Boinc Manager: options/computing preference/disk/memory tab.

Disk space check boxes:

"leave at least" 5 GB free

"use no more than " 95%

It looks like your VM is set up with only 1 processor core. Ideally you'd want 4 cores for the VM since this is a multi-thread app (4 cores per task).

Has anyone got this working with a linux VM on windows?

Using vbox is the opposite of being able to reach the majority of users. Projects with vbox only apps have a much lower participation rate compared to other BOINC projects.

Ehm, once again: The Virtualbox Windows-only users would simply ADD to the existing Linux user pool. To my knowledge there is till no functional Windows CPU app.

Michael.

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President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization.

...To my knowledge there is still no functional Windows CPU app.

unfortunately, you are perfectly right :-(

biodoc asked:

Has anyone got this working with a linux VM on windows?

Yes, I have two machines set up that I use occasionally, 489909 and 490622. Host O/S is Windows 10 Home, guest O/S is Ubuntu 18.10.

Yes, I have two machines set up that I use occasionally, 489909 and 490622. Host O/S is Windows 10 Home, guest O/S is Ubuntu 18.10.

Thanks captainjack. It's good to know that's a working option for windows users until the native app is released.

Yes, I have two machines set up that I use occasionally, 489909 and 490622. Host O/S is Windows 10 Home, guest O/S is Ubuntu 18.10.

Thanks captainjack. It's good to know that's a working option for windows users until the native app is released.

Using Ubuntu worked! It did not limit the amount of disk space shown in Boinc when the VM had much more.
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I solved the problem by connecting with a slower computer where BOINC Manager works
Tullio

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30-60GB per task! Times 8 on a 32t BOINC only machine surely adds up. I don't have disk space for that. Multiple people here went out and purchased larger hard drives just for this app. I try to put SSDs in machines and not something like a 1TB for a BOINC only PC.

Well, as announced before, I have checked this and I beg to differ but on my i7 octacore machine (hyperthreading active), GPUGRID occupies no more than a total disk space of 4.92 GB - and it continuously works with 6 cores on 2 MT GPUGRID QM work units.

Michael.

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President of Rechenkraft.net - Germany's first and largest distributed computing organization.

30-60GB per task! Times 8 on a 32t BOINC only machine surely adds up. I don't have disk space for that. Multiple people here went out and purchased larger hard drives just for this app. I try to put SSDs in machines and not something like a 1TB for a BOINC only PC.

Well, as announced before, I have checked this and I beg to differ but on my i7 octacore machine (hyperthreading active), GPUGRID occupies no more than a total disk space of 4.92 GB - and it continuously works with 6 cores on 2 MT GPUGRID QM work units.

Michael.

A quote from a prior post in this thread.

Sat Feb 16 20:10:08 2019 | GPUGRID | Message from server: Quantum Chemistry needs 54846.23MB more disk space. You currently have 2374.23 MB available and it needs 57220.46 MB.

The admin has said production tasks would need ~60GB. The 30Gb # was for Beta tasks. I don't run these, but others have reported needing large amounts of disk for these.

These WUs are all multi-threaded, yes? Do they require a certain number of threads >1?

They are no longer doing the "monster" ones, either 30 GB or 60 GB.
http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=4785&nowrap=true#51272

I am seeing a project folder size of only 2.1 GB, even when running 10 work units on my i7-8700, and the slots folder adds another 3.4 GB, where I think they would run.

These WUs are all multi-threaded, yes? Do they require a certain number of threads >1?

Yes, they are multi-threaded and the default is 4 threads per task. You can limit the number of tasks running by using an app_config.xml with <max_concurrent>x</max_concurent> line. I'm running nine 4 thread tasks concurrently on a 40 thread machine using the the following app_config.xml.

<app>
<name>QC</name>
<max_concurrent>9</max_concurrent>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>QC</app_name>
<plan_class>mt</plan_class>
<avg_ncpus>4</avg_ncpus>
<cmdline>--nthreads 4</cmdline>
</app_version>
</app_config>