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#1 New Project - FreeHAL
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:45 pm
by MacDitch
http://boinc.freehal.org/projects/freehal_at_home/
Barely running at the moment and may dissappear again but thought I'd spread the word. :)
Attach at your own peril....
#2
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 3:35 pm
by utopia-i
work available - and the team seem to be getting points
the
CPU time and
progress are crazy but worth a try ?
http://boincstats.com/stats/user_stats. ... st=0&ti=21
#3
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 7:57 pm
by Buster Gunn
the CPU time and progress are crazy but worth a try ?
Crazy at best. Before they started exporting stats, I had 33K in one day. The w/u's hang up my machine, but I got credit anyway. Then just before they started exporting stats, they removed all my credits except for 100.
When they get a real application, I'll give it a try. This is not the best example of German efficiency at the moment. They also need a forum in English. Seems they just want peeps from the Fatherland at the moment.
#4
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:54 pm
by FlyingfocRS
I've been crunching this with no problems until today, latest batch of w/u's seem to get stuck in an endless loop.
I've reset the project so will monitor it over the coming days.
#5
Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2008 6:36 pm
by FlyingfocRS
They've zeroed all the stats on this project.
Think we may have another Predictor style shambles in the making.
Admin claimed he reset credits if someone was getting too many credits and accused them of cheating.
He's now backtracking and has zeroed all the credits.
He seems to forget that he's the one that assigns the cr/hr ratio, if he set it too high he can't accuse the crunchers for getting too many credits and then removing them.
Suspect this will now be a dead project as no-one will crunch it now.
#6
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:52 pm
by Megacruncher
This project is looking a wee bit more stable now: No resets since November.
It seems to be an inobtrusive wee thing that runs alongside whatever else you are running and using up very little actual CPU time but dishing out 6 credits per WU whether they take 5 minutes or 0.25 of a second to run (the latter is more typical).
So, noticing that our rather modest 2586 was only good for 111th place I thought I'd give it a bash. We are now 108th with 3870 and another 1100 or so tomorrow might get us into the top 100. Dig in!
#7
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 12:04 pm
by Reeltime
1st job: get back in top 100. Required: Done 2pm 25th March
2nd job: get back into the top 5 at least in the UK. Required: 1895
Shouldn't be too tricky, I've got 3 machine crunching away at it quite happily. Wus run to 120% for some reason, and it doesn't seem to cache any work, but other than that, its bonus credits time :)
Project out of work
Edit to update progress
#8
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:45 pm
by Megacruncher
98th now!
Once more work comes along we will teach those Juggalos a thing or two.
#9
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:05 pm
by Reeltime
Are there any more no-cpu intensive projects out there?
#10
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:31 am
by MacDitch
Are there any more no-cpu intensive projects out there?
As far as I recall it's only FreeHAL, DepSpid and QuakeCatcher. DepSpid has been MIA for quite some time and QC requires special hardware. Oh, and you have to be located State side.

#11
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:33 am
by MacDitch
Almost forgot, for any of you on limited internet up/downloads, please remember that FreeHAL and DepSpid (if it returns) are very network heavy applications...
#12
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:11 am
by Reeltime
Ok, this is a pain, but if you go to the Free Hal website, look up your position in the stats page, click on yourself, then you can set how many concurrent tasks you can run. I've set mine to 6, some people are running 25! Depending on what oher projects you are running, I find 6 quite adaquate, as any more starts playing merry hell with Burp, I haven't checked what it's doing to my CPDN.
Either way, more than 1 makes our job easier!
#13
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2009 10:59 pm
by Megacruncher
Err..Sorry I can't find this option and it's not in the Preferences section of "My Account". Any more clues?
Whate'er, we are up to 87th overall and are up to UK 5th. :wav:
#14
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:56 am
by MacDitch
Err..Sorry I can't find this option and it's not in the Preferences section of "My Account". Any more clues?
For some reason it is not listed there. To change you must do as Reeltime said.
Go to
'Top Crunchers'
Find yourself in the list
Left click on your name.
OR
In your case,
go here!
#15
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 6:11 pm
by PinkPenguin
Looks like FreeHAL is back on-line... or am I late noticing it...

#16
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2012 7:17 pm
by Janos (retired)
PinkPenguin wrote:Looks like FreeHAL is back on-line... or am I late noticing it...

FreeHAL? Never late than never, eh? Need me to pop a core on?
Janos
#17
Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2012 5:46 pm
by PinkPenguin
Yep, the more the merrier. It can run as "non CPU intensive" for a few points every day and it won't interfere with the other projects significantly. Otherwise bung a core on... and use one of the CPU intensive configurations. :)