Matroxusers team for CPDN BOINC

[GNEP]

Hmmmm... interesting. If you do get it to work, I think we have a perfect opportunity for a sticky guideline...

[RC Agent]

Anyone got this thing working from behind a firewall??

[VJ]

No problem at work... I'm behind a linux firewall, no special settings were needed.


Jörg

[VJ]

I have the impression it is messing up the home/work profiles as it concerns the same machine. Even though I had the machine ID for my Xeon (which is set in the climateprediction with a location 'home'), it loaded the work-settings. And perhaps that was the issue. I'll have to go home to try it.

Jörg

[J1NG]

VJ, have you updated your settings? (As in contact the server?) You won't use the new settings you have set at the board until the next time you contact the server.

Firewall? Is this a proper firewall, or WindowsXP firewall?

J1NG

[Rattledagger]

BOINC doesn't really like being moved from one computer to another.

But anyway, make sure you're running the latest BOINC-client, v4.13.
Some have reported problems if there's less work than cpu's, so this should mean atleast 4 wu, or limit #cpu's.
It's not always the "correct" venue is chosen, or changes back to default venue, this can be your problem if the client is using wrong preferences.

Also, a good idea is to disable network-access. Unfortunately, this must be done every time you starts BOINC.

[VJ]

J1NG: yes, I updated after changing the settings.

I found out the hard way what Rattledagger says. I changed the settings, but apparently the server doesn't like 2 different machine ids on different locations (I had one setting for work, the other for home). So I had to work via the general settings. When I tried the second time, the boinc client did indeed download more work, and now it is crunching 4 workunits at the same time.
The weird thing is though: the estimated time till completion of a single workunit is 1600 hours, whereas this is only 600 on my other computer. The client does seem to work in parallel, as the CPU time spent on every workunit is matching real time (if it wasn't parallel, I would expect it to be slower than real time).

Anyhow, it is working... I can have the dual Xeon run 24/7 for the next 4 days, so there is little doubt in my mind I'll pass Umfriend.

GNEP: I will write down what I did to make a sticky thread, as it might interest others.


Jörg

[GNEP]

Cheers Jorg.

[Umfriend]

We'll see VJ, we'll see....

[GNEP]

Can I just mention that Team Matrox Users is on the verge of passing Jorden and Holly in the PC Format Team? Interesting... perhaps we can get them to switch over to us?

[Maggi]

94 Matrox Users
95 PC Format

[Maggi]

btw, when sorted by "credits per day", we now rank on place #42 ... right in front of "U.S.Air Force"

http://www.boincstats.com/stats/team_stats.php?pr=cp&co=&st=0&to=100&or=12

[Umfriend]

94 Matrox Users
95 PC Format

Guess my ranking prediction turns out to be pretty accurate so far

[Rattledagger]

Originally posted by GNEP
Can I just mention that Team Matrox Users is on the verge of passing Jorden and Holly in the PC Format Team? Interesting... perhaps we can get them to switch over to us?

Well, he was trying to requit here so...


BTW, sorting after RAC shows MURC at #53.

[Umfriend]

I donnow how RAC is calculated, but IMO it lags to much for now. MURC CPDN@BOINC have seen a huge increase in throughput over the past 5 days, and we will utlimatley rank quite a bit higher.

Of course, the more members, the higher and faster.