Posts by boboviz

41) Message boards : Questions and problems : Use of BOINC and WSL: some confusion (Message 104113)
Posted 25 Apr 2021 by boboviz
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I am wondering how I might check, if WSL version 2 is running? Where and with which command, it might get the version of WSL?

The command is
wsl -l -v

I'll add this command to the next version of guide


Under Titel: BOINC Client installation in WSL and link to a project, there is a Note: “WSL, by default uses all available cores and memory of you PC”and a command
notepad "$ env: USERPROFILE / .wslconfig"
When I execute this command, I get the following error (Spanish): “Bloc de Notas, El nombre de archive, el nombre de directorio o la sintaxis de la etiqueta del volume no son correctos.”

Seems a problem of your Windows...If you search for your error you will find a lot of articles.


I would like to ask: where, with which name and with which extension the file shall be saved?

This is an old guide for wsl.conf file, but maybe useful
42) Message boards : Questions and problems : Use of BOINC and WSL: some confusion (Message 104112)
Posted 25 Apr 2021 by boboviz
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That will be revised shortly, and should have said
Open the Windows command prompt and type:
cd C:\Program Files\BOINC and then launch the following command from that directory:
boinccmd --gui_rpc_port 2536
(this is one random example, put whatever you want). This will set the Windows BOINC port to 2536, while the WSL port will remain 31416.


I'm the writer of this guide.
And, in the latest version i've added this line:
"For the most recent version of Boinc, the command is: boinc.exe -daemon -gui_rpc_port 2536"
Maybe this part is not translated in the english version of the guide....
43) Message boards : News : 2021 BOINC workshop (Message 103958)
Posted 13 Apr 2021 by boboviz
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The agenda for Community Discussion + Tutorials on April 28 has not been posted yet but World Community Grid Tech Keith Uplinger has an exciting announcement for that day:
"I am planning on doing a tutorial similar to what I did in Chicago about setting up a BOINC server and running from scratch. My plan is to have it run on ubuntu 20.04 for ease of use for those to set it up."


There will be video/guides of this workshop??

Ok, ok, i see you opened an Youtube channel.
(this tutorials of Uplinger will be very interesting)
44) Message boards : Projects : How do i make a project? (Message 102835)
Posted 6 Feb 2021 by boboviz
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Do you read this??
45) Message boards : Documentation : BOINC add-on software page needs updating (Message 102798)
Posted 3 Feb 2021 by boboviz
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I was just wondering if the BOINC add-on webpage was going to be updated

This is not the only page to update/change (or remove, if is not longer supported).
My message about very old pages is still without answer...
46) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 102695)
Posted 25 Jan 2021 by boboviz
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Projects which have closed down usually - eventually - make that visible publicly. Either they post a polite notice of thanks on their website, or their domain registration lapses and gets taken over by a spammer.

A lot of times, admins of closed project forget to make that visible and server remain on-line.....for nothing!!
For example, the last message from Citizen Science Grid admin is March 2019 and the last wus are 3 years ago.
And the project is still in the list.

If you come across one of those, it's worth posting the information to the mailing list Jord mentioned. But a message board thread is an inefficient tool in those circumstances - the people you most want to be aware of and act on the information, are the least likely to read it here.

Mailing list? Where??
If the message board is inefficient, i think also mailing list is not so good.
47) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 102693)
Posted 25 Jan 2021 by boboviz
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I'm not sure when the projects list is updated, but its accuracy depends on input from the science projects. BOINC itself has no control over them rather providing an advertising hoarding for projects that are using the BOINC environment.
The BOINC project itslef does none of the computing, provides no server space, administration staff, science staff etc. to the science projects.

I know that Boinc's admins has no control over the projects.
But, if i'm a "fresh" volunteer (without any experience) and i see the list of projects and connect to one, i'm happy if this project is not closed...
Otherwise i connect to Science United.
48) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 102692)
Posted 25 Jan 2021 by boboviz
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If the closed projects don't tell that they have closed (there is a projects email list they can email that to), nor the new projects say that they are new and in production, it's no wonder the developers don't know about these things. New projects that are still in alpha/beta stage will generally not be added to the projects list.

So, create a thread in which volunteers (that are more "ready" to projects than developers) can report the closed projects is a bad idea?
49) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 102688)
Posted 25 Jan 2021 by boboviz
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That notwithstanding, the following projects listed in the BOINC projects-listing are essentially defunct:

Asteroids
BOINC@Tacc
CSG
Cosmology
...
ETC.
I'm not going to waste additional time of mine finding viable projects. The fact is that a significant number of BOINC projects - 2/3's ??? are not viable - in that there is NO activity on the respective BOINC-community message-boards.
You BOINC-people look into that, I'll look into this, and we'll see where the twain shall meet.


It's an old problem. Closed projects remain for years in the list, new projects take a lot of time to enter in the list...
If i'm not wrong it's an xml file that is released with every new version of client. But, sometimes, between new version there are months.
Is it possible to update only this xml file??
50) Message boards : News : Welcome SIDock@home (Message 102390)
Posted 2 Jan 2021 by boboviz
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They are also searching for a c++ (and OpenCl/Cuda) developer to help the project...
51) Message boards : News : Web site makeover (Message 101529)
Posted 9 Nov 2020 by boboviz
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But please, reintroduce the button for download boinc client.

No news???
52) Message boards : News : Web site makeover (Message 101062)
Posted 11 Oct 2020 by boboviz
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But, if i'm not wrong, i remember that SU receives funds from NSA....
I think that was presented as NSF, but you may be right.

Maybe you're right. But the point is: "follow the money" and money is for SU and not for Boinc.
But please, reintroduce the button for download boinc client.
53) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 101050)
Posted 11 Oct 2020 by boboviz
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MLC@Home is down.

It's online, with new server
54) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 101042)
Posted 10 Oct 2020 by boboviz
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MLC@Home is down.
55) Message boards : News : Web site makeover (Message 101034)
Posted 10 Oct 2020 by boboviz
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I would expect to find a big download BOINC button on the BOINC front page, just as it used to be. Go to any other website which is for its own (named, brand) product, will you find when you get there that it advertises a completely different thing with a small link to the actual product? No. So why that need here?

I agree. The link to boinc client is too small.
But, if i'm not wrong, i remember that SU receives funds from NSA....
56) Message boards : News : Web site makeover (Message 101029)
Posted 9 Oct 2020 by boboviz
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Apparently BOINC has been killed.

?? The link to boinc client is still on home page. And Science United uses Boinc client.
So, why turn off our computers?
57) Message boards : BOINC client : WSL2 starts to support gpu computing (Message 100576)
Posted 3 Sep 2020 by boboviz
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WSL2 on Win10 is ready to support OpenCl and OpenGL and, now, it's starting to support for CUDA.
58) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 100436)
Posted 24 Aug 2020 by boboviz
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Boinc@Tacc is down for maintenance.
But i don't know how long
59) Message boards : Documentation : Old pages to update (Message 100165)
Posted 31 Jul 2020 by boboviz
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Some times ago i found old pages to refresh (this, for example).
But i think this page is the new record: "WARNING: currently (2003/08/28) BOINC requires....."
Please, someone could review alla mysql documentation (or mariadb)??
60) Message boards : News : New BOINC project studies machine learning (Message 100164)
Posted 31 Jul 2020 by boboviz
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The source code of the project is open.
So, if someone wants to help the development....


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