Everything You Need To Know About World Community Grid/BOINC

[generious]

Have a spare i7 920 barely being used just signed up(Generious) I will leave her run

[Lu523]

is it normal to be working on 4 items at once? is it better to just work on 1 at a time?

You have 4 work units in progress. That is normal for your Q6600.

[sierra_bound]

is it normal to be working on 4 items at once? is it better to just work on 1 at a time?

Yes, it's normal. If you have a quad core with four threads, your PC will process four work units at a time. If you have a quad core with eight threads, it will process eight work units. More cores means more work processed in a given amount of time.

The downside is that your CPU will be working at 100% load. So good cooling is a must.

If you don't want to run at full load, just go into the BOINC Manager. Advanced ---> Preferences. Change the processor value from 100% to whatever you want.

[TSXmike]

thanks for the quick answers!

cooling hasnt been a problem... im actually quite surprised how cool shes running at the moment (all cores around 47~49*).

[sierra_bound]

WCG will not stress your CPU as much as Prime. But during the summer months, you'll notice your room is a lot warmer.

[Johnmark]

Running BOinc x64 beta and noticed that my messages are not updating, anyone else have the same problem? Online I can see that work has been completed from this machine.
Looking at my other systems messges/log (32 bit ver. of BOINC) and see numerous updates, tells when files completed. uploaded etc.

On another note I'm VERY impressed with how well BOINC Manager handles multitasking using the x64 version. I've got it set to use 100% CPU and eight threads, which it is using all the time and can still do my daily work without really noticing any negative impacts. Sure it slows down the BOINC's crunching somewhat but the big thing is I can still run multiple tasks without noticing a slow down on the primary app !!

Makes me happy to be helping out without any negatives to my computing experience!

John

[sierra_bound]

On the BOINC Manager, go to the Projects tab and hit Update. You should see a message appear under the Message tab. It should say something like "Sending scheduler request". Whatever you do, don't hit "Reset project". That will flush out all your cached work units.

[Makavre]

probably a silly question but i noticed the granted credit for the validated work
is not matching the requested.

for example i completed one overnight and this is what's showing
44.1 / 41.1
then another one this evening
45.4 / 41.4

is this normal ??

[sierra_bound]

Yes, that's normal. WCG uses a quorum system. The same work unit is usually sent out to at least two computers. When the work units are completed and sent back, they are analyzed by a special validation program. If the two results are similar, you get credit that's an average of the two.

In some cases, your granted credit will actually be higher than the claimed credit.

This post explains it a little better.

[Makavre]

Thank you for the quick response, and yeah, that post definitely made things clearer

[sRHunt3r]

Added my daughters q6600 to the cause, I'll work on the wife's later tonight

[Johnmark]

On the BOINC Manager, go to the Projects tab and hit Update. You should see a message appear under the Message tab. It should say something like "Sending scheduler request". Whatever you do, don't hit "Reset project". That will flush out all your cached work units.

Thanks, didn't appear to update. Then noticed that the x64 Beta version is sorting the log in reverse order, i.e. oldest at the top.
There doesn't appear to be a sort function built in so the newest entries are at the top of the log.
Guess that's why it's a Beta.
24 hrs. at 100% load, running all kinds of other apps concurrently and she's purring like a kitten

John

[Snow Crash]

Thanks, didn't appear to update. Then noticed that the x64 Beta version is sorting the log in reverse order, i.e. oldest at the top.
There doesn't appear to be a sort function built in so the newest entries are at the top of the log.
Guess that's why it's a Beta.
24 hrs. at 100% load, running all kinds of other apps concurrently and she's purring like a kitten

John

If you completely shut down BOINC (manually or with a computer restart) then the messages will start with a clean slate.

Have you tried clicking on the column headers to change the sorting?

[jujdred]

In two days I am building a quad core 8gig rig with 2 WD Raptors I will dedicate to your cause. This should be interesting.

[cla1067]

I'm all set up. got my I7 (stock 920) running 8 tasks at a time at 100 percent for WCG and my 4870x2 ( OC gpu: 750MHz mem: 900MHz temp: 50-58C using both GPUs) for the milky way. only two projects will use my graphics card . Then got another comp running thats on 24/7.


Can't join the team on milky way. My name is the same as my user name is on here.

[Johnmark]

Oh yea I finally got some results and points, with just over 24 hrs of run time.

Points Generated (Rank) 6,179 (#379,454)
Results Returned (Rank) 9 (#413,096)

Don't really understand the second stat.?

John

[Johnmark]

I'm all set up. got my I7 (stock 920) running 8 tasks at a time at 100 percent for WCG and my 4870x2 ( OC gpu: 750MHz mem: 900MHz temp: 50-58C using both GPUs) for the milky way. only two projects will use my graphics card . Then got another comp running thats on 24/7.


Can't join the team on milky way. My name is the same as my user name is on here.

How does one get their ATI 4890 GPU in on the action? When I first started BOinc the log say's "no usable GPU found". Can't seem to find any info. on the WCG site regarding GPU's?

Thanks,
John

[sierra_bound]

WCG does not use GPU power, just CPU right now. That may eventually change. There are other projects like F@H and GPUGrid that use GPU power. Some people here use CPU power for WCG and the GPU for other projects.

[cla1067]

I joined the milkyway@home http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/ as well, so I could use my GPU. GPU is under activity and also advanced > Preferences > Proccessor usage

[Otis11]

ok my cooling is the coolermaster v8 100%load 67c max on core 1 the other tree cores are between 58-61 cores 2-3-4
cpu voltage is 1.18v now trying 1.2v bios
memory corsair xms3 1600mhz@1480 all auto but voltage @1.66
qpi 1.33v
ioh core 1.2

asus gtx 285 1gb
im also using a coolermaster haf 932 case
and a coolermaster silent pro 850 watt psu

So hope this is stable now? Sorry didn't have time today to check back and keep up with the forum...

for what i have been toled you file with the temps some are going as high as 80c but i think that is hot hot hot mine is hitting 66c with the coolermaster v8 if you have extra money its best to upgrade the cooler if your worried
but 70 is the max for me
im a newbe at this so cant help with the score i have the gigabite ud5 mobo and i have my i7@3.7ghz but it bsod after about 6hours of doing this but i have uped the voltage of the cpu and im giving it another try

i love testing stability this way at least your using the g-fopps for good use unlike prime and intel burn test which you get no benifit from it

Yeah, I can vouch that temps are good. I have a i7 920 that's been in the mid to upper 80s for over a year (one month was even in the low 90s) so I don't think you have much to worry about on that front... 70s are absolutely safe.

(80s are fine, but I don't like 90s... It's all on what you're comfortable with)

71 is not hot for the i7-9xx series. Now I'm not suggesting that you go much over 80 in general but I have a rig running 24/7 for 13 months between 73-83 (depends on ambient temps, cost of AC during the summer and what OC I want to play with) and it is still running strong with no sign of degredation.

Second that.

[Willhub]

Will the software act as a server in any way on my machine? Just Manchester Uni's Hornet network in the UK that is currently my ISP (Halls of residence) does not allow anything that is acting as a server on the PC.

[sierra_bound]

Will the software act as a server in any way on my machine? Just Manchester Uni's Hornet network in the UK that is currently my ISP (Halls of residence) does not allow anything that is acting as a server on the PC.

No. The software simply downloads and uploads work units.

[BulldogPO]

Yep, nothing server like stuff, more like client.

[Mydog]

How many new members have joined the last couple of days, do you know?
I'm crunching now with 12 cores @ 4GHz and have got 30k in the last 40 hours, is that what I should expect?

[sierra_bound]

It's funny you should ask. I just took a look at the numbers a minute ago. 231 new members over the past couple of days. Our team membership has increased 18.7%.

Total current members = 1,465
We're now the 20th largest team
Largest team is Decrypthon (France) with 17,482 current members. Despite their size, we produce more points per day.
Second largest team is Team 2ch (Japan) with 11,822 current members. They are the current powerhouse. They generate more than 20 million points/day.