Posts by David Anderson

1) Message boards : Problems : Certificate not showing all hours (Message 1611)
Posted 11 Nov 2023 by David Anderson
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I think that I fixed the problem of wrong certificate numbers.

SU keeps track of usage (CPU time, GPU time, # jobs)
both for each (user, project) pair and each (host, project) pair.
In theory the numbers for a user's hosts should add up to the numbers for the user.
But (because of a bug I have yet to find) they're lower.

The numbers on the certificate were based on the (host, project) records.
I changed it to use the (user, project) records
(not sure why I didn't do it this was to begin with).

I'll try to figure out the data discrepancy.

-- David
2) Message boards : News : Uania fights COVID with SiDock and Science United (Message 1439)
Posted 4 Oct 2022 by David Anderson
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The Italian networking company <a href=https://www.uania.com/heart/>Uania</a> has arranged to run <a href=https://www.sidock.si/sidock/>SiDock@home</a> on their routers, contributing to research on the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Thanks to Uania for taking this pioneering step in volunteer computing. Thanks also to Vitalii Koshura and Natalia Nikitina for their work in getting BOINC and the SiDock app running on the Uania platform.
3) Message boards : News : Windows client 7.16.20 released (Message 865)
Posted 18 Oct 2021 by David Anderson
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Download it here.

This version fixes a problem that prevented BOINC from communicating with several projects and account managers.
4) Message boards : News : Windows communication failure: temporary workaround (Message 831)
Posted 5 Oct 2021 by David Anderson
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Recently, the Windows BOINC client stopped being able to communicate with some projects and with Science United. This is because of an expired entry in a file called the "certificate authority bundle".

To fix this problem, download a new version of the file, then move it to the

C:/Program Files/BOINC

directory.

This is a temporary fix. We hope to release a new version of the client that won't have this problem in the future.
5) Message boards : News : Certificate of computation (Message 795)
Posted 4 Sep 2021 by David Anderson
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Check out our new Certificate of Computation. It's suitable for framing!
6) Message boards : News : Paper on Science United published (Message 792)
Posted 1 Sep 2021 by David Anderson
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Interested in how Science United works under the hood? Check out Globally Scheduling Volunteer Computing, recently published in the journal Future Internet.
7) Message boards : News : Server outage (Message 654)
Posted 2 Jan 2021 by David Anderson
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The BOINC and Science United servers will be down from this evening until (hopefully) the morning of Jan. 3.

Happy New Year to everyone!
8) Message boards : News : Science page (Message 590)
Posted 21 Sep 2020 by David Anderson
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Check out our new Science page. It shows the science projects behind Science United and how computing power is being divided among them.
9) Message boards : News : Status update (Message 579)
Posted 8 Sep 2020 by David Anderson
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Science United volunteers have now completed 43 million jobs, using 2.5 million days of CPU time and 250,000 days of GPU time. Congratulations, and thanks! We're continuing to allocate extra computing power to projects doing COVID research.
-- David
10) Message boards : Questions : Opt-Out (Message 360)
Posted 26 Mar 2020 by David Anderson
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If you go to your "Science Projects" page:
https://scienceunited.org/su_user_projects.php
... and click on a project, you'll see an "exclude" button.
-- David
11) Message boards : News : Science United and COVID-19 (Message 349)
Posted 19 Mar 2020 by David Anderson
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We at Science United hope that everyone is doing OK in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and all its effects.

One of the science projects in Science United - Rosetta@home - is doing research involving coronavirus proteins; details are here. We have increased the allotment of Rosetta@home so that it will get most of the CPU power of Science United. Other projects may launch coronavirus-related research soon. We hope that Science United can help fight the pandemic. Thanks for participating, and stay well.
12) Message boards : News : Science United passes 4 million job mark (Message 208)
Posted 29 Apr 2019 by David Anderson
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Science United users have now completed 4,063,984 jobs. Congratulations!
13) Message boards : News : Status emails (Message 202)
Posted 2 Apr 2019 by David Anderson
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A few weeks ago, we started sending emails telling you how much computing you've done recently. If you don't want to get these, please click on the "unsubscribe" link.

You can control the frequency of these emails here. Note: we just fixed a problem that caused everyone to get an email every day. Sorry for the inconvenience.
14) Message boards : News : World Community Grid added to SU (Message 148)
Posted 29 Jan 2019 by David Anderson
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World Community Grid (WCG) is a BOINC project that supports a range of humanitarian research. WCG has its own way of registering; accounts can be created only on the web, not via server-to-server communication. Until recently this prevented it from being included in Science United.

We fixed this by having all Science United computing use a single WCG account. We made the same change for Einstein@home, which recently switched to web-only account creation. We may do the same for all projects; there's no real reason to use different project accounts for different SU users.

This doesn't impact SU users, except that instead of user names like "Science United user 3ac9082d" you'll just see "Science United".
15) Message boards : Problems : BOINC has stopped working (Message 105)
Posted 14 Dec 2018 by David Anderson
Post:
The last error (bind fail) suggests that there's already an instance of BOINC running.
Look for this process and kill it.

But that doesn't explain the earlier execv error.
Try asking for help on the BOINC forums:
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_forum.php?id=10

-- David
16) Message boards : Problems : Account password (Message 104)
Posted 10 Dec 2018 by David Anderson
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Oops! I forgot to add the link. Fixed now. -- David
17) Message boards : News : Science United passes 1 million job mark (Message 88)
Posted 9 Nov 2018 by David Anderson
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As of today, Science United volunteers have successfully processed 1.19 million jobs from 26 different projects. Congratulations, and keep up the good work!
18) Message boards : News : 7.14.2 client released for Windows and Mac (Message 77)
Posted 18 Oct 2018 by David Anderson
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Download it here. The main visible change is that, in the Manager's advanced view, the user name shown for projects is your Science United user name, rather than a random anonymous name.
19) Message boards : News : Account creation bug fixed (Message 76)
Posted 18 Oct 2018 by David Anderson
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There was a problem with the creation of accounts on science projects, causing new users to not get assigned any projects. This should be fixed now. Please let me know if not. Sorry for the inconvenience.
20) Message boards : News : Translations (Message 29)
Posted 24 May 2018 by David Anderson
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We've made most of the text on Science United translatable, and we already have two full translations: Dutch and Portuguese. To try these, go to Languages under the Site menu at the top of the page.

If you'd like to help translate to other languages, to go the Science United page on Transifex.


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