Posts by Michael E. Malis

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC CPU Allocation Big Problem (Message 33578) Posted 28 Jun 2010 by Michael E. Malis Post: SETI (and of course SETI Beta) was the high-demand project I was thinking of. In the 'status' column of BOINC Manager (Advanced view, Tasks tab), for a GPU task it should show "Running - x.xx CPUs and 1.00 GPU", or words to that effect. What's the x.xx? (may have to scroll / expand column to read it) The x.xx is the percentage of a thread that is required to convert/send/receive data to and from the GPU for processing.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC CPU Allocation Big Problem (Message 33576) Posted 28 Jun 2010 by Michael E. Malis Post: Good news! 6.10.57 solved the problem. Hopefully it continues to work and isn't unstable as stated it might be. Thanks for the help. I didn't know before that BOINC updates are sometimes project-specific. I always thought it was just a scheduling framework and the apps had nothing to do with it.
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC CPU Allocation Big Problem (Message 33575) Posted 28 Jun 2010 by Michael E. Malis Post: OK. I give the upgrade a try first and see if that solves it. For the record, the Fermi apps I'm running are Seti@home, Seti@home beta, Collatz conjecture, and GPU Grid. Although, GPU Grid is currently dry so you can count that one out of this scenario.
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC CPU Allocation Big Problem (Message 33573) Posted 28 Jun 2010 by Michael E. Malis Post: I have 8 threads available on the CPU for the Aqua D-wave multi-threaded app. I have 2 Nvidia GTX 480's available for the GPUs. The GPUs ALWAYS run no matter what settings I use for BOINC. They switch the order of running based on the "switch between application" settings but they always work. BOINC version 6.10.18 Vista Ultimate 64-Bit edit: I want to add than I have no CPU time restrictions and it is set to run while the computer is in use. I also didn't have this problem until AFTER I set the other apps to only give me GPU work units. When I had CPU workunits from the other apps along with the GPU work units, the CPU work units cycled correctly. Now that there are only CPU work units from a single app, the CPU doesn't run them.
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC CPU Allocation Big Problem (Message 33571) Posted 28 Jun 2010 by Michael E. Malis Post: I am currently running 5 programs. 4 of them are GPU only and the 5th is CPU only. The problem I have is that the CPU only program doesn't run on the CPU when one of the other 4 applications is running on the GPU. I have tried setting the resource share of the CPU project to 100% and the other projects to 1% and that has not helped. I tried setting the "switch between applications" to 1 minute, figuring that the CPU would run once every 5 minutes for a single minute.....nope....nothing ran on the CPU all the way up to the 15 minute point. I tried setting the "switch between applications" setting to 1,000,000 minutes figuring it would run the CPU based on not meeting the deadline date.....nope.....nothing. So, how can I force the CPU to run 100% of the time on the only CPU project I have while running the GPU 100% of the time but switching between applications? Mike
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : New Function Suggestion/Wish (Message 32872) Posted 19 May 2010 by Michael E. Malis Post: I have gone to ALL websites that I am running projects for and deleted the old hosts but for some reason the BOINC statistics sites can still see them. I have one host that exists but 5 hosts that are listed http://www.allprojectstats.com/showuser.php?projekt=0&id=161486. How can I purge this junk from the system? Can this be done with BOINC? Can this be a feature in future BOINC revisions? As the system works now, there isn't a single BOINC statistics site that isn't light years away from reality when it comes to the number of hosts that actually exist and are doing work at this very moment.
7) Message boards : Questions and problems : New Function Suggestion/Wish (Message 32867) Posted 18 May 2010 by Michael E. Malis Post: I would like to be able to remove any host from ALL projects simultaneously. I have done work on 5 different computers but the problem I have is that I only currently have 1 computer and I would really like to clean up the mess and get rid of any traces of those other computers that no longer exist. I have gone to each of the 50+ sites, logged in, and deleted the non-existent hosts but for some reason they are still in the system because ALL the BOINC project stats pages still show them.

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