1) Message boards : News : Rosetta@home studies coronavirus (Message 98050) Posted 24 Apr 2020 by MissingLink Post: As far as I've been crunching for Rosetta@Home, they are not known for GPU -- only CPU. Same with World Community Grid (WCG). Every project can not be for everybody. There are many GPU projects you can support: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/GPU_computing -- I like support CPU only projects because it allows anyone with a CPU to contribute to science tasks without worrying about people with higher end GPUs hogging up work units or making your work units seem less significant. Everyone is on on the same common ground with CPU only tasks.

2) Message boards : News : The BOINC out-of-box experience for scientists (Message 94427) Posted 20 Dec 2019 by MissingLink Post: Don't underestimate the potential of VirtualBox with self-updating features. If you run Ubuntu (or whatever flavor of Linux is preferred), you just need a computer with enough resources. Then within the VM, all the configuration is 95% done and it is just the unique features of the project that needs to be set up. I think that is way easier than docker or installing packages. Just abstract all that away with a VM. Docker is certainly more resource efficient, but we're after OOBE experience not running multiple Docker instances on a single server.

3) Message boards : Android : Odroid c1+ Android issue pauses (Message 87957) Posted 7 Sep 2018 by MissingLink Post: What happens if you tell BOINC to ignore the battery. Some of my phones do this and I just slide the battery 50,40,30,20,10 to 0 (none). It just starts crunching and then I just have to hope the micro USB I have plugged in remains plugged. I don't know why some phones behave this way. Or battery is full 100% but BOINC won't crunch because it is waiting for charge up to 10%.

4) Message boards : Android : App missing from the Play store (Message 87843) Posted 28 Aug 2018 by MissingLink Post: As I suspected, the download has an unexpected content-type so Android is misinterpreting how it is supposed to handle the file. The BOINC download says it is application-x-troff-man while another site I go .apk is application/vnd.android.package-archive The webmaster on boinc.berkeley.edu may need to adjust the content-type for files ending in .apk ? And that might work in Android better that way. References to screenshots that show this. https://ibb.co/b3xbOU https://ibb.co/hshXxp

5) Message boards : Android : App missing from the Play store (Message 87839) Posted 28 Aug 2018 by MissingLink Post: I know, I was just giving my experience. I don't know why the .apk is behaving weird. Maybe its a mime type issue or something else. When I downloaded the Amazon Store app, it worked fine... so I know downloading .apk works okay. When you download the .apk from the link you gave... are you able to install BOINC okay? What browser are you using?

6) Message boards : Android : App missing from the Play store (Message 87829) Posted 28 Aug 2018 by MissingLink Post: Okay, Play Store is still missing BOINC for me. Using Android 4.x Workaround: use Amazon App Store and download BOINC for Android 7.4.5.3 * Allow unknown sources to download Amazon App Store apk. Look in Settings > Security * Download Amazon BOINC app: https://www.amazon.com/Space-Sciences-Laboratory-U-C-Berkeley/dp/B00DCCGLAG * Optional but recommended: Disallow unknown sources After I ran the Amazon version of BOINC, I could not tell the difference between Google Play Store and Amazon version. I tried the link you provided above, but again, it downloads as a .man file and Android didn't know how to open it.

7) Message boards : Android : App missing from the Play store (Message 87824) Posted 27 Aug 2018 by MissingLink Post: I came here to say the same thing. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.berkeley.boinc&hl=en_US We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server. In the off chance we have to load the APK manually, how do we do this? When I tried to download manually, I downloaded a .man file which Android OS 4.4 didn't know how to handle...

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