Please drop the term being bounced around "Banned" The fact that you can Post messages and communicate your frustrations means you are not Banned. People who are excessively disruptive can be Banned... and then they are "gone"

Hosts being banned is not the same as users being banned. Rosetta would ban hosts from their VB tasks if they failed a certain number. You could manually reset the ban in the computer's details screen on the website once you think you've fixed the problem of VB not working. Some projects will limit your host to one task at a time if they've been failing a lot, until such time as they successfully complete one.

On this project hosts do not get banned. Well mine haven't, even when they kept asking for work and didn't have VB version 7.

Users being banned, that never happens, they only get banned from the forum. No project has ever banned even me from running tasks. They don't want to lose computing power, and the Boinc server probably doesn't even have that function.

And anyway there's nothing to stop you just calling yourself by another name! They even suggest it in the last rule: "If your account is banned don't create a new one" - pretty much inviting you to do it.

Maybe you haven't been around long enough to see it before, but in the past there certainly have been projects outright ban people. It was typically in regards to cheating the points system though in some way. I will say that I don't read every project forum like I did a decade ago, so I cannot recall any doing it recently. And my memory doesn't recall specific projects anymore since there have been well over a hundred come and go over the years.

Ok lots of people are struggling .... I have 3 fairly old Window OS boxes all running work 1 task at a time on the project. Feel free to look at my computers they are available to be seen.

To restate things in a different perspective... Many of you have said my PC has this or that loaded or enabled etc... What is important is what this project "thinks" you have loaded or enabled .

I suggest that you go to your account on this project and show your computers..... once your computers that have been attached pop up... one at a time click the "details" at the far left on the screen and this will show you everything that the Project thinks each PC has and is configured with and enabled.

Everyone needs to slow down and take a breath... This is not a mission critical life or death situation. And no one should be rude and everyone needs to be a little more understanding. We are all part of the distributive computing family.

Please drop the term being bounced around "Banned" The fact that you can Post messages and communicate your frustrations means you are not Banned. People who are excessively disruptive can be Banned... and then they are "gone"

With a smile
Bill F

I was not told I was banned, just no tasks available. The top contributor Mikey has more than one host running a task at once. So it must be possible.

Looks like some stupid Boinc bug, I get "Scheduler request to url failed: Couldn't resolve host name", which is absolute garbage. If the host name couldn't be resolved, how am I posting in here from the same computer? And how does Boinc immediately talk to the server it can't resolve?

Looks like all unique PCs to me
https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/hosts_user.php?userid=84

Yes, he has many computers, so do I. What's your point?

"Not accepting requests from this host" = ban

I've never seen that text anywhere. Anyway I found the problem, you need VB 7, not 5.

So what do your computers come up with when you look at their details on the website of another VB project, say LHC?

Not much, they just don't give me any work.

No, on the host page, like this: https://uspex-at-home.ru/prediction/show_host_detail.php?hostid=34
That's one of your machines here, it's saying you didn't turn virtualisation on in the BIOS. Or you're using a Hyper-V thing in Windows which interferes with it.

I can't find you on LHC to check.

I don't worry about getting work from either of those projects since it seems you have to hump thru 20 different hoops to get your box's to run their Wu's.

They're no more difficult than any other VB project. And what are you doing on LHC dev if you're not interested?

I seem to be stuck on one task per account, not client. I attached 8 machines at once. All but one did something weird and claimed it couldn't contact the server, but continued to talk to it, asked twice, then got told off for last request too recent. One got a task, then since then the other hosts have just been told "got 0 new tasks" as though there's none available.

Yes I already mentioned that above.

They are banning hosts/clients. I also tried a 2nd client and it was banned.

I was not told I was banned, just no tasks available. The top contributor Mikey has more than one host running a task at once. So it must be possible.

Looks like some stupid Boinc bug, I get "Scheduler request to url failed: Couldn't resolve host name", which is absolute garbage. If the host name couldn't be resolved, how am I posting in here from the same computer? And how does Boinc immediately talk to the server it can't resolve?

Due to the peculiarities of using virtualization technology, the following approach is used:
one task per computer at a fixed point in time.
In the future, we plan to try an approach with two or more tasks per computer at a fixed point in time.

I seem to be stuck on one task per account, not client. I attached 8 machines at once. All but one did something weird and claimed it couldn't contact the server, but continued to talk to it, asked twice, then got told off for last request too recent. One got a task, then since then the other hosts have just been told "got 0 new tasks" as though there's none available.

Due to the peculiarities of using virtualization technology, the following approach is used:
one task per computer at a fixed point in time.
In the future, we plan to try an approach with two or more tasks per computer at a fixed point in time.

One task per BOINC client.

A PC can run more than 1 task at a time.

yes, with applications with 4Gio and 6Gio ram, it limits the number of wu.

Due to the peculiarities of using virtualization technology, the following approach is used:
one task per computer at a fixed point in time.
In the future, we plan to try an approach with two or more tasks per computer at a fixed point in time.