Joining World Community Grid the easy way

[rwillis]

Hey Folks, I decided to pitch in some cycles for the week. I have a question though...

I let in run yesterday untill all projects were finished and saying "Waiting to Report". The machine sat like that for almost 3 hours.

My pump has been making some noise so I was a little leary of leaving it run ovenight so I shut the machine down. When I fired it up this morning it started with all new data packets...

Am I missing something? I thought it would automatically upload data to the server.... Hope I didn't lose all that work from yesterday....

It can depend on what your Network Usage settings are, I run mine on a 2 day connection, and maintain about 5 days of extra work. You can check 2 ways ........ 1. log on to the WCG site, go to My Grid, and then check result status, set result stats to either Pending Validation, or Vaild - that will show what you have sent back. 2. check the messages section of the client, it you have enough history it will show ... Reporting Foo completed tasks.......

I've had them stack up complete for days before even with the 2 day setting, but usually if you hit the update it will send what ever is ready, also when you shutdown and restart.

Rick

[Daveburt714]

rwillis: Thanks man, they are showing as valid on MyGrid w/points...

Glad I didn't lose the work from yesterday...

Dave

[rwillis]

Your welcome - Happy to help

[radaja]

ive got some work from my previous install(32 XP)that i just realized didnt get finished.since i reinstalled x64 and dont have
this install anymore,what will happen since i cant finish them?they are due on 5-5-2010.do i just get penalized?lose points?

[rwillis]

No - no penalty nor do you lose points. For future reference - it would be better to cancel or abort the WU's so they can be redistributed faster to folks still running. They will be in any case, but aborting will get them back into circulation faster.

Rick

[radaja]

i realize that now,but beginners always seem to screw up something.
and i have made at least three screwups since i started on 4-16-2010.
im learning thanks to people like you,who take the time to give good advice.
thank you much

[rwillis]

i realize that now,but beginners always seem to screw up something.
and i have made at least three screwups since i started on 4-16-2010.
im learning thanks to people like you,who take the time to give good advice.
thank you much

Your Welcome

It's not screwing up - it's called learning - you have no idea how many I've 'learned on' over the years. The main thing is that your interested in helping, and are doing so.............

Be well my friend, and keep posting if you have questions.

Rick

[radaja]

thanks.will do

[Tiltevros]

ok here is my stypid learning error :P i was using the x86 version and i now using the x64 version but my projects are no longer in the x64 client and i cant open my x86 version due to the x64 setup. what do i do to get them back or to cancel them so they can be redistributed faster to folks still running??????????

and something else how many machines can i use in the same account?

[rwillis]

I don't believe there is anything you can do to get the X86 jobs back, but others may know more than I about that. As for the number of machines on an account, you can run as many as you like, I'm currently running 3 and have run as many as 20. Just install the client on each machine, adn us the account you used to setup the first one.

Rick

[D_A]

You can't do anything, that I know of, to get them back. Don't stress about it. There's plenty of work to go around. As for your second question, as many as you can connect. There may be a limit to how many unique IDs the WCG servers can handle per account, but it's going to be such a ridiculously high number that nobody will ever reach it. I'm talking in the BILLIONS btw, possibly more. If you think you can get a hold of a few thousand machines legitimately, go for it.
If you write a virus and use a whole botnet to crunch WCG, expect to be banned from the project and every forum associated with it for life. Yes it's that serious.
That's not an accusation, that's a warning for ANYONE thinking about it. Don't do it. Just don't.

[Angmaar]

If you write a virus and use a whole botnet to crunch WCG, expect to be banned from the project and every forum associated with it for life. Yes it's that serious.
That's not an accusation, that's a warning for ANYONE thinking about it. Don't do it. Just don't.

You can also get fired from your job if you install BOINC to crunch without permission. This happened to someone with Seti@HOME.

[D_A]

There was also a guy at Folding@Home who wrote a virus which installed it on any infected computer under his account. He was banned from the project, stripped of his points and any awards that went with them and, as far as I know, reported to the authorities for what is a federal crime in the US and in many other countries.

People are rather sensitive to make sure it never happens again.

[p0tter]

Planned to start on the 1st, but something is better than nothing I suppose.

Ill run it on my work e6750, X2-3200 and i5

[Movieman]

Planned to start on the 1st, but something is better than nothing I suppose.

Ill run it on my work e6750, X2-3200 and i5

Thanks for helping..
If everyone brought what you had we'd KILL that 100mil figure!

[generics_user]

bringin in my 955BE; i7 620m and T7400 mbp

the e2140 just as my p9600 cps13 aren't available right now...

does it matter chich cause i choose during the setup in terms of ppd?

[Movieman]

bringin in my 955BE; i7 620m and T7400 mbp

the e2140 just as my p9600 cps13 aren't available right now...

does it matter chich cause i choose during the setup in terms of ppd?

Not a lot but at this stage of the game choose the HCC or HFCC projects
Stay away from the HP one.
Thanks for helping!

[generics_user]

the i7620m just started FAAH projects; are they ok so late in the game or do they take way too long?

edit: it takes 5 hours for 4threads so it should be done before may 8th; is it better to run 2 threads on the i7620m or make use of HT?

shall i assigne every thread to a logical core or is it ok @ default (running win 7 64)

the 955 received hcc projects

[Movieman]

the i7620m just started FAAH projects; are they ok so late in the game or do they take way too long?

edit: it takes 5 hours for 4threads so it should be done before may 8th; is it better to run 2 threads on the i7620m or make use of HT?

shall i assigne every thread to a logical core or is it ok @ default (running win 7 64)

the 955 received hcc projects

Good choice and use the HT..

[[XC] Oj101]

I don't remember where on the WCG site to set global preferences for work queues, etc

[rwillis]

Go to the WCG site, and under My Grid............
For Device Preferences - Go to Device manager, select device profiles, and click the custom bullet, and edit the profile the save the profile. Then add the new profile the device.
For Projects go to My Projects, and select the projects you'd like to run.

Rick

[Dreddy71]

I am now helping, now i need to get motivated enough to put this on my main rig and not just the laptop. too bad i cant put it on the old download box.. time setting is off on purpose. by years.

[Kryja]

I think it might be worth putting in the guide to increase your additional work buffer. Otherwise, if and when the server goes down (like yesterday) silly people like myself will run out of WU's to crunch

[sierra_bound]

I think it might be worth putting in the guide to increase your additional work buffer. Otherwise, if and when the server goes down (like yesterday) silly people like myself will run out of WU's to crunch

It's mentioned in the other guide.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...57&postcount=7

[Angmaar]

I think it might be worth putting in the guide to increase your additional work buffer. Otherwise, if and when the server goes down (like yesterday) silly people like myself will run out of WU's to crunch

That's a good idea. I'll link to Sierra Bound's post about it.