Posts by SekeRob2

21) Message boards : GPUs : Specifying multiple Tasks just for one of multiple GPU's in App_config.xml (Message 71743)
Posted 21 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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There's also app_info.xml for detail configuration, but have no idea at all how that works, or how collaborative it is with app_config.xml or for that matter, the projects. IIRC, some are not too pleased with the use of app_info, from which reason app_config was born.

Edit: The manual http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Anonymous_platform
22) Message boards : GPUs : Specifying multiple Tasks just for one of multiple GPU's in App_config.xml (Message 71735)
Posted 21 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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Here's the manual: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration

Per application/version you specify the fractions used. Probably if you visit a project forum that does GPU crunching you can find examples there, for instance https://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=3319
23) Message boards : Questions and problems : Display Save Energy mode not works with BOINC (Message 71724)
Posted 20 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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The WCG SS are OpenGL too... so they can run on multiple platforms. Just tested with slider 3 set 1 minutes, slider 2 to Never, Slider 1 to 2 minutes, applied and waited... sure enough the WCG SS kicked in and then got blanked after 2 minutes, to then wait for the Energy save to take effect at 3 minutes. On mouse got the lock screen... just as the doctor prescribed. Albeit, this is a newer system with ATI card. Was actually for the older laptop pleasantly surprised things kept working on wide screen hi res as previous manual driver updates under W7 always lost it with a drop to just 1024 wide. OEM customized drivers never updated (ATI too).

For more astounding things MS did, they hobbled their own Skype webcam function for millions with the AU release: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/76719/microsoft-broken-millions-webcams-windows-10-anniversary-update
24) Message boards : Questions and problems : Display Save Energy mode not works with BOINC (Message 71713)
Posted 20 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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hmmm, went thru all the builds via Insider fast ring, 14393.82 actually being the final re-rereleased W10 Anniversary Update. BOINC runs perfect as service, albeit set a few rules in the Windows Firewall that's default on, to let through remote RPC traffic. Just an incoming rule for boinc.exe and boincmgr.exe and boinc.scr

The screensaver is a separate BOINC module (there are like 4 parts), which you can deselect/change in settings (type screen saver in the Cortana box and you get the related control panel as option), where the BOINC SS has like 4 controls, 1 being the time to go to blank, which when I got it on for testing, is set to do this 1 minute before energy saving is kicking in and the screen powers off. Can't say I have a problem with this either.

Maybe you can repost at the SETI forums where the audience will be in the know of the project specific issues.

For the support team: The second slide of "Run BOINC Screensaver for" I got on the far right where it says Never? The 3rd, project screensaver I got on 10 minutes. Preview works fine, but when left alone, the SS for the project never kicks in... energy saver just kicks in after 20 minutes, per separate power setting.
25) Message boards : Questions and problems : resource share between projects (Message 71671)
Posted 18 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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The resource share / project weight can only be changed on the project website location profile. The project tab shows the numerical share and the relative percent of the sum of all those shares. Suppose you had WCG+LHC only and WCG was set to 400 and LHC stayed it's default 100. Then WCG would get 400 / (400+100) = 80% of the processing time.

Order of processing of work is a complicated matter, but is designed in a way so that each project over a longer period gets it's share of work done, and all deadlines are met, which then can lead to the appearance of some tasks getting favored, this more pressing, the bigger the work buffer is set to be. If a project gets overworked, it will later be set to a lower fetch order, to compensate for the time it did too much in the past.
26) Message boards : Questions and problems : Can I run BOINC at work? How can I persuade my boss it's safe? (Message 71650)
Posted 17 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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It is sandboxed (and more so if installed as service)
27) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Advanced View for MacOS (Message 71633)
Posted 17 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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It's the same with the Ubuntu Unity interface, the menu is in the top screen bar, not top of the window frame.
28) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc overwrites app_config.xml (Message 71600)
Posted 16 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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What if you change the file to Read only?
29) Message boards : Questions and problems : CPID at BOINCstats changes whehn email address changes (Message 71585)
Posted 15 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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mitrichr does not have an active client, so CPIDs dont align very well, hence his 2 dozen projects got split over 2 groups with same user name. After he reverted back to his old mail account, the previous CPID just took effect again and caused things to roll up again.
30) Message boards : Questions and problems : How to make BOINC only get one task per time but using 100% force? (Message 71544)
Posted 14 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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AFAIK there is no such task/project. There's multithreaded CPU loading projects that do parallel processing, but I'm never so sure how efficient that is compared to an equal number of single threaded tasks that run concurrent.
31) Message boards : Questions and problems : My BOINC client hacked????? (Message 71533)
Posted 13 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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In the BOINC data dir (path printed at top of Event log, if client was restarted recently), you find stdoutdae.txt and the even older stdoutdae.old logs.
32) Message boards : Questions and problems : My BOINC client hacked????? (Message 71527)
Posted 13 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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Well, open up the Event log (Ctrl+Shft+E) and scroll through to see when exactly changes were made and post the log here.
33) Message boards : Android : No New Tasks after completing several task sets (Message 71516)
Posted 12 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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My point is, there is no 'Download from unknown source', there is an 'Installation from unknown source', [on my KitKat through Marshmallow upgrades]. Do get a warning though to say it's not allowed, often then offering to open the settings to quickly flip the switch.
34) Message boards : Android : No New Tasks after completing several task sets (Message 71462)
Posted 11 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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Download or 'Installation' from unknown sources? (using APK installer to actually execute the apk package)
35) Message boards : Questions and problems : All Tasks are "Ready to Report" and theres about 25 (Message 71456)
Posted 11 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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If still stuck, write in to the Milkyway forums. They are much better equipped based on you posting a message log where reporting is shown to fail, what might be going on at the client or their project server side. Ready to Report means that phase 1, the upload of the result files was successful.
36) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Missing options in Rosetta's computing preferences page (Message 71442)
Posted 10 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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If you have just one client, why then even bother with BAM? Setting local prefs makes BAM useless... anyway, you seem contend with the present fix.
37) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Missing options in Rosetta's computing preferences page (Message 71437)
Posted 10 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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The workaround/PTF would then be to go to a project that does have the missing options, change and save the relevant location profile, and run an update. The fallback would then always be that project profile.
38) Message boards : BOINC Manager : Missing options in Rosetta's computing preferences page (Message 71434)
Posted 10 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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Always thought preferences of a project would only transfer to a client if the time-stamp at the site has changed (latest changed project profile principle). If time-stamp on client and project are same or older, nothing should update. These time-stamps are recorded in the event log.
39) Message boards : Questions and problems : Unable to connect to core client (Message 71430)
Posted 10 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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Maybe you have 2 installs, but those 2 files being empty (and if not also same name, .old suffixed files existing), indicates the core client never ran. Date stamp of creation / modification gives further pointer if so.
40) Message boards : Questions and problems : Quake page not updating (Message 71330)
Posted 9 Aug 2016 by SekeRob2
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July 28, 2015 news: http://quakecatcher.net/update-project-in-boinc

Was not wearing my glasses thinking to see 2016...


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