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Badge upgrades thread
(Message 9953)
Posted 29 days ago by ![]() Thanks everyone, hope they are OK. Appreciate all the hard work, Conan. Lot of love for statistics. What about a spreadsheet and drop in an image here? I use LibreOffice Calc spreadsheet to keep data sets on performance of various WU's and wouldn't mind helping. Ethercalc or Baserow offer real time collaboration and Ethercalc allows multiple users at once. Congratz to everyone's hard work. WuProps hunters are a boon to new projects ability to attract machines. We're the pioneer weeds on fresh basalt. Didn't realize I made so much progress. That Short SiDock app is waiting on putting postmarketOS on an Amazon Fire... And boooo to climateprediction.net for no app selection!!! |
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Why has the project been down for multiple consecutive hours in last number of days?
(Message 9952)
Posted 29 days ago by ![]() I'm just glad the project is still with us. Is there a Patreon donation link? |
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News of Projects and Apps Starting and Ending...
(Message 9933)
Posted 24 Apr 2023 by ![]() Ithena Computational has 15k Hex WU's up. I have 5000+ hours on that WU and still not broken 50k credit. Very small credit per hour. |
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(Message 9931)
Posted 24 Apr 2023 by ![]() This is probably better posted at PrimeGrid forums but it's also relevant here: The Cullen/Woodall (Sieve), as GPU apps go, has really nice characteristics. Been stress testing them on an EVGA GTX 1060 and an TriX R9-280x. They use about 0.02 CPU each on 16 thread 2700x, which is bare minimum. It seems they move into VRAM a shared set of libraries amounting to about 200MB, then each WU needs about 75MB per. These WU do drain more power on both cards at identical Afterburner settings (85W ave vs 41W for Milkyway on the 280x). |
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(Message 9930)
Posted 24 Apr 2023 by ![]() Rosetta has 4500+ Rosetta Beta tasks, and that's ALL they have right now so if you want your hours now is the time to jump on them!! I was at work, damn. Maybe some more will get dumped. Thanks for the heads up |
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(Message 9924)
Posted 23 Apr 2023 by ![]() Question for Michael Goetz: Is Composite Grid exporting to Free-DC? The website has me with 3.9m credit, but I don't have evidence of ever doing a WU for dev.primegrid.com, so guessing that you cloned the main site to the dev site and got my credit from my prior history? I don't see a setting for exporting results. EDIT: Looked at the Free-DC All Projects page and don't see Composite Grid in archived or current so guessing no export or I'm not using that section correctly. https://stats.free-dc.org/index/#boinc_projects |
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(Message 9923)
Posted 23 Apr 2023 by ![]() Anybody know why GoofyX Monkeys v1 is showing as active? I don't see anything in the auto news about it being active. Might have been me. I was building a Windows X BOINC VM and decided to start up an old version of my AntiX Linux VM and also a laptop HD cloned into a VM called 'Games' that I made for things like Black n White or NWN v1. If not me, I'd still choose option 2. |
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The application boinc2docker from project boincserver is active
(Message 9883)
Posted 1 Apr 2023 by ![]() most of the hours recently are me, though i'm not the only one (which i assume is why hours actually count here) They tried some BOINC2Docker WU's from the Parlea server and they had issues. Guess they started a test bed. Thanks for the heads up. Can we get an account now while before the WU's flow? |
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Climate Prediction login
(Message 9877)
Posted 31 Mar 2023 by ![]() The login page been giving me a "ooops that page can't be found" error the last 2 days. The HTTPS isn't working and the Linux VM spitting or a certificate error. Anyone else having an issue? |
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The application boinc2docker from project boincserver is active
(Message 9876)
Posted 31 Mar 2023 by ![]() Was going to ask the same thing. Looks like someone setup a BOINC server without even a name and is playing with BOINC2Docker. Anyone can setup a local BOINC2Docker as a means to run a Linux environment. Was going to try that if the WSL on that older machine flopped. Newapps found it because it reported results to Free-DC? |
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WSL install WUProp error
(Message 9866)
Posted 23 Mar 2023 by ![]() To run WuProp on WSL, you have to create a file named app_config.xml. I slept on it and was fixing breakfast, wondering if there was a command line to communicate WUProp the proper port. Did an app_config.xml for WUProp years back and just remembering it after reading your post. Thanks. Damn, the default forum search on here is 30 days. If you do advanced search: unlimited then this question has been answered many times. EDIT: Ah geesh, here is my past self having the same question in 2015: http://wuprop.boinc-af.org/forum_thread.php?id=374&postid=3560#3560 |
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WSL install WUProp error
(Message 9864)
Posted 23 Mar 2023 by ![]() Turning off <allow_remote_rpc_gui> brings back: pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci It still tries to watch over the Windows apps: 03:22:13 (1499): Erreur assignation project_name (node result) - project_url: https://www.sidock.si/sidock/ And then reports it can't connect to 3 diff localhosts ports: 04:21:14 (1499): can't connect to localhost04:21:14 (1499): Erreur reception active_result IDK how to fix this. Guess the AntiX BOINC needs to upgrade or a fresh Linux install somewhere, if I find some time today. |
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WSL install WUProp error
(Message 9862)
Posted 23 Mar 2023 by ![]() The error changed now that BOINC is started with 'sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start'. The WUProp WU running under WSL is attempting to track the Windows BOINC client WU's. I reset WUProp in the WSL and changed the RPC port. The WUProp WU running under Windows BOINC client does not see the Gerasim (Linux) hours and is functioning like it was. Here's the errors (I think they are all WU's running under Windows client): <core_client_version>7.18.1</core_client_version> |
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WSL install WUProp error
(Message 9861)
Posted 23 Mar 2023 by ![]() When I google the pcilib error most contain something around Raspbian. Turned off a lot of services, including Windows Update and the store, also it's Windows 18363.1556. I was planning on just wiping the OS drive and installing Linux but it's a badge hunter, with an AMD and NVidia card, so Windows + WSL2 is going to be the best choice, eventually. Breaking things or taking the manual route can improve your skills. Things I learned that maybe could help someone else here: 1) You can Unzip the Linux.appx or Linux.AppBundle packages and install manually. 2) There are X servers for Windows (XMing is one) that let the WSL communicate with the display. In WSL BASH type 'export DISPLAY=:0' to send video output to the Windows X Server. 3) Windows File Manager can read the rootfs folder but even an admin can't always move Linux files (Like cc_config.xml) and, if you do, the permissions can get scrambled. 4) I found PCmanFM File Manager for KDE(?), installed it and was using in on the Windows X server. It successfully moved the xml BOINC config files out of /mnt/c/wondows/system32 to /var/lib/boinc-client where they belonged. Windows built in File Manager acted like they were moved but they were still there. (I have some numb fingers and arthritis so command prompt typing errors slow me down.) 5) I completely forgot the Debian inet.d method of starting apps. Now I start BOINC with 'sudo /etc/init.d/boinc-client start' and the data folders are now properly placed. 6) Edited the boinc-client script in /etc/init.d with a decent Linux editor named Geany to add --gui_rpc_port 31414 so the WSl client had a different port. 7) Learned that Windows Notepad or 3rd party app, Notepad++, change the permissions of script files in the rootfs so they no longer execute... 8) Used PCmanFM to correct the boinc-client script permissions (nice product). 9) Never seriously used BoincTasks, but faced with two BOINC clients on one machine, d/led it and spent 2 hours learning to use it. 10) had to hunt down the correct gui_rpc_auth.cfg client passwords so that BoincTasks can log in. 11) BoincTasks showed how many BOINC clients are advertising theirselves on my network. Should have been none. I'll try using BoincTasks for central management later. Maybe it can manage the BOINC clients that or contained within VM's? Mikey and I were just discussing that. 12) Learned more about the BOINC Docker project and maybe I could have just ran Gerasim (Linux) in a Docker, or in the WSL, instead of developing my own Linux VM. Docker is a VM contained BOINC client and it can be managed by an external BOINC Manager or BoincTasks. 13) WUProps has some issues using the WSL (posting a new question about that in another post). So, I went off the beaten path and learned a bunch of things. Worth it. When I get to an WSL 2 install, I'll be able to contrast it to the things I learned on this WSL 1 experiment. The first time I tried to monitor a client in WSL 2 on via BOINCTasks all on the same PC it was kinda finicky. WSL gave it some odd IP address but often BOINCTasks wouldn't monitor both the native client and the WSL client on the same PC. The last time I just used boinctui to view progress. If you assign two different rpc_gui_port (add the --rpc_gui_port 31414 in init.d/boinc-client script BOINC_OPTS= string or in the Windows shortcut that starts the Windows BOINC client or in a Windows task schedule that start upon login) then that issue supposed to clear up. Has so far on mine. I also changed the WSL client name in cc_config.xml to NAME-WSL. Maybe it's something different about the WSL 2 VM style that creates an alternate local IP. Port change still might help, IDK. |
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WSL install WUProp error
(Message 9859)
Posted 23 Mar 2023 by ![]() No WU can validate because of this error: <core_client_version>7.18.1</core_client_version> Made sure the <allow_remote_gui_rpc> is set to 1 but this is about permissions to access the pci dev. Guess I could somehow sudo the WUProp or run from the root account; but it should work properly without those solutions. I'm not a Linux expert and not sure what's wrong. Maybe it's because I didn't give BOINC an explicit data folder and it made /mnt/c/Windows/System32 it's data folder? (strange choice) At least I successfully manually (no Windows store) installed Ubuntu 22 LST into WSL 1 on Windows Pro 2019, gave Windows an XServer then successfully ran the Linux BOINC Mgr GUI to access the WSL BOINC client and got Gerasim (Linux) and WUProp running. Proud of my Linux-ignorant self for doing that all in a night. But I thought a single BOINC Manager could control WSL and native Windows WU's from the same port. Not that I'd be running two BOINC clients and two BOINC Mgrs; guess this is where BoincTasks shines. I'll try moving the data folder and then maybe just install Ubuntu in a VM so I can get this Gerasim (Linux) done. The AntiX BOINC 7.18.1 install went badly. The install sh script doesn't place the boinc executables in the usr/lib/boinc-client folder and fails to start from the home dir. It complains about gtk+ libraries that appear to be installed. More permissions issues? I'm weak at permissions troubleshooting. |
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postmarketOS Linux (CurieMarieDock 0.2.0 short tasks on my old tablet, yes? OK? Please?)
(Message 9857)
Posted 21 Mar 2023 by ![]() Warning, emotional content ahead: So, my best friend, GF, off and on fiancé, Julie, had a heart attack Aug 8 and is gone. The months since then have been... hard. She got me to install SETI@Home May 1999 while we shared our 1st apartment and bought the T-Shirts (in my closet). I burned up one of our early Cyrix 686 CPU's while experimenting with OCing and Peltier heatsinking for SETI. She was always so patient as I installed VM's and various BOINC projects on her personal laptops and they ran too hot for her lap. She'd roll her eyes and say; "I can't sit this on my lap... " or "Can you get more speed back for 2nd Life?" Inherited 6 of her 10 Amazon Fire tablets, 3 Fire TV's and an LG Phone. They sit here mostly doing nothing ATM. (The phone is still logged into her FB and the last tablet still has her Amazon account with video faves and such. Preserving someone's thought patterns and memories in the digital age is odd, but way more achievable, compared to the past if a person didn't journal or write a memoir) I hope she'd grudgingly approve, if not enthusiastically cheer, as I try to get Linux on her idle tablets. End of emotional content. The admin at SiDock said CurieMarieDock 0.2.0 short tasks were only for PIE and I was too busy to be skeptical 2 months back. Got some free time last week and found this article: https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-smartphone-operating-systems/ postmarketOS appears to be the most heavily tested and developed Linux OS replacement for tablets and phones. Most of you probably already know about it, but here is the current list of success and models that have installed and booted: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices You'll find the list of non-booters at the bottom. Looks like all of Julie's Fire TV's are in that list. :( As the weather warms, and I desire to keep BOINCing, getting many of these on Linux is upcoming project. Also, LineageOS to replace 1 or more Android tablets OSes (maybe the 2 Vankyo 3GB 8 cores that bench as fast as an Amazon Fire 8 10th gen because Amazon cheeped out and didn't install lvl 2 cache). Anyone else have experiences with postmarketOS? |
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Gerasim@home
(Message 9855)
Posted 21 Mar 2023 by ![]() Thanks Mikey, Conan. I had used the basic D/L page but, after your posts, searched harder and found this d/l page (forgot about this page): https://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php Will try to get AntiX Linux VM to install that 7.16.6 ver sometime this week. The WSL precursor libraries installed successfully on my 2700x box (can't just restart it anytime I wish with SiDock Long not properly checkpointing) and Ubuntu looks like easiest WSL Unix to choose since BOINC 7.16.6 is meant for it. But, I was hoping to try the Alpine Linux distro for WSL since it's the basis for postmarketOS linux that is successfully running on a whole lot of ARM cell phones and tablets. |
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Gerasim@home
(Message 9843)
Posted 17 Mar 2023 by ![]()
Thanks for confirming my issues. Yeah, BOINC d/l is 7.4.22 so the 7.6.33 I have is a beta and, seemingly, latest for native Linux OS x64. So the versions that are reporting 7.16.x 7.18.x sure seem like Windows installs using WSL. My 2700x might be ready for WSL right now; I'll see if WSL installs easily.
I used IMTranslate and have posted to their earlier forums with success, but the new Forums are hosted at Moscow University with very wide variety of subsections. Found the Gerasim@Home subforum, and could try again, if I create a login, but some native Russian speaker using a native Linux OS should eventually notice, since this is confirmed on two machines now. Thanks Conan for saving me any more diagnostic time. |
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Xtrack beam simulation
(Message 9841)
Posted 17 Mar 2023 by ![]() After digging into my bag of tricks it looks like I got a few of the Xtrack Wu's ... :) I knew YOU could pull it off! |
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Xtrack beam simulation
(Message 9831)
Posted 15 Mar 2023 by ![]() anything special you have to do to get theses Wu's ... ??? They are just very limited, from the LHC developer site. You seem to have great techniques at WU capture so maybe you weren't connected to the Dev site or bad luck? Mine spoiled, so I can't abort and give out resends now. |