New to Boinc

Ripshod · 21 Jan 2013 at 22:12

I've upgraded my GPU to a HD7950 and it don't play too well with F@H. So I've jumped ship.

So far I've downloaded and installed boinc. Then I went to the ocuk homepage and joined. Is there anything else I need to do?

TheTross · 21 Jan 2013 at 22:13

Welcome to the team

Which project(s) have you joined? Knowing that will let us help you if you need to do anything else.

Ripshod · 21 Jan 2013 at 22:28

I just let boinc download whatever it wanted. Didn't know I need to select specific projects. I think it's defaulted to S@H tho (that's what all my transfers are anyways)

Biffa · 22 Jan 2013 at 00:43

Only couple of projects that will take advantage of your 7950, one of them is Milkyway@Home

Ripshod · 22 Jan 2013 at 00:48

mmm, didn't see that one. What would happen if I was to just dump the S@H? Would it harm any points I earn for the team??

I think i see what you mean. I got 6 S@H tasks running, zero use of the GPU **(ignore - gpu-z ain't reading my card right)**

Ripshod · 22 Jan 2013 at 12:01

Can someone tell me what's going on with this task?

Over a year to complete a task?? Everything else is fine but I'm worried about this one, deadline is 3rd Feb.

I've rebooted and it comes back the same.

PhilthyPhil · 22 Jan 2013 at 21:45

I don't do the nbody WUs because I only run MW on my GPUs, but I don't think the remaining time is particularly accurate.

ReaVerUK · 22 Jan 2013 at 22:47

Don't worry about the time remaining when you first start a project or get new/different wu types this is just boinc wildly guessing how long it thinks it will take to complete. These guesstimates will change and become more accurate as you complete wu's and boinc learns your particular setup.

hanluc · 22 Jan 2013 at 23:39

Welcome Ripshod.

Milkyway@home
Collatz conjecture
Poem@home

These would all work well with your card, also check your GPU usage, if it's not running high you'd benefit from an app_info file in order to run more than one work unit at a time.

Ripshod · 23 Jan 2013 at 00:10

Running 100% on cpu and gpu, 7 tasks at a time. Very well balanced I say. I'll hit a million before I even consider adding other projects, but thanx for the suggestion.

I've stopped worrying about that task btw, it did 8% in 12 hrs so it'll be well within the deadline.

Ripshod · 23 Jan 2013 at 09:27

Ripshod said:
I'll hit a million before I even consider adding other projects, but thanx for the suggestion.

Did I really say that? At this rate I'll be adding more projects next week