Posts by navderek

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Does boinc utilize multi core cpus well? (Message 28260)
Posted 23 Oct 2009 by navderek
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I know, but read my comments. the setting is a percentage, which obviously is kinda useless if only 100% enables both cores... Why not have a dropdown asking how many cores to enable (i.e. 1, 2, 3, 4, etc...)
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Does boinc utilize multi core cpus well? (Message 28258)
Posted 23 Oct 2009 by navderek
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Hmmm the problem was in the preferences...but it's deceiving on how it's worded.
This was the preference:

"On multiprocessor systems, use at most xxx% of the processors"

I had it set to 90% thinking it would use 90% of both processors combined. Will be a good idea to change the wording there...I mean is it even possible to use 90% of 2 cores? Obviously not because BOINC clearly wasn't doing that and considered 90% to = 1 core.

I changed it to 100% and the preference limit disapeared. Thanks for the tip by looking at the messages :-)


10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Starting BOINC client version 6.6.38 for windows_x86_64
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Libraries: libcurl/7.19.4 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Running under account PC1
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz [Intel64 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 11]
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 pni
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Ultimate x64 Edition, Service Pack 1, (06.00.6001.00)
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Memory: 8.00 GB physical, 7.95 GB virtual
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Disk: 34.46 GB total, 5.08 GB free
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Local time is UTC -4 hours
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM No CUDA-capable NVIDIA GPUs found
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM No coprocessors
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Not using a proxy
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM AQUA@home URL: http://aqua.dwavesys.com/; Computer ID: 29848; location: (none); project prefs: default
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM No general preferences found - using BOINC defaults
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Reading preferences override file
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Preferences limit memory usage when active to 4095.09MB
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 7371.17MB
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Preferences limit disk usage to 0.20GB
10/22/2009 11:59:48 PM Preferences limit # CPUs to 1
3) Message boards : Questions and problems : Does boinc utilize multi core cpus well? (Message 28187)
Posted 21 Oct 2009 by navderek
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Hi there,

I'm running Windows Vista...yes, yes I know....anyways I'm signed up with AQUA@Home and there seems to be a problem with it detecting my dual core CPU. I keep getting messages saying that AQUA@Home does not support single core CPUs, but my CPU is in fact a dual core. It's an Intel Core2 Duo E6550 (2.33GHz)

Has anyone else has this bug and does anyone know how to fix it...other than deleting Windows Vista? lol

I'll be installing Win7 soon enough, but in the meantime I'd like to know why AQUA@Home does not recognize my dual core CPU.


Thanks!




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