The 2nd superblock in row that made us wait so long (includes 68% of whitelisted BOINC projects)
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0.000 HBDThe 2nd superblock in row that made us wait so long (includes 68% of whitelisted BOINC projects)
<html> <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/OmA2DqK.png" width="708" height="406"/></p> <p><a href="http://i.imgur.com/OmA2DqK.png">url to image</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>After 69h, we've finally a new superblock (see: (K)):</p> <ul> <li>#970542</li> <li>Actually, also #970540 seems a SB, which came 2 blocks before. Strange! Investigating if really a double-superblock happened.</li> <li>The superblock before this one made us also wait quite long: <a href="https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/superblock-967957-has-landed-includes-84-of-whitelisted-boinc-projects">67h</a>. :-(</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p>Unfortunately, only 68% of the whitelisted BOINC projects are inside.</p> <p>Missing BOINC projects this time:</p> <ul> <li>Citizen Science Grid</li> <li>Einstein</li> <li>LHC</li> <li>Numberfields</li> <li>Rosetta</li> <li>SETI</li> <li>VGTU</li> <li>WCG</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p>team users:</p> <ul> <li>1425 with magnitude</li> <li>2302 without beacon</li> <li>10702 total users</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>The average superblock creation time since June 20 is now about 48h (median = 37h).</p> <p><br></p> <p>So, what are the possible <strong>reasons</strong> for the delay/mag zero this time?</p> <ul> <li>World Community Grid had problems (see <a href="https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=530">here</a>), but these were starting at around 14:00 UTC on Tuesday, July 18, so about 40h after consensus-building of the SB was already in progress.</li> <li>SETI had its usual downtime Tuesdays (I know at least that they were offline at 2017-07-18 20:00)</li> <li><br></li> <li>The <em><strong>CENTRALIZED</strong></em><strong> component and </strong><em><strong>NOT OPENSOURCED</strong></em> <a href="http://download.gridcoin.us/download/harvest/">harvest server </a>seems to make trouble (file names not correct, ...)</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p>see also:</p> <ul> <li>comments (A) - (J) are in: <a href="https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/gridcoin-its-troublesome-superblocks-in-the-last-4-weeks">Gridcoin + its troublesome superblocks (in the last 4 weeks)</a></li> <li><a href="https://steemit.com/gridcoin/@erkan/which-boinc-projects-were-affected-most-by-the-magnitude-zero-events">Which BOINC projects were affected most by the "magnitude zero" events ?</a></li> </ul> <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/8bXHHQD.png" width="1188" height="282"/></p> <p><br></p> </html>