Posts by zombie67

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41) Message boards : The Lounge : Why have so few WCG folks come over to BOINC Message 15516 Posted 22 Feb 2008 by zombie67	Some people prefer KISS over lots of options. Nothing wrong with that. I think if projects offered UD as an option they might get more CPU cycles donated. The problem with UD is that it uses only one core/thread per machine. That was fine 5+ years ago. Not it just wastes processing capacity.
42) Message boards : The Lounge : How many Ps3 are signed up for Boinc? Message 15515 Posted 22 Feb 2008 by zombie67	There is also a PS3 app for TSP. But it is PPE only.
43) Message boards : BOINC client : Leopard Message 15414 Posted 14 Feb 2008 by zombie67	Good news! The 10.5.2 update helped! My CPU usage was around 80%, not in the high 90%. Still not up to 100% though.
44) Message boards : BOINC client : Leopard Message 15341 Posted 10 Feb 2008 by zombie67	I have the original 8-way intel Mac Pro. Under Tiger, everything ran fine with 5.10.41. All 8 CPUs were at 100%, and nice showed correctly. Today I did a clean wipe/install of Leopard. Now BOINC tasks show as user, instead of nice. If I read an earlier post in this thread correctly, that is a problem with Activity Monitor and/or MenuMeters. Fine. Annoying, but letting it go for now. The really troubling problem that I am seeing is total CPU usage. Under Tiger, MenuMeters showed all 8 as 100% pegged, all the time. Now, the individual graphs are all jagged with peaks and valleys, and when I set it to "show average for multiple processors a single display" (similar to the way that windows does it) it is showing only about 80% usage. Top shows about 80% as well. I just lost 20% of my processing power! Help! Edit: A snapshot of the Activity Monitor is on my downloads page.
45) Message boards : BOINC client : First dual-task project not handled so well Message 15155 Posted 29 Jan 2008 by zombie67	Wait. I thought BOINC could only allow one task per thread. Did MindModeling really find a way to allow a task to use more than one thread inside BOINC? If so, this is great news for MT apps, no? Should someone tell Folding@Home? Also, what does this mean when a single project task takes over all my threads? Especially to all the other BOINC tasks running?
46) Message boards : Projects : News on Project Outages Message 14965 Posted 17 Jan 2008 by zombie67	Give the man a break. ;) He's on an island that shares a dual 128k, and that's over cellular. It will take about a day to get everything transferred to the new server.
47) Message boards : The Lounge : How many Ps3 are signed up for Boinc? Message 14886 Posted 14 Jan 2008 by zombie67	I have had mine crunching 24/7 for about half a year now, with no problems. About cooling, no additional cooling needed. Just don't put it in an enclosed cabinet with the doors shut.
48) Message boards : The Lounge : Help with Project Points Proposal Message 14867 Posted 13 Jan 2008 by zombie67	It doesn't however, overcome the fundamental problem of unfair credit allocation, within the same project, affecting the position of the individual within that project. Hmmm. Credits within a project are a completely different problem than cross-project credits. The former, IMO, are completely the responsibility of the project, and far more easily defined. It is a relatively easy problem to solve. Fixed credits, transaction counting, benchmarks/quorum, whatever. The advantage a project has is that they are all running the same app, using the same resources. The latter is the real problem (IMO), and I think the position comparison may be the solution.
49) Message boards : The Lounge : Help with Project Points Proposal Message 14864 Posted 13 Jan 2008 by zombie67	Perhaps cross-project credit parity really is impossible. I really like the idea behind Formula BOINC: http://www.myboinc.com/FormulaBoinc/ Rather than comparing credits between projects, you compare positions
50) Message boards : Web interfaces : Spam from Seti@Home ... and I never signed up! Message 14306 Posted 14 Dec 2007 by zombie67	However, since you never explicitly created the account, it's wrong for the newsletter checkbox to be on by default! I'll point the devs to this thread tomorrow. True, however, I do want to be notified by email when my team & user account is created on a new project.
51) Message boards : Web interfaces : More Questions to BOINC wide teams Message 13895 Posted 16 Nov 2007 by zombie67	Check this out: http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/forum_thread.php?id=51
52) Message boards : Web interfaces : Mailing lists vs. Forum vs. Google: Why use what? Message 13828 Posted 14 Nov 2007 by zombie67	3. Create BOINC forums using the BOINC forum software, alongside the existing dev forums. Pro: the devil you know. Con: the developers don't seem to like using the dev forums, much. Isn't #3 what we already have here? Why would a second set of forums be needed?
53) Message boards : Web interfaces : More Questions to BOINC wide teams Message 13827 Posted 14 Nov 2007 by zombie67	The teams were included in this feature without being asked first whether they wanted to participate or not, the profiles had simply been copied and pasted from one specific project (Seti, why not Einstein or CPDN?) without permission from the team admins. This is the real problem, IMO. This would have gone much better, if they had 1) Announced the plan for this new functionality in advance, which would then 2) Allow each team to set up their BOINC-wide teams properly, or not at all, depending on each team's decision. The copying of SETI teams, and implementation without any kind of notification is causing all kinds of garbage team info to get replicated all over the place. And best case, it will take 2 months to stop the replication, and up to another two months to correct all the replicated garbage at all the new projects.
54) Message boards : Web interfaces : Question to BOINC-wide Teams Message 13675 Posted 9 Nov 2007 by zombie67	Is it me, or is http://www.boincteams.com/ not available? I get an error "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at www.boincteams.com." Works for me.
55) Message boards : Web interfaces : BOINC dev Forum broken Message 13506 Posted 3 Nov 2007 by zombie67	Notice that by putting a "reply" link or button on each post encourages people to needlessly quote large volumes of text. One way around this is to provide a "post to thread" link which posts without quoting, along with a "reply to this post" link. I thought we were trying to get rid of the generic "post to thread" in order to get to threaded readers.
56) Message boards : Web interfaces : Question to BOINC-wide Teams Message 13488 Posted 3 Nov 2007 by zombie67	What is this dubious group about? It's not a proper place for discussions. It's now readable without surrendering your privacy to the "Datenkrake" Google, but it's definitely no proper place for discussions about BOINC. There is this official forum to talk about such stuff or the dev-list, full stop. Everything else is just BS. It sure does appear like smoke-filled, back-room decisions are being made. It appears that some team founders were invited to join this google group, created by David Anderson, back in July. I assume the list of invited founders was taken from the S@H list of team founders. My team was not invited, probably because my team's S@H founder no longer exists. In any case, that the discussion was hidden, and not here or the mailing list is more than a bit frustrating. Or did I miss an announce about this group somewhere official? I did find this bit of official documentation: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/TeamDiscussion
57) Message boards : Web interfaces : Threads Message 13436 Posted 2 Nov 2007 by zombie67	other things. Porn spammers with porn videos? ;-) Only if we're lucky.
58) Message boards : Web interfaces : Question to BOINC-wide Teams Message 13409 Posted 31 Oct 2007 by zombie67	Who led this half-baked "feature" lose on the public? Half-baked is too kind.
59) Message boards : Web interfaces : Question to BOINC-wide Teams Message 13408 Posted 31 Oct 2007 by zombie67	So, on one hand it seems like a fine idea to have the name SETI.Germany kind of copyrighted in new projects from the beginning... It doesn't even do that. Consider this scenario: New project, where membership is still invitation only. Team Foo is automatically created, yet no team members from Foo can join at this time. So random person Bar decides to hijack the team by initiating the transfer request. Oh yeah, and the default founder no longer exists, as is the case for my own team. How he got set up as the default team founder is a mystery to me and my team. I am guessing the default teams were simply copied from SETI, where he is also founder.
60) Message boards : Web interfaces : Threads Message 13380 Posted 29 Oct 2007 by zombie67	But will it be a problem if most people use Reply to this post and almost always quote the post they're replying to? I find that unnecessary quotes really slow down the quick reading and flow of a thread. The issue with people not trimming the quoted material is a problem for any forum, regardless. It is a problem with the forums we currently use for BOINC today.

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