TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

[manofthem]

WCG page back up

Lol, that was disappointingly fast

 

[jboydgolfer]

Lol, that was disappointingly fast

You literally spent more time warning people of the downtime than the actual downtime took

Appreciated still

 

[thebluebumblebee]

WCG page back up

Well...

15 May 2017

Summary
Our move to IBM Cloud began on the morning of May 15. This article includes updates for volunteers.

As we announced in April, we have begun our move to the IBM Cloud, a new hosting environment which will prepare us for years of growth.

Our website and forum are now moved to IBM Cloud. Also, your devices can resume sending us any completed tasks, but cannot yet report those tasks as completed; this capability will be enabled later.

We're in the process of migrating other various mechanisms which handle the sending of new research tasks, and will update this article as those capabilities are made available again.

As various parts of our system go up, there could be an initial delay for volunteers' ability to access those parts.

No action is required by most volunteers, as our systems will resume sending and receiving research tasks once the migration is complete. However, for individuals or organizations who have restricted firewall rules, you may need to update those rules in order to continue contributing, by allowing connections to our new IP address (169.47.63.74).

 

[thebluebumblebee]

Posted almost 4 hours ago:

At this point the following is running:
1) Website
2) Forums
3) File uploads and downloads
4) Reporting completed work and fetching new work
5) Validation

We have some more work to do, but we are off to a good in this new environment.

 

[Norton]

Our latest crunching challenge is open:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...hru-5-26-crunch-fold-with-tpu-and-win.233416/

Join us in heating up our rigs!

 

[manofthem]

Had a little scare today and some issues.

Tried to remote in today, but 2 pcs didn't have connectivity. Didn't know why but I feared the worst lol. Got home later and found my pc was fine just the enternet cable came loose from the router. Wife's pc wouldn't start though for a while...til I messed with the psu cable, think it got loose, gotta blame the kids.

So now everything is running fine as far as I can tell. I had imagined both machines having been hit by a crazy virus lol. Anyway hope they continue to stay up and crunching strong.

Edit: it did take a while but I updated Windows on both machines, it had been too long since I had done that.

 

[Recca29]

New CPU cooler coming in today. will install it in the night.

 

[Boatvan]

Ugh FreeDC doesn't seem to be reporting any numbers since the cloud migration. Same with BOINCstats. Is everyone else seeing what I'm seeing? If so, where the heck do i get my stats other than WCG site numbers divided by 7

 

[bogmali]

Huge congratulations to our Captain @Norton as he is now a Moderator

 

[twilyth]

Congrats @Norton . I hope the upgrade makes your job here easier.

 

[Hugis]

Yeah big grats man @Norton , well deserved

 

[Chicken Patty]

Huge congratulations to our Captain @Norton as he is now a Moderator

Not so fast.... buahahahahaha. congrats man, Norton deserved it. Crucial member of the TPU community!

 

[Recca29]

new cpu cooler Arctic Alpine M1 installer. temps look good.

before

after

 

[Chicken Patty]

new cpu cooler Arctic Alpine M1 installer. temps look good.

before
View attachment 88195

after
View attachment 88194

Literally almost cut them in half

 

[Caring1]

new cpu cooler Arctic Alpine M1 installer. temps look good.

Was the previous cooler stock?

 

[Recca29]

yes. it was the stock cooler.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Huge improvement! That's pretty awesome.

 

[Boatvan]

I am wary of picking and choosing projects because they all matter, but I already have a 5 year diamond badge for MCM and it dominates my workload. Has anyone else tweaked their projects to try to get other badges? Is that selfish ?

 

[Caring1]

I am wary of picking and choosing projects because they all matter, but I already have a 5 year diamond badge for MCM and it dominates my workload. Has anyone else tweaked their projects to try to get other badges? Is that selfish ?

I think that is the norm, to get badges.
I stopped MCM after reaching the 2 year mark, as it was the dominant task, I am however running all other tasks and will resume it at some stage.

 

[twilyth]

I gave up doing that when the 2 or 3 projects I had picked for a particular rig didn't have any work and the machine sat idle. So if you do it, make sure that you're getting the work you're asking for. On some projects, you might not get enough to keep your rig crunching.

 

[jboydgolfer]

I think I have every project selected

 

[Chicken Patty]

I have them all selected, not really picky. I just wanna crunch

 

[manofthem]

Has anyone else tweaked their projects to try to get other badges? Is that selfish ?

Oh yeah, I'm very guilty of that, as many are. As @Caring1 said, a lot (most) of us try to hit certain badges and tune accordingly after hitting them. It seems that most that don't really care are the ones with some crunching power, like @twilyth... i mean look at his avatar, he had a plethora of awesome badges.

Edit: if you haven't taken a gander through the Badges thread, definitely take some time and you'll some quite a bit of talk about focusing on projects while badge hunting.

 

[thebluebumblebee]

There's absolutely nothing wrong with badge hunting. It's not like F@H where people would kill WU's that didn't give them the PPD they wanted. I'm purposely aiming away from cancer projects, because I believe that there are so many working on them and there's a huge amount of money spent on them as well. I feel we're closer to a treatment for Zika, Obola, etc, then we are to cancer. TB should have been wiped out a long time ago.

 

[Caring1]

I just noticed I have a solitary Help Stop TB work unit, it's been ages since I've seen one, I was beginning to think it had stopped.