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Posts by robertmiles

1) Message boards : News : Happy New Year! (Message 412)
Posted 3 Oct 2021 by Profile robertmiles
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So you want any people trying to start an account or attach another computer to have to be able to read German? I can't, and therefore can't do anything useful work the page of text I get after a failed login. I can't post this as a normal message, either.

My task in progress is on a computer that has been unable to boot for about two weeks.

Is there any way to transfer the task in progress to the computer I'm using now, if I'm able to copy files from the original computer but not able to boot that computer? If so, how? If not, another three months of computer time wasted for that workunit.
2) Message boards : News : Please vote for us today at Google Impact Challenge (Message 386)
Posted 25 Feb 2016 by Profile robertmiles
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The instructions for this seem to require clicking on a button that isn't where you say it is, which makes it very difficult for those who can't read German.
3) Message boards : News : Vbox wrapper updated (Message 382)
Posted 7 Feb 2016 by Profile robertmiles
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Is this what you're looking for?
http://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1460

Probably. I'll try it tomorrow.

I tried to do it, and found no sign that either of my computers running BOINC appear to have any file named client_config.xml .

What directory should this file be in if it even exists?
4) Message boards : News : Vbox wrapper updated (Message 381)
Posted 6 Feb 2016 by Profile robertmiles
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Is this what you're looking for?
http://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/1460

Probably. I'll try it tomorrow.
5) Message boards : News : Vbox wrapper updated (Message 379)
Posted 5 Feb 2016 by Profile robertmiles
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@ robertmiles

I think I saw instructions for doing that on the BOINC site. It was a while back and I was looking for something else, so I don't remember where it was located. You might be able to search it up, though.


@Silverdrake

I tried such a search; it found 61200 items. I looked at the first 50 of them; none appear to say anything relevant to this problem.
6) Message boards : News : Vbox wrapper updated (Message 377)
Posted 1 Feb 2016 by Profile robertmiles
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Does this update handle the previous VM problem that kept BOINC from ever checking for VM support again on computers where such a check had previously failed?

No it does not. The problem you describe is in the BOINC Client. One has to manually remove a certain XML tag from client_state.xml I think but I'm not sure. This needs to be fixed in the Client or Manager and there is a proposal but nobody implemented it yet.


Then you might get more users actually running your VM workunits by giving a detailed description of how to remove that XML tag manually, preferably mentioning saving a copy of the file before it is changed.
7) Message boards : News : Vbox wrapper updated (Message 374)
Posted 25 Jan 2016 by Profile robertmiles
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Does this update handle the previous VM problem that kept BOINC from ever checking for VM support again on computers where such a check had previously failed?
8) Message boards : News : please upgrade your BOINC installations to use VM application (Message 348)
Posted 20 Mar 2014 by Profile robertmiles
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I finally found the way to enable virtualization on one of my computers - it's in the startup menus available only before you choose which operating system to boot, or one is chosen by default. This method isn't even mentioned in the Windows 7 help files. There is a program included in Windows 7 that can adjust some of the BIOS or UEFI settings, but the virtualization setting is not accessible there.

I've installed BOINC 7.2.42 and VirtualBox 4.3.6, but have not yet received any workunits that use virtualization. Is this because you're out of new workunits of this kind, or for some other reason?

I noticed that VirtualBox is described as for x86 (most 32-bit CPUs from either AMD or Intel) or for AMD64 (most 64-bit CPUs from AMD), but x64 (usually used to mean most 64-bit CPUs from Intel) isn't mentioned. Does this mean you need to describe your virtual workunits as not suitable for computers running 64-bit Windows on an Intel CPU?

Also, the VirtualBox site mentions that version 4.3.8 is available. Is it suitable for your project, on computers running 64-bit Windows 7?
9) Message boards : News : Bonus credits for monster wus (Message 224)
Posted 15 Dec 2010 by Profile robertmiles
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No hint on how much computer time is required for such workunits, or whether it will help to allow them to run on a GPU or multiple CPU cores.

Also, I don't believe I've found any information on what computer languages your software is written in, so that I can consider volunteering to update those parts in a sufficiently familiar language - at least if the comments are in English.
10) Message boards : News : Run-time filter required (Message 136)
Posted 24 Feb 2010 by Profile robertmiles
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Would the checkpoint files need to contain much more than the number of sections that have already been completed and therefore do not need to be repeated? That would allow you to build much longer workunits without doing much more than building a script to run the same program over and over, with a different set of input files each time. Also, if you select which old-style workunits to combine into one new-style workunit primarily by picking those which share the same largest input files, you could reduce the communications load on your server - assuming that there is enough sharing.

Also, I've seen a number of BOINC projects that reduce the communications load by sending most of the workunit files, and getting the output files, in compressed form (ZIP or similar) and having the workunits include steps to decompress the input files and compress the output files.
11) Message boards : News : Run-time filter required (Message 134)
Posted 24 Feb 2010 by Profile robertmiles
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Have you considered a new type of workunit that is essentially a script to run several (perhaps 10) of what is now the workunit size, one after the other, with code to write some kind of checkpoints in between?