I wonder who those last five tasks belong to. I wonder if we'll see the number of tasks go down to zero before tasks start flowing again.

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that hasn't always been the requirement, but it could be possible if the admins wish to completely close out one data set before starting another.

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As Richard posted, it shouldn't be necessary to remove all tasks before deploying a new application.

I expect the new application to have very little code change. Just need to recognize the new CC capability codes of the Ampere cards.

But, if they are doing a complete rewrite of the code to handle very different task parameters, then they actually may need to completely finish all previous tasks because the new parameter sets might be completely incompatible.

Hoping new tasks come soon. I bought a new graphics card not too long ago, to speed up video rendering. But also in mind to crank out GPUGrid work when I wasn't otherwise using it. Currently it's working on Einstein stuff, but I'd rather be working on curing diseases, and helping people.

I've been running Folding@Home while waiting for new tasks. Plenty of good projects focusing on disease on there.

I don't think you can run both Folding's client and the BOINC client on the same hardware at the same time, or can you?

I don't think you can run both Folding's client and the BOINC client on the same hardware at the same time, or can you?

Actually, you can run both at the same time, but it slows down both projects. I have done it myself.

You can throttle Folding to either Light, Medium or Full Power mode, as well.

Actually, you can run both at the same time, but it slows down both projects. I have done it myself.

Me too.
Right now I'm running all my GPUs for F@H, but I leave my slowest one ready to download any GPUGRID tasks available. It will let me know when to switch my faster cards back to this project after finishing up there, because new WUs are available.

Everyone who wants to do medical research on their new RTX 30xx cards will find they kick butt doing CUDA Fahcore tasks. You can use dissimilar GPUs in the same host without any restart errors, too.

The downsides are less statistical information, a rather clunky GUI, and points do not apply to BOINC credit anymore.

There are currently over 2.7M "donors" crunching.

I wonder if we'll see the number of tasks go down to zero before tasks start flowing again.

Previously, the batches have been slightly overlapped (if I recall correctly), so after a year of being in the crunching stages, I suspect this project may be finished for our purposes and moving towards publishing.

(We'll see if the limb I just occupied breaks under the weight of my speculation.)

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Down to 2 tasks now, probably waiting to expire on unattended hosts.

1 outstanding task left.

... and points do not apply to BOINC credit anymore.

was this the case ever before?

... and points do not apply to BOINC credit anymore.

was this the case ever before?

Never.

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Reno, NV
Team: SETI.USA

... and points do not apply to BOINC credit anymore.

was this the case ever before?

If you check the BOINC combined statistics page https://boinc.netsoft-online.com/e107_plugins/boinc/bp.php?project=11 , you'll find the original folding@home stats from when it was a BOINC project. I'm not sure about the timing because it was retired before I resumed crunching in 2019 after quitting SETI in its early stage.

I will guess that when Greg Bowman left Stanford and teamed up with Joe Coffland at Washington U. St. Louis they decided to develop a new platform of their own. Greg is a Stanford grad, so the competition between Stanford and Berkley might also be a factor.

If you ask Dr Bowman I'm sure he will explain as he has twice answered my questions when I have emailed him. There is a link to his email on the site.

I personally don't care about the credit aspect of crunching, but it would be more convenient for all of us here if the project was still on Berkley's platform.

The project is partnered with the Covid Moonshot project to develop an anti-viral solution to the pandemic. This makes the credit seem insignificant to me.

Another plus that I forgot to mention is that FAHcore uses OpenCL also, so AMD GPUs are welcome, even when mixed with NVidia cards in a host. I recently noticed that F@h recognizes my Intel GPUs also, but as yet there are no WUs running on them.

And still, one task just sitting out there in progress. Too bad they can't pull it and send it to someone else.

If it’s not returned within 5 days, it will automatically be sent to someone else

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Now, we finally reached 0. Looking forward to the creation of new WUs. My GPUs are waiting.

Hopefully!

🤞️🤞️

That one single task completion was enough to bring the project out of retirement listing on statseb, lol. It was set to retired status a couple of days ago while that last task was in progress. This pleases the side of me that is completionist.

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Now would be a good time to give the database a thorough old spring cleaning. I've still got 12 tasks listed (mostly errors), dating back to 2013!