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BOINC 6.10.x (Alpha) For Windows
MarkJ:
--- Quote from: Raistmer on 06 Sep 2009, 04:23:43 am ---Well, at least they should issue separate work for ATI (as it done for CUDA), right?
AFAIK MW split work only for CPU and CUDA now... So CPU-based app_infor still required for ATI GPUs, right?
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As far as I know there were server-side changes for that. Might account for why it requests the ATI work as CPU work. No scratch that. It was a bit of missing code, since added. Need to wait for 6.10.4 though.
Raistmer:
It's the core of current errorneous approach to different hardware support.
Too many changes needed, both from client _AND_ server sides.
Though BOINC will not do anything with hardware itself. All it really needs is just correct description of new hardware to make correct scheduling decisions...
It could be done with extended anonymous platform approach... but I wrote all this on SETI main already :-\
MarkJ:
--- Quote from: arkayn on 06 Sep 2009, 01:56:05 pm ---Yep.
6.10.4 should be out soon as well.
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Its out now. You have to watch that <on_frac> value...
They have fixed an issue where BOINC (supposedly) wasn't accounting for how much time it is on. This has the effect of making it go into EDF mode now that its been fixed. The suggested approach is either:
Let it sort itself out (might take a while)
or as described below in the mailing list by someone else:
--- Quote ---Due to a bug, none of the previous v6.10.x-clients updated the <time_stats>, meaning your <on_frac> will take a huge drop on upgrading to v6.10.4.
Personally, my <on_frac> dropped from 1.000000 to 0.122804, but has slowly started increasing again, as it should.
To immediately get back up to "normal" <on_frac> again, stop BOINC, and edit client_state.xml and set <on_frac> to 0.99something.
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Raistmer:
I have bunch of problems with EDF mode on virtually all attached projects (SETI with bigges share included :o ) and different sorts of not requesting work problems.
It seems it's time to dive into BOINC beta/alpha again....
MarkJ:
That must have been the .4 and .5 iterations. We are now up to 6.10.11 which seems to be okay so far. There have been a couple of fixes since so expect a new version any day soon.
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