Posts by Jord

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41) Message boards : Questions and problems : Boinc : 8.0.2 : Boinc connection error : Invalid client RPC password. Try reinstalling BOINC. Message 115832 Posted 5 Apr 2025 by Jord	Previous threads on the subject: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=14471 https://boinc.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=15204 Or on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/comments/qxo64d/boinc_on_ubuntu/
42) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 115828 Posted 5 Apr 2025 by Jord	Talking about moderators, we have a free spot. Anyone interested? Shoot me a DM or red-X this post and let me know through there.
43) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 115827 Posted 5 Apr 2025 by Jord	Harmen Siezen, 84, Dutch journalist and presenter.
44) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 115781 Posted 2 Apr 2025 by Jord	Just as I thought I hadn't needed my moderator account in a long while, along came a passwordrobot. 🤭
45) Message boards : Documentation : BOINC, privacy and security Message 115769 Posted 2 Apr 2025 by Jord	In reply to claudia's message of 31 Mar 2025: we'd like to know if there are further specs on how data are managed, how security is set (to prevent injs, MITM, and so on). Lovely noticed that it doesn't record keystrokes but, could it be vulnerable to other side channels attacks? There isn't any such security. Anyone can take the BOINC client and server source code, change it to his heart's desire, and run anything they'd like as an application in the BOINC Manager. And if he then makes a live project out of it, it's up to the users to use their gut to figure out if the project is legit or not and if they want to run it on their systems. We're using GPL on our software, meaning anyone can use it and adapt it to their own use base for free and without us telling him he can't do that. As https://thehackernews.com/2024/07/socgholish-malware-exploits-boinc.html shows, BOINC is being used to run on botnets. Although this seemed to be a test.
46) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 115767 Posted 2 Apr 2025 by Jord	Suzie-Q wrote: Now, what can you do about the rest of my anxiety? Waiter? Beer! A lot.
47) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 115742 Posted 31 Mar 2025 by Jord	Eric Korpela wrote: We're having difficulty coming back up after the data center outage yesterday. One of our two servers doesn't think it has any disk drives. The other won't allow a remote console to be started. Fun
48) Message boards : The Lounge : The Seti is Slumbering Cafe Message 115739 Posted 31 Mar 2025 by Jord	Maybe they don't know it's down.
49) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 115732 Posted 30 Mar 2025 by Jord	Richard Chamberlain, 90, American actor and singer.
50) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 115704 Posted 28 Mar 2025 by Jord	Clive Revill, Voice of the Emperor in ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ Dies at 94 Loretta Schrijver, 68, Dutch television presenter.
51) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 115665 Posted 22 Mar 2025 by Jord	George Foreman, boxing champion and entrepreneur, dies aged 76.
52) Message boards : The Lounge : These are no longer with us, may they have peace. Message 115645 Posted 18 Mar 2025 by Jord	Rob de Nijs, 82, Dutch singer and actor.
53) Message boards : Questions and problems : "Backup" projects frequently returning work units late Message 115635 Posted 17 Mar 2025 by Jord	In reply to William Albert's message of 17 Mar 2025: While I have noticed this somewhat with LHC@Home because it's my only project where a WU requests more than one core Both LHC and Milkyway have multithreaded applications (https://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/apps.php, https://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/apps.php), which afaik require the amount of cores to be free that were available when BOINC requested work and got that from those projects. If then at a later time those cores aren't free, that work will wait until those cores are free.
54) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 115572 Posted 8 Mar 2025 by Jord	About Project A119 The Time We Asked Carl Sagan to Nuke the Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmYkSYZ6Hfg
55) Message boards : GPUs : Nvidia RTX 50 series removes 32-bit CUDA and 32-bit OpenCL support Message 115545 Posted 3 Mar 2025 by Jord	Eventually, all projects that have one or more science applications for Nvidia GPUs will need the newer science application and plan class, because it's not just this Nvidia GPU series that does away with the 32-bit support, it's the first Nvidia GPU series that does away with it. All the others coming after will also have lost their 32-bit support.
56) Message boards : GPUs : Nvidia RTX 50 series removes 32-bit CUDA and 32-bit OpenCL support Message 115543 Posted 3 Mar 2025 by Jord	In reply to Ian&Steve C.'s message of 3 Mar 2025: you may be pushing a change that affects 1 or no projects at all It's a plan class designation that they add to the scheduler. There's no code change, no new client, nothing. Just for the project to add a 64-bit application and a plan class designation that states to send tasks for this science application only to those GPUs that state they are 64-bit only (or some such). Just as all the other plan classes that projects already wield to send tasks to Windows, Linux, Mac and Android computers, with or without specified GPUs.
57) Message boards : GPUs : Nvidia RTX 50 series removes 32-bit CUDA and 32-bit OpenCL support Message 115541 Posted 3 Mar 2025 by Jord	In reply to Ian&Steve C.'s message of 2 Mar 2025: person has <problem> person wants to fix <problem> person asks how to fix <problem> The biggest problem here is that by the time the user noticed he has a problem and may be looking for an answer to fix it, he's run through hundreds to thousands of tasks that erred. He may not even be eligible to get work for days. And even then, there are some out there that don't ask for help. They'll just uninstall BOINC and leave a bad review, because it didn't work out of the box. If the project has the chance to take away the first problem from happening, why should we wait for tasks to err, the user to react and reach out and someone with the right knowledge to answer on how to add an optional line to a file that doesn't at standard come with BOINC?
58) Message boards : GPUs : Nvidia RTX 50 series removes 32-bit CUDA and 32-bit OpenCL support Message 115530 Posted 2 Mar 2025 by Jord	In reply to Ian&Steve C.'s message of 1 Mar 2025: educate the user how to use the features already available. That option is for advanced users only. People that won't immediately f-up all their xml text files. People that know how to go back when they encounter an error message. And next everyone wants these options in a GUI, built into the manager. It's easier for the projects to set up a plan class, as they've done already for differentiating between other 32bit and 64bit applications, just add one here, build 64bit applications and send them according to the plan class only to clients with this GPU (for now).
59) Message boards : BOINC client : I cant add any projects, I get a login error on ALL. Message 115529 Posted 2 Mar 2025 by Jord	What's the error that you get?
60) Message boards : The Lounge : Grumbles, Glory and All Your Off Topic Discussions Message 115519 Posted 1 Mar 2025 by Jord	And now then for some entertainment. I'm my own grandpa. And yup, it was a real song. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_My_Own_Grandpa

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