Posts by mikey

1) Message boards : Number crunching : ARM/ARM64 (Raspberry Pi) support (Message 2251) Posted 26 Jan 2024 by mikey Post: I even built a linux distro for ARM that runs nothing but BOINC :) Is there an image available somewhere? Thank you. Image not directly (as it is tested to be compatible with a range of boards that I have at home) but anybody can build it from source and add their board if needed - https://github.com/CallMeFoxie/EmbeddedBOINC/tree/next-lts I wish you'd put this into a *.iso file so we can just put it on an sd card, add the projects and crunch with it, compiling is beyond what at least some of us want to do.
2) Message boards : Cafe : OS Selection thread (Message 2145) Posted 12 Jul 2023 by mikey Post: I prefer RHEL derivatives for private and professional use, because it is important for me to have as much practise as i can get. Me too., Actually I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.7 (Ootpa), not a derivatave, My first home computer ran Windows 95 and I hated it so much that I complained to my computer-knowledgeable nephew (an MIT student at the time) and he recommended Red Hat Linux 5 (current at the time), and it was so much better, and less buggy, and free that I got it. I cannot remember if it fit a floppy disk or a CD. But I added a hard drive to my machine and installed Linux on the new drive as a dual-boot system. I then went to RHL 5.2 on a new machine and later upgraded it to CentOS4. I run RHEL on my last few machines. I like that it is supported for 10 years because I hate upgrades (although I to keep with the bug fixes). $ uptime 16:38:49 up 28 days, 6:51, 1 user, load average: 12.07, 12.19, 12.58 $ I run Windows 10 or 11 or Linux Mint or Ubuntu depending on the pc, some pc's just don't like Windows so they get Linux and run just fine and are also faster than machines with similar hardware running Windows. Windows seems to have alot more overhead than Linux does which I'm guessing means things happen faster when you click on them but since most of my pc's are just for crunching I don't care about that.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : New tasks? (Message 2064) Posted 13 Apr 2023 by mikey Post: Admins could you please ensure we have tasks to crunch. It is a waste of money and electricity hiring computers from TheScienceCloud only to discover them sitting idle due to your project's lack of tasks. There are plenty of other Boinc Projects you can put your machines on to get credits, some even faster than here. ALL Projects go thru phases where they have tasks or they don't, it's why it's called Distributed Computing and soo many Projects have joined in since Boinc came about way back when, the idea being you get to choose where you want to crunch and if one Project is running low on tasks you can always choose another!!
4) Message boards : News : Today is the day // Hoy es el día (Message 1675) Posted 8 Jul 2022 by mikey Post: It's working! I have several WUs, and four of them are crunching now. Thanks, Jesύs, and the team. Ardis ==================================================== ¡Es trabaja! Tengo varios "WUs", y cuatro son crujida ahora. Gracias, Jesύs y el equipo. (Lo siento para errores. Mi español no es muy bien.) Ardis I have a few tasks as well!! :-))
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Deadline (Message 793) Posted 6 Feb 2016 by mikey Post: I have some difficulties to finish WU's in time. Is there a point to finish a WU/report a WU even if I realize that I won't make it in time? Normally no as the Project would just reissue them to someone else once you, or anyone else, misses the deadline, but in this case the Project doesn't have any more tasks to give out right now......so depending on how long it might take then you might still get credit for them. Once a task is reissued to someone else the 1st person to return it gets the credits, normally that's not the person that already missed the deadline. The one other thing going against you this time is this chart: Tasks ready to send 0 Tasks in progress 0 Denis does NOT think ANY tasks are outstanding so it may have already written yours off as never coming back and if that's the case then NO you will not get any credits for crunching them. What I'm saying is that probably only an Admin can give you the final answer this time.
6) Message boards : News : New WUs Generation will be paused (Message 751) Posted 21 Dec 2015 by mikey Post: Thank you for the info...some info is much better than us wondering if you forgot or are onto other things. mikey
7) Message boards : News : New WUs Generation will be paused (Message 746) Posted 19 Dec 2015 by mikey Post: Is there any ETA for when we will work to crunch? We suppose that during the next week we will start to generate new WUs. Best regards, Joel. And now it's been almost A MONTH!!! Can you explain to us exactly HOW this will affect the long term viability of this project please?
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Computers running out of work - no work available?? (Message 732) Posted 8 Dec 2015 by mikey Post: No work has been available for more than a week, any chance of any new work coming soon?
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimized app ? (Message 701) Posted 19 Nov 2015 by mikey Post: DENIS only takes about 4 MEGA BYTES per task. The BOINC message "finish file present too long" does not mean that the file is too long but seems to mean that a DENIS FINISH file was written but the DENIS task has not completed and exited yet. You can use the TASK MANAGER to see if you are exhausting memory and possibly paging to disk which would increase the size of a "race" window. EXAMPLE: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/dev/forum_thread.php?id=10354 Look at the TASK MANAGER CPU USAGE or the PROCESS view and if you are oversubscribing the CPU, you might set the BOINC MANAGER to reduce the number of BOINC tasks. BOINC will allow up to 1 job per CPU BUT!!! if you start too many, normal tasks will fight for the CPU and the BOINC jobs might actually run slower. I adjust for CPU usage to be between 90% to 95%. I usually run 1 task less than CPU. One problem could be that he has hyper-threading enabled and could be trying to run 8 units at the same time. BTW I also set my pc's to use no more than 99% of the available cpu's on them.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimized app ? (Message 583) Posted 25 Oct 2015 by mikey Post: AVX2 version. Download: http://optos.sesef.pl/denis or https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1452459/denis/denis1.6.1_avx2.zip You should get up to ~30% speedup depends on cpu type, on new Intel Skylake even more. My laptop trashed all the units using this one, I reverted to the old one and it is fine again.
11) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimized app ? (Message 565) Posted 13 Oct 2015 by mikey Post: Hello I have a i7 970 ( 1366 ) with 64 W7 . I downloaded the SSE2 , SSE3 and SSE41 files but I have no where to put files or that I have to do with them. I need help for noobs Thank you Download the file and extract it into the C:\program data\Boinc\projects\Denis directory and restart Boinc.
12) Message boards : Number crunching : Optimized app ? (Message 455) Posted 7 Sep 2015 by mikey Post: I think they are saying that they need to come out with versions for Linux, etc. and can't do that with just the optimized app itself. Maybe they should contact Sensef directly, he may be able to help them 'officially'.
13) Message boards : Cafe : OS Selection thread (Message 365) Posted 19 Jul 2015 by mikey Post: I run Windows 7 64bit almost exclusively, I have tried running Ubuntu but always have trouble setting up the gpu's for Boinc usage. I have been using Windows since the early 80's so it's just easier for me, learning how to make Ubuntu do the same things is just not as intuitive for me at this point. I too have found that which is faster, Linux or Windows, depends alot of the applications written by the project. Also in general 64bits apps are faster than 32bit apps.