Work availability for Gridcoin projects - 28/Feb/18

Here is the weekly work-unit (WU) availability update for whitelisted and greylisted Gridcoin projects.

The projects

Today the poll to delist Sourcefinder will finish and looking at the latest status, 91% has answered Yes so it is likely that from next week I will not discuss this project anymore. @rufusfirefly has just provided an update here that the project may close-down completely making it even more important to vote. Checking one last time the chart below, you can see that the situation still remains difficult.

Last week’s disk server issues at Citizen Science Grid have been resolved and since the beginning of the week sufficient work is available again. For theSkynet POGS the situation has improved as well with sufficient available work.

Unfortunately this isn't the case for TN-Grid yet and although there is sufficient work, the work-units are too short to keep systems busy resulting in the server queue running dry regularly. The lastest status can be found here.

Table update

To provide a better insight in the amount of work projects have available, I've added a column in the table below containing the number of Intel i7-4770 CPUs that could be fully loaded. Intel i7-4770 CPUs are commonly used across BOINC projects, with high volumes of returned work-units, making them suitable as reference processor.

The number of CPUs is based on the 7-day credit average where I'm using the calculated RAC from my articles I'm currently publishing here. At the moment there are only 7 projects with number of CPUs but I will add more in the coming weeks.

And here is the overview of whitelisted and greylisted projects.

WAS

Gridcoin is an open source cryptocurrency (Ticker: GRC) which securely rewards volunteer computing performed upon the BOINC platform in a decentralized manner on top of proof of stake.

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is a distributed Internet platform and was launched beginning of 2002 and it rewards participants with credits for performed work. BOINC is an application available for multiple Operating Systems and uses the unused CPU and GPU cycles on computers to perform scientific work.