One thing I've spotted on several BOINC projects that you may want to watch for:
Using a version of 7zip that, at least under some of the versions of Windows Vista, works properly for unpacking files, but not for packing output files to send back to the server. From: David Anderson <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_projects] proposal for new update_versions - comments welcome On 10-May-2011 11:05 AM, Tom Ritter wrote: [snip] > 3) This is way out of scope most likely - but would anyone else find > it useful to have built-in support for bundling application files and > automatically unzipping them on the client? For applications with a > lot of small files it reduces network roundtrips and bandwith > considerably.** This would a desirable feature, but will have to wait for a future client release. In the meantime, you can compress files individually; see http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/FileCompression#compress-input (I believe this works for app files as well as input files). -- David ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev End of boinc_dev Digest, Vol 84, Issue 12 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ 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.
