Riverside Community College
22 May 2007 16:01:58 UTC
Topic 192772
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The RiversideCityCampus "user" (userid=168056) has over 5000 computers. Most of these computers have gotten WUs, never to return them. The WUs have to expire before they can be worked on by a machine that will actually do something.
Riverside Community College
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We know.
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Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
It looks like this has been
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It looks like this has been on-going for over a year. Why doesn't someone fix the problem?
Someone somewhere needs their
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Someone somewhere needs their arse kicking.........
5000 computers ........
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
RE: It looks like this has
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Its beyond a joke if you ask me, just short of 21,000 clients in total (~5,000 is only the number of which are marked as active in last 30 days) with 0 or barely a handful of returns.
This account should of been nuked (or atleast have the number of new clients restricted) way back. Whoever set this up while probably very well meaning is clearly incompetent.
While I don't know exactly what sort of resource 21,000 dodgy hosts is to the e@h project, its clearly out of all proportion to the useful work returned and is hampering the project as a whole (many ppl waiting for results which will never appear until reissued and validated).
I'm sure it all has been, and
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I'm sure it all has been, and is, all above board, but clearly something needs to be done here. Can this be flagged up to the project admins please.
Waiting for Godot & salvation :-)
Why do doctors have to practice?
You'd think they'd have got it right by now
BOINC is created with fail
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BOINC is created with fail safe techniques. The work gets done. So what, some are slowed down a couple of weeks. People in NC want the times extended, and hosts like this would hold them longer.
There has to be some give and take in situations like this. Some of the work is getting done by their computers, so it's not a total waste.
You'll see my name in both
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You'll see my name in both the previous references that Michael cited.
I had quite a friendly e-mail chat with him the first time round, and we got that issue resolved quite quickly. By the time of the second reference, they seemed to have withdrawn into their shell (profile deleted etc.) and I never got a response.
Without breaking any confidence, I think I can say that I found out that Bruce Allen had been quite closely involved in the initial stages of setting up the project - this was before Bruce moved to Germany, obviously. I would suggest that Bruce might still be the best person to approach with the new concerns.
RE: Its beyond a joke if
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One thing I do know is that *panic* will arise one day that the 21,000 clients (real or phantom) will eventually be detached from the project and then drop out from the statistics. It will look like a mass exodus from the project, while the "floating point power" will stay the same and everybody will ask: how can that possibly be correct ;-)
CU
BRM