Posted 549 days ago by
mickydl*
I don't know if it has been asked before but I can't find anything in the forum. So I'm doing it now :)
Are there any plans for a multithreaded application?
Right now you are only giving out one WU per host at a given time. Since the memory requirements are gradually increasing it's also unlikeley that I will be able to run any other project next to Nuerona on the same machine. The current app only uses a single core and the remaining cores of the CPU just sit there doing nothing. So a multithreaded app would be nice to make better use of our computing resources.
Michael
Posted 550 days ago by
mickydl*
Tobias, the admin/developer/owner of FreeHAL has a feature of limiting the number of work units. He let's you choose between 1 WU per core, 1 WU per 2cores, or one WU per host. I have no idea, though, how he does it and whether it is a function of the BOINC server software or if he hacked it into the server code himself.
Any chance we can get the number of tasks to two at a time? Perhaps you could could have the server test memory If RAM = <4gb, issue 0 tasks; if RAM = >4gb issue 2 tasks; else issue 1 task.
As far as I know, the BOINC server does not allow the project to configure in that way the number of WUs to be sent. There is only an absolute limit independent of RAM, CPUs or whatever.
Posted 695 days ago by
mickydl*
Well, I think the problems are almost solved, but not entirely.
This WU looks suspicious :) Interestingly it's a quorum of three and it gets exactly three times the score than the previous quorum two WUs. All three hosts are Linux. So far I have found only one such WU.
Regards,
mickydl*
Posted 697 days ago by
mickydl*
I have made some observations regarding the validation and score of workunits.
1) I have a couple of validation errors with my Linux WUs. Almost all of them (although not entirely) were against two Windows machines. So there might be a cross-validation problem as other projects have experienced as well. On the other hand it might simply be a coincidence because there are more Windows- than Linux machines working on the project.
2) I have the feeling that whenever two Linux machines agree upon a result and validate, the score will be 23.15. If a windows machine is part of the quorum it will be around 1 or less.
Regards,
mickydl*