[Merged] Team Seti & distributed computing

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by MovedGoalPosts

er reference is made to the Command line client but the BOINC site says you have to compile that yourself. That is definitely new territory to me. On the work PCs I need BOINC to run in the background, ideally as a service, with no silly pop ups or whatever the graphical client might do. Anyone got a link please for a Win XP Home / XP Pro command line client file?
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Just had a look myself - it does look complicated

http://boinc.berkeley.edu/service.php

If you haven't already run BOINC on the machine, you'll need to run through the setup procedure (using either the CLI or the GUI client) in order to establish the account* files which are needed for the project URLs and authenticators.

I thought that you might be able to do this once and then somehow distribute the files to each machine, but the bottom of the page at this URL http://homepage.mac.com/pauldbuck/si...p-install.html implies otherwise.

Also a section here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/create_project.php on compiling the BOINC software, but it's far from clear and complete. One of the problems is that you have the core software and then the WU crunching software for the various projects. Having built software like Apache on a Unix box I know that the instructions for doing the same thing on a Windows machine are akin to black magic Windows just complicates everything.

I'll have a rummage - see if any forums have a recipe. It's a shame BOINC is so complex to install on multiple machines.

Originally Posted by poolking

That is why I said it was a temporary project, I thought I'd try and inject a little humour into the proceedings, but it seems I shouldn't give up the day job.

Sorry! Trust me to pick totally the wrong time to be serious

[poolking]

Tell you one thing that is complicated creating your own project.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by poolking

Tell you one thing that is complicated creating your own project.

I read the mailing list archives and it does seem that the people behind the projects are struggling with the BOINC framework. Wouldn't fancy it myself - I think BOINC has a long way to go.

Well version 4 is in beta testing stages (or alpha, can't remember)

So prepare for a big update. When this update is out then ClimatePrediction switches to BOINC, and so am I

[greencreeper]

Just remembered that there is a command line version bundled with the GUI download. I forgot about it I remember trying it with some Predictor WUs - it crashed and the WUs were returned with client error status. The BOINC pages must be very dated.

[Richard M]

Hmm..we're currently at 110th position in the world.
Not too bad, considering we're beating IBM.

[greencreeper]

Originally Posted by Richard M

Hmm..we're currently at 110th position in the world.
Not too bad, considering we're beating IBM.

We're 100th if you sort the table on Total Credit

[edit] 219th on Predictor and we've passed the 1000 WU mark
http://predictor.scripps.edu/top_tea...y=total_credit

[Richard M]

Hmm, I think I'll join Predictor too.
SETI is down so often that I might as well.

EDIT: Forget that, they've disabled new registrations.
Unless you can PM me the URL details etc to join until they allow new users?

[greencreeper]

Whilst checking up on the enemy I found this site:

http://www.boincstats.com/

[poolking]

We are now currently 221st so we've dropped a few places, but I think the stats are screwed anyway I'm sure I have more credit on predictor than listed.

Beating IBM? Now that is VERY strange

"July 28, 2004
The project is currently down. We found a bug in the scheduling code such that returned results were not being updated in the database. We are now running a fix script on the DB, marking each affected result as unsent so that it will be resent. Unfortunately, credit was not given for results affected by the bug."

Here we go again

[poolking]

Are you referring to SETI or Predictor?

Seti

[Maggy J]

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