Hello,

Quite a while ago, the BABB formed a team for the BOINC projects, we have now changed our name to BAUT to match the forum. We currently have teams in Einstein@Home, LHC@home, SETI@home, ClimatePrediction.net, Predictor@home, and orbit@home; but other teams may be created in the future.

There is an older thread with large amounts of information about BOINC, BOINCview, and the projects here, but this thread has been made to replace that thread since the name of the team has been changed so please post in this thread.

Information on how to join the projects are at the team webpage which also has a section for our team's stats.

Other places to find information are located at Mickal555's forum which has a section dedicated to the BOINC team and at my own forum.

The team has done very well thus far, at the time of this writing we are ranked in the top 200 of almost 30,000 overall teams, with the Einstein@Home team being 31 of over 3000 teams.

Congratulations to the team thus far, let us continue contributing to science in the easiest way that I know of.

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Thanks for starting the ClimatePrediction team - I felt almost like I was 'wasting' my credit by not being in a team there. The Einstein process continues to run as well, though.

No problem, I probably should have looked into starting teams in these projects sooner, but I just recently went through BOINCstats to see who all was running projects we didn't have teams in, and found more than I had expected.

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Ken

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Stickied.

Thank you, sir.

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The BAUT team sure stickies together.

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@Wolverine: I apologize for my lame humor above. Of course I'm very grateful to you for making this thread a sticky!
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Because we do have this shiny new thread, and there are perhaps a few more members reading it than recently, I wanted to say again: thanks to all!

And of course greetz to any non-members: any and all are welcome to ask questions or say hello here.

• Perhaps some of you found Einstein@Home at home too demanding, especially on slower computers. With the exception of climateprediction.net (CPDN), all our other projects have much shorter deadlines and lower disk requirements. You might want to give one of these a try.
  
• In the threads mentioned in azazul's OP, specifically here and here, we have been discussing how to expand the Members' Section of our team webpages to include more than just the excellent statistics tables. There is already a handy table of links. We would be overjoyed if others would contribute their ideas either here or in those threads.
  
• Version 5.2.2 is now the official recommended BOINC version, perhaps some new members have started with this version? Some caveats:
  • If you are running CPDN, 5.2.2 seems to work OK for me, but if you ever want to revert back to 4.x, the opinion is that it may reset your projects, and thus lose any running models, even if you restore a backup of the BOINC folder. (You would also lose WUs in other projects if BOINC resets, but it is much worse for CPDN because of their models' length.)
    
  • If running LHC@home, existing WUs will run fine, but you will not be able to download more WUs until that project upgrades its servers to 5.x requirements.
    
  • E@H, seti, and predictor have had no problems with 5.2.2, AFAIK. But, with the exception of scheduler improvements and code for a new Attachment Wizard, which won't be implemented for some time, there is little changed in 5.x, IMO.
    
  
  So existing users may prefer to stay with version 4.x, and if you are just joining, my choice would be to download the 4.45 "Older version." until we all have more experience with 5.2.2.

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Continued happy crunching to everyone on the new BAUT teams.

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Ken

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Sounds like it shouldn't be much longer before they have a windows client.

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Edit: The LHC corruption "View Computers" problem has been solved, no need to read further.

Also, BOINC 5.2.2 is working fine now on both my machines; but it truly is not a major upgrade to functionality.

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After (at last) upgrading its servers to support BOINC 5.x, LHC@home has been having trouble with one of them corrupting the info you see under View Computers. (The link at left is a php script that will take you direct to your page if you are cookied, or a log-in page if not.) If affected, your computer's CPU and OS will be replaced with funny numbers & several items in the details page will be wrong. This happens under all versions, 4.x as well as 5.

The corruption only happens after a result has been uploaded/reported, and doesn't seem to cause any problem with the result being accepted or credit actually being granted.

You can clear the problem simply by

• Manually Updating LHC in BOINC Manager
• Refreshing your browser

But the corruption may recur the next time you upload a WU.

There is a long thread on the LHC@home message board with reports of this corruption, the conclusion of which from the project developer is
As I say, this doesn't seem to affect core functions, but it is probably best to wait to upgrade to BOINC v5 until it is sorted.

BTW, Version 5 is working fine on my CPDN only machine so far; some projects have more informative messages; though if you are controlling remotely with BoincView you have supply BV the first time with a new password that BOINC 5 thoughtfully generates for you.

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I hope that's the case. Looking forward to getting started there.

For those who have slow computers, it seems that one of the projects that we recently formed a team in is very friendly to slow computers. Predictor@home has very small wu's that only take about 6 hours to crunch on my really slow 300MHz Pentium II laptop. Before, I had recommended SETI@home and LHC@home for slower computers, but Predictor seems to be better than either of those. Predictor does only have a deadline of about a week, so if you will likely not have your computer on for several hours in a week, then SETI may be a better option since it has a two week deadline.

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As I've mentioned, I've upgraded both my machines to 5.2.x; the latest recommended version being 5.2.5, a small bugfix to 5.2.2.

Aside from a short time when CPDN's servers balked at end-of-phase uploads from 5.2.x boxes there have been no problems with the new version at all. (My CPDN model resumed after the server was fixed, without loss of work.)

All our BAUT projects support this version, and all have had WUs successfully upload and download since I installed it. (Well, my CPDN final uploads are many days away, but the phase upload is largely the same process; as I say, it's now working fine.)

Here is an excellent post by Gary Roberts from the E@H forum describing why and how to upgrade.

As to why:
His post includes detailed installation instructions in case it has been a long time since you last installed BOINC; but there is no need to uninstall first as he suggests.

Of course, this is entirely up to you, and since our team was formed we've not yet seen a change in the minimum acceptable version, and 4.x ain't broke, so...

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Thanks for the update, Ken. I'm still running 4.45 and will ponder updating.

Perhaps this BAUT team page could be updated, to reflect the fact that the BAUT forum is alive and thriving?

Ditto, the participation in CPDN

Yeah Nereid, azazul is working on that. I think he wants to do the de-BABB-ifying all at once, and adding the stats for CPDN and predictor will take a little doing.

Plus, I understand he's moving to a new database for the stats.

It is an all-purpose answer, I admit:

"Why didn't you do this yet?!?"
"I'm moving it all to another database."
"Oh. I understand now."

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Hey Nereid. I didn't know that anyone was even paying attention, I will get it updated soon to reflect the new teams and everything will be changed to BAUT.

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Speaking of not paying attention... [oops]

Congratulations (much belated) are due to Udo for moving into first place in the Einstein@Home standings, and second place over all.

And welcome indeed to Nereid, who joins in 5th place overall, with over 100K previous credit, and takes over first place, in the Moderator Standings. Sorry Wolverine.

Indeed, profuse apologies to all new members whom azazul and I have not been able to greet here, I hope you will understand that with so many teams it is hard to keep up with you good people in your rate of joining? azazul has access to email lists, of course, but founders do not get a cross-project roster of members, so keeping up is not really possible even for team leaders.

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Usually, when people join a team having had previous credit in a project, individual tables, like here, reflect all your credit, while BAUT team totals only include credit gained after you become a member.

But for some reason, that does not seem to apply to CPDN: all the credit of our 6 members have been included in the team totals. You can see this in the BOINCstats graph of credit per day, where our team totals shot up when the CPDN team was created, and again on Nov 1 when Nereid's credit was added in. So CPDN's position in the BAUT standings is artificially high, but, really, who's complaining?

And mid's worries about not contributing to the team while doing CPDN earlier tu