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Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2026 4:04 pm
by UBT - Timbo
fax wrote: Fri Mar 27, 2026 9:14 pm
Just had a look at my previous posts in this forum and I had complained about the same thing in 2018:
viewtopic.php?p=545#p545
I guess there is a pattern to how the Formula is being run.
Hi
Yes, there is a pattern as to how FB runs...it is up to me, as a volunteer admin to try and oversee how best for it to continue, now that Sebastien has taken more of a back-seat.
And forgive me for not remembering your post from 8 years ago,
even though that was about a different Sprint project...and at the time, I was not an admin here, so I am not able to say what was done before as far as advising BOINC admins about Sprint events, though I believe that BOINC admins were being informed.
One will just has to accept that I am NOT a computer, I have a real job that takes up some of my time and I have a real life too. But I would not have taken on this role, if I didn't think I could do a decent job, compared to the only other option which was for the site to shut down.
regards
Tim
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2026 9:34 pm
by magiceye04
For me the minimum for a project would be that the admin of the project agrees that the project can be chosen for the FB upfront (maybe at the beginning of every year).
If this means that there are only 10 or 5 projects available, than this would be OK for me.
In the real F1 tracks are also cancelled if they do not fulfill the needs of the F1 circus.
Other competitions have only 5 or 6 projects every year and it makes fun anyway.
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2026 10:46 am
by UBT - Timbo
magiceye04 wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 9:34 pm
For me the minimum for a project would be that the admin of the project agrees that the project can be chosen for the FB upfront (maybe at the beginning of every year).
Hi
Thanks for your input.
In fact this is what I do already, about a week before each Sprint. But some BOINC admins are too busy to reply or they do not respond for some other reason.
And we cannot do this at the beginning of the year, UNTIL the head honchos at F1 publish their race schedule.
So, I have to take a balanced view on this as to whether the project can support a Sprint based on recent evidence of tasks being completed.
magiceye04 wrote: Sat Mar 28, 2026 9:34 pm
If this means that there are only 10 or 5 projects available, than this would be OK for me.
In the real F1 tracks are also cancelled if they do not fulfill the needs of the F1 circus.
Other competitions have only 5 or 6 projects every year and it makes fun anyway.
Being based on an F1 season means we have lots of Sprints. So, we need to vary the choice as much as possible, to keep it fair, as otherwise, some might bunker tasks, in advance, based on which projects are active, making large numbers of tasks available. Limiting the number of projects will just make it easier to second-guess the chosen project.
regards
Tim
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2026 4:35 pm
by UBT - Timbo
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 tasks will be available, then it will be "locked in".
Edit: 5th April
Project admin has now confirmed that the Sprint will have enough tasks available during the Sprint period.
regards
Tim
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2026 1:40 pm
by JeromeC
Running smoothly, thanks Tim.
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2026 4:52 pm
by UBT - Timbo
JeromeC wrote: Fri Apr 10, 2026 1:40 pm
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 hope that some low-life, idiot, fu*ktards have not targeted the project with a DDOS attack, which basically ruins the Sprint.
regards
Tim
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 12:56 pm
by UBT - Timbo
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 week before each Sprint so that I can then choose a list of projects that can then go into a random draw to select a suitable candidate. As you can see, some previous projects cannot be chosen due to either a very limited or even a lack of available tasks.
Code: Select all
Suitable for a: Marathon? / Sprint?
some tasks Asteroids Yes Yes
some tasks Moo!Wrapper Yes Yes
some tasks NFS Yes Yes
some tasks NumberFields Yes Yes
some tasks PrimeGrid Yes Yes
some tasks Ramanujan Yes Yes
some tasks SiDock Yes Yes
some tasks srBase Yes Yes
some tasks Gerasim Yes Yes (Sometimes)
some tasks yoyo Yes Yes (Sometimes)
limited tasks einstein Yes Maybe
limited tasks gpugrid Yes Maybe
limited tasks lhc Yes Maybe
limited tasks Rosetta Yes Maybe
some tasks ODLK Yes No
some tasks ODLK1 Yes No
some tasks ODLK2025 Yes No
some tasks PrivateGFN Yes No
some tasks gaia No No
some tasks lhc-dev No No
some tasks LODA No No
some tasks SPACIOUS No No
Suitable for a: Marathon? / Sprint?
zero tasks (26-04-11) Amicable Yes ??
zero tasks (26-04-11) milkyway Yes ??
zero tasks (26-04-11) TN-Grid Yes ??
zero tasks (26-04-11) Yafu Yes ??
zero tasks (26-04-11) DENIS Yes No
zero tasks (26-04-11) ithenaComp Yes No
zero tasks (26-04-11) RakeSearch Yes No
zero tasks (26-04-11) Universe Yes No
zero tasks (26-04-11) Climate Prediction No No
zero tasks (26-04-11) ithenaMeas No No
zero tasks (26-04-11) Minecraft No No
zero tasks (26-04-11) QuChemPed No No
zero tasks (26-04-11) RNAWorld No No
Suitable for a: Sprint?
no data boinc@tacc No
no data Collatz No
no data Cosmology No
no data dodo No
no data goofyxGrid No
no data LLMentor No
no data MindModelling No
no data MLC No
no data nanoHUB No
no data QCN No
no data Radioactive No
no data Ralph No
no data SPT No
no data T.Brada No
no data USPEX No
no data WEP-M+2 No
no data WUProp No
The above DOES vary, depending on each projects on-going efforts to either remain active or to go into hiatus for any length of time.
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 4:22 pm
by Yeti
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
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2026 6:20 pm
by yoyo
BTW: Yafu has always tasks.
Or what is your source saying it dosn't?
Re: FB Sprint 2026 Notifications
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 9:01 pm
by UBT - Timbo
yoyo wrote: Sun Apr 12, 2026 6:20 pm
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? ... 30d&to=now
And with a declining number of tasks being available (since a high of 1,882 on 21st March and a LOW of 882 today, 14th April) so, I sadly had to discount the project from the list of suitable projects that could support the high demand for many, many thousands of tasks during a Sprint.
Of course, if the admin wanted to be involved in a Sprint AND by prior arrangement, they could ensure that when the Sprint started that far more tasks would be available over the course of the Sprint period, then of course the project could be selected.
I am very open to the possibility of Yafu being chosen as a Sprint project - but there has to be sufficient tasks available and for the project website not to be saturated with download requests, causing it to go offline.
regards
Tim