Re: [boinc_dev] About Posting my BOINC project to the public

2009-09-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 01 Sep 2009 17:34:27 Kunsheng Chen escribió: Hello everyone, It might be too late to ask this after one year development in BOINC. I been using computers in the lab or from some friends but right now needs lots of volunteers out there online. Any idea about how to post it to

Re: [boinc_dev] About Posting my BOINC project to the public

2009-09-02 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Miércoles 02 Sep 2009 23:30:27 Maureen Vilar escribió: Kunsheng took his Anansi project website down several hours ago. No he didn't. I used a forkbomb and hanged the server. Whoops. But if he brings Anansi back online before changing its address the links in Mark and Nicolás's emails

Re: [boinc_dev] About Posting my BOINC project to the public

2009-09-02 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Miércoles 02 Sep 2009 22:57:57 Kunsheng Chen escribió: The problem is that I am sharing the machine with other guys, I already shut down apache before I left but someone turn it on again after I gone, and I could not fix it from home. I really curious how you hack the server (I would try

Re: [boinc_dev] result.cpu_time for GPU applications

2009-09-03 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
No, the client doesn't measure GPU time at all. Is it even possible to get that information from nvidia APIs? Enviado desde mi iPod El 03/09/2009, a las 10:51, Travis Desell des...@cs.rpi.edu escribió: Is there another variable to determine the time a workunit has spend on the GPU? For

Re: [boinc_dev] result.cpu_time for GPU applications

2009-09-03 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 03 Sep 2009 12:05:15 Richard Haselgrove escribió: I would urge the creation of a second field, rather than re-cycling the existing field for a different purpose. The ratio of the two times is also an interesting and potentially useful figure - CPU overhead of GPU app, effective number

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Linux 32bit 6.6.36 manager won't start client

2009-09-03 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Sáb 22 Ago 2009 17:54:07 Nicolás Alvarez escribió: El Jue 11 Jun 2009 11:04:13 Kathryn Marks escribió: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Jorden van der Elst els...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Rom, Why did all of the 6.6.36 versions go out as recommended versions without even testing

Re: [boinc_dev] new DB fields

2009-09-04 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Vie 04 Sep 2009 01:17:50 David Anderson escribió: int app_version_id: the DB ID of the app version used for the job. If the job was done by an anonymous platform application, it's set to -1. Isn't that what SQL NULL was designed for? -- Nicolas

Re: [boinc_dev] Problems on adding one more URI for current project

2009-09-06 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Dom 06 Sep 2009 21:59:09 Kunsheng Chen escribió: Hi everyone, My boinc project is currently using non-default port number instead of port 80. All the configurations in config.xml are complying with the current port. I am wondering if it would cause any problem if I add another port

Re: [boinc_dev] Using BOINC on the Mac from a console?

2009-09-08 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 08 Sep 2009 20:39:17 Robin Kipp escribió: Hi all! I am sorry if this message is off-topic. In this case, please be so kind and reply to me privately, as I really appreciate some help with this. So, as I've written here before, the GUI of BOINC is not currently accessible on the Mac

Re: [boinc_dev] Windows No child processes to wait for errors

2009-09-10 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 10 Sep 2009 16:06:34 Jeremy Cowles escribió: We are getting sporadic errors with the following message: There are no child processes to wait for. (0x80) - exit code 128 (0x80) I did a little research and found that this means a process launched with CreateProcess() terminated

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] BOINC 6.10.4 abuses high priority mode

2009-09-10 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 10 Sep 2009 20:01:59 David Anderson escribió: No; it should get work if the project has any. However, this was fixed fairly recently ([18994], 2 Sept) and I'm not sure that's in 6.10.4. It is. Rom ported it to the 6.10 branch in [19015] and released 6.10.4 in [19023]. -- Nicolas

Re: [boinc_dev] Multiple sched requests with no output files

2009-09-13 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Dom 13 Sep 2009 08:11:57 Richard Haselgrove escribió: Exactly the same phenomenon happens when there *are* files to upload. Task finishes : cache recalculated with new DCF : shortfall found : work fetch issued : result upload starts : scheduler contact complete : upload complete : another

Re: [boinc_dev] Anansi is coming back

2009-09-13 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Dom 13 Sep 2009 18:15:17 erbenton escribió: The more i think about this the more it scares the heck out of me. This kind of thing ought to be banned outright. Banned by whom? How? I see no point whatsoever to what the Anansi project is doing - it serves no useful purpose in the way that

Re: [boinc_dev] Updated to 6.6.36: No connect GUI daemon

2009-09-13 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Dom 13 Sep 2009 21:50:19 Sascha 'saigkill' Manns escribió: Hello Mates, now i'm created an Package for openSUSE. And the most runs. Through the init.d Script the boinc starts while booting. With the first execution he builds an Folder in /var/lib/boinc. But he is empty. If i start boincmgr

Re: [boinc_dev] Multiple sched requests with no output files

2009-09-14 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 14 Sep 2009 09:49:57 john.mcl...@sybase.com escribió: OK, is it clear on the front page of the website that the project needs a continuously on network connection? You can solve your problem by not marking the task as done until the final communications with the server is completed.

Re: [boinc_dev] Multiple sched requests with no output files

2009-09-14 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 14 Sep 2009 14:23:11 john.mcl...@sybase.com escribió: I thought that there was. It was just that the application uploaded it instead of the BOINC client, or sent the final data to the server instead of waiting for the client to do it. If this is true, it is a race to see whether the

Re: [boinc_dev] Multiple sched requests with no output files

2009-09-14 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 14 Sep 2009 14:50:54 john.mcl...@sybase.com escribió: The way I read it, the application generates output which the application sends to the server, but the output data is sent AFTER the task is marked as complete, so a work request is generated before the task has completely sent the

Re: [boinc_dev] 6_6a branch: nVidia multi-gpu on Linux r18836

2009-09-17 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 17 Sep 2009 05:34:25 Clive Messer escribió: Hi, I just wanted to raise this issue again as the recommended version of the software according to the boinc web page is 6.6.36. Under Linux every GPU WU will try and run '--device 0', regardless of how many gpus are installed. It is

Re: [boinc_dev] wrapper.vcproj broken

2009-09-17 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
- From: boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu [mailto:boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Nicolás Alvarez Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:21 PM To: boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu Subject: [boinc_dev] wrapper.vcproj broken Does the Visual C++ project file for the wrapper app work

Re: [boinc_dev] new options, and build problems

2009-09-18 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Vie 18 Sep 2009 03:17:41 Gabor Gombas escribió: On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:07:27PM -0700, David Anderson wrote: Should I check the newer version of libtool.m4 into boinc/m4? i.e., can I assume that it's backwards compatible? IMHO the correct fix would be to drop m4/libtool.m4 and call

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-09-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 21 Sep 2009 13:28:29 Lynn W. Taylor escribió: Can the credit system be improved? Yes. Is working out the credit multiplier difficult? Yes. Is it possible to devise a credit system with perfect cross-project parity? No. I still think dropping cross-project parity (saying they are

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-09-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 21 Sep 2009 15:04:08 Lynn W. Taylor escribió: It's hard to find a proper table (they used to be published), but this may help illustrate the problem: http://www.obliquity.com/computer/speedtest.html If the example program on the page is accurate (and I suspect it is) a floating

Re: [boinc_dev] Distributed data functions

2009-09-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 21 Sep 2009 07:07:27 Paul D. Buck escribió: The theoretical distribution you suggest is three copies which I would suggest in the essentially uncontrolled BOINC environment is inadequate. My initial suggestion would be a minimum replication of 10 across the user base. As experience

Re: [boinc_dev] Subproject data in the boinc server code

2009-09-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 15 Sep 2009 15:41:46 Phil escribió: Good news on this front. World Community Grid are going to add code for this early next year..! https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,26299#24 7972 Hopefully it will be portable enough to incorporate into the BOINC

Re: [boinc_dev] [PATCH 02/10] Fix shared library versioning

2009-09-22 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 22 Sep 2009 12:56:15 Gabor Gombas escribió: From: Gábor Gombás gomb...@sztaki.hu The version of the software should never be used with -version-info or -version-number, so use -release instead. Long term it would be desirable to have proper shared library versioning that follows the

Re: [boinc_dev] [PATCH 08/10] Makefile.am cleanups

2009-09-22 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 22 Sep 2009 12:56:21 Gabor Gombas escribió: From: Gábor Gombás gomb...@sztaki.hu Get rid of the library name macros and the cross-direcory make rules. If there are problems with the dependencies, they should be fixed instead of papering over them. Also move some flags to the global

Re: [boinc_dev] _autosetup configure messed up still?

2009-09-22 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 22 Sep 2009 13:54:22 Carl Christensen escribió: Is this still in a state of flux; I remember discussions and thought it was all done? I was trying to build on my old Debian Linux distro I use for production and _autosetup bombs out, although I supposedly have all the prereqs:

Re: [boinc_dev] Help on /stats content

2009-09-24 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 24 Sep 2009 23:23:18 Kunsheng Chen escribió: The daemons seems working when check with ./bin/status, but nothing ever written to those folders.   Is there some way to check what is going on (such as a log?) The log is db_dump.out, as your own config.xml snippet shows. -- Nicolas

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-25 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Sáb 26 Sep 2009 01:03:58 Paul D. Buck escribió: Here is a log from the start-up of BOINC and for the life of me I cannot understand this ... prime grid seems to have been contacted even when NNT is selected and it looks like a whole set of executables were downloaded. What makes this more

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BIONC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-26 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Sáb 26 Sep 2009 17:04:25 David Anderson escribió: Not a design flaw. Suppose you delete the files of an app version that has no jobs. 5 minutes later the client gets a job for the app version. You have to download the files again. If you do get a job for that app, you save about two

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BIONC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-26 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Sáb 26 Sep 2009 17:41:58 David Anderson escribió: If it's a 100MB app, and you have a modem, it's more than 2 minutes. And then there's load on the download server. What load on the download server? You're either downloading the files as soon as the client starts and finds them missing, or

Re: [boinc_dev] Disable credit for WU abortion with intention in Client App

2009-09-28 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 28 Sep 2009 12:52:54 Kunsheng Chen escribió: My credit system is set using credit_from_wu for each WU, but someone is take advantage of it by abort WU to cheat credits. I am wondering if there is someway to disable credit in client app if the tasks is not completed ? That is the

Re: [boinc_dev] Why did BOINC contact Prime Grid, and Why did it DL execuatables

2009-09-29 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
How would that be worse to the current situation? His proposal would lead to infinite repeated downloading if there is work needing a file and the antivirus keeps deleting it. Current BOINC code has that too, *and* repeated downloading even if the file is not needed. El Martes 29 Sep 2009

Re: [boinc_dev] Problems compiling boinc-6.6.40

2009-09-30 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Miércoles 30 Sep 2009 12:10:42 Kacper Kowalik escribió: Hi, recently I have encountered several problems with compiling boinc-6.6.40 release from source. As far as I can tell a few of them are a result of svn commits that missed some of the files in tags/boinc_core_release_6_6_40: 1)

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Can't get Attach to Project to work

2009-09-30 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Miércoles 30 Sep 2009 16:07:22 David Anderson escribió: As far as I know, this is the only file that the client wasn't parsing; it just passed it straight through to the manager. GUI URLs aren't parsed by either the server nor the client. Whatever the admin types in the XML file in the

Re: [boinc_dev] Programming to validate only one result

2009-09-30 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Miércoles 30 Sep 2009 18:48:23 Kunsheng Chen escribió: I set replication_factor as 1 and one workunit only have one result. The idea is to set a finish symbol in returned file from clients and check whether that symbol is in the file, it is considered success. If not, it means the client

Re: [boinc_dev] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 29 Sep 2009 14:22:52 john.mcl...@sybase.com escribió: The clients could report to each server that their granted credit / hour for all projects is X, and also report how many projects (machines with more projects would get a higher weight in some server side calculation - those with

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 01 Oct 2009 10:41:16 john.mcl...@sybase.com escribió: Redundancy of 2 catches essentially ALL random errors Given the current number of computers, it would be more than a millennium before a single undetected random error was missed - assuming that there were only 128 bits of output /

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 28 Sep 2009 21:09:34 Paul D. Buck escribió: There are three NCI project right now that I am aware of FreeHAL, QCN, and Anansi what standard should they use? FreeHAL is not NCI. If it was NCI, it would use some other resource. Anansi uses network. QCN uses an accelerometer, and

Re: [boinc_dev] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 29 Sep 2009 10:29:51 john.mcl...@sybase.com escribió: Was that the internal bookkeeping that was taking the entire CPU core? Or was it the UI taking the entire core? I do remember a discussion that indicated that in those cases the UI would bog down. The default algorithm for

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 01 Oct 2009 20:33:37 Paul D. Buck escribió: On Oct 1, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: El Jue 01 Oct 2009 10:41:16 john.mcl...@sybase.com escribió: Redundancy of 2 catches essentially ALL random errors Given the current number of computers, it would be more than

Re: [boinc_dev] build error on Debian

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 01 Oct 2009 20:29:24 Eric J Korpela escribió: I'll see if I can add libtool version detection to the config. I thought that -static-libtool-libs worked with the ltmain.sh that was checked into the svn. There is no ltmain.sh in SVN anymore. See [boinc_dev] libtool.m4. -- Nicolas

Re: [boinc_dev] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-10-01 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
. This calculation is not about the individual hosts credits, but about the trying to figure out whether the project as a whole is granting to many or too few credits. jm7 Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alvarez@ gmail.com

Re: [boinc_dev] Card Gflops in BOINC 6.10

2009-10-03 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Sáb 03 Oct 2009 13:41:44 Lynn W. Taylor escribió: My point was that this little bit of crummy code that would always fit in the cache So does the current benchmark, and that is *not a good thing*, because then it's not measuring memory speed, which matters a lot for many real BOINC apps.

Re: [boinc_dev] Facebook app with Flash client?

2009-10-04 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Dom 04 Oct 2009 13:09:53 David Craddock escribió: What if we could make a opt-in Facebook app that would use client-side processing to contribute towards data-mining of one of our worthy distributed projects? Just a little animated flash app - it wouldn't take up much CPU cycles - no more

Re: [boinc_dev] Server build error on Ubuntu 9.04

2009-10-04 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Dom 04 Oct 2009 19:06:30 Slawomir Rzeznicki escribió: Hello, I've just tried to build the server from latest revision (19241 at the moment of writing this) for testing purposes; on my server (Debian 4) the build process went without problems, however on my development system (Ubuntu 9.04)

Re: [boinc_dev] testing BOINC applications without a BOINC server

2009-10-06 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 06 Oct 2009 13:37:20 yoyo escribió: Have a look to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Client_configuration and these 2 options. dont_check_file_sizes run_apps_manually But how would you have workunits? -- Nicolas ___ boinc_dev mailing

Re: [boinc_dev] testing BOINC applications without a BOINC server

2009-10-06 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Martes 06 Oct 2009 14:27:10 David Anderson escribió: Those are useful options, but you still need to have a project, workunit, result etc. Adam's asking for something different: to be able to run a job under the BOINC client without a server. Sort of an extension of the anonymous platform

Re: [boinc_dev] Changing master url

2009-10-10 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Jue 11 Jun 2009 14:40:27 Nicolás Alvarez escribió: El Jue 11 Jun 2009 14:15:21 Jeremy Cowles escribió: I created a project with an internal IP address (192.x.x.x) and now I want to test it with clients out on the internet. So I've changed the address to my public address (78.x.x.x

Re: [boinc_dev] Changing master url

2009-10-12 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
and 307); for a large number of clients it caused problems reaching the file upload handler and the scheduler. /TJM On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:29:42 -0300 Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com wrote: El Lunes 12 Oct 2009 00:16:39 Mark Pottorff escribió: So... what about all those volunteers

Re: [boinc_dev] Changing master url

2009-10-12 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 12 Oct 2009 14:08:54 Lynn W. Taylor escribió: Yes, I did. My comments are less about the process (which you covered very well) and more about prevention. If someone plans ahead, there is no reason for them to ever need to change the project URL. That's what the first paragraphs,

Re: [boinc_dev] Simple cuda aplication.

2009-10-16 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Vie 16 Oct 2009 05:39:08 Francisco Sanz García escribió: Hi Bernd. I modified your first shell script: #!/bin/sh LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../projects/test.test/ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /tmp/ldlibr.log echo $PWD /tmp/ldlibr.log ../../projects/test.test/hello_cuda2 $@ The first

Re: [boinc_dev] The stats info in BOINC site

2009-10-20 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 19 Oct 2009 22:31:30 Kunsheng Chen escribió: Can anyone give me some concrete details on how to enable that ? './bin/status' shows db_dump_spec.xml is running every 4 hours but nothing has never been there. db_dump_spec.xml is not a program so it shouldn't be running. The program is

Re: [boinc_dev] Questions about building boinc from source

2009-10-26 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 26 Oct 2009 16:27:51 Karol Babioch escribió: Hi, I'm about to build boinc from source, so I can provide packages for my favorite linux distribution (Arch). I plan to split the package up, similar to the Debian package style. I thought of the following packages: * boinc-client *

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC for Mobile Phones - please test on your Java phone

2009-10-26 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 26 Oct 2009 17:08:20 Petr Hájek escribió: Greetings everybody, after several weeks of thinking and days of hearing Are you insane? It is not possible! I decided to create demo of mobile version of BOINC - i.e. BOINC for Mobile Java - J2ME / MIDP2.0+. And here it is for test. For start

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC 6.10 release

2009-10-26 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El Lunes 26 Oct 2009 20:45:48 Charles Elliott escribió: The fact that Boinc no longer consistently restarts after receiving a quit RPC is literally a showstopper, although it is not insurmountable and it does require external intervention to produce. If one has a Java program that scans all

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC for Mobile Phones - please test on your Java phone

2009-10-28 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
But even that should be a native (or Java) app, not web-based. Last time I tried, stard...@home used a *lot* of CPU while changing the virtual microscope focus. Wasted CPU cycles, that a BOINC project could have used meanwhile. I presume each time the img's src attribute was changed, the

Re: [boinc_dev] Got a lots of Inconclusive validate state (=4) in server side ?

2009-11-02 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 11/2/09, Kunsheng Chen ke...@yahoo.com wrote: This is happening in the past week. The server starts to get around 20,000 results whose validate_state = 4; Which means inconclusive according to boinc: Set by validator to INCONCLUSIVE (4) if check_set()

Re: [boinc_dev] Cross build.

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
Get MinGW/MSYS, which is a Unix-ish environment (including bash) based on cygwin, where you'll be able to run configure scripts. What component of BOINC are you trying to build? Enviado desde mi iPod El 04/11/2009, a las 06:42, Francisco Sanz García fras...@bifi.es escribió: Hello. I'm

Re: [boinc_dev] Cross build.

2009-11-04 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 11/4/09, Francisco Sanz García fras...@bifi.es wrote: I only need the library and the API. The Makefile provided by Bernd works fine. There is an api/Makefile.mingw in the BOINC repository. -- Nicolas ___ boinc_dev mailing list

[boinc_dev] GUI RPC parsing

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
This change: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/changeset/19535/trunk/boinc/client/gui_rpc_server_ops.cpp not only doesn't allow new RPCs to be introduced if their initial part is equal to an existing RPC (which I think is a bad limitation), but also broke *current* RPCs. project_attach is a

Re: [boinc_dev] Client leaves behind zombie app processes

2009-11-11 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
has_task_exited only checks for the one and only process, not children. Note it's passing an actual PID, not 0. On 11/11/09, Michael Melanson michael.melan...@epfl.ch wrote: On 11-Nov-09, at 1:29 , David Anderson wrote: I checked in this change; thanks. -- David Hi David, Thanks for

Re: [boinc_dev] UPS support in BOINC

2009-11-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 11/21/09, Jack Lambert jacklambe...@comcast.net wrote: Are there hidden UPS options in BOINC somewhere? BOINC has absolutely no idea what an UPS is. And I don't even know if the “is laptop using batteries” feature works correctly in all laptops and all platforms. When the computer has been

Re: [boinc_dev] Man fired for running BOINC, bogging down computers

2009-12-02 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 12/2/09, William bcdecbi...@yahoo.com wrote: Isn't BOINC supposed to always run everything at the lowest possible priority? Shouldn't that prevent BOINC from ever bogging down or otherwise interfering with the computers it runs on? The owner of the computer is who decides if it's

Re: [boinc_dev] Man fired for running BOINC, bogging down computers

2009-12-02 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 12/2/09, esub e...@adayton.com wrote: The school superintendant should be arrested for lying about the cost of removal of SETI.. Who said that was for the removal? News sites say it was for damages, energy usage and equipment losses. Remember he stole computers too (some school machines were

Re: [boinc_dev] Some suggestions (UPS followup, Mac manager)

2009-12-08 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 12/8/09, Charlie Fenton charl...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: When i download boinc for the mac (6.10.21) it is a folder with several items in it other than the actual installer. extras as a folder contains COPYING, COPYING.LESSER, COPYRIGHT, and the uninstall boinc application. When you click on

Re: [boinc_dev] Request: Add Snooze/Suspend GPU's only

2009-12-10 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
In the tray icon? I believe they even affect network activity... -- Nicolas On 12/11/09, Matthias Holzinger tombst...@cnoize.at wrote: I don't know if the other options should be CPU specific or for everything. Matthias On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Rom Walton r...@romwnet.org wrote:

Re: [boinc_dev] Server build error on Ubuntu 9.x

2009-12-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 12/21/09, Radesh Mohan rades...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to install Boinc Server on a Ubuntu machine. The _autosetup and configure steps were completed successfully. But i get the following error when i ran make. sh generate_svn_version.sh make all-recursive make[1]: Entering

Re: [boinc_dev] Redundant result when not really redundant

2009-12-24 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 12/24/09, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: The server tells the client to abort a result only when 1) the result isn't in the DB 2) the result's WU was cancelled. In either case, it writes a string of the form [HOST#%d]: Send result_abort for result %s; reason: %s\n to the

Re: [boinc_dev] CUDA support for OSX

2009-12-28 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 12/28/09, zombie67 zombi...@mac.com wrote: nVidia has released CUDA drivers for OSX now. When will BOINC know about Macs with CUDA? AFAIK, BOINC will need like a single line of code change to support CUDA on Mac, as soon as *64-bit* Mac CUDA libraries (to detect available cards) are

Re: [boinc_dev] CUDA support for OSX

2009-12-29 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 12/29/09, zombie67 zombi...@mac.com wrote: On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:56 PM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: On 12/28/09, zombie67 zombi...@mac.com wrote: nVidia has released CUDA drivers for OSX now. When will BOINC know about Macs with CUDA? AFAIK, BOINC will need like a single line of code change

Re: [boinc_dev] user profiles not saving

2009-12-30 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 12/31/09, Travis Desell des...@cs.rpi.edu wrote: Our users are having problems updating their profiles, it seems any changes they make don't get saved. When they update their profile it says it's saved to the database, however when they go to view it it says: 'Unable to handle request.

Re: [boinc_dev] Client directory fanout?

2010-01-04 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/4/10, Michael Wilber mwil...@uccs.edu wrote: However, the client does not do this. Instead, the client dumps all the project's input files right into the project folder. Unfortunately, we have a project that has lots (at least 54,000) of little input files that we want to cache on the

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_alpha] Preemption of very short tasks.

2010-01-05 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/5/10, john.mcl...@sybase.com john.mcl...@sybase.com wrote: I am attached to GoldBach's conjecture which is running some very short tasks (~2 minutes). Wow, I can't believe they are *still* running Uppercase. It's painful to see 25 years of CPU time wasted like that. -- Nicolas

Re: [boinc_dev] Client directory fanout?

2010-01-05 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/5/10, Paul D. Buck p.d.b...@comcast.net wrote: Question back to you ... How large are the input data files? The entire data set? Be aware that some may be less able or interested in downloading and storing large datasets on their computer. THose on dial-up still for example, or those

Re: [boinc_dev] Preemption of very short tasks.

2010-01-05 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/6/10, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: I checked in a change that should fix this. Are you *sure* the duration estimation function was broken? It looks like it was fine before. RESULT::estimated_time_remaining returned time remaining, by directly calling

Re: [boinc_dev] Preemption of very short tasks.

2010-01-06 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/6/10, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: It's supposed to do quadratic, not linear, interpolation. I.e. when fraction done is 0.5, the weight of the dynamic estimate (frac_est) is 0.75, and the weight of the static estimate is 0.25. (the idea is to give the dynamic estimate

Re: [boinc_dev] Preemption of very short tasks.

2010-01-06 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/6/10, Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alva...@gmail.com wrote: If we do this: wu_est_remain = fraction_left * wu_est x = fd_weight*frac_est + wu_weight*wu_est_remain the calculation of x is *not* averaging apples and oranges, both are remaining times. That *is* what the current code is doing

Re: [boinc_dev] The Dark Side

2010-01-14 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/14/10, Lynn W. Taylor l...@buscom.net wrote: First, I wouldn't assume that Rom has become a credit hound, I would assume that he is using credit as intended (as a measure of computing) and that it's more about the amount of work that can be done with a GPU. High GPU credits could mean

Re: [boinc_dev] The Dark Side

2010-01-14 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/14/10, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Right now there's a problem: there's no clear definition of credit. Projects with GPU apps have to come up with ad-hoc formulas for credit, and all projects have to fiddle around with normalization factors. This creates an unhealthy

Re: [boinc_dev] [boinc_loc] web pages not prepared for translation

2010-01-15 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: I checked these in; thanks -- David Nicolás Alvarez wrote: On 1/10/10, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: I made user_search.php translatable. In general, if you want to add tra()s, just send me the resulting files and I'll check them

Re: [boinc_dev] autosetup fails, unable to find libtoolize

2010-01-18 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/19/10, Mark Pottorff feet...@yahoo.com wrote: Building from scratch on Fedora. Verified all prereqs installed as shown here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/SoftwarePrereqsUnix [...] Checking version of 'libtoolize' = 105... ./_autosetup: line 28: type: libtoolize: not found

Re: [boinc_dev] autosetup fails, unable to find libtoolize

2010-01-18 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/19/10, Mark Pottorff feet...@yahoo.com wrote: [r...@ip-xx-xx-xx-xx BOINC]# yum list libtool Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * updates-newkey: archive.fedoraproject.org * fedora: archive.fedoraproject.org * updates: archive.fedoraproject.org

Re: [boinc_dev] autosetup fails, unable to find libtoolize

2010-01-18 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 1/19/10, Mark Pottorff feet...@yahoo.com wrote: I consider Fedora blamed... now what do I do? (Fedora rel 8 - Werewolf) Should I create the LIBTOOLIZE envvar and point it to my libtool? From what you are showing they appear to be synonymous. Nope; I was just showing that Debian's libtool

Re: [boinc_dev] monitoring network usage

2010-02-19 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 2/19/10, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Linux: it's pretty easy, using /proc/net/dev. I'll do this. Mac: Charlie, can you see what's available? Windows: the Performance Counters API and/or its documentation looks pretty horrible. Rom (or someone else), can you

Re: [boinc_dev] How to locate boinccmd on client

2010-02-21 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 2/21/10, Charlie Fenton charl...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: But even if boinccmd _is_ installed, project applications do not have access to the gui rpc password under sandbox security, so they can only perform limited functions using boinccmd. I don't know if this is also true on Windows.

Re: [boinc_dev] monitoring network usage

2010-02-22 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 2/22/10, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Nicolás Alvarez wrote: On 2/22/10, john.mcl...@sybase.com john.mcl...@sybase.com wrote: They tell you nothing about the connection of the LAN to the internet. They cannot even reliably tell if a computer has a connection

Re: [boinc_dev] monitoring network usage

2010-02-23 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 2/23/10, Jim Preston jimli...@commspeed.net wrote: Does Windows know about it because of loss/change of IP Address? i.e. is your Windows system using DHCP? If my Internet connection drops, my computer won't have any change of IP. My router will still be working, the LAN will still be

Re: [boinc_dev] How to locate boinccmd on client

2010-02-23 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 2/23/10, Mark Pottorff feet...@yahoo.com wrote: Allowing one project to abort another project's tasks should only be allowed with the user's consent. Allowing one project to do anything with the core client, be it abort other project's tasks, or even detach *itself*, should never be allowed

Re: [boinc_dev] How to locate boinccmd on client

2010-02-23 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 2/23/10, Mark Pottorff feet...@yahoo.com wrote: Seeing one thread of willingness to improve BOINC here I'll point you to the documentation that describes none of the limitations discussed and decline the invitation to continue the bantering. If you run boinccmd in the same directory as the

Re: [boinc_dev] How to track trivial changes to incorporate later?

2010-03-08 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 3/8/10, Mark Pottorff feet...@yahoo.com wrote: In reviewing the BOINC server code, one runs across a number of things that would be helpful to others later if they were documented differently, fixed, or otherwise changed. However, it isn't worth changing a program in a build just to do such

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC Applications Speed-Up by Setting the Processor Affinity

2010-03-11 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
Every year someone shows up trying to convince everyone that there will be a giant speed up if BOINC implements CPU affinity, based on theory and not practice. Please try setting CPU affinity manually when WUs start, and let us know how much faster they finish. Large enough performance

Re: [boinc_dev] 'In progress' task runtime estimates

2010-03-26 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
El 22/03/2010, a las 17:39, Richard Haselgrove r.haselgr...@btinternet.com escribió: The AQUA devs have asked me to speak on their behalf in the current max_wus discussion (well, Kamran has, and Neil - who was copied in on the email - hasn't demurred). Are project developers afraid of posting

Re: [boinc_dev] building boinc on snow leopard - can't get jpeg-6b anymore

2010-04-02 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 4/2/10, Travis Desell des...@cs.rpi.edu wrote: Is there any way to build the crypt_prog program on snow leopard? I'm getting the following error (after using make in the libs directory): ./crypt_prog dyld: Symbol not found: ___CFConstantStringClassReference Referenced from:

[boinc_dev] Wiki spam

2010-04-07 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
I just went through some accumulated Recent Changes in the BOINC user wiki (mediawiki). There was some spam remaining, which I reverted, and a lot more that was already reverted (much by Eric Myers, some even by anonymous contributors without accounts) but I blocked the users/IPs which they can't

[boinc_dev] Unsupported platform on app version

2010-05-02 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
If an app_version has a platform not supported by the client (ie. not the primary platform nor any of the alternate platforms), the client will set the app version's platform to the client's primary platform. This was introduced in r12893. The rationale is that someone may install the Windows

Re: [boinc_dev] cache miss measurement

2010-05-06 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 5/6/10, David Anderson da...@ssl.berkeley.edu wrote: Does anyone have or know of code to access the cache-miss counters on Intel and AMD CPUs, e.g.: http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/docs/amd-hammer-events.php http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/docs/intel-P4-events.php oprofile uses a kernel

Re: [boinc_dev] BOINC and environment variables

2010-05-08 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
On 5/8/10, Raistmer raist...@mail.ru wrote: Can BOINC set environment variable for scientific app it will launch? And if yes how it can be achieved? No, the BOINC client can't set environment variables for science apps. On Unix systems you could make a shell script that sets the environment

Re: [boinc_dev] IPV4 exhaustion

2010-05-10 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
Months ago, maybe even more than a year ago, I created a project behind an IPv6-only connection (configured the webserver not to listen on IPv4), and BOINC could connect to it and get work with no problems. I still have the IPv6 tunnel, so I could try again. I believe

Re: [boinc_dev] IPV4 exhaustion

2010-05-10 Thread Nicolás Alvarez
, 2010, at 8:34 AM, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: babel.boinc.povaddict.com.ar ___ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter

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