BOINC@Poland

Hello,

it seams that the project applications are provided together with native Boinc. For the standard Boinc client the project applications are downloaded from the project server. Why isn't this the case for native Boinc?

yoyo

Hello,
sorry to jump in and change the language to english. Google translate translated this thread for me ;)

I read, that you are writing your own application, means you have the source code for it. In this case it is very simple to make a real Boinc application without using the wrapper. It is well described here http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BasicApi and you have to add roughly 10 lines of code:
- a boinc_init() and boinc_finish()
- for each result input-/output file a boinc_resolve_filename()
- something for checkpoints, if your app writes some
- and for reporting progress a boinc_fraction_done()

I think thats all what must be added. Of course you must compile the Boinc api before.

yoyo

Hi,
sorry for late answering, didn't get a mail from this forum, that there was a reply.

you have now the translations rights.

yoyo

Hello,
as you have noted, RNA World is now ready to be translated into different languages. Would be nice if someone from your team could help in translating to Polish.
To do it you need an account in the Boinc Translation System http://boinc.berkeley.edu/translate/projects/rnaworld/. Afterwards Rom, David or I must give you the translating rights.

Muchh thanks and kind greetings from snowy Berlin,
yoyo

To take this into effect the client has to reload the wrapper and enigma apps. To ways to make this happens:
1) In Boinc detach / attach to the project
2) make a new version on the server
yoyo

PS: are you somewhere in ICQ or MSN?

Hi TJM,
I saw your news that for Linux you have to make a chmod +x to get it working.I had the same problem. On the server in your apps directory ensure that all applicatins have execute rights set. update_versions considers this and marks the application as <executable/>. You see this also in the management gui in your application versions.
yoyo

Which Boinc client version do you use? I think in some newer version of Boinc it was solved, but I'm not sure.
yoyo

I think this is the problem. On my dyndns test server I had the same issues.
yoyo

Hi,
everybody is invited for an article. Just send suggestions to the mail address above.

Thx for the warm welcome here, maybe I can meet some of you in Wroclaw if I'm there next time ;)

yoyo

The book will be published in english.
yoyo

Hi guys,
we want invite you to contribute an article in a book about distributed volunteer computing.

If you are interested, you can contribute to a book which will be released this year by the German distributed computing association Rechenkraft.net e.V. For details just read below. ;-)

The book will be titled: "Distributed & Grid Computing - Science Made Transparent for Everyone. Principles, Applications and Supporting Communities".

This book will be published in color by a German science publisher. It will be distributed worldwide (including ISBN number, Amazon availability, etc.) and some copies will be placed in major libraries for free public access.

So far, the leaders of several of the major distributed computing projects have submitted an article to contribute to this book. Among these are:

SIMAP (Thomas Rattei, Technical University Munich),
QMC@home, (Stefan Grimme, University Muenster),
Nano-Hive@home (Brian Helfrich),
Dimes (Yuval Shavitt, Tel Aviv University),
TANPAKU (Tadashi Ando, Tokyo University),
MalariaControl.Net (Nicolas Maire, CERN / Swiss Tropical Institute),
The Lattice Project (Michael Cummings, University of Maryland),
Leiden Classical (Mark F. Somers, University Leiden),
Sztaki Desktop Grid (Adam Kornafeld, Hungarian Academy of Sciences),
Spinhenge@home (Christian Schröder, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld),
Muon (Stephen Brooks),
Predictor@home (Charles L. Brooks III, Scripps Research Institute),
Evolution@home (Laurence Loewe, University Edinburgh),
Proteins@home (Thomas Simonson, École Polytechnique, France),
Orbit@Home (Pasquale Tricarico, Planetary Science Institute), and
PS3GRID (Gianni De Fabritiis, University of Barcelona, Spain)

In addition to these, Bernd Freisleben (University of Marburg) and colleagues have written an article informing about the Marburg ad hoc grid environment, MAGE, and Wolfgang Gentzsch, who is the coordinator of the D-Grid initiative, contributed the general introductory section that also covers BOINC.

The authors were encouraged to describe and of course illustrate the purpose and scientific background of their project in a way such that specialists and non-specialists get a clear idea of what is going on. The current status of the book is that all articles have been reviewed and are now in the process of being arranged for proper layout.

And this is where you come into the scene:
In addition to the grid infrastructure and grid project developers we are also inviting some authors from several of the world's leading distributed computing teams to describe their motivation and to present detailed technical solutions for a number of special problems related to grid & distributed computing and overclocking.

If you can provide a clearly written and illustrated description concerning for example:

-diskless client setup & operation
-cluster setup & operation
-application of gaming consoles for non-gaming purposes (e.g. PS3 & Folding@home or PS3GRID)
-a detailed overview on current hardware selection for maximum computational output
-special overclocking tweaks or even complete guides
-unconventional hardware manipulation (cooling, overclocking, etc.)
-cooling your machines using your pool (errr, no – we got an article covering that topic, already – sorry )

We would be happy to include your work in our book.

You may as well just summarize shortly the status and motivation of your team or just submit a nicely annotated image collection (e.g. illustrations of some of your team's "monster racks", etc.).

Our goal is to assemble a broad overview over this highly popular and rapidly developing field in order to present a good mixture of information that will encourage additional people to participate in existing or even develop new distributed & grid computing projects. With PS3GRID we have also covered the highly popular aspect of utilizing a game console for distributed computing.

Please let us know, if you are interested in contributing an article, submit some cool pictures or whatever you might feel useful to this book. Maybe you also have some completely different interesting ideas – just contact us by email (see below).

Best regards,
yoyo.

- - - - - - - - - -
Rechenkraft.net e.V. - Verein zur Foerderung von Bildung, Forschung und Wissenschaft durch Einsatz vernetzter Computer
Am Richtsberg 88/208
D-35039 Marburg
Germany

email: book@rechenkraft.net

http://www.rechenkraft.net - Germany's largest distributed computing community. We make those things possible that supercomputers don't.

Thx for the update.
For OGR I will determine from the result how many GNodes were crunched. I will base credits on that.
yoyo

Can I have more info how you implemented the fixed credits? I will try something similar for OGR on yoyo@home.
yoyo

I know all this. I started yoyo@home also on my laptop in a VM. I linked the forum to a subforum of our team forum.

How do you calculate the credits? I will also calculate credits based on the work unit on yoyo@home.

yoyo

---------- 04:45 11.09.2007 ----------

Hello,
I just poped in. I saw that you are also using the wrapper approach as I for yoyo@home (www.rechenkraft.net/yoyo) to bring an existing application to the Boinc world. Maybe we can share our development and ideas. I saw on your know bug list that the progress indicator is missing. I solved it with more than one <TASK> in job.xml. So e.g. if you have 10 tasks in job.xml the progress indicator will go 10% .. 20% ...30%...

We can also discuss it via any instand messanger, mail or irc.
yoyo

PS: I can't read/speak polish, so I tried it in english. It was difficuilt enough to find the thread ;)

---------- 04:54 ----------

Hi,
somthing to add. It's funny, for my project I opened a thread hat should be wrapped next and somebody proposed M4 ;)

You should set a link to a discussion forum on enigmas project home page. People will ask questions and discuss the project.

yoyo