Suggested Sprint Projects for 2022

[UBT - Timbo]

Hi all

Here's the list of projects that were listed as possible Sprint projects in 2021

Are there any that should be OMITTED from the 2022 list or are there others that should be included?

This will help Sebastien and other admins with regards to asking project admins if they want to be INCLUDED or EXCLUDED from the Sprints in 2022.

Project:
Amicable Numbers
Asteroids@home
Collatz Conjecture
Cosmology@home
Einstein@home
Gerasim@home
GPUGrid
LHC@home 1.0
Milkyway@home
MLC@home
Moo! Wrapper
NFS@home
NumberFields@home
PrimeGrid
QuChemPedIA@home
RakeSearch
Rosetta@home
SiDock@home
SRBase
TN-Grid
Universe@Home
World Community Grid
Yoyo@home

Excluded Projects:
ODLK
ODLK1
Yafu

regards
Tim

[davidBAM1]

My 2 cents ... Gerasim should be out (Windows only), QuChemPedia should be out (nothing would clear pending in time??).

I would have thought ODLK1 and Yafu could both run a sprint? Worth asking admins maybe

[Stiwi]

GPUGrid shouldn't be a Sprint project since they only have a very few WUs the last few month.

[Ken_g6]

Asteroids@home hasn't been working for nearly a year, has it?

[UBT - Timbo]

My 2 cents ... Gerasim should be out (Windows only), QuChemPedia should be out (nothing would clear pending in time??).

I would have thought ODLK1 and Yafu could both run a sprint? Worth asking admins maybe

HI David

re: Gerasim and QuChem

I have to agree with you on these...for the reasons you stated.

re: ODLK and ODLK1

I'm pretty sure that ODLK and ODLK1 both run on servers that are shall we say a little "underpowered" and could easily be "swamped" by the load directed to them during a Sprint.

And in the past, "yoyo" (admin at Yafu) has asked for the project to be excluded from Sprints.

But it would be a good idea that the relevant admins are contacted again to see if this still holds true. Hence this "topic" to see what issues there might be and to see if the project(s) will withstand a Sprint.

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

Asteroids@home hasn't been working for nearly a year, has it?

Hiya

Asteroids has had some hardware issues this year and since 1st Jan 2021, the FB teams crunching for Asteroids have generated 7,570,395,839 credits.

However, the project has been "down" for a while recently, with this posted on their homepage:

Update - 02-12-2021

Project servers are currently offline for longer period than expected. The main reason is that waiting for a new server took longer than expected. We finally have a new server but it will still take some time to start the project again. The new server will be at a different location than old servers are, all the project data have to be transferred there and BOINC server must be upgraded to the latest version before running up again. The project was running on three servers which two of them crashed. BOINC project data was using those two bad servers, non-BOINC project data was on the third server. New server will be running BOINC project data from both bad servers.

I am sorry I didn't post any news earlier. If needed I will post additional information here. I suppose that the project will be ready to continue by the end of month. This website is now running temporary on a Raspberry Pi and will switch to a new server when ready.

In years past, the project has supported Sprints without any issues, so (IMHO) I think it should stay on the list of "maybes", but it shouldn't be selected until it is back to normal and is fully operational.

regards
Tim

[UBT - Timbo]

GPUGrid shouldn't be a Sprint project since they only have a very few WUs the last few month.

Hiya

GPUGrid have not had many tasks to crunch recently...but it might change so I think this should go on the "maybe" list and the project should be monitored to see if they ramp up the available tasks.

If they don't then it should not be selected for a Sprint.

regards
Tim

[Icecold-TAAT]

TN-Grid should be off the list. They don't generate WU's fast enough to supply crunchers with tasks. The only way to win at TN-Grid is constantly hammer the server for more tasks and hope you hammered the server more than the next person.

[Ken_g6]

In years past, the project has supported Sprints without any issues, so (IMHO) I think it should stay on the list of "maybes", but it shouldn't be selected until it is back to normal and is fully operational.

regards
Tim

If you're going to have a list of "maybes", it would be nice to see it separated from the list of actively working projects, so we don't get confused.

[UBT - Timbo]

If you're going to have a list of "maybes", it would be nice to see it separated from the list of actively working projects, so we don't get confused.

Hiya

To be honest EVERY project is a "maybe" until they have been contacted to confirm that they want to be included in the Sprints...as some may not wish to be included in 2022, due to the likelihood of there being a very high volume of task requests in a short period of time.

And of course even in projects make it to a final list, there could be times when the projects are offline, so the Sprint Committee will hopefully only chose projects who have available work.

I assume most of the projects would want to be included on the Marathon, as this is a year-long Challenge, and hence task requests are more evenly spread out.

regards
Tim