WCG -How to install and join the team - Page 3

Daniel ~ · #41 (**permalink**) 7th January, 2006, 01:30 AM

WELCOME to AOA WCG Team Project...You can't get anymore "Ground floor" than this"!

Dude Your a founder! ":O}

LP · #42 (**permalink**) 7th January, 2006, 05:33 AM

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Originally Posted by robbie

suse 10. Doesn't do anything. Guess I'll have to go with a Win install.

It installed ok?

Click on the boincmgr icon to open the program. It should open the Manager.
I haven't installed it in SuSE10, have in SuSE9.3 and Mepis.

robbie · #43 (**permalink**) 7th January, 2006, 11:03 AM

I couldn't get it to do anything, not even install..... oh well... I'll play with it later.

Got it going on my main box just a few minutes ago!!

**edit**

WOW that sucker uses some memory don't it!?!?!?

LP · #44 (**permalink**) 7th January, 2006, 02:19 PM

Robbie, I'll post a little "how to" on installing in Linux, but it'll probably be tomorrow.

MONKEYMAN · #45 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 02:27 AM

Im in, only 2.5ghz at the moment but ill try and get another on.

Daniel ~ · #46 (**permalink**) 9th January, 2006, 02:54 AM

Great news Monkeyman! No tears! I've only 2.25 so your packing big guns in my camp! Welcome aboard!

keithwalton · #47 (**permalink**) 30th January, 2006, 01:35 AM

I'm in

big mother rig is off folding for now and doing this for abit, if i like it i'll move some more of my folding rigs over (4 others)
does this benefit from hyperthreading?

Daniel ~ · #48 (**permalink**) 30th January, 2006, 02:12 AM

Don't know...but WE benefit from you Keith! ":O}

Gizmo · #49 (**permalink**) 16th March, 2006, 09:39 AM

Updated first post with information on how to include the new WCG badge, as well as how to have the badge link back to this thread.

cadaveca · #50 (**permalink**) 16th March, 2006, 10:38 PM

What about installing on dualcores?

Gizmo · #51 (**permalink**) 17th March, 2006, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by cadaveca

What about installing on dualcores?

There has been some discussion about this in this thread. Dunno if it will help you or not.

cadaveca · #52 (**permalink**) 17th March, 2006, 09:05 AM

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OK, here we go one more time:

The agent is NOT designed to run on an SMP system. Period. While you MAY get two instances to run, you're very likely corrupting both workunits.

The reason for this is because system objects such as shared memory, semaphores and mutexes use hard coded names and the agent makes assumptions that just it and the application are accessing them. If two agents and applications attach to these objects there is the very real potential of clobbering shared memory, corrupting the semaphore/mutex lock count etc.

It's just a limitation of the United Devices agent, which will not be "fixed" in this current version.

The end result is you end up wasting your time and this project's time because the workunits must be sent out again to be recalculated.

As mentioned, the only "safe" way to do this is to use a virtual machine, such as VMWare. However, this would only be beneficial to true SMP machines. It's pointless to even try this with Hyperthreaded CPUs as it's really just one CPU and you end up thrashing between the two agents, thus slowing both down.

hmmm...