WU availability for Gridcoin whitelisted projects (3/Jan/18)
Here is another work-unit (WU) availability update for Gridcoin whitelisted projects.
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 (source: 1).
In the last 7 days, all projects except for Sourcefinder@home had sufficient WUs available.
For Sourcefinder@home it is the fourth consecutive week of insuffcient WUs to support demand. On a positive note, there is now a message on the forum (here) which mentions that from next week larger 100MB work-units will be available. It would be good to see a more stable WU supply for this project moving forward.
Here is the overview of allocated credits for all whitelisted projects.
(Source: 2)
Sources:
(1) Gridcoin
(2) BOINCStats
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How do you measure "sufficient work available for all systems"? I just ask because DrugDiscovery is not able to keep me busy :)
Good question @applepiie.
I use the basic principle that the output in the last 7 days need to be in-line with the 40-days moving average. I know this will not cover all situations but what is critical is that most systems receive sufficient work to create some decent competition resulting in a fair GRC distribution.
If you take Sourcefinder@home for example, it is almost impossbile to catch a WU. It is more a lucky draw with the winner receiving around 1 GRC per returned WU at the moment. In an other article (here) on Steemit I describes this further.
Change settings that Boinc can download WUs for 2 days.
On linux file lacation is /var/lib/boinc-client/global_prefs_override.xml
Set that:
<work_buf_min_days>2.000000</work_buf_min_days>
Follow my post to copy and paste content.
https://fightdeppresionbyscience.wordpress.com/2017/12/31/config-file-for-boinc/
Also some projects intentionally limit how many WU can be downloaded at one time, DD@home is one of these ISTR, there are others.
This makes some sense: without some form of limitations, a naive but enthusiastic cruncher could download a vast quantity of tasks and 'tie them up', affecting WU completion for the whole project.
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