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CaffeinatedSloth
Advanced Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Nov 12, 2014 Post Count: 80 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Is there still OpenPandemics beta work being released or is that it for now?
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 11820 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The whole point of Beta testing is to discover the problems before going into mass production. As such they have sent out a small batch, made a number of changes to the programming and have issued a larger batch for testing. They will then analyse the results.
If everything is OK then that would be that for testing. Otherwise there will be more tweaking of the program and another batch of Beta testing, etc, until they are satisfied with the results. I did not initially get any of the second batch, but picked up 16 re-sends. This is a forum for arp and not opn or beta. Mike |
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Robokapp
Senior Cruncher Joined: Feb 6, 2012 Post Count: 235 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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one machine has 10 and the bigger machine has none.
i wish 5 and 5 but i'm not picky. i crunch other stuff when i cant get work for this project. |
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KerSamson
Master Cruncher Switzerland Joined: Jan 29, 2007 Post Count: 1664 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It seems that it remains difficult to fetch regularly work for this project.
----------------------------------------Additionally, I have the feeling that the scheduler takes the network bandwidth into account, since I receive less ARP1 WUs at home (with a poor ADSL connexion, in particular upstream) than at the office (with optical fibre connexion). Yves |
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rbotterb
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Post Count: 401 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I've been getting these ARP1 at home for awhile now (Thanks Covid-19 lockdown). Now since I'm running on my laptop only, given the size of these ARP1 WUs, I find at most my laptop runs fine if I'm only running 1 or maybe at most 2 at one time. Since on my laptop, these WUs are generally running 24+ hrs overall and probably around 3-4 hours wall time between checkpoints, it generally takes 4-5 days for me to get one of these big puppies completely crunched. So for now I'm maybe getting 2-4 done per week right now. Yes, sometimes I don't see a new ARP1 WU for a couple days at a time, but I still have plenty of other projects to fill in the gaps. Working towards my Silver badge for ARP1 now, but I figure it may be later in June or early July before I get there. My biggest concern with these big WUs is the limited number of checkpoints. I suspect when I go back to work (when who knows), I may soon find I can't run one of these ARP1 WUs in a way to get them done by the 7 day limit. If that is the case, I may find I have to drop this project until sometime in the future when they add additional checkpoints at allow me to get work done in smaller increments.
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ca05065
Senior Cruncher Joined: Dec 4, 2007 Post Count: 325 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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If you 'sleep' the laptop instead of 'shutting down', the work units should continue execution from where they were after startup. In sleep mode power is still drawn from the battery to maintain the current state of the memory.
If the 'hibernate' option is available the memory contents are written to disk and reloaded on startup. |
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Jack007
Master Cruncher CANADA Joined: Feb 25, 2005 Post Count: 1604 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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So,
----------------------------------------Has it been easier getting work units now that covid is out? I know I set my machines to only get 6 apiece and it seems like it's been keeping up with that just fine. It's not so fun though I love cruising through one project at a time.  |
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Robokapp
Senior Cruncher Joined: Feb 6, 2012 Post Count: 235 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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COVID goes on the android and mixes in with ARP well. I'm glad to have these two projects to work on. they synch well.
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 11820 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Availability seems to have improved since OPN came along. Fewer units are being crunched. Project now at about 6.6% completed.
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Jack007
Master Cruncher CANADA Joined: Feb 25, 2005 Post Count: 1604 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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android eh, well i gotta get the old phone working.
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