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Marius
Cruncher Joined: Apr 18, 2021 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My Problem
Hi, I'm running Boinc quite a while on my PC (Win10) and it works very good. A month ago I installed it on my android (OnePlus 8t). Is there any opportunity to change the package Size of the Tasks? Maybe you can implement a setting for this? The Task take from my opinion to long... 6-8hours (WCG) Although it's for me not possible to let it run 24/7, so one Task can take 2~3days. I'm not completely familiar with the Boinc Sourccode and do not knew, if something like this is even possible. Thanks for your Time  |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Each task (which runs using a software called AutoDock and has nothing to do with the BOINC software, which simply manages the tasks) received on Android is equal to any other task that runs on other CPUs. Usually a CPU task has 1 or 2 jobs to run - hard make that any lower.
----------------------------------------The only solution I see would be to create a specific pipeline for Android devices so that Androids are assigned the smallest, easiest to run molecules. But this sounds like a whole lot of work on the part of the researchers and WCG for very little benefit, if any. You can try to lower the number of tasks run at any given time by changing the number of CPUs used on your BOINC Android client - this may help a bit in lowering the runtime of each individual task. OPN tasks have a 7 day deadline so it sounds like you are having no problem in respecting that. If it's too long for you, you could choose other BOINC projects for your Android, although I don't know any that has smaller tasks other than Rosetta@home, on which you can indeed change the runtime of a task to as low as 1 hour but that has very little science benefit, even more so on an Android, IMO. AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz [Edit 1 times, last edit by Falconet at Oct 27, 2021 1:01:34 PM] |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12149 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Marius
As Falconet has said, as long as you return the completed work within the deadline, you contribution will benefit the project. You seem to be returning work within about a third of that time, so what is the problem? There is plenty of work to go round so you are not depriving anyone of anything. Patience is a virtue! Mike |
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Marius
Cruncher Joined: Apr 18, 2021 Post Count: 3 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for the response ✌️
I didn’t knew that the deadline is so long 😆 Thank you for your time |
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