Hello,

I'm new in using BOINC and registered myself at Rosetta@home on 1. September 2007, so if I made any mistakes I'm sorry, don't slap me. :P

Well, I was permanently running it on my machine for about one week and got about 20 results.
Then the server got damaged and was offline for some days.

Today a friend told me that the project is back and working well now, so I continued running it and checked out my results/statistics, but I only saw a white page.

All my results, credits etc. are lost.
It wasn't as much to worry about it, but I'd just like to know what happend, maybe other people (with more credits) got the same problem.

My results:
https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/results.php?userid=202724

Trex, glad you are back crunching Rosetta.

Your completed tasks do not remain listed forever. They are periodically purged as the Project Team compiles there analysis of the results.

Your credits remain with your user ID and your team.

If you had been crunching steadily the whole month, you would more clearly see that only the oldest tasks are purging off of your tasks list. Since you had a gap in there, it looked more like there was a problem with the data.

It's normal.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Trex, glad you are back crunching Rosetta.

Your completed tasks do not remain listed forever. They are periodically purged as the Project Team compiles there analysis of the results.

Your credits remain with your user ID and your team.

If you had been crunching steadily the whole month, you would more clearly see that only the oldest tasks are purging off of your tasks list. Since you had a gap in there, it looked more like there was a problem with the data.

It's normal.

Oh, I didn't know it, thank you for teaching me! ;]

Just a last question: What it means to 'crunch'?
I'm german and the translation of Google doesn't make any sense. xP

Just a last question: What it means to 'crunch'?
I'm german and the translation of Google doesn't make any sense. xP

"to chruch" is to let your computer do the work units.(as fast and as many as possibel) ;)

Anders n

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Just a last question: What it means to 'crunch'?
I'm german and the translation of Google doesn't make any sense. xP

"Crunch" is an idiom here. It is a shortened form of "number crunching" or "crunching numbers." All of those terms mean: intense processing of numerical data.

Many of the people who do work for distributed computing projects refer to themselves or their computers as "Crunchers."

This is not a perfect explanation, but I hope it will help .

Best Regards,
David Emigh

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Rosie, Rosie, she's our gal,
If she can't do it, no one shall!

to expand on David's message, this is from wiki:

Number crunching is a slang term used in Computer engineering to refer to any computing operation that requires a large number of arithmetic operations (adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing) - as opposed to (for example) memory reads and writes, accesses to disk drives or networking operations. By extension, a Number cruncher is either a computer that is dedicated to that kind of processing because of its role in some organisation - or a computer CPU that is especially designed to be good at arithmetic operations (typically at the cost of being worse at other things).

The term Number cruncher is occasionally used to refer to a piece of software that requires the computer to perform unusually large amounts of number crunching - although that usage of the term is rare.

Most Supercomputers are designed to be efficient number crunchers before all else, small embedded computers are often very poor number crunchers with desktop PCs falling somewhere in between.

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Just a last question: What it means to 'crunch'?
I'm german and the translation of Google doesn't make any sense. xP

"Crunch" is an idiom here. It is a shortened form of "number crunching" or "crunching numbers." All of those terms mean: intense processing of numerical data.

Many of the people who do work for distributed computing projects refer to themselves or their computers as "Crunchers."

This is not a perfect explanation, but I hope it will help .

Best Regards,
David Emigh

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