No credit for HadCM3 short v7.24 work unit

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PRL Send message Joined: 12 Jul 05 Posts: 3 Credit: 999,515 RAC: 1,204	Message 50618 - Posted: 26 Oct 2014, 1:01:07 UTC Last modified: 26 Oct 2014, 1:08:57 UTC I have recently successfully completed a HadCM3 short v7.24 work unit, which has a minimum quorum of 1. However my credit, both clsimed and granted, is zero. Is this temporary, or have I 'lost' the credit for whatever reason? ID: 50618 · Reply Quote

Les Bayliss Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 7629 Credit: 24,240,330 RAC: 0	Message 50619 - Posted: 26 Oct 2014, 1:21:09 UTC - in response to Message 50618. Credits are created differently on this project, by some scripts which count ALL trickle_up files that have been returned. But we've had problems with these scripts running amok since all of our servers became VMs. They now have to be run manually one line at a time, which only happens once or twice a month. There's a thread here which started out talking about it, but has now become a place for whinging. ID: 50619 · Reply Quote

PRL Send message Joined: 12 Jul 05 Posts: 3 Credit: 999,515 RAC: 1,204	Message 50621 - Posted: 26 Oct 2014, 8:07:38 UTC - in response to Message 50619. Thanks for the reply. I'll sit back and wait. ID: 50621 · Reply Quote

Steve Send message Joined: 6 Aug 09 Posts: 6 Credit: 287,099 RAC: 0	Message 50677 - Posted: 29 Oct 2014, 23:34:45 UTC Two weeks now and several short tasks have supposedly finished and uploaded with not credit. I really do not care about the credits but it seems silly to waste my computers time with if nothing useful us happening. There are other shared tasks that I could be contributing to. ID: 50677 · Reply Quote

Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 1 Jan 07 Posts: 943 Credit: 34,187,965 RAC: 6,888	Message 50678 - Posted: 29 Oct 2014, 23:45:41 UTC - in response to Message 50677. Two weeks now and several short tasks have supposedly finished and uploaded with not credit. I really do not care about the credits but it seems silly to waste my computers time with if nothing useful us happening. There are other shared tasks that I could be contributing to. There is a lot which is 'useful' about studying climate science, apart from the generation of BOINC credits. You might receive more credits from other projects, but would you really be contributing? ID: 50678 · Reply Quote

Eirik Redd Send message Joined: 31 Aug 04 Posts: 391 Credit: 219,888,554 RAC: 1,481,373	Message 50679 - Posted: 29 Oct 2014, 23:48:10 UTC - in response to Message 50677. Actually "failing"models can help a lot! cause of the total complexity of climate modeling. SETI was simple, and has failed, and nobody really thought that the "others" would be so stupid to broadcast their whereabouts. The many many protein folding sites -- well -- no good results yet. Climate -- even more difficult -- but way way more likely to help our creepy lousy dumb stupid species to survive. So I keep on giving to the BOINC climate modelers. Because I'm a really really intelligent person, and I think that working, or breaking, climate models might actually help my grand-kids a bit. :) ID: 50679 · Reply Quote

astroWX Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1496 Credit: 95,522,203 RAC: 0	Message 50691 - Posted: 30 Oct 2014, 20:18:55 UTC - in response to Message 50677. Steve, Les explained the credit situation two posts above yours. Credit will be sorted out when Andy gets time to baby-sit a manual credit run. Eirik's and Richard's comments are valuable, too. "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest. ID: 50691 · Reply Quote