Posts by Saul L

1) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My Wish List - part 3. (Message 31677)
Posted 20 Mar 2010 by Saul L
Post:
My bad, those wasn't boinc restarts because of the F@H client, I set my config to switch between projects every 15 min, now is set to 999, the BOINC Client replaces 0 with 60 everytime I set it that way,well nothing serious...

cheers.
2) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My Wish List - part 3. (Message 31675)
Posted 19 Mar 2010 by Saul L
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Well, I meant to assign a CPU core to a WU until it ends, of course if you have more projects that CPU Cores then you need short queues and yes, a good way to schedule the start of the WUs per project.

I use this and it has proven to be effective (no CPU dispute at the seems):

FLUSH_INTERVAL = 128 (128+64= 192 was OK if I don't use the PC, if I use it looks like BOINC doesn't get enough attention of the CPU and restarts WUs)

BROOK_YIELD = 2 (this made the trick to only use CPU ~10%)

CAL_PRE_FLUSH = 1

CAL_NO_FLUSH = 1

And yes, would be better if we could have these parameters calculated according to the hardware.

19/03/2010 10:44:59 World Community Grid Restarting task X0000090131304200707311400_0 using hcc1 version 606
19/03/2010 11:00:18 World Community Grid Restarting task R00607_f81cf9ce2fa93ed602b1ae86c9a01f1b_02_9 using rice version 617
19/03/2010 11:15:19 World Community Grid Restarting task X0000090131304200707311400_0 using hcc1 version 606
19/03/2010 11:33:24 World Community Grid Restarting task R00607_f81cf9ce2fa93ed602b1ae86c9a01f1b_02_9 using rice version 617
19/03/2010 11:48:25 World Community Grid Restarting task X0000090121363200707111304_0 using hcc1 version 606
19/03/2010 12:04:41 World Community Grid Restarting task R00607_f81cf9ce2fa93ed602b1ae86c9a01f1b_02_9 using rice version 617
19/03/2010 12:19:42 World Community Grid Restarting task X0000090131304200707311400_0 using hcc1 version 606
19/03/2010 12:19:42 World Community Grid Restarting task nf128_00035_2 using hpf2 version 603
19/03/2010 12:49:46 World Community Grid Restarting task R00607_f81cf9ce2fa93ed602b1ae86c9a01f1b_02_9 using rice version 617
19/03/2010 13:06:48 World Community Grid Restarting task nf128_00035_2 using hpf2 version 603
19/03/2010 13:17:46 World Community Grid Restarting task R00607_f81cf9ce2fa93ed602b1ae86c9a01f1b_02_9 using rice version 617
19/03/2010 13:19:09 World Community Grid Restarting task X0000090131304200707311400_0 using hcc1 version 606
19/03/2010 13:58:06 World Community Grid Restarting task R00607_f81cf9ce2fa93ed602b1ae86c9a01f1b_02_9 using rice version 617
19/03/2010 14:07:26 World Community Grid Restarting task X0000090121363200707111304_0 using hcc1 version 606
19/03/2010 14:22:27 World Community Grid Restarting task X0000090131304200707311400_0 using hcc1 version 606
19/03/2010 14:35:20 World Community Grid Restarting task faah11276_ZINC32112590_xMut_md20240_01_0 using faah version 607
19/03/2010 14:49:26 World Community Grid Restarting task R00607_f81cf9ce2fa93ed602b1ae86c9a01f1b_02_9 using rice version 617
19/03/2010 15:05:35 World Community Grid Restarting task X0000090131304200707311400_0 using hcc1 version 606
19/03/2010 15:05:35 World Community Grid Restarting task nf128_00035_2 using hpf2 version 603
19/03/2010 15:31:26 World Community Grid Restarting task R00608_1681a3ebd878ad83fd89a7f2fa69d840_01_11 using rice version 617
19/03/2010 16:17:03 World Community Grid Restarting task nf128_00035_2 using hpf2 version 603
3) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My Wish List - part 3. (Message 31661)
Posted 19 Mar 2010 by Saul L
Post:
Hello, I'd like to add my wishes for BOINC manager:

- Add a different method to run and WUs on the CPU: don't switch between project every xx minutes, just put all WUs on a single list separating projects with a horizontal line but run the WUs of all projects indistinctly.

- Take the example of Folding@Home GPU client (I'm running it right now alongside with BOINC: WCG) and run GPU projects with a minimum use of the CPU (10% max.): they use this method to configure it, although is not the default config, you have to do it manually, is really easy, but you have to fine tone it to achieve optimal use of both CPU+GPU, so an automatic setting for the environment variables would be great or use internal variables to BOINC client.

The sample config. is good enough for my system
(AMD Athlon II X2 2.8Ghz,
Hyper Transport @ 2Ghz,
ASUS ATI HD4670 1GB DDR3-1600 PCIE@x16,
RAM: G Skill F3-12800 2x2GB DDR3-1600 CL -6 black edition,
MoBo: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO AMD 790 ChipSet):

FLUSH_INTERVAL = 128-256 for a 48x0, 64-96 for a 38x0 (the optimum setting so that the GPU remains at 100% regardless of the WU, without causing too much lag should be within these ranges).

BROOK_YIELD = 2 (to stop utilising 100% of the CPU and therefore allow an additional CPU client to be started)

CAL_PRE_FLUSH = 1

CAL_NO_FLUSH = 1 (but should be reverted to 0 if it causes too many VPU Recovers).
4) Message boards : BOINC Manager : My Wish List - 2 (Message 14473)
Posted 23 Dec 2007 by Saul L
Post:
I think BOINC needs to improve the Task Manager:
- Allow the user to assign percentage of resources to projects individually.
- Allow the user to modify the queue, of course BOINC should control that it never gets to zero work units on any projects.

I'd personally would like to download a few dozens of work units to have them in queue and to asssign 80% to WCG and the rest to other projects or chage this in a few days. PLEASE MAKE THIS POSSIBLE.



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