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| 1) Message boards : Problems : Graphs are showing an error
Message 1694 Posted 30 Jul 2024 by NightBlade |
I don't know. I mean, your point about "FLOPS means nothing to non-technical users" is a good one. If I were a non-technical user, and a casual browser of the site, I'd hope to see something in hours/days - maybe "CPU hours/days" or maybe not, even that might require technical discussion (how many physical cores? virtual cores?) For scientists, the post-homepage graphs/details make perfect sense. For completely non-technical users, maybe CPU hours or something similar under a title like "hours spent computing" would make sense. I'm not sure. (GPU makes it more complicated, or maybe not. GPU hours are not equal to CPU hours, but maybe non-techies don't care.) |
| 2) Message boards : Questions : What happens after the deadline?
Message 1689 Posted 25 Jul 2024 by NightBlade |
Hi, I haven't seen that before (dead tasks). That said, I wouldn't worry about it. Tasks get redistributed automatically if someone's PC doesn't complete them in time (e.g. you shut it off and leave it off for a couple of weeks). |
| 3) Message boards : Problems : Graphs are showing an error
Message 1688 Posted 25 Jul 2024 by NightBlade |
That's odd. I tried logging in as you, and the graphs were correct on both front page and home page. Sorry for the late reply, Looks good now. On another note, I was reading the goals/manifesto from one of the founders or someone. He? mentioned that the goal was to cater to non-techies. Maybe the default graphs should show time instead of gigaflops? |
| 4) Message boards : Problems : Graphs are showing an error
Message 1685 Posted 19 Jul 2024 by NightBlade |
Hi David, I still see the same error with the same symptoms on my side. (Tried a hard reload in my browser to make sure it's not a cached response.) Regards, |
| 5) Message boards : Problems : Graphs are showing an error
Message 1682 Posted 18 Jul 2024 by NightBlade |
Hi, The graph on the home page (when you're logged in) as well as under Computing Graphs all show broken images. Clicking on one gives the error "Unable to handle request" and 'no access". |
| 6) Message boards : Problems : BOINC doesn't want to connect with Science United
Message 1560 Posted 3 Aug 2023 by NightBlade |
As I mentioned in another thread, the solution is to update your BOINC client. BOINC 7.16 doesn't seem to be able to connect to Science United, but BOINC 7.22 does. I can confirm that I got the same problem on two of my machines, and upgrading to 7.22 resolved it. |
| 7) Message boards : Problems : Error message when attaching project "Failed to add account manager"
Message 1556 Posted 30 Jul 2023 by NightBlade |
I got this, too. Reinstalling the latest BOINC client (7.22) seems to resolve the problem. |
| 8) Message boards : Problems : Tasks for GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them
Message 1555 Posted 27 Jul 2023 by NightBlade |
Got three copies of this message today (I have two GPUs): Thu 27 Jul 2023 07:47:56 PM | World Community Grid | Tasks for NVIDIA GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them Thu 27 Jul 2023 07:47:56 PM | World Community Grid | Tasks for AMD/ATI GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them Thu 27 Jul 2023 07:47:56 PM | World Community Grid | Tasks for Intel GPU are available, but your preferences are set to not accept them I checked all the preferences I could see in the BOINC client, and in the Computing prefs on this site; I don't see anything related to GPU. How do I enable GPU computing? I'm on Linux, running as a service, so it shouldn't be that the process doesn't have access to the GPU. |
| 9) Message boards : Questions : Adding Science United without reinstalling the BOINC client
Message 1548 Posted 19 Jul 2023 by NightBlade |
I am a big WCG user via BAM (bam.boincstats.com), and would like to switch over to Science United. I see that Science United is listed as a separate account manager. Is there any way to change account managers without reinstalling the client? I'm running on a number of hosts, some of which are problematic to reinstall on (like Arch Linux, which is not really officially supported, and takes a lot of hand-holding to get it working). |
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