SLinCA@Home (new boinc project)

[Dirk Broer]

One year later, still the same:

14-03-2013 01:16:58 | SLinCA@Home | Computation for task fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0 finished
14-03-2013 01:16:58 | SLinCA@Home | Starting task fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_f00e0f13-936a-40ce-8bc2-c6b189117a3d_811_0 using heavy_lodci011eq32v0p125T1XZ32 version 3232 in slot 2
14-03-2013 01:17:02 | SLinCA@Home | Started upload of fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0_0
14-03-2013 01:17:02 | SLinCA@Home | Started upload of fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0_1
14-03-2013 01:17:05 | SLinCA@Home | [error] Error reported by file upload server: invalid signature
14-03-2013 01:17:05 | SLinCA@Home | [error] Error reported by file upload server: invalid signature
14-03-2013 01:17:05 | SLinCA@Home | Giving up on upload of fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0_0: permanent upload error
14-03-2013 01:17:05 | SLinCA@Home | Giving up on upload of fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0_1: permanent upload error
14-03-2013 01:17:05 | SLinCA@Home | Started upload of fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0_2
14-03-2013 01:17:05 | SLinCA@Home | Started upload of fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0_3
14-03-2013 01:17:07 | SLinCA@Home | [error] Error reported by file upload server: invalid signature
14-03-2013 01:17:07 | SLinCA@Home | [error] Error reported by file upload server: invalid signature
14-03-2013 01:17:07 | SLinCA@Home | Giving up on upload of fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0_2: permanent upload error
14-03-2013 01:17:07 | SLinCA@Home | Giving up on upload of fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_fe9fe4cd-0ebc-4659-b0b2-e3422bc9635c_333_0_3: permanent upload error
14-03-2013 01:22:09 | SLinCA@Home | Sending scheduler request: To report completed tasks.
14-03-2013 01:22:09 | SLinCA@Home | Reporting 1 completed tasks, not requesting new tasks
14-03-2013 01:22:11 | SLinCA@Home | Scheduler request completed

My Ukrainian isn't good enough to post on their forum, maybe I'll try Google translate to find out how to log in their forum (when I am already logged into my account I seem to have to login even further)

[vaughan]

I tried running a bunch of Slinca tasks; they took ages to run and ended in computation errors. I scored zero points for over a week's CPU time.

Useless waste of time project and their forum is incomprehensible gibberish.

[AMDave]

I remember having almost 100% fail on windows
much better rate of success on linux
most of the top computers are linux: http://dg.imp.kiev.ua/slinca/top_hosts.php

[Dirk Broer]

The culprits seem to be the out_data.zip files, which are not valid.
As they were only 1k big, I changed the property of one to *.txt and opened it with notepad.
It contained just this: <soft_link>../../projects/dg.imp.kiev.ua_slinca/fd487785-0bb7-499a-b394-9ac680e2f58b_23b138a0-56bb-48ba-87e1-4f89c8e47fc1_821_0_3</soft_link>
In my eyes no justification for the use of a *zip file. I let it be out_data.txt and see what happens. In the worst case I get a compute error.
On second thoughts I created a new out_data.zip file containing the out_dat.txt file. I have high hopes for this approach
It it works, I will translate this posting into Ukrainian -using Google translate- and post it at the SLinCA forum so they can have a laugh as well (about the quality of the translation).
We will know more in about 28 hours....