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Thread: Switch from UD agent to BOINC Manager? |
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giant robot
Cruncher Joined: Jan 14, 2007 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
Hello,
I recently discovered the world of grid computing and World Community Grid in particular. Please forgive if I'm not posting in the correct forum. I have been using the UD agent for the last couple of weeks, participating in all available WCG projects-my computer has so far worked on the Help Defeat Cancer and the Genome Comparison Project with no apparent glitches. My question is this: would I or the community benefit from switching to the BOINC Manager? I am running Windows XP Pro on a P4 2.8 ghz with 1gb ram and 160 gb hard drive. Is BOINC really for the more technically inclined? Thanks for any help, Dave |
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zombie67 [MM]
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: May 26, 2006 Post Count: 228 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If your computer(s) is a dual core, or is a Pentium that supports HyperThreading, then yes, upgrade to BOINC. Otherwise you are wasting idle CPU cycles.
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Fairness needs to say that Help Defeat Cancer has just been given a higher minimum ram of > 1024mb. If u like that project, migrate to BOINC. All others run easily on a 2.8ghz P4 with 1024 ram.
----------------------------------------On Migrating to BOINC, the final release of 5.8 is about to show, thus wait a little if HDC project is not a must for u. BOINC is slightly more involved..... to get you the flavour, here the official help: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/manager.php A migration help is here: http://www.wcgwiki.org/en/boinc/migration.cfm Beauty is, you can easily store work locally for say 1 day, so if the network is down, the machine will not idle around when u are not there. cheers Added: The Help Defeat Cancer project minimum RAM specification on BOINC is presently 725mb RAM
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cio_redulla
Advanced Cruncher Philippines Joined: Apr 24, 2006 Post Count: 130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello, I recently discovered the world of grid computing and World Community Grid in particular. Please forgive if I'm not posting in the correct forum. I have been using the UD agent for the last couple of weeks, participating in all available WCG projects-my computer has so far worked on the Help Defeat Cancer and the Genome Comparison Project with no apparent glitches. My question is this: would I or the community benefit from switching to the BOINC Manager? I am running Windows XP Pro on a P4 2.8 ghz with 1gb ram and 160 gb hard drive. Is BOINC really for the more technically inclined? Thanks for any help, Dave We have the same amount of RAM and harddisk space Dave, it's ok to run BOINC. I didn't have any problem running two instances of HDC lately, :-).  |
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giant robot
Cruncher Joined: Jan 14, 2007 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
Thank you guys for responding. Sekerob, I think I will wait for build 5.8 and then switch to BOINC. Thank you also for the BOINC links, they will be helpful. In the meantime, I continue problem free with UD.
Dave |
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