Posts by l008com

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1) Message boards : Questions and problems : World Community Grid Resource Share Message 113531 Posted 2 Feb 2024 by l008com	Figures, seconds after posting my question, I find it. It is hidden in a very nonstandard use of radio buttons. For others: Go to Device Profiles Then click on Default Then in the screen where you pick your settings, click on "Custom Profile" and before you hit save, suddenly the page full of options shows up for you to customize. Down near the bottom, "Project Weight" is IT.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : World Community Grid Resource Share Message 113530 Posted 2 Feb 2024 by l008com	I don't know why WCG has to use their own proprietary site where everything is hidden in odd places. But does anyone know where you go to find this setting? I've set it to 0 but now I want to put it back up to 100 but I cannot find it anywhere. I found another post asking the same question from 2016 but it seems like theyve changed the site so those directions no longer work. it's gotta be in here somewhere though, right?
3) Message boards : BOINC client : Downloading Extra Work Message 113429 Posted 23 Jan 2024 by l008com	I have multiple machines and they all have different settings as far as how many days worth of work they should download and queue up. But for a long time now, they never do. They always download the exact amount of work they can run and no more. Is this a setting each project can set on their end? To override preferred 'days of work' settings for connecting clients and only give them as much as they need right now, and no more? I ask because I do 4 main projects but having just added a 5th, suddenly that one for the first time in forever is downloading extra work for me. I'm just wondering what the deal is with that?
4) Message boards : Questions and problems : Apple ARM Support? Message 112685 Posted 14 Sep 2023 by l008com	I'm wondering if any projects have native support in their applications for "Apple Silicon" CPU/GPUs? Processor WUs or GPU WUs?
5) Message boards : Questions and problems : All Milkyway@Home GPU WU"s get Computation error Message 106167 Posted 22 Nov 2021 by l008com	Here is a sample failed work unit: https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/result.php?resultid=425929132
6) Message boards : Questions and problems : All Milkyway@Home GPU WU"s get Computation error Message 106166 Posted 22 Nov 2021 by l008com	I'm trying to get some GPU work going on my Mac Pro. It is running 10.13.6 and has a GeForce GT120. Not the best card in the world but it's all there is. I have the latest nVidia drivers installed and this card should be supported by the driver, opencl, and the project. And the project does indeed download work units. But almost instantly, these work units give a Computation Error. Every one. Over and over. What might be going on here? I'm not sure where to look to even try to troubleshoot this problem.
7) Message boards : BOINC Manager : 7.16.19 Mac Invalid Package Message 105303 Posted 2 Sep 2021 by l008com	I'm trying to update my client to 7.16.19 but I get an error each time. It says the digital signature is invalid. It suggest re-downloading which of course I've done. Seems like theres a problem with the posted file itself.
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd values not matching up with GUI Message 100934 Posted 3 Oct 2020 by l008com	Actually, looking at the output from --get_tasks, I think it's been done already. ...For a running task, name: wu_sf7_DS-16x8_Grp266373of655360_0 WU name: wu_sf7_DS-16x8_Grp266373of655360 project URL: http://numberfields.asu.edu/NumberFields/ received: Sat Oct 03 05:47:08 2020 report deadline: Fri Oct 09 05:46:57 2020 ready to report: no state: downloaded scheduler state: scheduled active_task_state: EXECUTING app version num: 300 resources: 1 CPU estimated CPU time remaining: 3131.496614 elapsed task time: 294.285412 slot: 2 PID: 2192 CPU time at last checkpoint: 247.464400 current CPU time: 282.315000 fraction done: 0.178543 swap size: 291 MB working set size: 9 MB I don't have an "elapsed task time" row in the result of --get_tasks. There is estimated CPU time and there is slot, with nothing in-between for me. I'm on 7.6.11. Any idea why I'm missing this information? 10) ----------- name: 172425_Hs_T116268-ITGAV_wu-12_1601185078389_2 WU name: 172425_Hs_T116268-ITGAV_wu-12_1601185078389 project URL: http://gene.disi.unitn.it/test/ received: Sat Oct 3 07:48:43 2020 report deadline: Fri Oct 9 07:48:42 2020 ready to report: no state: downloaded scheduler state: scheduled active_task_state: EXECUTING app version num: 110 resources: 1 CPU estimated CPU time remaining: 13120.401551 slot: 0 PID: 11892 CPU time at last checkpoint: 10628.880000 current CPU time: 10633.100000 fraction done: 0.478333 swap size: 4303 MB working set size: 145 MB
9) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd values not matching up with GUI Message 100929 Posted 3 Oct 2020 by l008com	So how do I get the runtime?
10) Message boards : Questions and problems : boinccmd values not matching up with GUI Message 100926 Posted 3 Oct 2020 by l008com	I'm ultimately trying to run the boinccmd --get_tasks command and parse that output into an sql table. It's going well except for one problem.... In the `boinccmd` results, the value for "Estimated CPU time remaining" corresponds exactly with the GUI's task column for "Remaining (estimated)". As you'd expect. However the `boinccmd` value for "current CPU time" does not correspond to the GUI's task column for "Elapsed". it is roughly about 75% smaller than that. What is the deal here? How can I get the elapsed time a work unit has been running via `boinccmd`?
11) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99744 Posted 8 Jul 2020 by l008com	How does the RPC work, is it just HTTP requests? Making my own handler to directly talk to that should be pretty easy. Any documentation for how to access that? I gave you that link in my first answer, but here it is again: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/GuiRpcProtocol I don't see on that page how you actually send and receive those commands?
12) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99720 Posted 8 Jul 2020 by l008com	That's up to you. either you ask boinccmd to get information, which will provide human-readable answers in a fairly sparse, predictable format - some people are able to parse that output with scripting tools. or you write your own RPC handler, and work at the XML level. boinccmd may use XML RPCs internally, but it is not designed to output the raw XML to the user. How does the RPC work, is it just HTTP requests? Making my own handler to directly talk to that should be pretty easy. Any documentation for how to access that?
13) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99689 Posted 7 Jul 2020 by l008com	The boinccmd utility contains the library routines for converting between XML and human formats as required. Well thats good, so how do you DO that? I can't find any mention in any of the online docs?
14) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99683 Posted 7 Jul 2020 by l008com	boinccmd still exists, and is documented here. The full RPC specification is documented at https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/GuiRpcProtocol Now that boinccmd is working, I'm confused by the difference here. Does boinccmd not use the RPC? If no, then how do I do RPC commands? The RPC page you linked to shows results coming back in XML yet boinccmd's results are all coming back as one long multi-line string.
15) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99681 Posted 7 Jul 2020 by l008com	If you can't find it any other way, it's certainly in the "(Unix command-line version)" on the download_all page. Yup apparently you have to download it as a separate piece on macos.
16) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99680 Posted 7 Jul 2020 by l008com	$ boinccmd -bash: boinccmd: command not found
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99650 Posted 6 Jul 2020 by l008com	The manager application goes right into /Applications as an app bundle. I don't see anything like boinccmd inside the app bundle anywhere. It's also not in the /Library/Application Support/BOINC Data folder. I don't know where else it would possibly be. I'm thinking the Mac client might not come with boinccmd?
18) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99627 Posted 5 Jul 2020 by l008com	Well if it's still around then where is it? Or where do I download it? I can't find it anywhere.
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC RPC Support? Message 99588 Posted 2 Jul 2020 by l008com	I'm making a web based dashboard showing me info on all of my crypto wallets and distributed computing apps. The basic way this works is that timed scripts run and gather information from the apps, load it into an SQL database, and then the website pulls that info and shows it in a nice, neat, organized way. I had fairly good luck starting this, getting lots of info out of all of the crypto wallets very easily. Their RPC system is, while not very well documented, very easy to use. But I haven't had as much luck with BOINC. Lots of 10+ year old forum threads. Lots of conflicting, undated information. Pages about using boinccmd which doesn't appear to even exist any more? Can anyone point me in the right direction here? Whether its done via HTTP requests or by direct cli commands, either way as fine as long as I can use it to get info on all of the currently running work units. It seems that the BOINC Manager itself uses some form of RPC to communicate to the actual underlying BOINC processes so there must be some way to do it, no?
20) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Waiting for shared memory" on MacOS. Message 95821 Posted 12 Feb 2020 by l008com	You need to change and increase the amount of memory BOINC can use overall. Read and follow instructions from link below. https://boinc.mundayweb.com/wiki/index.php?title=Waiting_for_memory_(5.8_and_above) I'm already using 90%. And even with that setting, very little of my system's memory is being used. So that's definitely not it.[/quote]

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