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 ...
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- Tue Mar 24, 2026 5:30 pm
- Forum: Suggestions or bugs
- Topic: Removal of some projects from FB?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 146
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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!
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
- 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.
Its always interesting to see where people end up position-wise after this process, its hard to predict in advance.
- 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 ...
- 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 ...