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Just installed Boinc on a Raspberry Pi Zero headless and attached to both BOINC Central and Science United (quite a daunting task). Boinc is running, plenty of CPU available, still, no tasks received. I understand there is no way to force downloading and starting tasks, but it seems strange to me this total inactivity.

Am I missing something?

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to ask if there is a BOINC webclient, where no app for a school I-pad needs to be downloaded.

best Regards

UPDATE:

There is a bug in Windows 24H2 that happens when you disable Memory Core Isolation. When you disable core isolation and reboot, the registry still has it enabled. This causes BOINC and Virtral Box to think that Intel VT-D is not enabled.

In order to resolve this bug open Powershell as admin and run this command:

Run this command in powershell with admin

Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\DeviceGuard\" -Name EnableVirtualizationBasedSecurity -Value 0

after you've ran the command, reboot.

This bug was found and resolved in the LHC@home the message board under windows. I don't want to say the user's name with out his permission I just did not want to take credit for the discovery- I just kept bugging people to help me resove the issue.

I hope it's okay to post this here for troubleshooting. I've posted in the LHC@home forum and the only reply I received was "Asus Z790 Proart motherboard.
Have you searched on ASUS-Homepage?
Some Motherboards need time up to the newest Firmware-Upgrade."

I have no idea what that user means. My BIOS and firmware and MEI are all updated.

ID: 10862911

I can't seem to get LHC@home to download and run at all. The error I see is CPU does not have hardware virtualization support. it's enabled. What am I mssing?
System specs:
Asus Z790 Proart creators motherboard.
Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2.
VirtralBox 7.1 with extentions
Hypervriser disabled (Not installed)
Virteral Machine Platform disabled(Not installed)
Memory core isolation is disabled.
Intel VT is enabled.
VMwareworkstation is not installed.
windows sandbox is not installed.

Was running on a old AMD Ryzan system no issues but upgraded the board over the weekend to the Intel one.

LHC@home is the only BOINC project I have the most issues with.

This computer is just a secondary and I just want it to process BOINC, there is no other software installed just OS, drivers, VB and BONIC.

Hey all, I'm looking for some guidance on setting up BOINC on my R740 through Proxmox so that I can monitor and manage it efficiently. Any guidance is appreciated!

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Just read this early documentation of the cryptocurrency, and wonder if there are problems needed to solve with the computational power for ones own good, why not solving the real one and harvest all the computational power it needs? I believe that people would line up to solve the problems in no time.

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Source：http://www.weidai.com/bmoney.txt

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I've got a gtx 970 4gb and it worked beautifully before i moved BOINC from a HDD to a nvme drive.

i've reinstalled boinc, gone in to nvidia controll panel etc. Turned off multi gpu-display thing. ( i used to use the iGPU for daily use and keep my gtx970 always running on some boinc task)

Help! i use my PC as a heating appliance in the room it is in, and i use gridcoin.

The gpu still works, ive tested by 1: seeing UI on the display 2: fired up games and it performs well

There was a bug with these Intel Core 13th and 14th Gen CPUs which can burnout after some time. A new BIOS version fixed it.
https://community.intel.com/t5/Processors/June-2024-Guidance-regarding-Intel-Core-13th-and-14th-Gen-K-KF/m-p/1607807

So about a month ago ish I decided I needed to update my aging card. I looked up bench mark data located what would be recommended the best bang for my buck in the price range I wanted. fast Forward past it not fitting correctly in the case and the monitor plugs not fitting, and the power supply apparently being not enthusiast enough... And this wasn't even a high end card.

Post install, I soon learned that everything was new. And this conflicted with stuff the installer failed to remove. So I had to manually remove some drivers. Run a really old copy of the installer then update. Thats an over simplification. Search this post https://www.reddit.com/r/BOINC/comments/1g7kh82/auto_configuration_reset/ to find everything you want to know and didn't about making it work. Anyway, I did get it working and at long last BOINC had full access to the new card.

After a few weeks of taking this all for granted and ignoring it. I popped open BOINC to see how things are going along. Einstein who should have a weeks worth of jobs is complaining it cannot to the server. Turned out the server was ignoring my local install because it kept asking for more jobs. But why? Because jobs coming from Einstein needed the GPU. But those jobs all reported that there was no GPU. But I know the GPU is working and BOINC can see it, so what was going on now?

Opened up Adrenaline. The GPU is working. Opened. GPU-Z and everything looks loaded so there are no oopsed drivers or extensions. Opened clientstate.xml and it says there us no co processor (GPU). But Coproc_info.xml shows the ATI card alive and well.

I realized I also had fusion360 open. Fusion uses almost nothing for power from GPU, but it does register as using the GPU. Apparently Adrenaline treats Fusion like a game. So, lets try quitting fusion and reset the BOINC manager. Ahha! Now the Client_state shows the ATI card!

I do not know if this is BOINC being selfish, or if AMD is some how blocking other applications from using the GPU... But I do know that it was another program using gpu that caused the issue.

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What does this issue mean for the real world? Then average commercial user might not notice a thing. Projects that cant use the GPU will eventually expire their work. This will go on quietly in the background.

Any one using BOINC seriously enough to monitor it, will notice the drop in productivity.

It means that we cannot simply depend on BOINC to operate like a screen saver. It's now a program that demands dedicated resources and it it cannot get them, stuff doesn't work.
We cannot leave open applications and walk away. We have to quit them, or BOINC wont work right.

I hope this write up helps others.

What is the consensus for compatibility with most BOINC and World Community Grid projects?

I've been running BOINC for the past few days, and I notice my tasks will frequently get to 1-2% or a few minutes in, and resets back to 0%. Why is this happening?

(It doesn't happen with every task. Once it gets to like 10% it no longer wants to reset, and I have had a few tasks fully complete.)

EDIT: So I looked in my settings and after setting my CPU% to 100% the issue is totally gone. I'm sure this is a bandaid fix to some underlying issue, but as long as my BOINC is running smoothly (which it has been) I don't really care. Thank you to everyone who offered help :)

Windows prioritises assigning resources to the current window in focus, which means that unfocused windows experience preformance slowdowns. This happens with BOINC Manager as well. Giving focus to a somewhat resource intensive application, like a web broser for example, causes a drop in resource utilization, as seen in task manager. This results in very low CPU and GPU usage.

The solution is quite straightforward:

Close the BOINC Manager window instead of minimizing it or just clicking outside of it. This way no window associated with BOINC client never out of focus, so the performance stays the same.

To further my BOINC/World Community Grid processing, I ordered the new Apple Mini with an M4 Pro / 14‑core CPU / 20‑core GPU / 16-core Neural Engine and 64GB unified memory. What are the processing equivalents for products like the Studio or Mac Pro with top line M2/M3 Ultra chips and max out on memory? Any cost benefit in other hardware? I understand cost for energy consumed may be higher. In essence, what is the cost efficiency for the M4 mini if I was all in for $2400?

I will be running it 24/7 to map cancer markers and other projects on distributed computing networks, so I guess multi-core data packet processing is the priority.

(Currently using the Mac Mini i7 and 64gb of RAM, so I'm hoping for better energy savings)

Hi All !

1. Is it worth building a cluster of Apple Mac Mini's M4 for BOINC ?
2. (the base version for $600 -- with 16 RAM and 256 SSD -- seems adequate for both Stockfish Fishtest and BOINC) -- and it is much faster vs a Raspberry Pi, and much more power efficient vs any PC.
3. Anyone benchmarked BOINC on Apple M4 ? And how to do so ? -- projects of interest - mostly: WCG/MCM and Rosetta@Home, but possibly others too...

Salve . Volevo sapere per quale di questi due vale di più a dedicare un computer 24/24 , in senso di efficienza per studii scientifici ( ovviamente mi riferisco a folding proteine o altre ricerche in campo della biologia molecolare) Grazie per le risposte.

Hi all. I just wandering if is happened something with the milkyway@home website, because i can,t access it from 2 days ? Thanks.

Hi,

Recently upgraded my PC and reinstalled Boinc and added the projects, however under host details its saying "CPU does not have hardware virtualization support"
Example Computer 10664526

SVM is enabled in the bios, Task manager confirms its enabled, Hyper V is also disabled, so unsure why its reporting this and blocking VM jobs?

I have an Intel 14700k and an Arc A770 16GB. BOINC only runs on my e-cores and doesn't recognize my GPU via cc_config or client_state. Any suggestions?

EDIT: Fixed! You can use freeware called ProcessLasso to specify that BOINC tasks run on p-cores. Word of caution though -- watch your thermals. Even running 20% of the cores pulls 190w and registers 90c on my 360mm AIO.

With the rapid development of AI and the increasing use of dedicated hardware like GPUs and TPUs, I’m curious if distributed computing projects like BOINC will still be necessary in the future. It seems that large tech companies are investing heavily in centralized AI infrastructure to handle massive computations for training and deploying models. Could this trend eventually replace the need for distributed computing, or is there still a unique role for BOINC in this new AI-driven landscape?

Hey All,

I noticed my BOINC client not reporting up to milkyway@home, and when I attempted to go the project website, I noticed the cert expired yesterday afternoon. I don't know if I have a way of getting out to these folks, so I'm hoping they can see it here. My appologies if this isn't a permitted post.

Thanks!

Scarwolf

Hello!

I ran another batch of tests of the Raspberry Pi 5 to see if using an NVMe drive makes it crunch BOINC faster.

And the result is that for Einstein@Home there's a 30% boost, for Asteroids@home there's no difference, and Universe@Home is sadly still in hiatus.

Here's the blog post with the detailed benchmarks:

https://stfn.pl/blog/50-pi5-nvme-performance-in-boinc/

Hello everyone. I'd have a question regarding running a BOINC project myself.

I have an application with algorithms I want to run on a distributed system and the software is entirely written in C#. While I figured out that I can run apps in a VM with BOINC, I'd also like to write a validator in C#, because then I could just reuse all the data models to deserialize the results.

Is that possible? Thanks in advance.