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Questions and problems :
Service install.
(Message 112740)
Posted 2 days ago by Bryn Mawr Post: I am considering deleting BOINC and re-installing as a service so it will start to run without the need to be logged in, e.g.. if the machine recovers from a power interruption while I am not here. I am assuming that the manager will operate in the same way as communication with the core should be exactly the same. In case... (!)... there are things I am missing, are there things I am missing? I run mine as a service for exactly that reason, if I’m away from home for a couple of months and home has a power cut then I don’t want to loose a lot of crunching time. But that’s Linux which installs as a service by default and I presume you’re Windows so … |
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Questions and problems :
Client downloads Tasks and runs not by Deadline Date Priority
(Message 112614)
Posted 25 days ago by Bryn Mawr Post: Boinc Client (Windows 10) Version 7.22.2 (x64) Boinc has a complex mechanism to ensure that the maximum amount of work is completed without any of it missing the deadline. This mechanism also ensures that your preferences as to the relative workload for each project is respected (in the long term). What you are seeing is Boinc reacting to new work by saying “this project is behind in its workload so I’ll give it priority which I can do because the existing tasks are well within deadline”. The less you touch this system the better it will run and no matter how much you try to tweak the system you will not get it to run in strict deadline date order. |
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Questions and problems :
NUCs and BOINC Projects
(Message 112613)
Posted 25 days ago by Bryn Mawr Post: Hi, For somewhere around £400 / desktop I put together 2x24 thread machines that run flat out on all cores drawing less than 140 watts at the plug (OK, when the GPU is running a task the power draw can go up to 142 watts but I’ve never seen it above that). I suspect that when you factor in the cooling in the small form factor and the efficiency cores in the intel chips, you would struggle to match that with an NUC. |
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Projects :
Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
(Message 112527)
Posted 14 Aug 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Tomorrow is Friday again. Let's see if my suspicions about how they handle sending out "new" tasks during weekends proves correct.Did someone make a mistake? My job-cache was still full after a weekend away. Nah, they restarted early. Stopped mid-afternoon Saturday, restarted late afternoon Monday. |
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Questions and problems :
boinc-client crash
(Message 112511)
Posted 8 Aug 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Linux Mint What was the change that you made? What version were you on? What OS version? With that sort of information we can tell you how to recover. |
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Questions and problems :
Strange Behavior - Even amounts of "Work done" credit/Slow validation/Low GPU usage
(Message 112402)
Posted 29 Jul 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: The other thing that needs to be said is that GPU tasks require some CPU in order to run. By setting CPU usage to zero you’re blocking GPU tasks as well. |
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Questions and problems :
Suspending Computation message meaning
(Message 112357)
Posted 25 Jul 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Suspend when computer in use and Suspend GPU computing when computer is in use are both unchecked There are many background tasks that can take your computer over 33% usage which is what the message is telling you is happening. As Boinc is ultra low priority so will give way to any work you want to do, it is safe to set that to 75% or even (as I do) 95%. |
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Questions and problems :
boinc can not connect ssl connection. http connection can connect
(Message 112353)
Posted 24 Jul 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: As further info. WCG was due to go down today (25th) for 2 days to allow for data centre maintenance but it collapsed on the 21st and both the website and the servers have been down since then. We can hope that it might rise again on the 27th but it might be next month before we see it. |
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Projects :
Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
(Message 112326)
Posted 21 Jul 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Website and server appear to have gone down earlier than expected. |
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Questions and problems :
Remove command button greyed out
(Message 111871)
Posted 24 May 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: I am using BOINC 7.20. In the BOINC Manager Advanced view, Projects I have two projects where the Remove button is unavailable: World Community Grid and Rosetta@home. These two projects were added automatically when I installed the BOINC software. I already had accounts for them but they were not manually added. I thought maybe that was significant. The button is greyed out when you have joined the project through an account manager such as BAM or SU. You can either remove the project from within the account manager or stop using the account manager from Boinc Manager > tools. |
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Questions and problems :
boinc-client reports wrong disk size
(Message 111817)
Posted 16 May 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Hi, What parameters have you set in the disks tab of the computing options? Boinc could be reporting the disk space it’s allowed to use rather than the total disk space installed. |
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Projects :
News on Project Outages
(Message 111699)
Posted 1 May 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: The WCG website has been down since 15:19 UTC with Error 500: java.lang.NullPointerException or System Error. |
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Projects :
World Community Grid needs help. can they get any here?
(Message 111698)
Posted 1 May 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: A couple of weeks ago WCG did make an announcement that the stats pages would be out of synch for some time as they were having to rebuild a lot of users & computers stats data from scratch. They have said several times that they are working on the problem and that the manual entry is a temp workaround until the fix is in place. OK, it’s not ideal but it is as it is. |
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Questions and problems :
How to get Flatpak BOINC manager to let the client run when the manager window is closed?
(Message 111601)
Posted 18 Apr 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: After fighting with the repository (Kubuntu 22.04) version of BOINC Manager, I gave up and installed the flatpak version this past weekend. That's working just fine -- except I noticed that my CPU fan wasn't running at high level like it should when my Fx8350 is going full blast on all eight cores. A little poking, and I've determined that it runs fine per preferences when the BOINC Manager is open, but if I close the manager (either with the x button upper right, or with File, Close Window), computation stops. Vague memories (sorry but I’m not near my machines to check it out) that there is an option within BM to close the client when the manager closes. |
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Projects :
Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
(Message 111434)
Posted 27 Mar 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: ...it will take about 74 hours. That’s just the move - allow time for the resultant databases to be checked for integrity etc. I’d be surprised if the move was not 24/7 but give them at least a day or so to verify before they restart. |
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Projects :
Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid
(Message 111362)
Posted 20 Mar 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: A further update from Cyclops :-) https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,45101 |
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Questions and problems :
Too many WUs were downloaded, all settings are ignored
(Message 111344)
Posted 19 Mar 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post:
Instead of <max_concurrent> and specifying the app name you could try <project_max_concurrent> which appears to be more reliable. |
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Projects :
News on Project Outages
(Message 111237)
Posted 9 Mar 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: just restart/reconnect a storage system. Agreed - and this is not a problem to park at Krembil’s door, it’s totally the responsibility of the data centre. |
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Projects :
News on Project Outages
(Message 111146)
Posted 1 Mar 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: TN-Grid seems to be down again. Can't upload or download, getting message "Internet access OK - project servers may be temporarily down." Website also unavailable. TN-Grid is working OK now. |
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Questions and problems :
Tasks completed not being credited to account
(Message 111002)
Posted 4 Feb 2023 by Bryn Mawr Post: Recently I got a new android phone. I have installed Boinc 7.18.1. I am using android version 12. I have completed and uploaded about 14 tasks for world community over the last week . My phone even says "credit 768 on this device". When I go to world community website and login it says that I haven't competed any tasks in the last year. Just wondering why all the tasks I have completed and uploaded are not being credited to my world community grid account? WCG is just coming out of a very troubled migration and the website is not fully working yet. If you go to results in My Contribution rather than History you will find your completed tasks. |
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