WhiteList Denis@home

[47an]

This poll seeks approval to whitelist the Denis@Home project

Poll Discussion Github is the best place since BOINC forums are ineligible for Whitelisting talk.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/Denis@home Poll Discussion Thread

Poll Question Should Gridcoin whitelist the BOINC project Denis@Home?
https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/

Poll Options Yes, No, Abstain
Poll Duration 21 days

Poll Validation Requirements A whitelist poll is approved if the majority vote yes, it gets an active vote weight of 20% or greater, and the above steps are met, the project is now on the whitelist.

Project admin approval: https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/forum_thread.php?id=149&postid=2387

[47an]

Worth mention as this question before:
Project can go offline for a short time for backup just like some other project also does like WCG.
From boinc discord

Jesús Carro — 07/25/2023 11:20 AM
Hi! It happens all the days a few minutes at 0:00 Spanish time. The IT department stops our DB to make a backup. We should find a way to indicate it better.

Project have been whitelisted before but removed as it got paused. It's been alive since 7 Jul 2022 and hold up well with only small shortages and optimazations.
Project hand out work in batches not automated generation at a fixed rate. But history show that they manage to hand out before work are low.

Project status is
WAS ratio is 1.1570… (pass)
ZCD is 1 (pass)

Compute power is around 37 TFLOPS

More info about project:
https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/about.php
https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/projects.php
https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/publications.php

[CyberTailor]

There's a small nuisance - all USJ websites block connections originating from Russia

[oegir]

Not only in Russia. I can’t open https://denis.usj.es using A1 provider Sofia, Bulgaria

[CyberTailor]

We are not blocking any IP but I have asked to the IT department and they indicate that, for sequrity reasons, the IPs of the following countries are blocked to access to the University: Antigua and Barbuda, Albania, Bangladesh, Brazil, Belize, China, Georgia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Iraq, Kenya, North Korea, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Lithuania, Myanmar, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Serbia, Russia, Seychelles, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.

https://denis.usj.es/denisathome/forum_thread.php?id=295

[div72]

Per #227,

Project Requirements for Whitelist Consideration

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• All crunchers that comply with the terms of service of both BOINC and the project have equal access to work units

If 29 countries are blocked from accessing the project directly, doesn't this invalidate the poll?

[CyberTailor]

I think no, as "not connecting from one of banned countries" can be considered an implicit part of project's terms of service

[mherrmann3]

Denis@home is greylisted, but fulfills the requirements to be whitelisted already for some days, as new tasks arrived. Specifically as of today according to Project-Whitelist-Checker:

• WAS ratio is 0.2781… (pass)
• ZCD is 3 (pass)

Any explanations why it remains greylisted? Is it a manual process?

[barton2526]

They are still greylisted because they clearly have no work available and have not for several days:

This is discussed in the whitelisting-committee channel in the Gridcoin discord if you want more information. And yes, the process is manual at the present time.