Recent Changes in projects

[cellarnoise]

LODA on ARM (e.g. Raspberry Pi) now requires libzip, which isn't installed by default on Raspberry Pi OS.

sudo apt install libzip4

Or something similar should fix it.

We need climate heat? Does LODA work on ARM stuff?
Linux?

 

[StefanR5R]

Amicable Numbers

Amicable going away,

Right, server_status.php shows an estimate when they are done: "ETA at current speed (10^21, part 4)" line on the right side of the page. It reads 2026-03-11 at the moment.

Related message board posts: https://sech.me/boinc/Amicable/forum_thread.php?id=300&postid=2127 and follow-ups in the same thread.

 

[Skillz]

In addition to that. Amicable was part of a BOINCStats Team Challenge the past week. Which seen a decent turnout from volunteers running the project.

The downside to this is the server is not able to keep up with the validation results. It's currently sitting at 76.7k work units waiting for validation.

Also, it runs out of work frequently. If you are going to run the project for milestones I'd recommend attaching a second GPU project to the same host(s) and setting that project to a 0 resource share. When Amicable runs out of tasks it generally takes about an hour for new ones and thus your GPU wont be sitting idle during this time.

Therefore, the time it says to complete might not be accurate. It bounces around from 3/11/26 and 2/27/25.