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I would like to throw the following suggestion in the room:

Remove the following projects from FB:
- (DENIS@home)
- GPU Grid
- iThena.Computational
- The Ramanujan Machine
- TN-Grid

The projects either had no works for several months now or so very few work, that only some lucky 2-3 people got ...

Hi all

I just found a posting on the BOINCstats website and it is sad news about Willy (as of 23rd March 2026).

https://www.boincstats.com/forum/1/12703,6


All our thoughts and best wishes are for Willy and his loved ones.

regards
Tim

Hi all

The 4th Sprint starts next week !!

2026-04-09 18:00 UTC - 2026-04-12 18:00 UTC

Edit: 9th April In case you did not know, it's NumberFields

regards
Tim


Hi all

I had this message back from the NumberFields admin concerning the above Sprint:

I just wanted to let you know, the ...

As also in yoyo@home, not all work is already a BOINC workunit in the DB. This keeps DB small and fast.

You can also see that yafu (and yoyo@home) runs never out of work. So your indicator of declining number of available tasks seems to be wrong.

Additional in yafu each result leads automatic ...

Timbo,

the FB-Stats from running sprint seems to hang, the website shows:

Last update : 2026-04-12 14:45 UTC

It should be 15:00 Uhr UTC or even 15:15 UTC

Could you please check this ?

Thanks in advance

Yeti

EDIT: Seems as if it fixed just now with 15:15 UTC


Hi

Sorry for the delay in ...

BTW: Yafu has always tasks.
Or what is your source saying it dosn't?


Hi

Sorry for the delay in replying.

My source on 11th April was here:

https://grafana.kiska.pw/d/boinc/boinc?orgId=1&var-project=Yafu&from=now-30d&to=now

And with a declining number of tasks being available (since a high ...

Hi all

The next Sprint project has been randomly chosen (from an ever decreasing number of alternatives it seems :-( )

I'm awaiting to hear back from the admin to see if their project can support this event.

regards
Tim

If anyone is interested, this is my working template, which gets updated a ...

Running smoothly, thanks Tim.


Hi

You can thank the admins at NumberFields for their efforts to make sufficient tasks available.

HOWEVER: At time of writing, the project website seems to be inaccessible (at least to me) - so I hope this Sprint has not caused them any issues and likewise, I ...

Hi all

The 4th Sprint starts next week !!

2026-04-09 18:00 UTC - 2026-04-12 18:00 UTC

and the project has now been randomly selected.

Edit: 9th April In case you did not know, it's NumberFields

Once their admin confirms there are no planned maintenance periods for the above dates and that ...

Hi all

The Poll has now closed and as you can see, there were 14 votes in total: 9 votes to continue with the plan to hold Sprints on the 2 weekends when the F1 races have been cancelled. Only 5 votes would prefer not to have these Sprints.

So, I'll go ahead and follow the usual routine to ...