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> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. >> > > _______________________________________________ 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.
