FreeHAL@home

[sentient_life]

It looks to me like everyone's account is still there. Any credits accumulated and workunits completed before the hack were wiped out. Some people just can't be satisfied with joining a project and using their computing resources for the betterment of mankind...

[NeoGen]

I still have my account, and I'm still #1 on the Team.

sentient_life and rest of the lot, are you just going to let me stay up there without a fight? Come on! It's no fun like this.

[sentient_life]

It's not much of a "race" when someone keeps erasing the score and causing everyone to restart! The workunits are a bit screwy. They claim 35 hours and take a few minutes. The credits aren't bad, though. And I realize they're based in Deutschland, but it would sure help to get a little more English on the site to discuss issues. Ibercivis falls into that category, too.

[NeoGen]

Yea... I know what you mean. There was a point when the credits were really messed up that I (and everyone else) was getting some 1,000 credits per workunit. That was really messed up, and thus they reset it.

I was just trying to get more people to join us in the project. We could use some help, at least to reach top 10.

[vaughan]

They had some work units today. Some are estimated to run for 72 hours on my Core Duo 1.67GHz lappy but they complete in about a minute. Initial downloads about 18MB, after that the tasks are small d/l.

EDIT:
First d/l ~12MB tasks ~7MB.

Site is here

Ototero can you add this project to our stats please?

http://boinc.freehal.org/projects/fr.../top_teams.php

[AMDave]

Heh. I see you edited as I was about to point out the same thing.
Those 7MB units add up really fast at 1.5 mins ea. on a quad core!
I've backed mine off again.

[vaughan]

Yes Dave. I switched my laptop over to Dial-Up as my cable is 1.5GB over where it should be so far this month in Peak time downloads. I don't want to run our of bandwidth again this month; getting throttled across the whole pharm hurts the stats on my favourite projects.

[vaughan]

FreeHAL@Home stats have been reset to zero.

There goes one of my >100,000 points projects. liuqin breathes a sigh of relief! Too bad, starting again now.

Translation from the forum German -> English reveals that the tasks are now set to maximum of 8 points per task and each task has 45 minutes maximum running time. There is also a delay so the max earning rate is 8 pts/hr. There is some rubbish about 8 being the BOINC Seti standard. I always thought it was in the 12-16 pts/hr range.

I wish somebody would tell RCN that 8 or more pts/hr is nice as they are very stingy at handing out points.

[liuqyn]

darn my luck, 783 points gone forever.

my concern now is that, is this going to happen again?

[liuqyn]

still not running right for me, downloaded 8 wu's, 4 ran less than a second, 2 ran 5-10 minutes, last two wouldn't run had to abort. indefinitely putting this one on hold.