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Old 06-December-2005, 12:23 PM
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Hi CID,

The results for computer, here, shows your recent results, so you have been doing seti BOINC WUs successfully, indeed you've got over 1500 credits (cobblestones) under BOINC now.

Your last WU reported was on December 1, and since about that time seti has been having major problems with its upload and download servers. I have two seti WUs that have been trying for several days to transfer. That may be what has happened to the 4 WUs shown as "In Progress" -- they've all finished crunching, but BOINC can't upload them, or DL new work for you. In all probability, this is because of the very thing you mentioned: the shutdown of seti classic. (See my heartfelt appreciation of this project a few posts back. )

If you double click the "8" tray icon (perhaps it's a "B" ) you will open the BOINC manager, which shows what's going on. If you have any seti WUs running, they should show up in the "Work" tab there. The "Transfers" tab may show some WUs that are in the process of being transferred, as I say seti servers are overloaded ATM, but BOINC will automatically retry the transfers at random intervals.

If something else seems amiss other than no work being UL/DLed, you can look at the "Messages" tab and post here anything suspicious.

Anyhow, since you are running BOINC successfully, all you have to do is shut down seti classic & remove it from your start up group (or maybe just uninstall it.)

What most BOINC people do when projects like seti are down is just attach to another project and set it to run at a low priority, so that it only does real work when seti is down. predictor@home is good for this, as is LHC@home, because their WUs are fairly short.

If you want to try this, you can click Projects|Attach to Project from the BOINC manager main menu. A wizard will open (if you have BOINC version 5.x) and you just enter the project's url. The wizard has a link to a list of BOINC projects, and the BAUT team's projects are also listed on the BAUT team page linked in my sig (except CPDN, predictor, and µFluids.) If you do attach to another project, you can then join the BAUT team for it, which you can do near the bottom of the team page.

The whole BOINC thing is a bit intimidating at first, so please post back if you need anything else, excluding as always free beer.

But to summarize, it appears you are BOINCing just fine, and are just being caught out by a hopefully temporary bunch of overloaded seti servers.
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