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TPU's WCG/BOINC Team

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Adding my ZTE Force to WCG full time. My Motorola Moto G arrived today. There's some ups and downs about the switch but I'm happy so far.

Are there any tricks or anything I should know about when it comes to phones and WCG? I've just installed it, plugged the phone in to a power source and set it down.
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Keep an eye on temps. It'll warm up the battery a bit which may reduce battery lifespan. If you can run the phone without the battery installed, it may be better to do that. BOINC will keep an eye on temps (which you can adjust to whatever you're comfortable to) and if it starts pausing due to heat, can try moving the phone to somewhere that has a bit better airflow. I even set an old socket A heatsink on my phone which seemed to help a little bit, but you can only pull so much heat out through plastic. If you can disassemble the phone a bit, could even see if you can get a small heatsink to sit on the main SoC. Wouldn't recommend anything permanent though.
 
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Turned off by rigs. will not be crunching till i move to my new apartment.:lovetpu:
 
xvi said:
Keep an eye on temps. It'll warm up the battery a bit which may reduce battery lifespan. If you can run the phone without the battery installed, it may be better to do that. BOINC will keep an eye on temps (which you can adjust to whatever you're comfortable to) and if it starts pausing due to heat, can try moving the phone to somewhere that has a bit better airflow. I even set an old socket A heatsink on my phone which seemed to help a little bit, but you can only pull so much heat out through plastic. If you can disassemble the phone a bit, could even see if you can get a small heatsink to sit on the main SoC. Wouldn't recommend anything permanent though.
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I'll try to pull the battery, though I'm not worried about battery life. It's basically a dedicated cruncher now, can't see using it for much else at this point. It'll help with temperatures, BOINC pausing and wasted energy and crap though.

-ed: Doesn't seem to want to run without the battery (phone won't boot). I pulled the back cover though, that might help a bit.
 
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uh-oh:fear:
Whew!:oops:
I was sitting here at my system when all of a sudden the CPU fan slowed down. Opened the BOINC manager to see days of WU's "aborted by project". WU's deleted themselves and, thankfully, more WU's downloaded. For a few seconds, I thought that maybe the FAAH project had ended.
From the event log: 5/8/2015 7:37:08 AM | World Community Grid | Result FAHV_x4HEG_A_PRAS_0979800_2177_0 is no longer usable
And: 5/8/2015 7:39:14 AM | World Community Grid | Reporting 268 completed tasks I have 18 pages of server aborted WU's. It will be interesting to see how those are or aren't credited.
o_O
5/8/2015 7:51:10 AM | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for FightAIDS@Home - Vina
5/8/2015 7:51:10 AM | World Community Grid | No tasks are available for FightAIDS@Home - AutoDock
5/8/2015 7:51:10 AM | World Community Grid | This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress
5/8/2015 7:51:10 AM | World Community Grid | Project has no tasks available
Seems I'm only allowed 10 tasks at a time?????
...and I just brought my final system online. A mighty i3-3220T pulling 53 watts at full load.

Update: Only seems to be affecting this one system.:confused: This system is shut down overnight, if that matters.
Update 2: It's not a Windows/Linux issue. For whatever reason, this system, and only this system, seems to be on a 10 task limit (and no, I don't have "Show Active Tasks" selected":p)
Update 3: 3 hours later - back to normal. I guess I'm off parole.
 
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I may have to close shop down mostly starting soon. I'll probably drop clocks to stock and undervolt at first, but may start dropping cores. The undervolt should drop me 30-40w.

It's alabama and already 80f+. The room with the crunching PC in it has two PCs (~400-450w PC, and ~100w? iMac) an old laser printer, and some warm incandescent lights.
 
o_O Found something weird. This morning, I put a HDD in a (new) system and fired it up. The HDD had an install of Linux Mint on it that I had not used for many months. Also, I'm only crunching FAAH and even have the "If there is no work available for the project(s) I have selected above, please send me work from another project" unchecked. I changed the hostname for that install and started crunching. So I am surprised and perplexed by the following:
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Here's the link for that task: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/device/viewWorkunitStatus.do?workunitId=1397283566
How does a system turned on today get credit for a task sent out when it didn't exist? And I think I would have seen that task on the system when I checked it and I never did.
Correction, I got 3 of them.
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does the hostname, by any chance, matches any of Your other boxen (past or present)?
 
I think I may have figured it out. The HDD came off of one of my other existing systems. If you look at my hosts at FDC, you will see that my 3220T is 2nd from the top of the list. (what a chip! Over 900,000 points in under 12 hours:rolleyes::laugh:) On the bottom of the list, you will see a 2600K, which is the system that the HDD came out of. This all ties together with the problem I had with my one system this morning. Apparently, when I fired up the 3220T, it assumed the identity that it once had and pushed the 2600K out to get a new identity. I had 2 systems claiming to be the same system for a time.
 
My 750w is here. :D
 
stinger608 said:
If anyone is interested in an Intel X58 dual processor system, I just listed one for sale here:
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Unfortunately you just ship in America:banghead:
 
Knoxx29 said:
Unfortunately you just ship in America:banghead:
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Yea, it would be insane to ship to Germany man!

Unless of course your at a US APO address.
 
Okay, it it just me, or did the status of MCM just change drastically? I thought I recalled seeing that it was (here's the thing, I don't remember)% but with an end time of October of this year? Now it's at 74%. I thought I was going to have to finish my goal for FAAH and then move over to MCM.:confused:
 
thebluebumblebee said:
Okay, it it just me, or did the status of MCM just change drastically? I thought I recalled seeing that it was (here's the thing, I don't remember)% but with an end time of October of this year? Now it's at 74%. I thought I was going to have to finish my goal for FAAH and then move over to MCM.:confused:
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Me no know, but I had a little chuckle at this line, had to read it like 3 times to understand what you were saying :laugh:
 
???? 94-97% ?????
 
Just found out that all of my Windows Boinc installs are all 32 bit. I thought it automatically installed the correct one??? Also, does WCG use a modified version of the BOINC client? The current BOINC version is 7.4.42, while the download link at WCG is 7.2.47. Is there a link to a "WCG" 64 bit install?
Edit: What would I have to do to switch? Can I install over top of the 32 bit client, or do I have to start over - including aborting all of the tasks I have downloaded?
 
thebluebumblebee said:
Just found out that all of my Windows Boinc installs are all 32 bit. I thought it automatically installed the correct one??? Also, does WCG use a modified version of the BOINC client? The current BOINC version is 7.4.42, while the download link at WCG is 7.2.47. Is there a link to a "WCG" 64 bit install?
Edit: What would I have to do to switch? Can I install over top of the 32 bit client, or do I have to start over - including aborting all of the tasks I have downloaded?
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I usually get my BOINC installs here:
http://boincstats.com/en/page/downloadBOINC

As far as installing over a 32 bit version... I'm not sure, I always do a fresh install.
 
Trying to figure out what this means:
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That sure looks like it's actually processing in 64 bit to me. Is that different for those of you that have the 64 bit client?
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I think the 32 bit client will still assign 64 bit tasks. It's just the thing assigning work, not the thing performing the work.
 
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