I asked again and ta-da, the forum software is now updated to the latest version. :-)

At last!! :)

Now, if only that Ragtag Juggernaut Experience forum would pop up... ;)

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It'd be extremely nice to have the "Message board posts: nn" link on the http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/home.php page. To find (the list of) my posts, I have to find any of my posts ( :-D see the Catch 22 ) and get through my "Account data" page to the list.

Sure not that hard to add...

(Or is it meant as an excercise for lazy users?)

Peter

Be glad we have an account page again. Hadn't you noticed we went for 24 hours without one? ;)

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No, I have not. Actually it's anyway not that easy to find it :-D

Peter

I'd like the ability to name my computers in such a way that it overrides the normal name given by BOINC. I have machines with really weird names created from the actual name, the domain name, some other names collected along the way. I want to say this machines name is "Bob" and see that on all sites regardless of the pseudo names BOINC seems to create.

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Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity into the dream.

My wishlist for BOINC:

1) The ability to, on the project website, to turn on and off the getting of workunits, on a host by host basis. Some people might be worried some unsavory types might use it to stop them from getting work, but the security system should take care of that. Maybe having to enter a PIN or a secondary password.

The reason for this is in case someone's remote host starts sending out a lot of grundged results, you have only 2 choices right now. Detach the host via an Account manager, which might take up to 24 hours, or just wait until you get to the host, which also might take more than 24 hours. If you had a way of turning off the getting of new work for that host, it would quickly deplete the grundged results, and that would be that. You then can check on it when you can. This also could help in case a project has a mis-configured scheduler, and starts sending out a ton of work that just can't be completed on time. (But, I heard the new clients are better at handling that than the v5.4.11 client.)

2) In a user's results page, the table isn't sortable. It would be nice to be able to sort on what you want to see. Right now, I believe the dafault sort is the date the work was sent to the user.

The reason for this is many users might have a varied mix of hosts. Some might be very fast, and others might be very slow. On teh same project, the slow host's work will quickly slip off the first page by the faster hosts. And, as they say, oyt of sight is out of mind. It might be good to sort to see what's still in progress, and you might see that a machine needs a bit of micro-managing to get a WU finished. If it's buried in several pages, you might overlook one that keeps getting pre-empted by a shorter deadline job. Anyway. It's human nature to look at things a different way. I understand sortable columns in the GUI is being worked on, which is good. But, this is the website side. I have seen, on other websites, where they have used Flash to display in a scrollable window, a large amount of data from a database. They even had the columns sortable. Might that be an idea, as I've heard that between 88 to 98$ of all computers have Flash installed on them.

There are a few others, but they tend to start long-winded, circular "discussions". I won't go into them here.

[EDIT: Actually. One last thing. Ensure that the slots folders actually get cleared out after a WU crashes, or grundges. It might just be a BURP thing, but I'm not sure.]

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Hi all: When will the new version of boinc manager be released ) it was announced on 11/07/06)? I would like to be able to sort all columns as in a regular folder (ex: click on the heading and it sorts up or down).
Thank you: Mark Reiss

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Hi all: When will the new version of boinc manager be released ) it was announced on 11/07/06)? I would like to be able to sort all columns as in a regular folder (ex: click on the heading and it sorts up or down).
Thank you: Mark Reiss

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Hi all: When will the new version of boinc manager be released ) it was announced on 11/07/06)? I would like to be able to sort all columns as in a regular folder (ex: click on the heading and it sorts up or down).
Thank you: Mark Reiss

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Why aren't my stats showing - what am I doing wrong? See below:

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Hello,

that "allow installation as a SYSTEM service" has been mentioned quite often, I think. ;)

But regarding some actual projects, I'd like to have "testing" and "production" projects together, but selectable.

At this point, there's e.g. "SETI" and "SETI-BETA" as two separate projects.

My proposal would be that workunits/client software could be flagged as "alpha state", "beta state", "stable".

In my preferences I could then select if I wish to participate in alphas an/or betas - globally and on a per-host-basis as an override.

This way I can connect to any project I'm interested in and eventually help in development automatically. When I decide not to do so, I simply get no work while there's only testing (like QMC, Predictor or Proteins at this time). The project managers on the other hand don't need to create separate project only for testing purposes.

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Torsten

It's up to project managers, how to handle it. world community grid goes the way you like - they supply one project and you can choose per selection, which project applications (like "SETI", "SETI-BETA", "alpha state", "beta state", "stable", etc.) for which host (or group of hosts, a.k.a. venue) you'd like to get and crunch.

I assume that the sample Boinc server suite, as is supplied by the Boinc devs, does not yet contain the functionality to allow the user to select, which applications (s)he would like to get. If I'm right, then it might be simpler for project devs to spin another project for tes apps than implementing such user selection functionality into the server suite.

Actually it's only how you look at it. From the user's point of view, it is possibly nicer to have the different applications grouped into one project. I hope that when Seti's Astropulse application will come out of the beta stage, such user selection functionality will be made available for the Seti project and will subsequently flow into the sample Boinc server suite. (Whereas I may be wrong and such functionality is already available, in such case it's really only up to the project devs.)

Peter

I assume that the sample Boinc server suite, as is supplied by the Boinc devs, does not yet contain the functionality to allow the user to select, which applications (s)he would like to get. If I'm right, then it might be simpler for project devs to spin another project for tes apps than implementing such user selection functionality into the server suite.

BOINC server supports beta testing applications, that can be enabled or not by users. More info here. (Note it was added in October 2006).

BOINC server supports beta testing applications, that can be enabled or not by users. More info here. (Note it was added in October 2006).

I stand corrected, thanks. (I think I've seen that page already)-:

Peter

@pepo: That's where I got the idea. ;)
But WCG is not a native BOINC-app, so I thought it could be a good idea.

@nicolas: Cool, haven't seen this before. So basically it's already there. Too bad it's not in use, apparently...

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Torsten

Sometimes crunchers see the boinc manager message "Error on file upload: can't write file /home/boinc/data/*workunit number*: No space left on device".

Some crunchers worry that the 'device' may be their own computer's hard drive. Could the word be changed to 'server'?

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Some crunchers worry that the 'device' may be their own computer's hard drive. Could the word be changed to 'server'?

That would need modifications on the server kernel, as that's an error message returned by the system.

BOINC could search for that specific string and change it to 'server', but I'm wondering if it's really needed.

PS: what's up with all the backslashes before quotes on this forum? They weren't there some days ago...

PS: what's up with all the backslashes before quotes on this forum? They weren't there some days ago...

They rebuilt isaac (the webserver) last week and some things got a bit messed up. Lord help us if we try to send moderation emails (at least as of Sunday morning...)

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Kathryn :o)

Sometimes crunchers see the boinc manager message "Error on file upload: can't write file /home/boinc/data/*workunit number*: No space left on device".

Some crunchers worry that the 'device' may be their own computer's hard drive. Could the word be changed to 'server'?

Ask and ye shall receive. ;-)

Done (may take a while to deploy)
-- David

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Hi,

this is my first post, so please be kind ;-)

I have answered the susrvey a few times, hoping that one feature a would like to see in boinc manager is added. However, I upgraded yesterday to the new manager, and still this feature is not in.

So, I'd like to have the option to SORT the columns, specially under the Tasks tab. The normal MS-Windows behavior, of clicking on a column title, like "Progress" or "To Completion" or "Status", and sort the list accordingly, either ascending or descending. Also the Projects and Transfers tabs.

Hope to see this feature soon.

Regards,

Leo

Sorting feature exists, kind of half-finished. It was accidentally included on a release version and it worked quite bad, proving it's not ready yet.