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Message 117954 - Posted: 2 Jan 2026, 1:05:38 UTC

https://boinc.mak.termit.me/odlk2025/

The unlisted BOINC project ODLK 2025 has only 2 Tflops of current compute power running the project.

That's by far the lowest I've seen for any project that always has work units available.

So consider joining this project, instead of the big ones, if you wanna make your contribution feel more valuable.

The ODLK, ODLK1, and Rakesearch project only have 6.6, 11, and 12 Tflops respectively, so these are also really worth joining if you really wanna make a difference.

These projects also offer a rare chance to see a single Ryzen 9 or Threadripper move a project's global progress bar by a visible percentage every single day!
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Message 117956 - Posted: 2 Jan 2026, 2:04:53 UTC

This should have never been a separate project. The project scientist seems to have issues with every admin.
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Message 118163 - Posted: 22 Jan 2026, 14:17:49 UTC - in response to Message 117954.  

Project Odlk1 Latin Squares seems to be struggling after the server upgrade as it is running with a Transitioner backlog of 67 hours, tasks taking at least 5 days to validate. One of my PC’s has phantom tasks allocated but they are definitely not on my PC.

From reading about Boinc a Transitioner backlog of that magnitude is not good.
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Message 118168 - Posted: 22 Jan 2026, 17:59:10 UTC - in response to Message 117954.  

The project admin is a serial project creator of small "projects" which are really just variations on a theme.
Before joining any of these projects have a read of the project forums (requests for help are either ignored or flamed out by the project administrator) and don't just look at headline figures, poor as they are.
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Message 118368 - Posted: 28 Feb 2026, 3:39:42 UTC

Another small Project that could benefit from more volunteers would be the LODA project. After restarting and debugging a flaky Windows application they are running good with Credits and Badges but are only at about 2.8 TFlops
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