I've had a problem past few weeks with competing LODA. Seems like most of my LODA 2501.08 applications are getting a computation error within the 2s from running. It didn't happen before, but also I haven't been running this project for a long time.

I'm just wondering if thats just my experience or more people have this issue? And what this might be?

I'm using MBP M4 Pro 48GB

The last information is from July 2022

I erased a ton of space on my hard drive but I'm still getting an error message saying there is zero disk space! How can I fix this? I'm on a MacBook Air M2. There's probably a whole Terabyte of free space. I tried restarting, even reinstalling.

|| || |World Community Grid: Notice from serverWednesday, January 22, 2025 at 03:55:59 PM Mapping Cancer Markers needs 500.00MB more disk space. You currently have 0.00 MB available and it needs 500.00 MB. |

Hello everyone,

Windows task mannager tells me thet I have virtualization enabled (which I indeed did in UEFI).

LHC@home on the other hand tells me that my prozessor does not support virtualization.

Did anyone have this problem, too?

No error messages in protocols, Hyper-V not installed, fresh BOINC installation with VM support, in the past LHC@home worked just fine.

According to BOINCTUI my Samsung Android phone has a task that is in a state Wait that doesn't start:
Wait - World Community Grid 33h 99h 44h Mapping Cancer Markers - MCM1_0229522_2902_1
Both TUI and Manager are newly started, so the information comes from the phone. I also restarted the phone before starting TUI and Manager.

The phone also runs a non CPU intensive task: WUProp@Home, but even if I suspend that the WCG MCM task doesn't start.

I cannot get new tasks from other projects because:
Not requesting tasks: don't need (job cache full)

It seems that the WSG task that does never start blocks other tasks.

Then I aborted that task an a new WCG task was downloaded, but that also waits ready to start forever:
Application
Mapping Cancer Markers 7.61
Name
MCM1_0229838_9119
State
Ready to start
Received
Sat 18 Jan 2025 11:36:18 PM CET
Report deadline
Fri 24 Jan 2025 11:36:18 PM CET
Estimated computation size
29,166 GFLOPs
Executable
wcgrid_mcm1_map_7.61_arm-android-linux-gnu

About my phone:
Product name samsung GT-S6790N - SDK: 16 ABI: armeabi-v7a
CPU type ARM
ARMv7 Processor rev 9 (v7l) [Impl 0x41 Arch 7 Variant 0x2 Part 0xc09 Rev 9]
Number of processors 1
Operating System Android
3.0.15-1379436 (Android 4.1.2)
BOINC version 7.18.1

Hello everyone, first time poster here. Gotta say watching bars fill is surprisingly addictive, and BOINC and some other similar stuff has been scratching that itch while I stop myself from playing Warframe for a certain study. I focus mainly helping medical- or math-related stuff, so it would make sense to add Rosetta@home to my queue but...

Each time I try to make an account to add that project, I keep being told that my e-mail address has to be "name@domain" format, or something like that. Not sure if there is a special way to join computing for Rosetta@home, or if there's a bug preventing me from creating an account.

There is another one that does this as well, but I forgot which. I tried creating both via BOINC app and through the project's main website.

Might anyone have info on this? Thank you so much.

I can add the project to my BOINC client, but I receive zero work units, even after days of waiting.

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: it seems that the default SSD quota is 1 GB for BOINC. And that was not enough. After increasing this, everything works now 🙂

I have two projects, Milkway and Rosetta, and sometimes I see Milkway reaches a very high % of progress, like 98.xxx%, and then it stops and BOINC starts working on Rosetta, which usually consists of multiple much smaller tasks.

I can form BOINC to finish the milkway tast by suspending the rosetta tasks, but I'm thinking BOINC probably knows what it's doing, and I can just let it do it's thing, yeah?

I suppose my question is more, why BOINC decides to hold onto tasks instead of just finishing the last few minutes of work before moving on.

Hello, i am getting no task's at all on a new windows install, this is my log file after updating the projects.

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | Number of usable CPUs has changed from 8 to 12.

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | Preferences:

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - When computer is in use

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - 'In use' means mouse/keyboard input in last 30.00 minutes

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - don't use GPU

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - max CPUs used: 12

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - Use at most 75% of the CPU time

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - suspend if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - max memory usage: 23.95 GB

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - When computer is not in use

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - max CPUs used: 12

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - Use at most 75% of the CPU time

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - suspend if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 25%

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - max memory usage: 23.95 GB

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - Suspend if no input in last 390.00 minutes

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - Suspend if running on batteries

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - Store at least 0.10 days of work

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - Store up to an additional 0.50 days of work

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - max disk usage: 1533.07 GB

1/13/2025 5:10:37 PM | | - (to change preferences, visit a project web site or select Preferences in the Manager)

1/13/2025 5:10:39 PM | DENIS@home | update requested by user

1/13/2025 5:10:39 PM | RNA World | update requested by user

1/13/2025 5:10:39 PM | Rosetta@home | update requested by user

1/13/2025 5:10:39 PM | SiDock@home | update requested by user

1/13/2025 5:10:40 PM | DENIS@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.

1/13/2025 5:10:40 PM | DENIS@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU

1/13/2025 5:10:41 PM | DENIS@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

1/13/2025 5:10:41 PM | DENIS@home | Project has no tasks available

1/13/2025 5:10:41 PM | DENIS@home | Project requested delay of 7 seconds

1/13/2025 5:10:46 PM | RNA World | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.

1/13/2025 5:10:46 PM | RNA World | Requesting new tasks for CPU

1/13/2025 5:10:47 PM | RNA World | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

1/13/2025 5:10:47 PM | RNA World | Project has no tasks available

1/13/2025 5:10:47 PM | RNA World | Project requested delay of 3636 seconds

1/13/2025 5:10:52 PM | Rosetta@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.

1/13/2025 5:10:52 PM | Rosetta@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU

1/13/2025 5:10:54 PM | Rosetta@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

1/13/2025 5:10:54 PM | Rosetta@home | No tasks sent

1/13/2025 5:10:54 PM | Rosetta@home | Project requested delay of 31 seconds

1/13/2025 5:10:59 PM | SiDock@home | Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.

1/13/2025 5:10:59 PM | SiDock@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU

1/13/2025 5:11:00 PM | SiDock@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

1/13/2025 5:11:00 PM | SiDock@home | No tasks sent

1/13/2025 5:11:00 PM | SiDock@home | Project requested delay of 21 seconds

1/13/2025 5:11:05 PM | DENIS@home | Sending scheduler request: To fetch work.

1/13/2025 5:11:05 PM | DENIS@home | Requesting new tasks for CPU

1/13/2025 5:11:06 PM | DENIS@home | Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks

1/13/2025 5:11:06 PM | DENIS@home | Project has no tasks available

1/13/2025 5:11:06 PM | DENIS@home | Project requested delay of 7 seconds

Looking at my event logs, around 07:00UTC my systems started fetching new work units from WCG! Looks like Mapping Cancer Markers and Africa Rainfall Project have units going out, though so far I've only received units for the former.

Based on the stats, it may have been up starting yesterday, but possibly those were older work units being returned. Forums are back up too.

Happy computing!

Hi there,

I wrote another blog post about my BOINC journey, this time it's about running BOINC on a cluster of Pis. I also mention other useful technologies like Kubernetes or Ansible. Hope you'll like it!

https://stfn.pl/blog/56-kubernetes-boinc-raspberry-pi-cluster/

Hi, TN-grid took a Summer vacation and doesn't seem to have come back. Does anyone have any insight as to if/when it will return. A good biology boinc project and one of the very few still supporting 32-bit Arm on RPi

I have two high performance android devices and both have good gpu, but i dnt find any project work on them

Hi all, I love Boinc, have been contributing for sometime (still am even currently).

Lately been tooling on something in the distributed AI space, specific to ML tasks (really nothing to do with science and bio) and as I was coding it hit me to check the boinc license and see if it might be viable to fork and modify, and build on top.

Anyone know anyone that has done this or if it is infact viable? Seems to me it is and why not.

I don't see any major forks but I'm leaning into this.

And Yes I have reviewed https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Sporadic-Applications
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/WrapperApp
and https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Client-release-notes#changes-in-802
https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Computing-with-boinc

I guess I mean more task specific but maybe best Boinc proper maintains for desci

Cheers!

Any news on WCG? They were supposed to return two days ago.

I've been contributing my MacBook Pro CPU cycles (currently a 2020 Intel) to BOINC for almost 20 years. My focus has been on the Gamma Ray and Pulsar projects. For more than a year now, BOINC does not seem to be able to contact and work on these projects. Since Sequoia, I don't even get graphics anymore and see these (excerpted) log errors:

[version] Don't need CPU jobs, skipping version 111 for hsgamma_FGRP5 (FGRPSSE)

[version] no app version available: APP#46 (hsgamma_FGRP5) PLATFORM#10 (x86_64-apple-darwin) min_version 0

SG(high) Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT) is not available for your type of computer.

MSG(high) Binary Radio Pulsar Search (MeerKAT) is not available for your type of computer.

MSG(high) Binary Radio Pulsar Search (Arecibo,GBT,A) is not available for your type of computer.

Is there any hope of these project applications being updated to run under Sequoia?
Alternately, is there a fix I can implement to have them work, or should I give up and select a different set of projects (open to alternate Astronomy suggestions)?

Thanks for your insights.

I have an older Mac Pro I run BOINC on at my office, primarily to keep the office warm. Its a small office so it's very effective :) In the Summer, its shutdown entirely. In the freezing depths of Winter, its running constantly. But when its cold out, but not brutally cold, I'll shut the machine down before I go to bed. It's set to automatically boot up at 5 PM.

So here's where it gets weird. It boots up at 5pm, and it always does that. BOINC manager is set to launch on boot, and it always does. Yet half the time - maybe even more than that now - it won't start crunching. It sits there doing nothing. It's not in "App Nap" mode, its just not doing anything. AS SOON AS I click on it's icon in the dock - again, it's already launched icon - it will open its window and immediately start chomping.

The computer has 12 CPU cores, 32 GB of RAM, and is currently running macos 10.14 which is the latest it supports. But I might downgrade it to High Sierra for other unrelated reasons.

Here's a photo of the machine 6 hours after it auto-booted. Notice that all 12 CPU cores are essentially idle, BOINC is running, you can see both in the Dock and in the process list in Activity Monitor, and BOINC is properly set to launch on system boot in Login Items.

https://preview.redd.it/1zbxuv25gpae1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=81673af79fa7aea8abe1f44976c303878cfd6abf

Now all I do is click on it's dock icon and it immediatly starts working. But of course I can't do that when I'm not home, or when I'm sleeping or whenever. Thats the whole point of auto-booting and auto-launching of the BOINC app.

Anyone know what might be going on here?

I have a Docker container running BOINC in unRaid.

I originally was getting the "No usable GPUs found" message in the logs. I think I fixed that by adding the intel-opencl-icd package to the container. It now sees the Intel UHD 770 iGPU on my Alder Lake CPU.
But in the logs it says, "Intel GPU device name: 'Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770' doesn't match 'HD Graphics [123]|HD Graphics 40'" and doesn't use it.

I'm assuming the name it's trying to match is the naming convention of the iGPU on Ivy Bridge and Haswell.

Is the Intel iGPU restriction still in effect? Those architectures are pretty old.

I’m currently looking to expand my BOINC setup and was wondering if anyone has any unused or old hardware (like CPUs, GPUs, or even older computers) they’re willing to give away or donate. I’m happy to cover shipping costs if needed. If you have anything you no longer use, it would be greatly appreciated for helping to support scientific research! Feel free to DM me if you have something available. Thanks in advance!

Many people have answered that it's the World Community Grid in the past, but unfortunately, this project doesn't seem to be currently curring (28/12/2024). What would you consider to be the most impactful project that is up right now?

My PC has a relatively powerful CPU and 8GB or RAM, but a really, really crappy GPU. Do BOINC projects mainly use CPU or GPU? Would a PC with a decent CPU but virtually non-existent GPU be any good?

I'm talking about a CPU i can buy today to build this rig.

Which one has the best price/computing/electricity ratio?

Due to reasons I have some AMD Ryzen and Intel i5 doing some Primegrid for me 100%, 24 / 7 . No extra GPU used.

A Ryzen 8000 series computes approx 1 million WUs per month, a Ryzen 9000 gets to 1.2 million per month. A Core i5 gen 12 reaches approx 400.000 per month.

Impressive.

I'm the creator of Kalavai, a platform for crowdsourcing computing for AI. I love BOINC, I've contributed in the past and I consider it a pioneer in the space.

Today I want to give back. I have created a public pool for people to join in and directly contribute to Science United projects.

Kalavai is open source and I'm looking for people and institutions with interesting use cases for collaborative computing.

As WCG has gone off for a month, which I posted here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/s/Ood934y9VA

So most people interested in medicine / chemistry/ pharma advancements have gone to other projects. This sudden number of computers made SiDock@home without any work! 😕 Looking forward to a new tasks…

Rosetta@home still got some tasks…

But DENIS@home is also out of work. 😕

Sweet problems, right?! 👍🏻

Because account manager will rotate the projects, the "No new tasks" button on individual project is useless, how to get this works system wide?