Posts by chrispsn

1) Message boards : Problems : Connectivity issues via boinccmd (Message 81) Posted 23 Oct 2018 by chrispsn Post: Hi, I'm trying to connect to my Science United account via the command line tool boinccmd (to use cloud training). The following command gives an error: boinccmd --join_acct_mgr https://scienceunited.org/ myusername mypassword The error is: ││#88 23 Oct 12:34 ││Fetching configuration file from https://scienceunited.org/get_project_config.php ││#89 23 Oct 12:34 ││Contacting account manager at https://scienceunited.org/ ││#90 23 Oct 12:34 ││Account manager contact succeeded ││#91 23 Oct 12:34 ││[error] No signing key from account manager Any help is greatly appreciated!
2) Message boards : Suggestions : Running Science United on Google Cloud, Azure, etc (Message 80) Posted 23 Oct 2018 by chrispsn Post: Hi there, As you probably know, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure etc offer free cloud credit to new users, which can be used to get quite beefy machines: - https://cloud.google.com/free/ - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/ It would be a great help to the project if accessing that cloud compute was made as easy for new users as possible, perhaps via: - a step-by-step guide - automatic scripts for setting up an instance and getting everything downloaded and run. Leela Zero, which is a non-BOINC project, has started to do this. From experience, using the Tesla V100 makes a huge difference to the rate of training: https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero/issues/1905
3) Message boards : Questions : Web API for statistics (Message 62) Posted 9 Sep 2018 by chrispsn Post: Hi there, Is there a web API for pulling stats on processing power etc? There is a PHP interface for charts (like the one below), but it would be good to have a HTTP(S) GET API for the raw data (I want to make an Excel dashboard). https://scienceunited.org/su_graph.php?type=user&id=12345&what=ec&ndays=30&xsize=450&ysize=250 Thanks, Chris