.... saw that after killing the stuck downloads, BOINC did not imediately try for another. .

I've sent an EMail to David Kim and asked that he look in to it, pointing out that the hung downloads are preventing machines from getting work so they can resume processing

Rosetta@home	rb_03_08_17831_17664_ab_t000__h002_robetta.zip	62.399	1.93 K	00:31:10 - 12:23:13	0.00 Kbps	Download pending (Retry in: 02:47:54), retried: 10

10-Mar-2020 07:32:01 [Rosetta@home] [http] HTTP_OP::init_get(): http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/download/1cb/rb_03_08_17831_17664_ab_t000__h002_robetta.zip
10-Mar-2020 07:32:01 [Rosetta@home] [http] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle 'C:BOINCca-bundle.crt'
10-Mar-2020 07:32:01 [Rosetta@home] [http] HTTP_OP::libcurl_exec(): ca-bundle set
10-Mar-2020 07:32:01 [Rosetta@home] Started download of rb_03_08_17831_17664_ab_t000__h002_robetta.zip
10-Mar-2020 07:32:02 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Info: Connection 7018 seems to be dead!
10-Mar-2020 07:32:02 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Info: Closing connection 7018
10-Mar-2020 07:32:02 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Info: Trying 128.95.160.156...
10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Info: Connected to boinc.bakerlab.org (128.95.160.156) port 80 (#7019)
10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Sent header to server: GET /rosetta/download/1cb/rb_03_08_17831_17664_ab_t000__h002_robetta.zip HTTP/1.1

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Sent header to server: Host: boinc.bakerlab.org

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Sent header to server: User-Agent: BOINC client (windows_x86_64 7.16.3)

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Sent header to server: Accept: */*

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Sent header to server: Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Sent header to server: Accept-Language: en_US

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Sent header to server:

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Sent header to server: alSign0Y0*†HÎ=
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10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: HTTP/1.1 200 OK

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 12:32:06 GMT

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: Server: Apache/2.4.18

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: Last-Modified: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 02:03:43 GMT

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: ETag: "7b8-5a06269a96f3a"

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: Accept-Ranges: bytes

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: Content-Length: 1976

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: Content-Type: application/zip

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server:

10-Mar-2020 07:32:03 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Received header from server: PK
10-Mar-2020 07:35:08 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Info: Operation too slow. Less than 10 bytes/sec transferred the last 180 seconds
10-Mar-2020 07:35:08 [Rosetta@home] [http] [ID#44082] Info: Closing connection 7019
10-Mar-2020 07:35:08 [Rosetta@home] [http] HTTP error: Timeout was reached
10-Mar-2020 07:35:08 [Rosetta@home] Temporarily failed download of rb_03_08_17831_17664_ab_t000__h002_robetta.zip: transient HTTP error
10-Mar-2020 07:35:08 [Rosetta@home] Backing off 03:06:46 on download of rb_03_08_17831_17664_ab_t000__h002_robetta.zip

Using in-game win probability techniques, Stanford researchers devised a way to predict a cancer patient’s outcome at any point during treatment. The approach could also inform treatment decisions.

An application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) /ˈeɪsɪk/, is an integrated circuit (IC) customized for a particular use, rather than intended for general-purpose use. For example, a chip designed to run in a digital voice recorder or a high-efficiency Bitcoin miner is an ASIC. Application-specific standard products (ASSPs) are intermediate between ASICs and industry standard integrated circuits like the 7400 series or the 4000 series.

Stderr output
<core_client_version>7.9.2</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<message>
couldn't start app: CreateProcess() failed - (unknown error)</message>
]]>

Folks! Thanks for your patience and support during this outage. We appreciate the support of the BOINC community! You are an impressive crew! -KEL

SOFTWARE used to keep bugs out of Microsoft Windows programs has begun shedding light on one of the big questions in modern science: how stem cells decide what type of tissue to become.

Not only do the results reveal that cellular decision-making is nowhere near as complicated as expected, they also raise hopes that the software could become a key tool in regenerative medicine.

“It is a sign of the convergence between carbon and silicon-based life,” says Chris Mason, a regenerative medicine specialist at University College London. “World-class stem cell scientists and a world-class computer company have found common ground. It is work at such interfaces that brings the big breakthroughs.”

How much cache of work do you have?

Or are we talking about something non-BOINC related?

it may be non boinc but it hurts the boinc cpu usage I have 8 gig of ram and typically use about !/2
I just need to get the pics loaded .

• Have you done a thorough AntiVirus/Malware scan of your PC?
  
• Is your internet connection on a Wi-Fi/Wireless USB dongle or a Hard-Wired ethernet port? If it's USB, that can be "stealing a few cycles of CPU resources".
  

Download Process Explorer, UnZip the exe (procexp.exe) from the download to a folder/directory (preferably to your User folder/directory) on your hard drive and RUN Microsoft/SysInternals Process Explorer (procexp.exe) as Administrator.

Once running, click View, Show Process Tree; click View, Show Unnamed Handles; click View, Show Process From All Users. This will show you EVERY PROCESS RUNNING ON YOUR PC and will help you determine what is stealing CPU cycles when there is network access.

Process Explorer Description:

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

By Tim De Chant and Eleanor Nelsen on Thu, 17 Jul 2014

When it comes to genetic engineering, we’re amateurs. Sure, we’ve known about DNA’s structure for more than 60 years, we first sequenced every A, T, C, and G in our bodies more than a decade ago, and we’re becoming increasingly adept at modifying the genes of a growing number of organisms.

But compared with what’s coming next, all that will seem like child’s play. A new technology just announced today has the potential to wipe out diseases, turn back evolutionary clocks, and reengineer entire ecosystems, for better or worse. Because of how deeply this could affect us all, the scientists behind it want to start a discussion now, before all the pieces come together over the next few months or years. This is a scientific discovery being played out in real time.

Thanks to its simplicity, the genetic code is a powerful tool in our hunt for mutations that cause disease. Unfortunately, it has also led to the genetic equivalent of a drunk looking for his lost keys under the lamppost. Researchers have put much of their effort into looking for disease mutations in those parts of our genomes that we can read with the genetic code—that is, parts that consist of canonical genes that code for proteins. But these genes make up less than two percent of our DNA; much more of our genetic function is outside of genes in the relatively uncharted “non-coding” portions. We have no idea how many disease-causing mutations are in that non-coding portion—for some types of mutations, it could be as high as 90 percent.