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mato205
Cruncher Joined: Jan 3, 2008 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
hi,
why can´t I merge my pc´s..? from some reason, my pc is registered twice..I would like to merge them. this is no problem in other projects, like seti etc... thanks |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Regrettably you cant at WCG, mostly because the database that combines the New BOINC and old UD client is much older than BOINC. That database carries lots of legacy.
----------------------------------------It so happens that a feature is being launched next week that will try to avoid the registration of new devices, long as the install is done on a computer that is known to WCG and specifically has the same name / os. The Start-Here forum has some tips in an FAQ to avoid creating new devices in case of needed reinstalls.
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mato205
Cruncher Joined: Jan 3, 2008 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
i´m quite new at using boinc, and even newer at WCG... please can you tell me, what´s the reason for doubling devices? what did I do wrong? it´s not such a big problem... I just want to know why it is
thanks a lot |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Doubling?
----------------------------------------Every time you add another computer or something, you get another device. The computer may go away, but the device remains. I have 3 computers running .... and 110 devices.
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mato205
Cruncher Joined: Jan 3, 2008 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline |
thats OK, but I mean I ve got just one pc, and it is registered twice...
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
This is normal. Ignore it.
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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"This is normal"... if you had to re-install from scratch for some reason. Or if you wanted to see what the UD agent looks like before it disappears completely.
---------------------------------------- Just two common reasons among others. Cheers. Jean. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Every installation creates a unique registration ID. There is no current method to merge registration IDs, so a new device is shown for each new registration. (Unused devices become 'invisible' after 2 weeks.) This is part of the basic UD server design that WCG started with. BOINC was developed after some experience with UD and used a different method from the start. But we have added BOINC to the basic UD framework, so I have no idea whether or not we will ever be able to merge devices. My guess is - - eventually but not soon.
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Rickjb
Veteran Cruncher Australia Joined: Sep 17, 2006 Post Count: 666 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Being unable to merge devices won't make much or any difference to the bottom line of how much crunching we get done, but it does distort some statistics. For example, I crunched just 2 WUs with UD before switching to BOINC, mainly because I used a dialup connection and BOINC can download and administer a queue of several days' WUs, while UD could only download 1 WU at a time. The WCG stats thus show that I have 2 devices, even though I'm only using 1 computer. Now there exists a pecking-order list of crunchers having only 1 device, from which I am excluded. This sort of problem might deter a few crunchers, but I doubt it's enough to warrant implementing a "merge devices" feature if it's a large amount of work.
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