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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I just added RSS feeds for HCC and Rice to my feed reader for crunching.
----------------------------------------I have feeds for all of the BOINC projects to which I am attached. It thus strikes me that while the BOINC agent is fine, and I am having no problems on any of my four machines, and this is not a diatribe against BOINC.... Every WCG project stands on its own as equally valuable as any BOINC project. Yet, WCG is treated as one project in BOINC. So, if I have five WCG projects and five projects from BOINC, and my weighting is equal, then WCG will get one sixth of my computing time, so each WCG project will get what? one thirtieth of my computing time? I am not good at second grade arithmetic, Even on a dual core, that is one fifteenth? Am I wrong? Please correct my math. I think that this should be looked at and some sort of new deal struck. Or, hey, IBM, come on. You are the big boy on the block, build your own agent so we can really go at it. >>RSM |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Or, hey, IBM, come on. You are the big boy on the block, build your own agent so we can really go at it. They are within a couple of months of closing their own agent, the United Devices version. Since it can't be upgraded, we're all glad to be rid of it and going to pure BOINC.Yes, BOINC treats WCG as one entity for project weight. Once UD is gone, there may be some ways to rethink it. Other projects also have one weight that I have seen, even though some may have subprojects as well. The weighting can be changed, as below.
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----------------------------------------Work+GPU i7 8700 12threads School i7 4770 8threads Default+GPU Ryzen 7 3700X 16threads Ryzen 7 3800X 16 threads Ryzen 9 3900X 24threads Home i7 3540M 4threads50% [Edit 2 times, last edit by retsof at May 18, 2008 1:26:46 AM] |
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Former Member
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Hello mitrichr,
Your Preferences specify the weight you want each project to have. So if you want 5 WCG projects to share equal time with 2 other BOINC projects, give each other project a weight of 100 and give WCG a weight of 500. Lawrence |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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It's a project ratio.
----------------------------------------100/100/500 -------------- 700 accomplishes the same thing as 10/10/50 ---------- 70
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Former Member
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Hi, mitrichr.
This has been discussed a few times in the past, internally at WCG, with the CAs, and with the BOINC developers. At the moment, the benefits of running WCG as a single BOINC project outweigh the benefits of running each project separately. In the future, this may change. It's not a huge deal, though. The multi-project crowd are very (very) vocal, but the vast majority of the contribution to WCG comes from people running WCG exclusively. |
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Richard Mitnick
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Didactylos
----------------------------------------Thanks, I get it. >>RSM |
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