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by UBT - wbiz
Tue Mar 24, 2026 5:30 pm
Forum: Suggestions or bugs
Topic: Removal of some projects from FB?
Replies: 3
Views: 146

Re: Removal of some projects from FB?

Part of the game is catching the rare points. There are many ways of supporting Boinc and we should encompass as many user traits as possible.

There are numerous items that some would call unfair eg

GPU only tasks
CPU only tasks
Long tasks
Low credit tasks
High credit tasks
Low cache tasks
High ...
by UBT - wbiz
Fri Mar 13, 2026 9:56 pm
Forum: FB 2026
Topic: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Replies: 43
Views: 6625

Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications


About 90% of the cars are still in the box, waiting for fuel to have a chance to take part.
Wouldn't this be a reason to cancel the sprint?

The only work I can contribute are the WUs from 1-3 weeks ago that are still in pending.

If the project is not willing to be part of the sprint or even ...
by UBT - wbiz
Fri Mar 13, 2026 7:53 pm
Forum: FB 2026
Topic: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Replies: 43
Views: 6625

Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications



One particularly annoying aspect is the time estimation for my AMD Windows computers is completely wrong. It estimates 38 mins when tasks are actually 75 minutes, I can easily end up with loads of unfinished tasks left at the end of the sprint, which also messes up other peoples validation. My ...
by UBT - wbiz
Fri Mar 13, 2026 7:08 pm
Forum: FB 2026
Topic: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Replies: 43
Views: 6625

Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications

I had the tale of two cities.

One computer nicely filled up its cache and kept it topped up regularly. Another identical computer barely got any cache and ran out of work for a few hours. The rest of my computers bumbled along between those two extremes.

One particularly annoying aspect is the ...
by UBT - wbiz
Sun Feb 15, 2026 9:59 am
Forum: Formula BOINC News
Topic: BOINCOT - Formula Boinc Marathon Stats Tool
Replies: 4
Views: 4381

Re: BOINCOT - Formula Boinc Marathon Stats Tool

Having slept on this, I'll change the dropdown boxes into pages, that kills two birds with one stone as it will prevent the list falling off the bottom of the screen and make it touchscreen compatible. Function over form!
by UBT - wbiz
Sat Feb 14, 2026 7:23 pm
Forum: Formula BOINC News
Topic: BOINCOT - Formula Boinc Marathon Stats Tool
Replies: 4
Views: 4381

Re: BOINCOT - Formula Boinc Marathon Stats Tool

Thanks Tim.

Bold are active, ie those that have increased their boinc credits in the last 24 hours - the same as Age = 0. I had thought about dropping the bolding but couldn't decide so status quo ante. If I keep it I'll try and remember to put a comment in the question mark dropdown.

The mouse ...
by UBT - wbiz
Sat Feb 14, 2026 1:49 am
Forum: Formula BOINC News
Topic: BOINCOT - Formula Boinc Marathon Stats Tool
Replies: 4
Views: 4381

Re: BOINCOT - Formula Boinc Marathon Stats Tool

https://boincot.uk v2 beta has been released to the wild - feedback welcomed

Now does both TEAM and USER marathons.
Days column renamed to Age (this takes a week to fill up correctly)
Minor bugs in niche circumstances but shouldn't occur in normal operation.
Full functionality is for desktop use ...
by UBT - wbiz
Mon Feb 09, 2026 4:51 am
Forum: FB 2026
Topic: 2026 Team and Member League tables now live
Replies: 9
Views: 5604

Re: 2026 Team and Member League tables now live

Well done Tim, that appeared to go smoothly.

Its always interesting to see where people end up position-wise after this process, its hard to predict in advance.
by UBT - wbiz
Tue Dec 09, 2025 9:51 am
Forum: FB 2025
Topic: Sprints 2025 - timetable and projects selected
Replies: 162
Views: 155270

Re: Sprints 2025 - timetable and projects selected



Its not just slow ARM processors, how about a AMD EPYC 9354P 32-Core Processor [Family 25 Model 17 Stepping 1] taking 26 DAYS https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/workunit.php?wuid=81593820


Hiya

Well, the stats on the yoyo project website says:


CPU time (sec)
94,270.34


which is 26.186 ...
by UBT - wbiz
Sat Dec 06, 2025 6:32 pm
Forum: FB 2025
Topic: Sprints 2025 - timetable and projects selected
Replies: 162
Views: 155270

Re: Sprints 2025 - timetable and projects selected


The workunit was sent on 2.12. and received back on 4.12..
SO very fast 26 days ;-)


So what went wrong there?

In the opposite direction, work unit with zero CPU time and zero claimed credits getting awarded credits. https://www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo/workunit.php?wuid=81601271 . The results log ...