Im confused, since when i need to buy a License for Rosetta to let it run?

It just means if someone want to use Rosetta for commercial purpose (i.e. a pharma using Rosetta to research protein folding for their new drug). BOINC runners don't need to care about this message since we're not getting research result (Baker Labs do) and it's not for commercial purpose either.

I have found the majority of the Biology/Medicine projects except for Rosetta at Home and World Community Grid are simply not active.

There's SiDock y'all know...

Sid

We joined about the same time but I have not been as focused on Rosetta as you have been ,,,, I have spread myself across a lot of projects .... But I favor Science based projects.

Like you in for the long run,

Bill F

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In October 1969 I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
There was no expiration date.

Sid
We joined about the same time but I have not been as focused on Rosetta as you have been ,,,, I have spread myself across a lot of projects .... But I favor Science based projects.

Like you in for the long run,

Bill F

2 weeks apart, 17yrs ago. That must have been a very dull period of time for us both to arrive here.
And I've only just noticed you have more credit from retired projects alone than I do from all mine.
It's only recently I've found a 3rd live project worth running, even as a backup.
I don't like to spread myself too thinly - Rosetta remains my #1 throughout.

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Even with the documented issues on the Project Servers I have had enough tasks on three active systems to move up 547 positions on BOINCStats in the last 30 days.
So some things are still working ok.

Yes, all the downtime has been getting caught up 2 days later with credits - no-one has been losing any.
And the most recent batch of work doesn't have the 25% failure rate the previous one had, so there's still work to be going on with now from a 2.2m batch whereas the previous 2.5m batch had run out by this time of the week.
And, more generally, the reduced amount of work here has meant fewer hosts, so it's easier to climb the tables at the stats sites if you persist here.
Even I've been able to gain a couple of places in the last month

That zero failure rate from the last batch has made all the difference.
We were down to ~150k tasks left when I looked earlier today and I've just taken a look at how close to zero we are.
We aren't.
The next batch has already arrived.
2.3m tasks showing on the front page - no downtime this week.
Good news, whether by accident or design.

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2 weeks apart, 17yrs ago. That must have been a very dull period of time for us both to arrive here.

We are getting old, my friend..

I don't like to spread myself too thinly - Rosetta remains my #1 throughout.

+1

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I went away during the dry spell. But one of the projects has gone down for a undetermined amount of time.
So here I am again. I see I missed out on the start of the new stuff since its down to 4,800+ left.

Whats been going on here in the last 6 months or so? Is it still sporadic or did they find some stuff to keep us busy full time for a half year or so?

I went away during the dry spell. But one of the projects has gone down for an undetermined amount of time.
So here I am again. I see I missed out on the start of the new stuff since its down to 4,800+ left.

What's been going on here in the last 6 months or so? Is it still sporadic or did they find some stuff to keep us busy full time for a half year or so?

They haven't made it easy by any means, but we seem to have more uptime than downtime in the last few months.
How long it will last, who can say, but if you lower your expectations a reasonable amount of work gets delivered here.

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So here I am again...Whats been going on here in the last 6 months or so?

If you decide to rejoin us, be aware of an ongoing problem with downloading work and the workaround (there's a long saga about this).

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The front page shows about 2,000,000 jobs queued currently.
Server status shows about 5,000 released at a time.

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Paul.

I went away during the dry spell. But one of the projects has gone down for an undetermined amount of time.
So here I am again. I see I missed out on the start of the new stuff since its down to 4,800+ left.

What's been going on here in the last 6 months or so? Is it still sporadic or did they find some stuff to keep us busy full time for a half year or so?

They haven't made it easy by any means, but we seem to have more uptime than downtime in the last few months.
How long it will last, who can say, but if you lower your expectations a reasonable amount of work gets delivered here.

Ah! hey there Sid, well I am looking for something steady with like with a week of downtime.
If they do it like last time and hand out small scraps once a month, then I am not going to be happy.

If they do it like last time and hand out small scraps once a month, then I am not going to be happy.

Then you won't be happy.
Your cache is too big for Rosetta- 3 days or more for some work to be returned for one of your projects. Deadlines are still 3 days here.
The larger your cache, the less likely you are to get work when it is available.


As it is, there are generally a few small batches of work released each week, and there have been large batches of work released weekly lately, although prior to that it was every few weeks. Some batches a large percentage of Tasks error out, so it doesn't take long to chew through them.


If you set your cache to 0.1 days and 0.01 days you would get work whenever it becomes available and your system would be kept busy with work from here or your other projects. But if you insist on having a large cache (ie anything larger than 0.5 days when attached to multiple projects), and expecting the number of cores/threads in use at any given time to relate to the resource share values you have, you will not be happy.
So Rosetta is still not the project for you.

Edit- oh, and the Validators only run for about half of the week.

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Grant
Darwin NT

If they do it like last time and hand out small scraps once a month, then I am not going to be happy.

Then you won't be happy.
Your cache is too big for Rosetta- 3 days or more for some work to be returned for one of your projects. Deadlines are still 3 days here.
The larger your cache, the less likely you are to get work when it is available.

As it is, there are generally a few small batches of work released each week, and there have been large batches of work released weekly lately, although prior to that it was every few weeks. Some batches a large percentage of Tasks error out, so it doesn't take long to chew through them.

I'm not sure that's a fair representation.
Looking at the chart for Rosetta credit per day (last 60 days), tasks started coming through 40-50days ago (post-Xmas) in smaller batches but over the last 3 or 4 weeks we've been getting batches of 2-2.5million once per week every week - one of which, yes, had quite a high error rate, but certainly the most recent two have been error-free and lasted pretty much the whole week. The chart shows a weekly blip, which is where the validators go down and no credit awarded, but work was fully available over that period and credit was fully caught up after 2 days.

30-50 days may or may not be reliable enough for Greg, but it's a lot better than we had last year.

And his cache looks absolutely fine to me for a 16-core machine. I'd have more to say about increasing his 6hr runtime to the now-default 8hrs

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If they do it like last time and hand out small scraps once a month, then I am not going to be happy.

Then you won't be happy.
Your cache is too big for Rosetta- 3 days or more for some work to be returned for one of your projects. Deadlines are still 3 days here.
The larger your cache, the less likely you are to get work when it is available.

As it is, there are generally a few small batches of work released each week, and there have been large batches of work released weekly lately, although prior to that it was every few weeks. Some batches a large percentage of Tasks error out, so it doesn't take long to chew through them.

I'm not sure that's a fair representation.
Looking at the chart for Rosetta credit per day (last 60 days), tasks started coming through 40-50days ago (post-Xmas) in smaller batches but over the last 3 or 4 weeks we've been getting batches of 2-2.5million once per week every week - one of which, yes, had quite a high error rate, but certainly the most recent two have been error-free and lasted pretty much the whole week. The chart shows a weekly blip, which is where the validators go down and no credit awarded, but work was fully available over that period and credit was fully caught up after 2 days.

30-50 days may or may not be reliable enough for Greg, but it's a lot better than we had last year.

And his cache looks absolutely fine to me for a 16-core machine. I'd have more to say about increasing his 6hr runtime to the now-default 8hrs

Sid - Target CPU run time 6 hours
Cache is ok. I run a bunch of other projects to keep the machine, mainly GPU stuff, but stuff like WCG and Einstein has been a favorite of mine for quite some time.