Hello everyone,

I hope someone can help me with this problem. I just upgraded my BOINC Manager to 7.0.25 and ATI WUs. So I am not getting WUs for most of my projects now. The only project that it will ask for both CPU and GPU WUs is SETI@Home. How do I get this manager to request CPU WUs from the other projects? I have not changed anything other than install the new version of the manager.

Thank you,

Warren

- Which projects, other than Seti?
- Which of them use an ATI GPU?
- Do you have an ATI GPU?
-- What do you use the GPU for at Seti? Which Lunatics apps did you install?
- How long ago was it you installed BOINC 7.0.25? Allow BOINC to run uninterrupted by you (you making decisions instead of BOINC) for at least 14 days before you come complain. BOINC 7.0 uses completely NEW CPU and GPU schedulers and a new work fetch module. These cannot be compared to the previous BOINC era. Your BOINC has to learn again how to do things and this takes time. Although it's wise to upgrade to at least 7.0.27 due to bug-fixes. (7.0.28 is available)
- Have you adjusted your minimum buffer and maximum additional buffer values? They should be the other way around as with BOINC 6.12 and before. So if you had a connect to of 1.0 days and additional work set for 5 days, then you now need a minimum work buffer of 5 days and additional maximum work of 1 days.

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Actually I'm not complaining but trying to gain information. I did not realize that this version of the BOINC Manager was going to behave differently from previous versions. I've tried to look for other entries that were similar to what I was seeing and couldn't find one, so I asked for help.

I installed v7.0.25 on Sunday, 5/20/2012. I do not have any projects set to send GPU WU, although I do have an ATI Video card. An ATI Radeon HD5700 Series video card. I prefer to do only CPU WUs, I know the GPU can work faster it's just my preference.

I also have never had to adjust the minimum buffer and maximum additional buffer values before so I do not know how to do this. I've also download the recommended BOINC Manager which is v7.0.25, v7.0.27 is not listed and v7.0.28 is listed as Development Version and to be use for testing only.

Milkyway@home, Einstien@home, Seti@home and PrimeGrid all offer GPU WUs and CPU WUs. I have the GPU WUs selected no because of my preference to do CPU WUs. The other projects that I am attached to do not offer GPU WUs but are still being asked to send ATI WUs when the scheduler polls the project for WUs.

As suggested I'll wait to see if the BOINC Manager starts asking for CPU WUs in the next week or so but I would hate not to get WUs from projects and have not do the work that I'm used to doing.

Thanks for the information,

Warren

BOINC 7.0 won't request work until the total cache falls beneath the minimum work buffer value. What that value is depends on what you set at a project's global computing preferences.

Although to be less less confused --due to a lot of projects not being updated to the latest BOINC server back-end and thus new preferences-- you may want to set it at BOINC's local advanced preferences: BOINC Manager, Advanced view, Tools, Preferences, Network usage, minimum work buffer and maximum additional work buffer values.

The local preferences override the web preferences, and will take immediately upon clicking the OK button.

Why does it ask for ATI work then? Because BOINC 7.0 has a separate CPU and GPU scheduler. If you do not have work for your ATI GPU, its scheduler will try to get some to fill the cache to the minimum work buffer value, so it will poll all projects you've added if they have ATI work. Watch out with Einstein, as it DOES have work for ATI GPUs these days.

By the way, when I pointed out 7.0.27 in my previous post, I linked to the BOINC 7.0 change log thread, to its release post there, which has links to 7.0.27 for all platforms available in the post. Or else, http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=6698&nowrap=true#43938.

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Thank you for your help. I've made the changes in the preferences area that you suggested and I've been getting plenty of WUs.

Thank you,

Warren