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Title: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: Pizzadude on 06 Feb 2012, 12:31:42 pm
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.
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: Claggy on 06 Feb 2012, 01:01:09 pm
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 (http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download_all.php),
or direct from the downloads directory: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/dl/?C=M;O=A

Claggy
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: TouchuvGrey on 26 Feb 2012, 04:56:10 pm
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 ?
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: Josef W. Segur on 26 Feb 2012, 06:27:56 pm
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
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: skildude on 02 Mar 2012, 10:16:42 am
7.0.18 is recommended fot albert@home because of how it allows opnCL natively IIRC
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: TouchuvGrey on 03 Mar 2012, 11:26:58 pm
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
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: arkayn on 03 Mar 2012, 11:44:08 pm
7.0.18 does have a working backup project setting and other bug fixes.
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: TouchuvGrey on 06 Mar 2012, 09:38:25 pm
Just upgraded to 7.0.20.
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: Jim_S on 17 May 2012, 04:00:42 pm
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. ::)
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: Richard Haselgrove on 17 May 2012, 04:29:19 pm
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.
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: arkayn on 17 May 2012, 04:39:10 pm
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
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: Claggy on 17 May 2012, 04:41:19 pm
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
Title: Re: Which version of Boinc is best ?
Post by: TouchuvGrey on 19 May 2012, 06:54:16 am
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