Recent events have motivated the creation of this thread. I hope it will become a topic for constructive advice. It is motivated by the desire to run CPDN most effectively, and not necessarily most competitively.

Currently, my concern is that without "point accumulation" and "trickle-up" metrics, I might be wasting my time, electricity consumption, and overall usefulness to this project. I suspect that many other clients have suspended acceptance of new tasks for the same reason: they have no way of measuring how many tasks (WU) they can handle responsibly.

Some announcements concerning which parts of the CPDN project are functional would be helpful.

For example, despite the lack of external reporting, are incremental "trickle-up" messages of any value, and are completed tasks correctly reported at this time?

Do repeated trickle-up messages impair the recovery process?

Would an option to disable trickle-up messages facilitate the recovery process?

Would an option to disable trickle-up messages facilitate the recovery process?

The trickle up messages along with the zip file upload messages are your evidence that things are working. The trickle ups are what the credit is based on and as discussed in another thread, they are archived and all credit will appear when things are fixed and they are used to re-calculate your credit.

The main problem is that admins have been unable to restart the process to calculate the credit based on the trickles since the big server crash. However, once it runs, everyone will get all outstanding credit. It sounds like there is progress.

http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=5447&nowrap=true#46955

http://climateapps2.oerc.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/forum_thread.php?id=7649

For example, despite the lack of external reporting, are incremental "trickle-up" messages of any value, and are completed tasks correctly reported at this time?

Yes

Do repeated trickle-up messages impair the recovery process?

No

Would an option to disable trickle-up messages facilitate the recovery process?

No


-- Edit: Dave is quicker than me :-)

---

I'm a volunteer and my views are my own.
News and Announcements and FAQ

Thanks for the feedback.

I was confident that the crunching is still effective but not sure whether the repeated network traffic might hamper the recovery process.

I note that my BOINCManager showed a ginormous leap in credit today, although it is not reflected in the public accumulators. I hope this is a good sign of progress in getting this all sorted.

Thanks for the feedback.

I was confident that the crunching is still effective but not sure whether the repeated network traffic might hamper the recovery process.

I note that my BOINCManager showed a ginormous leap in credit today, although it is not reflected in the public accumulators. I hope this is a good sign of progress in getting this all sorted.

The updated credit figures are now accessible to the public statistics sites - BOINCstats, at least, has seen them and imported them. Each public site will have its own collection and processing timetable, but I expect all of them will have updated by tonight.