BOINC Pentathlon 2024

[Lightwreather]

So, I'm just gonna let the tasks with the 10th deadline expire for now. Don't know how to guarantee any ones with a later deadline can't be uploaded

[leadeater]

17 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Yup with a workaround... Tried everything I could think of and the benchmarks just will not work at all on this system... but I booted the machine on Linux, installed BOINC there, ran the benchmarks which worked flawlessly, found where it stored the results and copied them over to the Windows install. Seems it worked as the project page now sees it right. Running my first WU batch with that now

Well that is a workaround heh

[Kilrah]

Nnnnngh I'm getting crazy, didn't change anything, still reporting the puny CPU time

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Nnnnngh I'm getting crazy, didn't change anything, still reporting the puny CPU time

Uninstall BOINC and delete all the BOINC files and start again, that might fix it

[Kilrah]

Just now, leadeater said:

Uninstall BOINC and delete all the BOINC files and start again, that might fix it

Done that twice already, tried with the stable and beta,...

 

I'm at trying it within a VM at this point

[HoldSquat]

7 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Done that twice already, tried with the stable and beta,...

 

I'm at trying it within a VM at this point

I haven't tried it but there is also a flatpak as well

[Kilrah]

48 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

I'm at trying it within a VM at this point

OK that's finally working. Damn was that a pain.

At least there's basically no VM overhead, 28 threads still about 31min/WU.

 

But yeah, Windows on the left - CPU time computed all wrong, Mint VM in Virtualbox on the right no problem.

 

 

I also threw another 6 threads on my Unraid server.

 

EDIT: FFS, the earlier units from Windows with the wrong CPU time got validated now and they have full credit, and about 20% more than the VM ones so I guess I need to switch back again...

[leadeater]

58 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

EDIT: FFS, the earlier units from Windows with the wrong CPU time got validated now and they have full credit, and about 20% more than the VM ones so I guess I need to switch back again...

Maybe BOINC just hates you

[Kilrah]

It hates this machine for some reason, with the other 3 everything went smoothly, but of course it's by far the most powerful one and thus the one that really should be working...

[SkillzTA]

You have to make sure the project reports your host as having run the benchmark. Then you have to download tasks after that since the tasks themselves are assigned the rated benchmar.

 

So if you don't run the benchmark, download tasks and run the benchmark, the tasks will still have the default benchmark numbers attached to them. So you'd need to abort them all and download new.

[Kilrah]

Yeah I was careful of that and they were all new. CPU time's still reported wrong but credit is correct.

 

https://rnma.xyz/boinc/results.php?hostid=14717&offset=0&show_names=0&state=4&appid=

 

The first 2 pages and some are after my trick to get the benchmark values sorted

 

I'm back on the host now that the VM had its assigned tasks done.

[Kilrah]

Hmm 3rd place next hour it seems? Others have increased output tho...

 

Wonder who'll have bunkered what in the other teams...

[will0hlep]

 

It is official, we've climbed to 3rd place in the City Run

[leadeater]

12 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

 

It is official, we've climbed to 3rd place in the City Run

Wow damn, really didn't think we'd do it in time. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooo

 

But have to keep it too though

[kiska3]

49 minutes ago, will0hlep said:

 

It is official, we've climbed to 3rd place in the City Run

Congrats! Now you need to keep 3rd

[SkillzTA]

32 minutes ago, kiska3 said:

Congrats! Now you need to keep 3rd

They need to take 2nd now lol

 

Let's goo LTT you can do it!

[leadeater]

8 minutes ago, SkillzTA said:

Let's goo LTT you can do it!

[Lightwreather]

Soo uhhh, is there a way to request more tasks?

[GOTSpectrum]

Heat hack when you don't have AC, crack the hatch to the loft and the heat rises, reduced temps by around 5C 

[SkillzTA]

8 minutes ago, Lightwreather said:

Soo uhhh, is there a way to request more tasks?

 

Short answer no.

 

Long answer yes. You'll need to use multiple instances to download tasks on the same host. But you need to make the first (main) instance ready for multiple instances with the proper cc_config setting enabled. Then all the other extra instances will need this same cc_config entry, otherwise the project server will see all the other instances as the same instance and you'll start losing tasks as it'll think you lost them on one instance and not realize they're on another instance.

 

The line you need is this:

<allow_multiple_clients>1</allow_multiple_clients>

[Lightwreather]

3 minutes ago, SkillzTA said:

Long answer yes. You'll need to use multiple instances to download tasks on the same host. But you need to make the first (main) instance ready for multiple instances with the proper cc_config setting enabled. Then all the other extra instances will need this same cc_config entry, otherwise the project server will see all the other instances as the same instance and you'll start losing tasks as it'll think you lost them on one instance and not realize they're on another instance.

Hmmm, alright. Thanks!

Is there a guide I could follow?

[SkillzTA]

6 minutes ago, Lightwreather said:

Hmmm, alright. Thanks!

Is there a guide I could follow?

 

For some reason the link isn't displaying correctly:

 

 

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/multiple-boinc-clients-on-the-same-computer.2573424/

 

[GOTSpectrum]

Bombardier reporting in,

 

Payload delivered successfully. 

[Lightwreather]

1 minute ago, SkillzTA said:

For some reason the link isn't displaying correctly:

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/multiple-boinc-clients-on-the-same-computer.2573424/

 

Thanks!

[SkillzTA]

1 minute ago, Lightwreather said:

Thanks!

 

For my Windows box (my gaming rig) I don't care to edit all that crap manually all the time. So I just make sure my primary instance has that cc_config entry then then when I want to make a new instance I just edit the boinc data directory and port and save this as a .bat file and execute it.

 

"c:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" --allow_multiple_clients --redirectio --detach_console --gui_rpc_port 31417 --dir C:\ProgramData\BOINC2
exit

 

The boinc data directory that needs to be unique for each instance in this case is the line c:\programdata\boinc2

The port for this instance is 31417 (The default port for the main instance is 31416)

 

No need to make a cc_config file for the extra instances as I enter the allow_multiple_clients param in the start line and assign the port as well.

 

So literally, after setting the cc_config.xml file to the correct setting once in the main instance I just create a directory I want the data files to be stored in, edit the above script, save it as a .bat and execute it. Then you can connect to it using the BOINC Manager, but you'll need to grab the gui password after the instance is started as it'll generate a random password for you.