Posts by old_user2139

1) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Support for BOINC - x64 version (Message 30860) Posted 7 Oct 2007 by old_user2139 Post: The model won\'t actually be any quicker when run via 64-bit Boinc, so assuming you\'re only running this project it won\'t make any difference. There are very few projects which have faster code in 64-bit (APS and primegrid come to mind), but most don\'t. I would hazard to say that those of us with 64-bit BOINC aren\'t too bothered about whether 64-bit will be faster or not - what we\'re bothered about is this project NOT supporting us, after we have supported this project for a long time when on 32-bit systems. It\'s a sad state of affairs when a science-based project won\'t (for whatever reason) upgrade their back-end systems to support people willing to donate their CPU time. I for one am suspending any work here, until the project shows that they do want my effort - other projects will get my time instead, those that have bothered to upgrade & can pass out the 32-bit client to 64-bit systems - or better, have a 64-bit client already (although that is more a nice to have for me). Mike <edit - typos>
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Move BOINC between PCs (Message 30703) Posted 25 Sep 2007 by old_user2139 Post: Hi, Hoping to get some advice here on this ...... I\'m just a little leery of copying the BOINC folders, as I will probably corrupt something ! * Old PC Running 32-bit XP, has 9 projects but is just running CPDN at the moment (maybe 1/3 through) * New PC Same hardware as above, but has 64-bit Vista on a seperate hard drive that I multi-boot. Just 2 projects here, neither CPDN, can run them out before transfer (seeing some NICE timings on the other projects under 64-bit) So ...... how should I go about transferring the CPDN session to the new system ? Do I need to re-register under Vista before ? Or would copying the relevant Projects dir work ? Mike