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Hi all

I've been in contact with one of the MilkyWay admins to make them aware (if they didn't already know) that their project website is not running very well, with difficulties logging in and and responding to clickable links within the website itself.

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Hi all

Update: MilkyWay website and Sprint data

The Team and Member stats collection process now seems to be working with the latest stats collected at 20:45 UTC this evening.

And I'm happy to report that the incremental BOINC credits log file is now showing the relevant change in Team and ...

Hi all

I've been in contact with one of the MilkyWay admins to make them aware (if they didn't already know) that their project website is not running very well, with difficulties logging in and and responding to clickable links within the website itself.

Likewise, obtaining regular stats updates ...

Hi all

The latest Sprint, featuring MilkyWay project, got underway yesterday at 1600 UTC.

And just so you know:

1) It seems the MilkyWay project website is sometimes timing out, if you try to view their website - even logging in, is very slow. :-(

2) The stats for the Sprint *are* being ...

Yeah, where is the fun to just "donate money and forget about it" ? "hobby" means "have a level of implication", else it's not a hobby, in my views.


Hiya

Some people (aka philanthropists) are quite happy to make donations to organisations that they want to support and without asking for any ...

From that example, its not even close, 16 cores with 32GB RAM costing £480 a month whereas the home power cost is less than £100. However Amazon AWS/EC2 would probably work out a lot cheaper, its just the difficulty of doing the guesstimates with AWS especially as some projects have a lot of ...

I've never used the cloud but with hardware prices going through the roof, buying new hardware is getting hard to justify


Hiya

I think that the "cost difference" between buying new (to you) hardware compared to renting server time on the cloud is very close.

This is because new hardware, if ...

crunch for someone else ;)
ask a fellow team member for a weak key, or use a combined 'cluster' team account if any available


Hi

This is of course a method that some Teams employed in the past (and maybe even do it now?).

eg:

https://www.formulaboinc.org/index.py?race=4&division=4&standing ...

Thor54 wrote: Fri Jul 03, 2026 4:41 pm Hi, I'm listed on the user list for League 4.

I was part of primeGride, but I can't find myself anywhere today.

Hi

Your stats are here:

https://www.formulaboinc.org/index.py?r ... 728be954a4

regards
Tim

Is there any way to ensure downward path ? :lol:


Hiya

1st option:
errrr...I guess so 8-) You just have to monitor how many BOINC credits are being earned by all the other members in the same League as you...and then make sure that you earn less than them . Do this for the entire "first" half ...