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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
So far so good I did hit my goal on FAAH ages ago but I wanted to spin off some workunits to test the mobile power, so far so good running 2 cores out of 4 on my HTC One Phone. not sure how it will act if I bring it to full power. and only computes when connected. computing on battery is a no no on a phone. now we are going to see a game changer here.. tablets are cheap don't take much space I wonder if we are going to see members now with tablet farms in a closet or something 13 or so tablets to get 1 T Flop provided you can get ones with a quad CPU up with a good price.. I was waiting for this day.. noticed the project list keeps shrinking. glad I am in my summer shutdown cycle right now.. looking to ramp up in fall but I hope for some projects to do.. SNTS is the only one I have yet to start currently and it is paused.. I am glad to see almost any computing device can be made to do research now.. so those with older smartphones if the CPU is still good.. put it to work.. :D
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Former Member
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Hello choj01,
We are going to find out which chips are well designed for low-power usage. There has already been a complaint by one user with a Google Nexus 7 which ran on a NVIDIA TEGRA 3 quad-core. He said it rapidly overheated on 4 threads so he was switching to 1 BOINC thread. Lawrence |
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Kinwolf
Cruncher Joined: Feb 22, 2011 Post Count: 11 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My Galaxy S3(i747 version) isn't overheating, but I have no idea how many core it uses. Where should I look to know that? I looked under advanced option but still found nothing related.
Crunching isn't very fast either. At it's current speed, it will take over 16 hours for the FAAH_vina unit to complete, unless the % isn't accurate, we shall see. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi!
This is great news for me since I'm always eager to commit to the WCG projects as much as possible from all my devices. I just downloaded the mobile version and I'm curious how my Galaxy S Plus will perform :) Just a quick question: does anybody know how to change the name that appears in the Device Manager on the WCG website? My Android device is just listed as “localhost” and I want to change this to something more meaningful. Regards, Marius |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The word is that with present BOINC you cant change the name from localhost unless you 'root' the device. Also read you'd have to apply the name change after each power-up. Will have to wait till Berkeley finds a solution [which I've read as well, is in the NativeBOINC version that some members use from prior to the BOINC for Android launch].
----------------------------------------@Kinwolf, seeing the jobs running in the graphical interface will tell you how many cores BOINC uses... 1 job per core. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jul 23, 2013 1:31:11 PM] |
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Kinwolf
Cruncher Joined: Feb 22, 2011 Post Count: 11 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for the info!
Well, it took 5 hours to crunch the vina unit on a Qualcomm CPU 1.5Ghz(GS3 i747) On a Core i5 3.1Ghz it takes about 35 mins to crunch vina units. Still took less time then what I expected at first! |
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Former Member
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For now the FAHV are short on a PC, ~34 minutes on my Linux box, so 5 hours on Android [a Linux flavor too] is probably a good comparable time, hinting at us still being on a single sized pool of tasks.
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Sekerob is correct, we have not started using multiple sized work units. At some point in the future we will switch to mutiple sized work units, but that date has not been set and we will inform the members in the forums when that happens.
Thanks, -Uplinger |
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