Crunching is a creative and challenging way of learning about the behavior of our computers and improving them while helping the GPUGRID team to understand a bit more the mystery of the world we live in and the diseases that affect not only us, but also the people we love. The GPUGRID team couldn’t be more satisfied and proud of forming part of this noble project, and so we’d like to deeply thank each of the 1000 users that connect to us every day, making us part of their lives and making them part of ours, as a team.

Behind each computer, behind each GPU and each WU or forum post, there’s the real protagonist of our story as a community: YOU, the cruncher.

At GPUGRID, we are considering the possibility of starting a new campaign to thank the users that contribute with our project by sending them little tokens of gratitude, such as proteins/aminoacid molecules printed by our 3D printer or merchandising such as t-shirts or stickers. We still have to establish the contest rules, but most likely each of the user would have a probability of winning based on their contribution. Once in a while we would like to run a story about the winner, explaining why you crunch, what's the setup of your computer, a small description of yourselves or a picture of you and your token.

We believe that it would be a fun and productive experience but before anything we’d like to know your opinion, your suggestions and whether we have your support for this initiative. Let us know!

The BOINC administrator just raised the upload limit to 512 Mb, please let us know if you can upload the WU now.

It should be fine for newly created WUs, but I'm not sure whether the change will propagate to automatically-generated replacements for tasks which fail - we'll need to keep an eye on those.

It certainly won't be passed to tasks which are already 'out in the field' - on volunteers' computers. They will have to be modified manually, or allowed to fail.

Good points, both of you! (Richard Haselgrove & Dayle)

My GTX780Ti has 55 minutes left, so we have to act fast.
The 4x14-GERARD_VERYLONG_CXCL12_confAna-0-1-RND7430_0_9 file on that host has grown to 177639400 bytes, which is larger than the specified size in the client_state.xml file, but if you look for the previous file section, it's upload size is doubled. So I think that the wrong file size is doubled by accident.

However, it could be easily fixed by manually editing these numbers with a text editor (it is advised to exit BOINC manager & the scientific applications before doing so).

Please don't cancel any more WUs to get them! I checked and they are already all taken at this point so only if they fail on some machines will they get added to the queue again. They are only a single step so they are not coming back.
I agree with Retvari that it's not a good idea to put them on the long queue. We will discuss about queues and how to organize them better.

Gerard never asked anyone to ABORT WU's to get their hands on one of these long WU's.
While you may agree with Retvari he was the first to post that he had ABORTED other WU's for no other reason than to get one of these on a particular card. His warning was a "Self Fulfilling Prophecy" and others followed.
Maybe Retvari decided that these units gave more credits and a place on the "Performance" tab and were more important than other scientists WU's. In addition, he might of thought he deserved more of them than anyone else.

Q. Will the WUs queue still be fed over Xmas break ie. anybody monitoring?

If not - we may as well shutdown our clients down until the new year to save energy.