Posts by Casey

1) Message boards : BOINC client : BOINC has become a total mess (Message 50263)
Posted 20 Aug 2013 by Casey
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I started SETI@home back then in 1999 with quite a few computers, saw BOINC being set up then shortly after BOINC release uninstalled the whole until now.

I recently wanted to start again some tasks using BOINC, and I have to say that the whole has become ridiculously ineffective. To the point I uninstalled everything and won't devote any more time to this. This is just to say that if the project expects to gain more crunching power, things should be made *way* more straightforward to the user. It is no surprise to me that the whole platform is becoming less and less popular. Sorry for such a nonproductive post, but the idea back then in 1999 was so brilliant that I'm just ashamed to see how the whole has evolved, with conflicting projects: conflicting configurations, lots of manually maintained configuration files in several different directories, no GUI to edit required configuration settings, etc.

Just as an example, I started again beginning of August with two projects: Milkyway and climateprediction. Since then, I wasn't able to get a single work unit for climateprediction (besides the server issues). BOINC always reports either "not requesting tasks: don't need" or "not requesting tasks: project is not highest priority". I went through all configuration steps but no way to download a workunit: e.g. the priority for climateprediction is twice the priority of Milkyway, or even when Milkyway is turned off, with CPDN settings configured in order to fetch enough work to keep the computer busy long enough, a fast enough computer (i7 3770K + GTX 680), etc.

This is enough BOINC nonsense for me and I'm signing off from all this after 14 years. I feel sorry to see how the brilliant initial idea has turned into a sophisticated monstrous buggy thing.



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