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Former Member
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So, my laptop installed updates and restarted last night and was sat on the login screen.
This means 7 hours of lost processing time, can GRID be started as a service when the computer starts, rather than on user logon? |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I think you "can" do it with Windows (I'm assuming you're using Windows here), but I'd be more inclined to suggest disabling auto-reboot-on-updates, to be honest. Not sure how to go about setting something up as a service, but a quick Google finds the following (it's an old post as BOINC 7 is out now, I believe, but should still give the pointers needed):
----------------------------------------http://boincfaq.mundayweb.com/index.php?language=1&view=344 My only Windows PC is also my gaming PC, and the last thing I want it to do is install a small update and then reboot (or even lose game-window focus) while I'm gaming... My Linux boxes (mostly debian, one Ubuntu), on the other hand, will easily run services all day without me even logging in...  |
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Former Member
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Useful, thanks :)
I'll disable the reboots at home, but at work the machines are part of a policy that will restart (so thats not an option). I'll give it a go and see what comes of it :) |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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OK, the first of the new servers is in, but it's a crappy old dual-core Xeon - will be crunching, at least, but very slowly (estimates of the current two work-units below):
----------------------------------------DSFL: 14 hours CfCW: 9 hours There's another one of those to get built, first thing in the morning (assuming I can get it to recognise its own RAID-controller and hence see its disks), then I can get started on building the other 10 considerably-faster servers! Should do a fair bit of crunching!  |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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On closer checking, the new server appears to have dual single-core Xeons in it. It's also had its first finished work-unit validated!
----------------------------------------Hopefully, with just a few more things left to tweak, the other ten faster servers should be online before the end of today! EDIT: had a few more config settings and installs to tweak, than I thought, so it's going to be Monday for the new cluster now! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Thargor at Jul 13, 2012 4:10:57 PM] |
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crooks_uk
Veteran Cruncher England Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Post Count: 1013 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I've made it back into the top 1000 for points, results, and runtime today!
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Be a part of the largest UK team:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=L721SPD4BN1 |
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Thargor
Veteran Cruncher UK Joined: Feb 3, 2012 Post Count: 1291 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Congrats crooks_uk!
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Well done Crooks_UK! keep it up everyone :)
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crooks_uk
Veteran Cruncher England Joined: Nov 25, 2004 Post Count: 1013 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I've just added a few extra workstations to my fleet. WCG will only run when idle but I expect to get a few extra points as they are 4 and 6 core xeons!
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gordoma
Veteran Cruncher Windsor, UK Joined: Jul 21, 2005 Post Count: 729 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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@ gordoma Impressive AllTime stats 14:299:10:52:21 (#5,406) 6,370,839 (#12,103) 14,030 (#10,546) We'll be glad to have you join the UK team, as and when. Test lab or part-time Laptop, all crunching contributions are welcome. Thanks Jonnieb-uk It's amazing how quickly one gets back into the crunching mindset again - trying to get a good spread across all projects, tinkering with various settings, keeping a lookout for any "spare compute" I can dedicate to the cause. |
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