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Message 130455 - Posted: 17 Jun 2019 | 11:39:24 UTC

Hello, as the title suggests I am considering to start working on SoB tasks. The reason that I'm a bit sceptical about doing it is that my hardware isn't high end at all (i3-7100), and as I have heard, SoB tasks are quite intensive and long.

Anyway, what would you suggest that I do before starting to work on these tasks? I heard something about turning HT off and running 1 tasks on multiple cores. I have already configured BOINC to use 50% of threads (effectively disabling HT) but I don't know how to assign multiple cores to 1 task. TIA!

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Message 130458 - Posted: 17 Jun 2019 | 12:02:31 UTC - in response to Message 130455.
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Hello, as the title suggests I am considering to start working on SoB tasks. The reason that I'm a bit sceptical about doing it is that my hardware isn't high end at all (i3-7100), and as I have heard, SoB tasks are quite intensive and long.

Anyway, what would you suggest that I do before starting to work on these tasks? I heard something about turning HT off and running 1 tasks on multiple cores. I have already configured BOINC to use 50% of threads (effectively disabling HT) but I don't know how to assign multiple cores to 1 task. TIA!


Have a look at the section re multithreading here http://www.primegrid.com/forum_thread.php?id=8360&nowrap=true#124005
For a good explanation.
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Message 130459 - Posted: 17 Jun 2019 | 12:09:49 UTC - in response to Message 130458.
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Thanks for the quick reply! Any idea where the BOINC data directory on Linux is, though? The host I am going to be running SoB on is running Ubuntu, sooo :P

Edit: Nevermind, found it! For anyone wondering, its:

/var/lib/boinc/projects/www.primegrid.com/

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Message 130461 - Posted: 17 Jun 2019 | 12:15:51 UTC - in response to Message 130459.

Thanks for the quick reply! Any idea where the BOINC data directory on Linux is, though? The host I am going to be running SoB on is running Ubuntu, sooo :P

Edit: Nevermind, found it! For anyone wondering, its:

/var/lib/boinc/projects/www.primegrid.com/


No problem, unfortunately I'm not sure on linux, I only know on windows and mac, but I'm sure someone else will jump in and tell you soon ;)
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Message 130466 - Posted: 17 Jun 2019 | 13:26:42 UTC - in response to Message 130459.

Thanks for the quick reply! Any idea where the BOINC data directory on Linux is, though? The host I am going to be running SoB on is running Ubuntu, sooo :P

Edit: Nevermind, found it! For anyone wondering, its:

/var/lib/boinc/projects/www.primegrid.com/

That is correct for RHEL, Fedora, Centos..., using yum.
For Debian, Ubuntu... using deb, it is in
/var/lib/boinc-client/projects/www.primegrid.com/

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Message 130478 - Posted: 18 Jun 2019 | 9:26:11 UTC - in response to Message 130466.

For Debian, Ubuntu... using deb, it is in
/var/lib/boinc-client/projects/www.primegrid.com


Hm, weird. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and I found it in this directory. :P

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Message 130479 - Posted: 18 Jun 2019 | 10:30:42 UTC - in response to Message 130455.

my hardware isn't high end at all (i3-7100), and as I have heard, SoB tasks are quite intensive and long.

I think running a unit on both cores you should see something like 4-5 days for one SoB task. This is a very rough estimation.

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Message 130484 - Posted: 18 Jun 2019 | 13:33:48 UTC - in response to Message 130479.

I think running a unit on both cores you should see something like 4-5 days for one SoB task. This is a very rough estimation.

Actually, I'm getting 2.5 days, surprisingly! Around 1% per hour.

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Message 130490 - Posted: 18 Jun 2019 | 22:24:34 UTC - in response to Message 130478.

For Debian, Ubuntu... using deb, it is in
/var/lib/boinc-client/projects/www.primegrid.com


Hm, weird. I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS and I found it in this directory. :P

I did not check before posting, but is is in fact in both!

lrwxrwxrwx 1 boinc boinc 12 juil. 4 2018 boinc -> boinc-client drwxr-xr-x 7 boinc boinc 4096 juin 19 00:20 boinc-client

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