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    Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    Get your goals quick!

    http://docking.cis.udel.edu/about/project/news.php#285

    Docking@Home is Retiring

    April 07, 2014 17:05 EST

    With a heavy heart, we are announcing the retirement of the Docking@Home project. Unfortunately, we no longer have the resources to maintain the project. Starting on April 30, 2014 Docking@Home will no longer be distributing new jobs but will continue to collect results. On May 23, 2014 the server will stop accepting results as the project enters retirement. We hope that you can use this time to point your workers to new VC projects. (here is a link to active BOINC projects).

    Over the past 9 years we’ve had 98,512 Volunteers contribute computing power from 264,535 hosts. We have granted a total of 5,422,290,917 credits, which means our volunteers contributed roughly 159,398,584 Hours (18,196 years!) of computation. Back in Jan we made all of the result data public and we will keep that interface active. Thank you to everyone that made Docking@home a success over the years. It’s been fun! Please join us on the forums to share your best and worst story from the project.

    Over the past few months we’ve been working on bringing the ExSciTecH project to life. We hope that you will join us in our adventure on this new project. Feel free to stop by the ExSciTecH forums and say “Hi”!.

    Thanks for your support over the years!
    The Docking@Home Team
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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    Oh wow. That is sad, I like Docking.

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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    I'm having a hard time getting work from Docking, several of my Box's are just sitting Idle ...

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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    I apologize for that Ste\/e.

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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    Yeah I bet, I'll just pull off Docking & hit something I can get work from ...

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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    They're starting to slither in now.



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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    Quote Originally Posted by Al McAdams View Post
    They're starting to slither in now.
    Good! Maybe their work generator picked up on the increased demand, and SteVe can go back to his grand slam there in a bit.

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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    Just signed up, but not getting many work units. I was hoping to put 32 threads on it and shoot for 5k hours before the work runs out, but doesn't look promising.

    Anyone have a credits goal they are working towards that might be a close call? I could crunch credits for you and hours for me...



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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    I went NNW on 1 machine ... it has 892 WU in the pipeline. It'll take a week to process all of them.


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    Re: Docking@Home: Project shutting down

    Interesting, my Xeon 5420s refuse to finish a wu. According to BoincTasks they are using no cpu. The have been running for over 16 hours. I've taken those 16 cores off of Docking and put them back on NRG.

    @DrPop - your sister systems don't appear to have finished anything either. You may want to check them.

    Edit: I'm trying it again. I detached and reattached. They seem to be running okay at this point, but BT is still showing no cpu usage. Task Manager does show them maxed out at 100%.
    Last edited by Al; 04-09-14 at 07:54 PM.



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