New DC Project - theSkynet

I like the idea of proper cloud crunching. Will look into this when I get home. Amazing things can be done with some Java and HTML5, especially for GPU acceleration. Let's hope this is where the project is heading in the long term. :)
 
dekez said:
The big plus of this project for me is the portability of using java, and the facebook intergration they look to be doing.
To be honest boinc and folding should look into these types of things as well.
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Being one of the minority? that doesnt do social networking I will be reliant on the likes of your goodself to keep me informed.

datalol-jack said:
Amazing things can be done with some Java and HTML5, especially for GPU acceleration. Let's hope this is where the project is heading in the long term. :)
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I dont know if thats what they have in mind for the future or not but as things stand I find its perfect for my laptop and a browser at work.
My main pc's are also attached, problem is I just dont know how much work any individual machine is doing.
I think I read somewhere in thier blog that some sort of visual element is in progress.
 
halz said:
At first I thought that as well but if you think about it Boinc combined is pretty meaningless anyway so does it really matter?
I have it running on all my pc's that are running thier gpu's flat out on boinc with no noticeable effects.
Nothing to install other than maybe a Java update.
Or are you thinking of something else?
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Us CPU-only crunchers, perhaps? Pain in the neck having to juggle multiple projects across multiple different schedulers (F@h, BOINC, this, Muon1, etc...) so I just don't bother - It's BOINC way or the highway.

Stats might happen after I've rewritten the BOINC parser, which I've been planning on doing for about the last five years. :o
 
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Pain in the neck having to juggle multiple projects across multiple different schedulers (F@h, BOINC, this, Muon1, etc...)
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I can understand that, no worries, ......Muon1? never even heard of that one :D

Just re-read the faq's and noticed a couple of things I missed first time round...

theSkyNet team are also negotiating with Internet Service providers around Australia to make all traffic to and from theSkyNet ‘unmetered’.
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I wonder what BT would say about doing the same for Einstein@home, would most likely end in 'off' :rolleyes:

Any credits you earn while you’re in an alliance add to that alliance’s tally, and will stay with that alliance even if you decide to leave.
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Not seen that on any project before, so if someone spits thier dummy out and says I'm off its no biggie :D
 
Anyone else having issues with this?

Only ever seen the 'green tick' once (today) and that was when it was using the 32bit background installer (with java 6)
IE windows crunchers don't show the green light, java not running in task manager - core are not loaded
64 bit background shows nothing
Tried java 7 and java 6 (manually downloading the 32bit and 64 bit versions)

Got a few more points today - but my system has locked up 3 times (i never done on my SB rig)
just after windows desktop, and frozen once shutdown too

Runing win7 64bit (without a successfull install of sp1) may just format C: and do a new install

Edit - it's got to be the easiest DC project ever - open a brower windows and do science - but no joy.
Are you surposed to have 32bit and 64bit java on a single pc?
As 64bit IE does play nicely with my wife web use, so we use 32bit IE mostly
 
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Same here, I think it was down for a while yesterday but it running ok now this end.
I read somewhere that a few people have experienced difficulties using 64bit on windows 7, they were looking into it.
Maybe try just the 32bit version for the time being, based on what I have seen so far they seem to fix things fairly rapid.
I have been running both on different pc's with no problems thankfully.
At first I had only 1 instance running per cpu, that has now been increased to 2 (bear in mind the gpu's are running flat out on Boinc).
Note that I only use Mozilla Firefox, stop using IE years ago.

I noticed that a couple of issues were sorted yesterday, ie our team member count is now correct as is the teams position and the search teams/users function now works.

Edit: found it

I’m trying to install the client software but it keeps asking me to install Java 1.6, which I have!

We’ve had a reports of people on 64 bit Windows machines needing to manually install the 64 bit java instead of the 32 bit version. If this doesn’t fix your problem (or you’re not on 64 bit Windows), contact us with the details and we’ll look further into it
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Maybe an email is in order.
 
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I read that faq/issues post and downloaded both the java packages - will give it another go. And send them some feed back if it's still pear shaped

Edit: Does anyone get the green tick when run in a browser?

Edit2: looks like the answer to that is yes.
Using firefox and after reinstalling java 32bit I have an active dashboard but not must tash manager usage.

The faq tell me that you can run a client per core - trying three for a bit to see what happens
 
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Edit: Does anyone get the green tick when run in a browser?
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Yes, although sometimes it does not go green straight away, but I just leave it and the green tick shows after a minute or two.
 
So far been able to run it from a browser under Vista 64 (3 instances, Firefox) and XP 32 (one instance, Chrome).

AFAIK those are both 32 bit Java.

Haven't got it to work at my office under XP and IE8, but that could be down to not having admin rights or active-x being locked down or any number of other draconian measures in place on our network :(

EDIT: keep an eye on the red bar in the top right - I've found that can be a better indicator that things are running than the green tick
 
All runing well now - belated parps to Windle and dekez :D

Had no joy with IE - using 4x firefox browser windows, with the java.exe*32 affinity set to high in task manager.

Not had more that two running at full pelt but seen a few of the 500mb RAM WU's
The theskylab tech's say this is the current max that WU's will use - most have been 20-40MB ram usage

Agree with the red bar - only seen it max out once when running the 'background' single thread version (around 200 MIPS).
usually jumps around the 50-70% mark (3000-6000 MIPS)
 
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Noticed that runtimes on BOINC WU's were much longer with Skynet running so clearly the two were squabbling for resources.
Have just left it running on the media server now, but the single core celeron won't be returning many points.
 
Let me help you here. On a 64-bit platform, unless the app is particularly exotic and runs out-of-process, the Java you need depends on the browser you're using. Firefox is 32-bit only, so it's Java 32-bit you want. IE is both - you'll find two IE options in the Start menu. The 32-bit IE with 32-bit Java is most likely to work, but the 64-bit IE with 64-bit Java may work too.

I'm not sure there's a 64-bit Chrome. Assuming not, then as Firefox.

Yes, I really have spent quite a lot of the last year programming in Java. Knew it would come in handy eventually. :D

PS - No problem with installing both 32-bit and 64-bit. In fact my developer machines have four copies of Java installed - 32-bit and 64-bit JRE and JDK 1.6. I'm looking forward to Java 1.7 in due course. Fun! :)
 
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I've just downloaded and installed the background app, but even though the executable is displayed in Task Manager it doesn't seem to be doing anything. Have I missed something?
 
The workflow is not constant, the project does not aim to run pc's flat out, they would prefer lots of people doing small chunks.
Having said that I believe they are looking into the possibility of adding more options for power users.
As it stands its perfect for low spec machines, laptops and the odd spare browser window.
Just leave a session open in the background and it will sort itself out.
 
Your starter for '0' has been added to the team score - you should see that become 1 point after 15mins or so.

The blue circle (green tick) should also be green after a few minutes.
the the MIPS bar on the top right of 'your dashboard' web page should also be red.

With four brower windows open - you get java32.exe (x4) in taskmanger and four java icons in the system tray

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Crap, work have brought in a new proxy server and it is now blocked :(.

Well that lasted long.
 
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