Posts by Eric Myers

1) Message boards : News : Ageless: a decade of moderation (Message 69665)
Posted 20 May 2016 by Eric Myers
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Congratulations, Jord, for being newsworthy. And thank for all your service not just to BOINC but also to the many projects you have helped.
2) Message boards : Documentation : What are the software components of BOINC? (Message 43206)
Posted 29 Mar 2012 by Eric Myers
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I gave a similar talk to our local Linux user's group. It's been a while, but some of the info is still current. The slides are at: Distributed Computing with BOINC.
3) Message boards : Promotion : Namespace collision (Message 40346)
Posted 24 Sep 2011 by Eric Myers
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Trademarks can be specific to an industry and product line, so Boinc for music distribution and BOINC for distributed computing is certainly confusing, but may not be close enough to overlap, legally. Recall that Apple was/is the trademark of a computer company (which distributes music on-line) and of a company that produces music (off-line).
4) Message boards : Promotion : Namespace collision (Message 40296)
Posted 22 Sep 2011 by Eric Myers
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It looks like we are in for a namespace collision. Someone is planning to launch a digital music service called "Boinc": http://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/in-conversation-with-boincs-adam-kidron/

(With a little luck, it will not last long :-)
5) Message boards : Server programs : BOINC from very begining (Message 39796)
Posted 22 Aug 2011 by Eric Myers
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I just started using a new Fedora 12 install to build BOINC and apps, and I found
that I needed to install the glibc-static package to build an app with the math library linked statically (ie. with -lm ).

The apache server package is called "httpd"
6) Message boards : Server programs : BOINC from very begining (Message 39749)
Posted 20 Aug 2011 by Eric Myers
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It looks like the problem with the packagekit plugin for yum is a missing package. Try installing dbus-python, ie
 yum install dbus-python
This was apparently fixed in Fedora 15, but only backported to Fedora 14, not anything earlier. Alternatively, you could try disabling the plugin from it's configuration file.

As for the other package problems, it's generally true that you don't put the version number in the name you give to yum. So just install "mysql-server" or "php-cli", without explicit package numbers in the names. (There are exceptions, but thankfully few.)

Then try more generally
 yum update
to get everything up to date, if you've not already done so.

In addition to the official BOINC documentation, there's an explanation of how to set up a server that you may or may not find helpful, at http://www.spy-hill.net/~myers/help/boinc/Create_Project.html, which I hope is not too much out of date.
7) Message boards : API : (Online) Beginner's Workshop and Step-by-Step instructions? (Message 32065)
Posted 9 Apr 2010 by Eric Myers
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... Or set up your own project and write your own applications?


Hi,

this is my intention.


Then you may find this a good start: Creating and Configuring a BOINC Project
8) Message boards : Questions and problems : where to ask about boinc develop code and bugs? (Message 31875)
Posted 31 Mar 2010 by Eric Myers
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Those mailing lists are good for keeping up on what is happening with development. It will take time for some of it to make sense.

Info on the development side can be found in the Trac wiki: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki

Bugs also get reported via Trac. To prevent spam you have to have an account, but you can get one just by asking.

You can post questions in these forums, in the lower section on Software Development and Testing. Not many developers read them, and those folks who do read them don't always respond right away. But you still may get an answer, and you might also learn something from reading the old posts. If your question is really compelling then someone who reads more regularly might alert the right person about the question. Or not, but maybe.

It may take a while to get up to speed, but these are some of the resources that can get you started.
9) Message boards : Web interfaces : Documentation for Project Creators? (Message 31822)
Posted 28 Mar 2010 by Eric Myers
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You may also find something useful here: http://www.spy-hill.net/help/boinc/
10) Message boards : BOINC client : Need help setting up client test environment (Message 31820)
Posted 28 Mar 2010 by Eric Myers
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I am using Ubuntu 9.8 Kernel 2.6

Then a "personal" install on Linux would work, and you can easily have multiples running on the same machine.
11) Message boards : Server programs : Boinc Server on Windows computer? (Message 31737)
Posted 24 Mar 2010 by Eric Myers
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Installing Linux is not that difficult these days. I prefer Fedora for servers and Ubuntu for the desktop, but either will work. Both have package managers to make it easy to install the necessary software. There is lots of documentation about this and you might be able to get help locally.

So then you have to build and install BOINC. In addition to the documentation at Berkeley, you may find this helpful: http://www.spy-hill.net/~myers/help/boinc/Create_Project.html
12) Message boards : The Lounge : BOINC in the News (Message 31634)
Posted 17 Mar 2010 by Eric Myers
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International Science Grid This Week (iSGTW) for 17 March 2010: Case Study: Einstein@OSG
13) Message boards : API : (Online) Beginner's Workshop and Step-by-Step instructions? (Message 31612)
Posted 16 Mar 2010 by Eric Myers
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What is it you want to do? Run the BOINC client on your computer? Or set up your own project and write your own applications?
14) Message boards : The Lounge : BOINC in the News (Message 31363)
Posted 5 Mar 2010 by Eric Myers
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Although BOINC is not mentioned, the Colatz conjecture appears in today's xkcd comic
15) Message boards : Server programs : "Output file absent" when running "test" project-"uppercase" application (Message 30731)
Posted 29 Jan 2010 by Eric Myers
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What about input file? If uppercase has no input file it will not create an output file. And it won't get an input file unless the "workunit template" specifies one. So check that your template is correct. No guarantees this is the problem, but that is what I would check first.

16) Message boards : Server programs : Cannot access BOINC admin pages (Message 30613)
Posted 21 Jan 2010 by Eric Myers
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Yes, but IMHO this is a bug. There should be a default policy, which allows only special users of class "admin" in to those pages, and a hook called project_auth_ops() which can be used to override. A new project admin should not have to stop to write the policy code to get started. This is ticket-worthy.
17) Message boards : Questions and problems : BOINC on Gentoo Linux (Message 30491)
Posted 11 Jan 2010 by Eric Myers
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The instructions told me to attach to a project by running "/etc/init.d/boinc attach", which prompted me to enter the URL and then the key.

By tradition and convention Unix init scripts should be run non-interactive, and running it with this "attach" argument violates this. When you report this bug to Gentoo please remind them of this. The script is used to start the daemon, and then the user runs the manager (GUI interface) and selects attach and provides the URL of the project. Thank you for feeding this info back to the Gentoo folks.
18) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages (Message 30379)
Posted 30 Dec 2009 by Eric Myers
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Eric Myers wrote:
The Einstein@Home server is very sluggish. From the status page it looks like the transitioner is off-line, which would cause everything to come to a halt (basically the server seems to be constipated :-)

And they've now got things moving again.
19) Message boards : Questions and problems : Trouble starting client daemon on openSuSE11.0 (Message 30373)
Posted 30 Dec 2009 by Eric Myers
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I finally had some time to catch up on some tickets. This one is #970 - "ERR_ALREADY_RUNNING is misleading if it's just a file permission problem"
20) Message boards : Projects : News on project outages (Message 30371)
Posted 30 Dec 2009 by Eric Myers
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The Einstein@Home server is very sluggish. From the status page it looks like the transitioner is off-line, which would cause everything to come to a halt (basically the server seems to be constipated :-)


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