Sprints 2025 - timetable and projects selected

[UBT - Timbo]

Why is Asteroids@home choosen as Sprint Project?

Hi

The project was chosen (from a range of projects that have plenty of tasks) as the Asteroids admins are doing a good job right now as I have been in direct contact with them about this Sprint. They have even generated more tasks to ensure that FB members can download as many as they might need, over the weekend.

So, give them a break and let's see how it goes.

The admins of Asteroids have demonstrate that they are not able to administrate a Boinc Server handling Sprints in every sprint this Year.

Choosing such a projekt kills the equal opportunity in a Sprint.

Besides, we should not support Admins which kick the supporters of Boinc Projects in the backside region.

Greetings

csbyseti

I would suggest you target the admins of the project with your other comments and opinions.

For me, I see a lot of other projects that have bigger issues than Asteroids. And we all know that many BOINC projects have limited resources, limited funding and they rely on volunteers to help run the projects as well.

Just look here at the number of "Results ready to send" (aka available Work Units) and see which projects are fully active:

https://www.boincstats.com/page/projectStatusInfo

Many stalwarts from years gone by, are now inactive, such as Collatz, Einstein, Rosetta, TN-Grid and even MilkyWay and Moo! Wrapper have very few tasks.

regards
Tim

[UBT - wbiz]

Choosing such a projekt kills the equal opportunity in a Sprint.

I don't see how Asteroids kills equal opportunity, getting work out of Asteroids is very difficult but that is equal for everybody.

I'm running Windows and Linux operating systems, AMD, Intel and ARM processors and they all had their struggles getting work, it doesn't appear biased against any particular type.

To give Asteroids some real credit, I saw their database access crash at about 02:15 on Saturday morning but it recovered almost immediately unlike many other projects that take hours to recover.

The balance between GPU and CPU credits are a lot more balanced than most other projects which I can see might upset those that have invested in powerful GPU cards but that can be seen as fair or unfair.

tldr; it is painful but fair.

[Tamagoch]

Ha all,

the problem should be addressed at Asteroids forum. Despite having millions tasks ready, their feeder seems to be unable to maintain a quick distribution of large batches of tasks. It's happening every day, not only during sprints. Visually I see it in 'Task in progress' number which didn't even change during the sprint. There is some bottleneck for sure.

LG

[UBT - Timbo]

Ha all,

the problem should be addressed at Asteroids forum. Despite having millions tasks ready, their feeder seems to be unable to maintain a quick distribution of large batches of tasks. It's happening every day, not only during sprints. Visually I see it in 'Task in progress' number which didn't even change during the sprint. There is some bottleneck for sure.

LG

Hi

Can I suggest you contact the Asteroids co-admin, "Kyong", via his profile here:

https://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/show_ ... p?userid=1

Or, I can send you a PM with his actual email address as he is one of the admins I am in contact with, regarding Sprints.

Just let him know your "user experiences" regarding the issues you have mentioned, as I am sure he would be glad to hear some feedback and maybe either fix these issues, or give you a explanation as to what processes is happening in the background.

I would guess that part of the problem might be the hardware they are using and how much "CPU power" it has to manage hundreds of simultaneous requests for tasks - a 2019-era 12-core (24 threads) Xeon running at a base speed of 2.2GHz is not exactly a fast processor?:

Supermicro X11SW-TF (1 x Intel Xeon Silver 4214 2.20 GHz, 256 (4 x 64) GB RAM, 8 x 2TB HDD SAS 10K rpm (RAID6) OS Debian Jessie)

regards
Tim