WCG - 15th Birthday Challenge

phill · Nov 19, 2019

Good day everyone

I've just grabbed another screenie from the results page, so here's what the current stand in's are

We might be able to get to 7th I think... If the suns out i'll make sure everything is on!!

It's a shame I can't setup my surprise just yet.....

basco · Nov 19, 2019

thx Phil for your work here.
sorry for the dumb Questions but i need help with starting wcg.
joined the Team today but it says Nothing started? and cant find a start button

infrared · Nov 19, 2019

@basco might be worth checking which projects you have selected here, not all are active projects atm, smash childhood cancer and OpenZika are finished iirc. If you pick one of these projects you should get some work - Aids phase 2, mapping cancer markers, microbiome, African rainfall.

It's probably worth going through the 'computing preferences' in boinc too, there's plenty of settings in there that affect how it will run, stuff like percentage of cpu to use while pc is and isn't in use, how much memory is available, network access etc. Once you have the settings right and active projects selected it should start getting some jobs. The event log is useful, if it still doesn't want to get any work take a screenshot of that for us.

Thanks for joining the team :toast:

basco · Nov 19, 2019

tried a lot but still: sorry for me being silly

infrared · Nov 19, 2019

Weird... I actually think you might be set up correctly, but servers aren't issuing tasks at the moment for some reason, I've just noticed I'm almost out of tasks myself. Anyone else noticed this?

basco · Nov 19, 2019

what means:
this cp has reached a limit on tasks in progress?
TiA

infrared · Nov 19, 2019

I'm not certain, but I suspect it's just because your computer has no jobs to do. I don't see that message in my event log, but I've still got a few jobs running.

I asked on the seti-germany shoutbox if anyone had noticed this, VietOZ replied to say MCM and MIP are working, I've just got a ton of jobs for those projects.

Home

World Community Grid enables anyone with a computer or Android device to donate their unused computing power to advance cutting-edge scientific research on topics related to health and sustainability.

www.worldcommunitygrid.org

Arjai · Nov 19, 2019

@basco Try a reboot, re-open BOINC, click "Projects" tab, highlight WCG line then "update" from the left panel.

Can't hurt.

basco · Nov 19, 2019

i understand everything except re-open boinc?
i think i missed 1 step
and it takes every option but i want 50% cpu but it stays at 100

Arjai · Nov 19, 2019

If BOINC is not set to Start w/ Windows, you will need to open it up, start the program.

you should get to here, with WCG highlighted. Then "update" from the left side Command buttons.

After a re-boot of the computer.

phill · Nov 19, 2019

basco said:
thx Phil for your work here.
sorry for the dumb Questions but i need help with starting wcg.
joined the Team today but it says Nothing started? and cant find a start button

You're most welcome

I like to help wherever I can with things and this is close to the hearts here at TPU, so I like to do my best

Everyone here is great with the advice and help so whatever any issue you come across, it'll be sorted out somehow by someone

basco · Nov 19, 2019

got it thanx a lot.
now after 5 restarts it started to download somethings and is working
and yes boinc starts with it.
thanks to everybody`s help

last ? can i pause this at any time?

mstenholm · Nov 19, 2019

basco said:
i understand everything except re-open boinc?
i think i missed 1 step
and it takes every option but i want 50% cpu but it stays at 100View attachment 137005

You set (and didn't save) 50 % run time on 50 % of your threads.

basco · Nov 19, 2019

thx mstenholm
changed it to 100% runtime on 75 cpu.

last ? can i pause it somwhere? suspend means stop or abort or am i wrong

thebluebumblebee · Nov 19, 2019

basco said:
can i pause it somwhere?

You can from the icon in your system tray, which lasts for 1 hour.

phill · Nov 19, 2019

basco said:
got it thanx a lot.
now after 5 restarts it started to download somethings and is working
and yes boinc starts with it.
thanks to everybody`s help
View attachment 137007

last ? can i pause this at any time?

You sure can if you want. In the screen shot above, under the first button it says suspend. If you click on the project (World Grid for example) then suspend, it'll stop working and you'll have an idling machine

You'll have to click it again if you want it to start back up

Glad it has got started

I'm not sure why it needed so many restarts but just glad it's setup and running

mstenholm · Nov 19, 2019

basco said:
thx mstenholm
changed it to 100% runtime on 75 cpu.

last ? can i pause it somwhere? suspend means stop or abort or am i wrong

Suspend means suspend, not stop but pause. You will lose a few minutes of run-time on MCM if you do that. On African Rainfall Prediction you can lose hours.

thebluebumblebee · Nov 19, 2019

@basco , the nice thing is that pause is temporary, and if we forget to restart it, it will restart on it's own after an hour. You have to manually un-suspend to get it back to work. You might be surprised at how little BOINC interferes with the normal operation of your computer - it just seems to get out of the way. IIRC, suspend and pause do the same thing, it's just that pause has that 1 hour resume feature.

basco · Nov 19, 2019

men i really missed this forum- thank you to all here!

infrared · Nov 19, 2019

glad to see you're up and running basco

I just added 3 craptops to the effort, I wouldn't normally bother with these but I really wanna overtake Planet 3DNow and the Scotts!

mstenholm · Nov 19, 2019

thebluebumblebee said:
suspend and pause do the same thing, it's just that pause has that 1 hour resume feature.

I just learned something new

basco · Nov 19, 2019

tomorrow i fire up my i7-970 and maybe if the old power-supply can take it another 4770k.
lets get it on

mstenholm · Nov 19, 2019

basco said:
tomorrow i fire up my i7-970 and maybe if the old power-supply can take it another 4770k.
lets get it on

Remember to include FAH2, maybe avoid MCM. The MCMs could take days before your wing-man complete them and you get your points. FAH2 (mostly) is a one-man job so points at completion.

phill · Nov 20, 2019

Here's an update as of Midnight this morning

I think our 8th place is doing us so very well indeed

Bit lower on the points today compared to Planet 3DNow! but there's still about 3 days left to go... I'm leaving a few PCs on this evening and have been just because of the weather and the cool conservatory lol

Helps warm it up a little bit I hope

See you in the morning all

TheoneandonlyMrK · Nov 20, 2019

mstenholm said:
Remember to include FAH2, maybe avoid MCM. The MCMs could take days before your wing-man complete them and you get your points. FAH2 (mostly) is a one-man job so points at completion.

Aww am i noobin whats fah2 on wcg, gpu work,? i have gpus fully suspended.
Usually run fah.

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