![]() ![]() I might look into other BOINC projects at some point if I can work out how to get them working on a Pi (I’m still learning this stuff) but the attitude of some of their forum members and the lack of response from Rosetta itself (volunteers or not) has really taken the shine off of my participation.įold client offers unsupported project () Fold for Covid In the relatively short time I had been contributing the project my little £40 SBC running off an SD card had longer uptime than the Rosetta servers and I was made out to be the bad man by people running monster rigs capable of processing thousands of tasks a day for questioning the management of the project. I know my single Pi will never set the world on fire but it’s still costing me to run it and I do not think it unreasonable to be able to cache at least a day or two’s worth of work units without being told off by the forum members for hoarding. The funny thing about the Rosetta forums is how readily they will defend the volunteers who run the project while berating the volunteers who donate their resources and pay to run and maintain their own kit. There was also some speculation that the issue might have been some badly parsed work units claiming a greater demand on resources than they were ever likely to require but no-one who answered me seemed to grasp that these were choking the lower end hardware through aborted or rejected downloads. Someone on the Rosetta forum also mentioned about a third of the work-force possibly becoming obsolete and no-one from the project picked up on it. It’s good to hear from someone else volunteering “slow and steady” hardware to the project.
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