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And it's too bad Ramanujan still has some work, because windows only projects are a PINA

(probably - one of - the last one ?)

Gerasim did its best but I think we killed it (just) before the end of the sprint : website not reachable, impossible to upload results, FB sprint stat page stuck at 13:45 UTC...

Mmm apparently it will be for a long time, says the admin.

My 4 hosts went out of work between yesterday afternoon and midnight, this morning I realized the one I'm renting from vast.ai (best cost effective / cheap for short time rent option for me by the way) that had been having the best stock was actually dry since midnight and doing nothing (for the sam...

Mmm I just wrote the above and then 3 out of 4 hosts don't get any more work

Am I the ridiculous one ?

And well, I don't have that many crunch power compared to the high-end competitors around here, I know, so probably the annoyance is not the same...

The time without task was not long (I have plenty of tasks on all 4 hosts now), the error rate is low and the wasted calculation time is limited (most failing tasks take 1 sec to fail), I don't see the point of wanting to "ban asteroid for sprint", frankly ridiculous.

Amen

I clearly understand the general frustration and why some of you were not lucky against other, but you must also all seriously put the "boinc activity" into perspective, I fully agree with Tamagoch latest message : boinc IS A HOBBY, mainly maintained by unpaid volunteers, this is 100% true...

Thanks for all Tim !!

If some people are capable of doing that for a virtual points race with nothing at stake in real life (I hope so !) then how far would they go in real life ? Or would it be the other way around ? Will we ever know ?

Thanks Tim for all the energy you've had to expend too, and of course thanks to Seb.