Posts by mikey

1) Questions and Answers : Bugs : Loda won't run on any of my Linux Boxs !!! (Message 821) Posted 27 Nov 2024 by mikey Post: As Stated Loda won't run on any of my Linux Boxes, the Wu's all give computation error after 30 seconds or so, run fine though on my Windows Boxes. Mine are the same way!!
2) Questions and Answers : Feature requests : Badges (Message 396) Posted 13 Jun 2022 by mikey Post: I guess we will stat with the credit level badges. Personally I'd go with this idea too, as some people collect badges and that would attract them and keep them as they collect more and bigger ones. SOME Projects, one that comes to mind is Rake Search, also give out monthly badges for X number of tasks completed during a given period of time, for Rake Search it's every month they have a new animal you can get on your personal page. I think it depends on what you are doing with the data and whether anything like that makes sense if you choose to consider that as well. That is one way Rake Search keeps people coming back to their Project every single month. As for the amount of tasks or credits, most common, or whatever you choose counts towards each badge the badges should have a linear progression between them ie 100, 250, 500, 1k, 2.5k, 5k, 10k, 25k, 50k, 100k etc. Just be aware that some people who crunch are DEFINITE overachievers and will try to get each and every badge you can come up with so be prepared to add more as needed. One other type of badge that people like is a yearly badge, so every year the badge increments to the next level based on their original signup date, whether they participate or not they can see that their yearly badge is increasing. A simple roman numeral works well for this as does almost anything that has numbers in it.
3) Questions and Answers : Bugs : Are there checkpoints? (Message 395) Posted 13 Jun 2022 by mikey Post: Hi Werinbert, checkpoints are written everytime the progress is updated. Similarly to your observations, we noticed issues with long-running tasks. Therefore we have reduced the taks size to 50% in 220612. We hope that this will reduce such issues. Thanks for reporting it. I just aborted a 2206.10 task that had run for almost 19 hours and was only about 50% complete, hopefully others do much better. I am still running a 2206.10 task and then all the rest are 2206.11 tasks, 39 of them on this machine alone.