Which version of Boinc is best ?

[Pizzadude]

Can anybody suggest which version of Boinc is best, it seems to me that later versions of Boinc do not seem to collect enough work to stop me running out daily and I have to intervene.

The version I am using at the moment (6.12.26) is the oldest 64bit available on Seti's website.

[Claggy]

Can anybody suggest which version of Boinc is best, it seems to me that later versions of Boinc do not seem to collect enough work to stop me running out daily and I have to intervene.

The version I am using at the moment (6.12.26) is the oldest 64bit available on Seti's website.

Try Boinc 6.10.60, Seti doesn't host any versions of Boinc, they are hosted at the Boinc website, you can get a selection eithier from the all versions download page,
or direct from the downloads directory: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/?C=M;O=A

Claggy

[TouchuvGrey]

Currently running 7.0.18 Alpha here  with
flops values in app_info. Would reverting to
6.10.60 be better for getting more work ?

[Josef W. Segur]

Currently running 7.0.18 Alpha here  with
flops values in app_info. Would reverting to
6.10.60 be better for getting more work ?

Reverting would be a way of losing what work you do have, some of the changes mean 6.10.60 won't be able to pick up where 7.0.18 left off. IIRC the work would be seen as "lost" and resent, so if you save all the WUs and put them back at the right time you could avoid having to download them again.

The transfer backoffs in 6.10.60 are somewhat less than 7.0.18, but 7.0.18 is also a lot less than 6.12.x. As to getting work assigned, 7.0.18 has completely different work fetch logic than 6.12.x and earlier. But if it is requesting work, it is just as likely to get some as any other version.
                                                         Joe

[skildude]

7.0.18 is recommended fot albert@home because of how it allows opnCL natively IIRC

[TouchuvGrey]

i just looked and realized i'm running 7.0.15 not
7.0.18 as i'd said previously. Any major advantages
or disadvantages to upgrading to 7.0.18 ?

GTX 460 and GTX 560 ti with a core i7 920
and 12 gigs of RAM

[arkayn]

7.0.18 does have a working backup project setting and other bug fixes.

[TouchuvGrey]

Just upgraded to 7.0.20.

[Jim_S]

Keep us posted as I need to upgrade from 6.12.34 ( Both 32 & 64 ) and also want to know What my best bet is.

[Richard Haselgrove]

Keep us posted as I need to upgrade from 6.12.34 ( Both 32 & 64 ) and also want to know What my best bet is.

I'd keep away from the mid-twenties - a few bugs crept in around .22 - .25

I'm running v7.0.27 at the moment - that seems pretty good. There was a v7.0.28 built just before the power outage (and it's available via Einstein), but I don't feel like upgrading to an unknown version while I've got lots of completed work waiting to upload and report. I'll give it a try once all that lot is safely tucked up in bed.

[arkayn]

I am also running 7.0.27 on 1 machine and have had no problems.

The other 2 machines are still running 6.12.43

[Claggy]

I'm running Boinc 7.0.28 on two machine, i haven't noticed any problems, the others are running a modified 6.10.58

Claggy

[TouchuvGrey]

7.0.27 on my main machine

7.0.25 on two others and

6.12.33 on my mostly dead linux laptop

working on reviving anothe machine.

That one will get 7.0.28 or newest alpha version