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R@H/BOINC Question

deerslayer

deerslayer

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So I checked out the FAQ link in the daily stats, but it didn't really answer my question.

When I install boinc, which installation option should I choose? Is installing it as a service a good idea? I know when I used to run SETI and SoB I always installed them as services or CLI's because they seemed to process faster.

Is this true with BOINC setup as well?

How are you guys running your R@H client?

Another Question:

What is the difference between "Measured floating point speed" and "Measured integer speed"

My friend added his dual core AMD rig, and his FP is higher than my C2D's but my C2D's INT is faster than his AMD dual core.
 
The service is in no way faster than the single user installation. The big difference is the fact that as a service, you just don't see BOINC. Single user, you have your BOINC manager, can abort WUs, stop projects, attach to new ones and so on. I'd say basically all of us run BOINC as single user on their own machines to keep control over BOINC and spot possibly bad WUs while on remote machines (work, companies, friends, ...) we use the service to not bother the people and keep them from messing with BOINC.

The difference between these two numbers is like the whetstone and drystone benchmarks. It's two different kinds of computations your CPU can do. Different CPUs will vary big times with these two values. Usually, these values are taken as a benchmark and your granted credit is aligned with these numbers: better values --> more work done --> more credit. But as these number were easily inflated (not to say cheated with) Rosetta grants credits based on the actual work you do, not these arbitrary int/float numbers. So, as far as Rosey is concerned, there's no need to worry about these numbers. Only with some other projects they really matter, as long as credits is an important point for you.

:beer:
 
Well, I'm always running as Service-installation, since as service you've got exactly the same opportunity to monitor/control by using BOINC Manager as single-installation, but, as service BOINC will run even the times no-one is logged-in, and no-one is running the BOINC Manager.

Now, default you'll lose the screensaver when installed as service, but this is easily fixed, by going into service control panel, and change BOINC-service to run as "localsystem" and "interact with desktop".


Shared installation means everyone can run BOINC Manager, while for single/service only installing user/admin can run BOINC Manager.
 
Originally posted by: Rattledagger
... as service you've got exactly the same opportunity to monitor/control by using BOINC Manager as single-installation, but, as service BOINC will run even the times no-one is logged-in, and no-one is running the BOINC Manager.
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Good point Rattle!
 
I disable the screen saver anyhow. I hate screen savers. My monitor shuts off after 2-5 minutes of inactivity.

Yet another question:

I threw together a cruncher last night out of old parts, a 1600+, M7NCG motherboard (flaky), and 512 mb of ram. The rig is in my stats as "clunker". The very first WU I received had a compute error, the next three were fine, and the most recent one received a compute error as well.

I'm not sure what exactly is wrong with this motherboard. I bought it for a build for a friend, purely because of the dual channel DDR capability and the onboard video. The onboard video does not work. I'm beginning to wonder if that is not all that is wrong with it. When I was installing XP on it last night it BSOD'ed out of the installation. After I rebooted and started again it was fine.

Any thoughts? I have been watching for a new Socket A motherboard for it.
 
Originally posted by: BlackMountainCow
Did you ever run Prime95 on it (CPU stress test) or memtest86+ (mem test)? If not, I'd start with the memtest for 24h straight.
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But that means I can't run R@H on it for 24 hours.......I know the memory is good, I pulled it out of a rig that has been crunching for two days with no errors.

3/7 results are compute errors......:frown:
 
If I find a motherboard i'll probably replace the motherboard. I was hoping that the video was the only thing screwed up, but it appears that the whole board is flaky.
 
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