I have had Milkyway@home in my list of projects since I restarted contributing to shared computing for projects a few months ago. I have never once noticed it ever working. My "Projects" page shows for Milkyway@home - Work done = 0, Avg. work done = 0.

I've seen a couple of older forum posts about Milkyway@home having issues, but I have to be honest, I don't know how any of this stuff works or how to figure out what's wrong and fix it. I use Science United as my Project Manager in BOINC (version 7.24.1 running on Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon).

I'm not a programmer and consider me to be your dumb old Uncle that only uses their computer for email, web-surfing, and watching Star Trek. If you can dumb down any fix for this problem, that would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. :-)

Hello. I don't know if anyone reads these postings, but I found out the problem I was having with Milkyway@home.

Through Science United the address for Millyway@home is: https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

It should actually be: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

It needs to be http, not https.

I had to remove it from BOINC and "exclude" it in Science United, and then add the project from within BOINC and make sure to NOT have the "s" after http, and zip, zoom, and AWAY it started right up and has been crunching numbers like CRAZY ever since. :-)

Hi! Thank you for sharing the information about the solution! Could you please clarify—am I understanding correctly that, in the end, you connected to this project directly rather than through an "aggregator" Science United, and as a result, you're unable to see the calculation results of this project on that website—is that correct? Thanks.

Hello. I'm pretty dumb when it comes to all things computers and computer-talk, so I'm not sure what "aggregator" even is. :-P

What I did was to delete/remove Milkyway from my BOINC, and then in ScienceUnited "Exclude" Milkyway, and add Milkyway back in from within the BOINC application, and when doing so making sure to correct the address to NOT include the "s" so it is http, not https, and then Milkyway started right up and has been going CRAZY processing data ever since. :-)

If ScienceUnited is the "aggregator", I don't believe it is showing my progress, but in the BOINC Manager, it definitely is showing the "Work done" and the "Avg. work done" and updating as it goes.

Maybe if I go back into the Milkyway settings in ScienceUnited and switch it to "Include", maybe it will show the progress? I'm not sure. I'll try it and post what happens.

So when I went back into Science United and for the listed Milkyway@home settings had changed the "Excluded?" to "No" the project again failed in BOINC. Once BOINC finished all the tasks I had already downloaded, the Milkyway@home went to all zeroes and would not connect or download any new tasks.

I just went back into the Milkyway@home settings in Science United and set the "Excluded?" back to "Yes" and then in BOINC did a "Synchronize with Science United" and Milkyway@home was removed in BOINC.

From within BOINC I re-added Milkyway@home and signed in as a current user with my username and password and made SURE to take the "s" out of the https, and when it was re-added to BOINC, "ZOOM!" - it picked up right where it left off and again showed the stats for "work done" and "Avg. work done".

TLDR - if you want to do any tasks for Milkyway@home, you MUST keep "Excluded?" to be "Yes" and re-add it from within BOINC and make SURE you remove the "s" from the https from the displayed "Project URL:" - this: http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ NOT this: https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/

Not a solution to your issue, but I would just add the project manually from the BOINC manager project list.

But it IS a solution to my issue - at least in the sense that it now does and has been working and cranking out packets of data like CRAZY now.