I have two RX 6700 XT GPUs in a dual setup. The first GPU heats up significantly due to the hot air it receives from the second one, and the second GPU also runs a bit hotter than desired.

The temperature of the first GPU rises to the point where I can't run most projects because it enters thermal throttling. Ideas? Fans at 100% does not solve the problem on the 1st GPU sadly. Maybe downclock and downvolt? Anything else?

If you have a project and you’re affiliated with some university, let’s discuss it. You find the developers. I find the money.

Let's say my university wants to join BOINC.

Server expenses are covered for 12 months.

We've a bit of computing power, so we're sure the project will run.

The algorithm is tested already and will work.

Where can we find developers?

The problem is to run the server. Configuration plus ordinary (and extraordinary) maintenance.

Hi guys,
I'm facing a dilleama where I lost most if not all of my credits due to me changing my username/email and not recalling what they are. :/

I also don't have access to the email account that I used. Most of this occurred as I spent almost a year in a hospital.

I was wondering if I can get some assistance from the community to get my username? I have an email address that I used to use with the account, and I also know that I was on the top 10 position of the Egypt leaderboard of SETI@home.

Any assistance would be great.

Went to ClimatePrediction.net, created a new login specifically for that project.

Went back to BoincStats, “signed up” to that project using the newly-created creds (did not use my BoincStats defaults, as that failed out). BoincStats found the account, connected to it, and I was able to attach ClimatePrediction to my main rig without any issues.

However, when I synced Boinc on my main rig to BoincStats, the ClimatePrediction.net project did not attach on the Boinc end, and I got a very strange error message in the logs:

Account manager reply missing authenticator for https://climateprediction.net/

Please note that I am not connecting Boinc straight to ClimatePrediction.net, I am going through BoincStats as an intermediary, to manage things better. I am not seeing ClimatePrediction.net on the Boinc end, in my list of Projects, despite having successfully attached it to the account on the BoincStats end.

Been “using Boinc” since when it was purely SETI@Home, and before things got opened up to other projects. So probably close to two decades by now. This error is a new one. I understand all about account keys, but IIRC those are for when you connect Boinc directly to the project, and not through an intermediary account manager.

Edit: it took about a week, but ClimatePrediction.net finally attached to my local workstation. It still hasn’t grabbed anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but at least it’s active and waiting for work.

Hi, I know creating a BoincStat signature is possible given all the people with them in forums, but I could not generate one at all. I tried the instruction in F.A.Q. | BOINCstats/BAM! but it keeps saying my ID is incorrect.

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Would love to make this or another Boinc signature work! Can someone show me how?

From what I've researched on the subject with search engines and copilot/gemini:

"In BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), tasks are typically downloaded from each project’s server. There is no peer-to-peer download mechanism involved. Each BOINC project operates its own servers, and when you connect your computer to a project, the BOINC client software on your computer communicates with the project’s servers to download tasks"

But large corporations like Microsoft uses a kind of peer to peer sharing with their Windows Update Delivery Optimization. It's supposed to be a green and efficient way to distribute stuff, like if one server is really busy we can get it elsewhere.

I imagine an option and feature where we could receive additional tasks from a project server when there's little activity. And we could forward extra tasks peer to peer when the project server is "busy" Or we see we have project’s we haven't started on yet and probably won't meet the deadline. We could send those directly to people with none and maybe they'll be able to finish in time.

What do you all think?

I loved the SETI@home project for its cool screensaver, if there are any other projects with a cool screensaver, let us know! Thanks!

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) is a United Nations-sponsored initiative aimed at harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies to build inclusive and equitable information societies worldwide.  BOINC has been nominated for a prize at the 2024 forum, and has passed initial hurdles; the next and last step ("Phase 3") requires public votes.  The award would be a very nice boost and validation for BOINC and all our projects; if we can get our communities to vote, we should have a decent shot at this point...

Voting is pretty simple, takes just a few minutes; instructions are here.

(*The deadline for votes is Sunday: 31 March 2024, 23:00 UTC+02:00)

Are any of the projects that are still running getting close to finishing? Several of the projects have effectively infinite number of work units and will never really finish. However, there are a few that have a particular goal that has an actual endpoint. I'd like to know if there are any that we can finish with a more dedicated focus to hold up as a success story for future project managers to get excited about setting up their project as a BOINC project.

Thoughts?

Hi,

So i'm trying to save money and use as less gas and electricity as possible at the moment as my bills have been horrendous, and I've stopped using BOINC.

I usually like to run BOINC all day long, from early morning until around 5pm and I get through a good number of tasks during weekdays.

Ever since stopping this I kind of miss it, and I'm wondering if it uses much electricity? I do gpu computing as well through BOINC.

Appreciate any feedback.

I've ran Boinc now for several years, however eversince the last update my Copmuter gets detected as GPU less machine. I've never had a problem and did a lot of GPU Tasks before however neither Einstein@home nor GPUgrid are detecting my GPU. I've tried repairing Boinc through the installer and I have the lastest GPU driver installed. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

Did you see that the WCG came out of work during last weekend (I think it was Sun)? Did not raise much issue, as Mon was near.

Now that the Mon som tasks have been pouring, as only MCM is running on my machine (even though I accept any work). But the work has been sporadical & machine again went out of work.

This is the 2nd time WCG has gone silent during last month. But also, this is the 2nd time that WCG staff did not respond with any news about it - not even on their forums (which I checked, but I do not write there).

Does anyone know what is going on?

Had 2 Quad Core machines running at one point but layoff/new job paying less meant shrinking the electric bill a bit.

Running one core now.

Missing SETI…was my first project.

Been working Asteroids to get its rank up in WuProp. I’ll break 5,000 hours within a couple weeks.

Considering going back to WCG but it seems stale.

I don’t want to run Virtualbox so I guess I’m limited in what I run.

Hello everyone!

I just came home and noticed a few things. First my computers fans were running very quiet and that should not be when my CPU is running 95%.

I noticed as well a weird pattern of the projects. I normally have everything running in a pattern.

2hrs is not really something normal for me.. I usually have a lot of tasks from "Mapping Cancer Markers" running in sequence at 5hrs each. I don't know why some projects are started and not others. I did reboot. I made sure all of my packages were updated. Not really sure what I should do if anything at all.

Any help would be appreciated. I also have a side question related to my cpu cores \ threads.. A lot of people say to turn threads off. They are really fake and don't provide any real advantage. Is that true?

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i've been using BOINC for a while but i've never seen this ... i tried to open the graphics for a project ... which kind of works.... brings up the graphics as i expected but it also opens some kind of command line window... :S i tried closing that but it also closed the graphics [which i want open] .. what's going on here and what can i do about it ... running the 7.24.1 BOINC Manager version for 64 bit Windows ... any advice ???

How do you go about getting the mod removed?

Has anyone experienced this? What channel should I even use to report it? It only pops up during Rosetta projects, and will stay on until I shut off the screen saver. Folding still goes on in the background, the saver just freezes on this error. Any insight would help. Pardon the picture, had to use my camera.

On Linux computers with Debian or Ubuntu:

sudo apt install boinc boinc-manager boinctui
sudo systemctl enable boinc-client 
sudo systemctl start boinc-client 
boinctui

On aarch64 Linux computers:

sudo nano /etc/boinc-client/cc_config.xml

# Enter:

<cc_config>
<log_flags>
</log_flags>
<options>
  <alt_platform>arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf</alt_platform> 
  <alt_platform>armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf</alt_platform> 
  <alt_platform>aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu</alt_platform> 
  <allow_remote_gui_rpc>1</allow_remote_gui_rpc>
</options>
</cc_config>

# End of file.

sudo echo "" > /var/lib/boinc/gui_rpc_auth.cfg

sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf 
sudo apt update --fix-missing 
sudo apt dist-upgrade 
sudo apt install libc6:armhf libstdc++6:armhf zlib1g:armhf libfuse2:armhf

On armv7l Linux computers replace <options/> with:

<options>
  <alt_platform>armv7l-unknown-linux-gnueabihf</alt_platform> 
  <allow_remote_gui_rpc>1</allow_remote_gui_rpc>
</options>

Can my BOINC client configuration be improved?