Sprints 2024 - timetable and projects selected

[UBT - Timbo]

HI all

Just got home from the fancy dress event !

The original coding didn't work quite as expected (despite some original testing which seemed to be OK).

I will admit it isn't quite perfect as there is a slight difference between the figures displayed on the PG stats page and the FB League tables.

BUT, all the stats started at ZERO, so as long as the stats on the final day and on the last update are all "lined up" then the results will stand.

So, given the special coding that Sebastien worked on to get the ongoing stats for this special Sprint working, Sebastien is to be thanked for making the relevant adjustments quickly tonight.

regards
Tim

[Tamagoch]

Hi Tim,

I just thought, that FB wasn't counting pending tasks before they are validated. And the Primegrid challenge stat does. How it's going now?

I remember a huge drop in my performance especially during WCG sprint because of that.

My first GFN-21 tasks should arrive soon, so I may see the answer by myself. But your explanations are always so clear and detailed

Thanks!

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi Tim,

I just thought, that FB wasn't counting pending tasks before they are validated. And the Primegrid challenge stat does. How it's going now?

I remember a huge drop in my performance especially during WCG sprint because of that.

My first GFN-21 tasks should arrive soon, so I may see the answer by myself. But your explanations are always so clear and detailed

Thanks!

Hi

The initial FB stats page (for Sprint #25) wasn't working quite right and last night, Sebastien has made some adjustments (to his coding) so that the two pages (the 2 PG Challenge webpages and the FB League Tables webpage) should all now align.

AFAIK, the PG stats only show the awarded credits and so the FB pages show the same, but only detailing those teams/members registered on FB:

PG Team stats page:

https://www.primegrid.com/challenge/202 ... teams.html


PG Members stats page:

https://www.primegrid.com/challenge/202 ... users.html

FB League tables:

https://www.formula-boinc.org/sprints.p ... printid=51

Hope this clears things up?

regards
Tim

[Icecold-TAAT]

Kudos to Sebastien for getting the stats working correctly!

Primegrid challenges (thus Formula BOINC in this specific sprint) do award credit prior to the task validating and then Primegrid claws the credit back after the fact (in the "cleanup phase") if a task fails validation. It's pretty rare these days though because Primegrid has a lot of error checking so it's pretty rare that a task will complete and upload successfully and then later fail validation. It's also likely with it being such a long challenge that a lot of tasks will validate during the sprint itself, so even less chance of tasks failing validation after the sprint is over. I don't see it as a big issue and it beats the alternative of everybody having a ton of pending tasks that they don't get credit for in a challenge.

The way Formula BOINC has implemented the stats for this sprint are the best way to do it, so again kudos to Sebastien for getting it working and having it fixed quickly after the start of the sprint.