Hi all,
I'm here to inform you tat the next week will begin this year Sprint season on Formula Boinc. Here the calendar http://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?lang=it&year=2021
The chosen project will only be known 24 hours before the start of the sprint.

SiDock is eligible for a Sprint in theese dates and there will be a large demand for work if the project is chosen

Thank you for info! I think that we can produce about 3 or4 tasks time more than now.

SiDock was chosen foor the first Sprint

Yes it's SiDock. Prepare for a similar if not bigger load on the server than during the Bam Challenge.
Starts 19/03/2021 at 11:00 UTC
Good luck everyone.

SiDock was chosen foor the first Sprint

They won't let my team play in the FB sandbox but we'll be here anyway.

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Thank you for info! I think that we can produce about 3 or4 tasks time more than now.

Are you considering to distribute the fifth target already? Togheter with the fourth?

None of my machines are pulling any work. All get this message:

198379 SiDock@home 3/18/2021 3:55:03 PM Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.
198380 SiDock@home 3/18/2021 3:55:03 PM Requesting new tasks for CPU
198381 SiDock@home 3/18/2021 3:55:06 PM Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
198382 SiDock@home 3/18/2021 3:55:06 PM No tasks sent
198383 SiDock@home 3/18/2021 3:55:06 PM Project requested delay of 7 seconds

This is on a machine that has over 267k in previous credit on SiDock

Any ideas?

Same here, the number of unsent tasks on the server is slowly creeping up though so work is being created, just not sent out.

Hi folks! For my computer - problem solved. Try requesting tasks.

Yes, working now, thanks.

have you changed the parameters of the wu? They are much longer than yesterday

have you changed the parameters of the wu? They are much longer than yesterday

I doubt they changed anything. It's just a matter of which ligand they're docking against RdRp. How long is the ligand, how flexible, how many polar functional groups are exposed, etc.
50 to 60 minutes per WU was pretty common but lately I'm seeing many that are closer to 2 hours.

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Taken at 19:04 UTC on March 20th:
1 XtremeSystems 3,055,888
2 Planet 3DNow! 3,006,565
3 The Scottish Boinc Team 1,990,528
4 TeAm AnandTech 1,943,220
Banned In Science We Trust 1,816,694
5 SETI.Germany 599,428
6 Rechenkraft.net 514,848
7 L'Alliance Francophone 505,708
8 UK BOINC Team 378,074
9 [H]ard|OCP 358,045
10 SETI.USA 208,515
https://formula-boinc.org/sprint.py?sprint=1&lang=&year=2021

With a 24-hour deadline on SiDock WUs this is the best project to spot bunkering. I don't bunker and never have. I have a few computers down for maintenance but will be running a steady 1,677,769 credits per day here.
Bunkerers start out with a big flash in the pan then trail off as the race progresses. The next two days will tell the tale.

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Aurum wrote:

With a 24-hour deadline on SiDock WUs this is the best project to spot bunkering.

No, it is harder to spot bunkering, because bunkers can only hold one day worth of results, i.e. can only be small in comparison to baseline output.

Aurum wrote:

Bunkerers start out with a big flash in the pan then trail off as the race progresses.

There are more use cases of bunkering. Tactically much more relevant is bunkering towards the end of a contest, in contrast to bunker towards the start.

SPRINT IS OVER !!!

Thumbs up to the SiDock@home team for continuous availability of workunits, scheduler, validator, server file space... This sprint on short(?) notice went really well, IMO.