Hey people, First of all Id like to introduce myself. Im Olivier ROMAND, fresh graduated student and now working for Renderfarm.fi. Im pretty new in the BOINC world and must say that Im quite impressed by the possibilities of the whole solution.
Renderfarm is a small but growing project that uses BOINC to provide an Open Rendering Environment. We are supporting the rendering engine Blender, also open source. Enough talking for now. I have a small problem and I can't understand wether I understand wrong or if my settings are incorrect. I would like to tell server side that the clients have to process 1 wu at a time, using ALL the cores, rather than using 1 core/wu. This problem isn't really new since I found many sources dealing with this issue: -http://www.archivum.info/[email protected]/2010-06/00008/Re-(boinc_projects)-1-WU-per-machine-not-per-CPU-core.html -http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/ProjectOptions#Joblimitsadvanced In our case, this is pretty important since rendering is quite a heavy process. For example if a machine has 4 cores with 4Gb of RAM, it would only be able to use 1Gb per CPU rather than 4Gb for the all WU (blender supports multithreading). I've been playing around with the configuration file config_aux.xml but it results that my client (still) launches 1Wu/core ... I wonder if this a normal behavior ? Would you guys know more about that matter ? In particular could you take a look at my config file ? The version of the server used is the stable branch and the config_aux.xml file used is as follow: <config> <max_jobs_in_progress> <!-- We are interested to send many wu in advance .. --> <project> <total_limit> <jobs>5</jobs> </total_limit> </project> <app> <app_name>blender</app_name> <!-- ... but we want to process 1 wu for this specific application --> <total_limit>1</total_limit> </app> </max_jobs_in_progress> </config> On the client I have set 100% of the processors but I still get 1 wu/core. Would you be able to light up my lantern ? Thanks for your support Olivier ROMAND renderfarm.fi _______________________________________________ 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.
