Posts by Toby Broom

1) Message boards : BOINC client : /var/lib/boinc-client not created with noble (Message 113964)
Posted 7 days ago by Toby Broom
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I made a link to the folder. I also made a bug, I think it will be fixed.

https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/5564
2) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113528)
Posted 1 Feb 2024 by Toby Broom
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annnnndddd back
3) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113449)
Posted 25 Jan 2024 by Toby Broom
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Back today
4) Message boards : GPUs : nvidia not getting used but onboard intel card is (Message 113446)
Posted 25 Jan 2024 by Toby Broom
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I run a number for WU's at the same time to push the load up for an A5000/A4500 you can run 4 at once.
5) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113403)
Posted 20 Jan 2024 by Toby Broom
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Offline again, I assume it will be back i a few day like normal.
6) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113219)
Posted 3 Dec 2023 by Toby Broom
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Just a short one, back now
7) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113216)
Posted 3 Dec 2023 by Toby Broom
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Down again.
8) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113183)
Posted 27 Nov 2023 by Toby Broom
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Down again
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : best projects for an aged 32bit Linux machine (Message 113173)
Posted 26 Nov 2023 by Toby Broom
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They have the minimium specs for the projects here:


https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/topic.s?shortName=minimumreq

You should be OK for all of them.

You can check on there website if you were assigned some task and if there was error what the errors were.
10) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113153)
Posted 21 Nov 2023 by Toby Broom
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Back up
11) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 113060)
Posted 10 Nov 2023 by Toby Broom
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It was up for a while, I think the admins have sort of moved on, when they have a little time they can reboot the server etc.

Its down again at the moment.
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : (k)ubuntu 23.10 upgrade causes 'invalid client RPC password. Try re-installing boinc manger' error message (Message 112992)
Posted 25 Oct 2023 by Toby Broom
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It could be this also:
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3355

I had directed edited the systemd file, so they were overwritten, other had pointed out the better way is to create an override file then it won't get overwritten.

Working fine after this
13) Message boards : GPUs : Intel iGPU (Gen7) on Ubuntu/Pop OS 22.04 (beignet-opencl-icd not available) (Message 112989)
Posted 24 Oct 2023 by Toby Broom
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I just got the packages from the Intel github repo:

https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases

These are the new rutimes

https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/show_host_detail.php?hostid=10831474

I don't have such an old GPU though so I'm not sure if it will work
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : Recommended installation method on Ubuntu to use a version > 7.20.5 (Message 112987)
Posted 23 Oct 2023 by Toby Broom
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I tried to use the repo as well but it is not fully deployed yet so Dave's is the best, once they are ready to use the repo they will let us know the Dev's said.
15) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages (Message 112451)
Posted 4 Aug 2023 by Toby Broom
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Radioactive@Home is down at the moment.
16) Message boards : Projects : Anything and Everything to do with (WCG) World Community Grid (Message 111848)
Posted 19 May 2023 by Toby Broom
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I don't think its possiable, I was getting "Tasks are committed to other platforms" which seems to be related to that my computer asked for too much work.

https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/HomogeneousRedundancy
17) Message boards : Projects : Radioactive@Home is not working (Message 111770)
Posted 9 May 2023 by Toby Broom
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Back now
18) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.20 Change Log (Message 109010)
Posted 6 Jul 2022 by Toby Broom
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OK, just curious, I installed 7.20.1 on a computer and it seems quite stable, I was inspired but ubuntu 22.04 where there is a development version included.
19) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC 7.20 Change Log (Message 108954)
Posted 5 Jul 2022 by Toby Broom
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Is there an ETA for the 7.20 to be the recommended?
20) Message boards : Questions and problems : PSA: 12th Gen low CPU usage (Message 107351)
Posted 12 Mar 2022 by Toby Broom
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Hi,

I was only getting about 40% CPU usage on my 12900K, adjusting the processor scheduling to prefer background apps fixed it.

Regards


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