Actually, BitTornado is also something else:
http://mirror.transact.net.au/sourceforge/b/project/bi/bittornado/README.txt

Thanks for the tips! Any more ideas about the trickle credit trick with GPU
WrapperApp? :)

Henri.


2013/4/15 Jon Sonntag <[email protected]>

> BitTornado is a Bit Torrent client for peer to peer file sharing.  I have
> yet to see a bit torrent client that is a GPU application.
>
> For the issue with many files and directories, you would probably want to
> use the zip file/folder features.  That way, your app only needs to include
> the name of the zip file but you can put whatever you want into it.
>
> While what John says is true about communications being initiated by the
> client, there is a way, at least kind of....
> The app would have to be set up to do trickle updates so the client will
> get credit every so often.  I'm not sure whether trickle credit can be done
> via the wrapper though.  You would need to have some type of daemon  run on
> the server which can cancel the WUs.  when you want them to stop.  You
> should also consider awarding credit from the time of the last trickle
> update to the time the WU was cancelled by the server.  So, the server
> can't make it stop immediately.  It would have to wait for the client to do
> a scheduled update.  It isn't a perfect solution, but that might get you
> started.
>
> Jon Sonntag
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:56 AM, McLeod, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The BOINC server cannot send a signal to the client.  All communications
>> must be initiated by the client.
>>
>> Please don't have GPU applications that run forever, that will tend to
>> limit the availability of the GPU to other projects.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Henri Heinonen
>> Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2013 5:36 AM
>> To: BOINC Developers Mailing List
>> Subject: [boinc_dev] WrapperApp questions
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> How can I run a BOINC GPU application that never ends? How can I
>> eventually
>> send the signal from my BOINC server to end the workunit?
>>
>> I'm planning to use WrapperApp (
>> http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/WrapperApp ) to start this Windows
>> program: "BitTornado.exe -h yourhost -u username -p password"
>>
>> If my worker program (BitTornado.exe) has many files and subdirectories,
>> how can I include them?
>>
>> Is this the correct way to do the *worker_job_1.0.xml?*
>>
>> <job_desc>
>>     <task>
>>         <application>worker</application>
>>         <command_line>-h yourhost -u username -p password</command_line>
>>     </task>
>> </job_desc>
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