Posts by lz0

1) Message boards : Questions : Why doesn't boinc use my GPU? (Message 1566) Posted 16 Aug 2023 by lz0 Post: sometimes there are simply no GPU tasks available to be completed. Keep an eye out for this state.
2) Message boards : Questions : Question about Account Managers. (Message 1565) Posted 16 Aug 2023 by lz0 Post: Science United is not an account manager, such as you might have seen with BAM! (BOINC Account Manager https://www.boincstats.com/ ). In fact, the way Science United (SU) works is really the opposite of an account manager. When you log in to your BOINC client running on your computer with your SU account, the work that you perform will be reflected in your (temporary) SU account stats page, but you will not get public credit for it. This is because SU reports the completed work units back to all projects under a single Science United ID. So in that way, all SU users are contributing to a single shared BOINC ID. I do not think it is a good idea to attach Science United to your running BOIC client, while also logging in to your client with other project-specific accounts, or other account managers. If you are going to use Science United, you need to just accept that you will not get public credit for the work, only the stats you can see on your SU webpage dashboard after logging in. Also keep in mind that some BOINC projects themselves simply run out of work units for people to do. And yes, sometimes projects' servers go down. As far as I can tell, these servers are sometimes old and sitting in the corner of someone's office somewhere, so its understandable that some things just break and dont get fixed immediately.
3) Message boards : Questions : ubuntu jammy jellyfish (Message 1527) Posted 17 Apr 2023 by lz0 Post: I also find that I need to run this command in the terminal before the BOINC Manager GUI app will work $ /etc/init.d/boinc-client start perhaps this was supposed to be configured to start at boot and is simply not configured correctly? Not sure.
4) Message boards : Questions : how to stop a project that already started before you changed your preferences? (Message 1519) Posted 29 Mar 2023 by lz0 Post: well I figured it out, first I had to go into the BOINC manager menu and "Synchronize with Science United", then I manually aborted all the project tasks that I did not want. After that, the unwanted projects seem to have stopped downloading and running tasks.
5) Message boards : Questions : how to stop a project that already started before you changed your preferences? (Message 1518) Posted 29 Mar 2023 by lz0 Post: I just made an account and linked it in BOINC. It downloaded and started running a large number of tasks, before I had even navigated to the page on here to set my project preferences. Now, the preferences changes I made are not reflected in what is running in BOINC, but BOINC will not let me remove the old project(s) since they are managed by the account manager instead.
6) Message boards : Questions : ubuntu jammy jellyfish (Message 1517) Posted 29 Mar 2023 by lz0 Post: I had to do the following to get it to work https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Installing_on_Linux install BOINC client and manager (GUI) $ sudo apt install boinc-client boinc-manager add myself to the boinc usergroup $ sudo usermod -a -G boinc username_goes_here give myself read and write access to the boinc-client directory $ chmod g+rw /var/lib/boinc-client/ Note that you might need to reboot once or twice in between steps for it to take effect as a side note you can use this command to see if the client is running or not https://boinc.berkeley.edu/wiki/Stop_or_start_BOINC_daemon_after_boot $ /etc/init.d/boinc-client status $ /etc/init.d/boinc-client start hope this helps