Posts by bowen

1) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Enhance scheduling/throttling strategies (Message 48966) Posted 29 Apr 2014 by bowen Post: great idea! not that i could breezily implement it myself, but it makes full sense, thanks :)
2) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Enhance scheduling/throttling strategies (Message 48957) Posted 29 Apr 2014 by bowen Post: I would rather have a software solution :)
3) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Enhance scheduling/throttling strategies (Message 48937) Posted 28 Apr 2014 by bowen Post: Hello, BOINC allows for scheduling of computer use per a set state of paramters, which includes the number of cores available and computing time, on a daily schedule with per-day override options. This works for PCs whose computing power must be entirely available to the user at certain times. BOINC can also work after n minutes of inactivity. I'd like BOINC to work under different loads per a schedule (not just ON/OFF). Why? Because when under load, the cores heat up, and the fans spin up, which generates noise. This won't matter to the user of that machine because, as soon as she uses the computer, computing can be made to switch off. However, it can matter, in a shared office setting, to that user's colleagues. To circumvent this missing feature, I've tried TThrottle. The problem is that the PID (ie the regulating loop with proportional, integral and derivative coeffs. for deviations from set T) settings in hardware for the fans do not lead, in conjunction with TThrottle, to a stable solution, but instead to wild oscillations in core temperatures, and thus a lot of fan noise. I've tried a number of core T settings, and of min. T settings, to no avail. Of course, I've tried to solve this with two Fan control apps (HWInfo and FanSpeed), but both crash my machine. Any ideas? The feature would sure be handy! As it is, I'm forced to run 8-thread machines at 50% 24/7 to ensure that they're quiet during working hours... Thanks for your input!
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 48638) Posted 31 Mar 2014 by bowen Post: got the credits, thanks! looking to add more machines :) i'm just looking on CPDN
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 48565) Posted 27 Mar 2014 by bowen Post: The credits system is still broken and still isn't being worked on. The new models, and others still being tested, are the priority. Consider this project to be a credit free zone for now and some time into the future. Makes sense. Do you think that the credit will at some stage be accounted for? As I'm setting up additional machines, credit is the only way to ensure that crunching is going properly (or is there something else i should look at?
6) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 48541) Posted 26 Mar 2014 by bowen Post: my total remains that of march 16th, And 17th for me. In several years of crunching for cpdn the credits have always appeared eventually so I am happy to wait. Great to see more models appearing though and I am enjoying the feedback on the eu models. that's reassuring, thanks! yes, the feedback is very rewarding.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 48535) Posted 26 Mar 2014 by bowen Post: yes i got many ANZs as well, perfect! now if only the credits could appear... my total remains that of march 16th, and several tasks have completed in the interim.
8) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 48510) Posted 24 Mar 2014 by bowen Post: such as preparing new tasks, for i am almost dry :) yet this reporting glitch is going on since the 16th for me...
9) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 48451) Posted 19 Mar 2014 by bowen Post: actually i have work, all cores are crunching across the three clients. just wondering about RAC and totals, as it seemed causally linked to my having added a client.
10) Message boards : Number crunching : Credit updates? (Message 48448) Posted 19 Mar 2014 by bowen Post: Hello to all, I should have followed the branchings of boinc after doing seti in the early 00s for a while, climate prediction is quite timely and i won't run anything else (too bad for the gpus that i have ...). now to the point: since adding a third client (ID: 1320181), my totals on CPDN aren't updating and the third client isn't reporting anything. the last contact is being updated for all clients. This has been going on for several days now. what's to do? thanks!