On Apr 26, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Maureen Vilar wrote: > I haven't got BOINC 6.6.16 or later so my version has a 'CPU time' > column in > the Tasks tab. > > I'm assuming this column is now called 'Elapsed time'. There's a > problem > with this. To elapse just means to pass. 'Elapse' doesn't specify > what sort > of time is passing. The phrase 'Elapsed time' could refer to CPU > time or GPU > time or wallclock time. How will anyone know what sort of time is > measured > in this column? > > Mark Pottorff who is a sophisticated BOINC user has misunderstood the > meaning of this new column header, which isn't surprising because it > could > mean three different things. Thousands of other BOINC users will also > misunderstand it. They will assume it means the same sort of time as > in the > To completion column ie crunching time. > > This column header should be changed. It should specify the type of > time that has elapsed. It could say 'Wallclock time'. (The word > elapsed > isn't necessary because everyone knows that time passes.)
Or simply "Accumulated" ... Another alternative is to have two windows in the tab ... later 3 or more ... one for each available resource type. The problem faced is that the information to be displayed is actually a little different though we are trying to pretend it isn't. Another alternative is to have "Tasks CPU", "Tasks GPU" / "Tasks CUDA" and "Tasks OpenCL" tabs... If the person does not have a GPU, or GPU projects attached they would only see the Tasks CPU tab. Advantages to this is that if we do GPU tab or sub-window this allows things like a "Task Class" column where today all the tasks would be classed as CUDA, later "Brook", OpenCL, Larrabee, etc. A dev number column could display the device the task is running one and free up and unclutter the status column ... Just one man's opinion of course ... _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
