Installed..

Set-up..

Running.. (i assume)

I can only tell because my CPU is at 95% capacity.

But when I log into view the results under my account

all I see are listings for 4 works in PROGRESS.

What does this mean? There seems to me that there is very

Little documentation for BOINC and this is very

frustrating to me.

Send any info you can.


Thanks!

The 'in progress' on the website means that those 4 work units were sent to your computer for analysis. Your computer is working on one of them but hasn't finished one yet. To view its progress, go to your boinc directory and do the following:

cat client_state.xml | grep fraction_done

That will spit out something like
0.xxxxxxx
1 = 100%

When the client finishes the current work unit, it will move on to the next one automatically. Then the website will show the first one as completed.

You can also install a 3rd party monitor if you wish. There are only a few available for linux at this point and they only give limited data, but at least you can see that it is running, what % of the wu is done, and how many wu's are in your cache. The linux options right now are boinctop, boincgui and I believe boincstat. There may even be more by now, and if not there certainly will be soon.

There is a link in the download area for add-ons.

I use this script on my linux machines. Its not great, but it works for me. Add or modify as you wish and please post upgrades, fixes and modifcation.


#name = bcviewer.sh#

fgrep 'domain_name' client_state.xml > bcviewer.out
fgrep 'os_name' client_state.xml >> bcviewer.out
fgrep 'os_version' client_state.xml >>bcviewer.out
fgrep 'core_client_major_version' client_state.xml >>bcviewer.out
fgrep 'core_client_minor_version' client_state.xml >>bcviewer.out
fgrep 'host_venue' client_state.xml >>bcviewer.out
fgrep 'host_total_credit' sched_reply.xml >> bcviewer.out
fgrep 'user_total_credit' sched_reply.xml >> bcviewer.out
fgrep 'user_expavg_credit' sched_reply.xml >> bcviewer.out
fgrep 'fraction_done' client_state.xml >>bcviewer.out
fgrep 'project_name' sched_reply.xml >> bcviewer.out
fgrep 'app_version_num' client_state.xml >>bcviewer.out
fgrep 'checkpoint_cpu_time' client_state.xml >>bcviewer.out
fgrep 'current_cpu_time' client_state.xml >>bcviewer.out


cat bcviewer.out

Here's a script to view Seti progress
Change the line that reads boinc=/usr/local/boinc
to point to your boinc directory e.g $HOME/boinc
###############################################
#!/bin/bash
# Path to boinc executable: Edit next line
boinc=/usr/local/boinc
cd $boinc
while clear
prog=`grep 'fraction_done' client_state.xml|cut -b 22-23`
echo ""
echo "Seti Progress: $prog%"
echo ""
echo "Press Ctrl c to quit"
do
sleep 5m
done
################################################
The output looks something like this:

Seti Progress: 50%

Press Ctrl c to quit

If you havn't found what you are looking for already, I would take a look
at boincstat. You can compile it and then copy it to your boinc directory. I compiled on linux with just "make". There is no configure and the Makefile required no edits.

It gives a very nice quick status of what is going on:

./boincstat

Name : 02ja04ab.16221.401.928404.66
Application : setiathome
App Version : 308
State : In Progress
Progress : 67.18%
Wu Started : Tue Jul 20 05:31:48 CDT 2004
Est. Time Remaining : 0:34:43
Est. Completion Time : Tue Jul 20 07:18:31 CDT 2004
Report Deadline : Mon Aug 02 17:18:11 CDT 2004

It can be downloaded from the addon's section. Thanks to David Nunn for
a nice tool.

<a>Download BOINC add-on software[/url]