more WU's to accomplish this.
9) Message boards : Number crunching : No new amicable pairs found in 200 WU's. Anyone else? (Message 1577) Posted 27 Dec 2021 by Fuzzy Duck Post: I just checked the my stats and it seems my machines are finding around 5 pairs/day with an RAC of around 3.5 million. So on average 1 pair for every 700k RAC. Given that one WU is just below 7k credits this means my machines are finding one pair every 100 WU's. Obviously this is a back of an envelope calculation and your mileage will vary.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Unable to upload results (Message 1541) Posted 30 Sep 2021 by Fuzzy Duck Post: Looks like the problem has resurfaced. Copied from my log: 30/09/2021 15:53:45 \| Amicable Numbers \| Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates 30/09/2021 15:53:46 \| \| Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 30/09/2021 15:53:47 \| \| Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
11) Message boards : Bug tracker : Upload server is down (Message 1540) Posted 30 Sep 2021 by Fuzzy Duck Post: Copied from my BOINC log: 30/09/2021 15:53:45 \| Amicable Numbers \| Scheduler request failed: Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with given CA certificates 30/09/2021 15:53:46 \| \| Project communication failed: attempting access to reference site 30/09/2021 15:53:47 \| \| Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down.
12) Message boards : Bug tracker : Upload server is down (Message 1539) Posted 30 Sep 2021 by Fuzzy Duck Post: As per the title all my clients are unable to uploaded completed WU's.