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Message 27805 - Posted: 18 Sep 2004, 22:17:20 UTC
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Management tasks multiply when you are running multiple computers. I like to simplify these tasks. Therefore I have two questions:

1. Is there a way to make the "update" automatic so "ready to report" WUs go by themselves?

2. Is there a way (a third-party-ad-on, perhaps) to see from a central location the status and progress on each BOINC computer in the farm? With SETI classic I use MSETIMON and SETIQUEUE - they give me a nice view into the current state of each computer/WU and a nice way to look at historical and statistical data for each machine?

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Message 27811 - Posted: 18 Sep 2004, 22:28:00 UTC

memnoch beat me to the link for BOINCview. It will do the job nicely.


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Message 27939 - Posted: 19 Sep 2004, 8:24:46 UTC

hi

Here is the Link of Boincview.

http://boincview.amanheis.de

greetz Mike

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Message 28227 - Posted: 20 Sep 2004, 1:49:22 UTC
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You can make it a bit more "hands free" by using the "-return_results_immediately" command line parameter with boinc.

Things don't get stuck in a "Ready to Report" mode, unless the schedulers are down.

I know this works with the CLI versions (windows and Linux) but have not tried it with the windows GUI.

With this parameter, result is uploaded and the scheduler is contacted right away.


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Message 28236 - Posted: 20 Sep 2004, 2:23:16 UTC - in response to Message 28227.  

> You can make it a bit more "hands free" by using the
> "-return_results_immediately" command line parameter with boinc.

Woody,

everybody has other experiences
using the above parameter let me run into an ugly proglem:

I'm using 2 Management tools, one is BV.

With both Management tools I DID NOT GET every time the statistical data,
cumulated into BoincLog. This becomes a greater issue, running a couple of clients.

THIS parameter has to be used in a carefull manner (my opinion)
there will be to less time left, for the Management Tool to collect all the nice Datas as cputime completed an much much more.

If you don't need/whant this, it's up to you.

I made the experience to not use this parameter.

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Message 28249 - Posted: 20 Sep 2004, 3:38:04 UTC - in response to Message 27805.  

You should note that just because it says "Ready to report" in the work tab, doesn't mean it hasn't already sent. Completed workunits are generally sent immediately (if your settings allow). As long as network access is not disabled, completed workunits will appear in the transfer tab until they are actually sent. Once they are sent, they stay in the work tab saying "ready to report" until you update the project. I don't know why that is, but just the way of things. You can confirm it by looking through the log and finding where things have been uploaded.

> Management tasks multiply when you are running multiple computers. I like to
> simplify these tasks. Therefore I have two questions:
>
> 1. Is there a way to make the "update" automatic so "ready to report" WUs go
> by themselves?
>
> 2. Is there a way (a third-party-ad-on, perhaps) to see from a central
> location the status and progress on each BOINC computer in the farm? With
> SETI classic I use MSETIMON and SETIQUEUE - they give me a nice view into the
> current state of each computer/WU and a nice way to look at historical and
> statistical data for each machine?
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -mm-
>
>
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Message 28251 - Posted: 20 Sep 2004, 3:48:45 UTC - in response to Message 28236.  

> > You can make it a bit more "hands free" by using the
> > "-return_results_immediately" command line parameter with boinc.
>
> Woody,
>
> everybody has other experiences
> using the above parameter let me run into an ugly proglem:
>
> I'm using 2 Management tools, one is BV.

I've been using "-return_results_immediately" since the public launch (win and Linux), with things like boincview, and the only thing I've seen is that results don't sit in a "ready to report" state for a few hours (they are reported right after upload). If BV or other tools have a problem, it's probably a bug in the tool, and I'd report it to the tool developers.

As the tools don't really impact the crunch/report cycle, I'll say that from my experience, reporting sooner, means credits sooner (you cant see it on seti, but you can on the other projects)

> THIS parameter has to be used in a carefull manner (my opinion)
> there will be to less time left, for the Management Tool to collect all the
> nice Datas as cputime completed an much much more.

All it "seems" to do is to contact the scheculer right after the result has been uploaded, vs waiting to contact the scheduler at a later time (the next completed WU in most cases), and therefore means a "tick" of CPU time now or hours from now.. No difference is the overall process.. BTW, I have BV set to use RPC and a second monitor which uses NFS (file) access, and not seen a single hickup.....



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Message 28252 - Posted: 20 Sep 2004, 3:54:33 UTC - in response to Message 28249.  

> You should note that just because it says "Ready to report" in the work tab,
> doesn't mean it hasn't already sent. Completed workunits are generally sent
> immediately (if your settings allow). As long as network access is not
> disabled, completed workunits will appear in the transfer tab until they are
> actually sent. Once they are sent, they stay in the work tab saying "ready to
> report" until you update the project. I don't know why that is, but just the
> way of things. You can confirm it by looking through the log and finding where
> things have been uploaded.

Exactly why "-return_results_immediately" is a cool thing..


You dial-in to upload a result, and it get reported at the same time!

Try it, you'll like it! (and then ask yourself "Why isn't this the default?")

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Message 28257 - Posted: 20 Sep 2004, 5:02:28 UTC - in response to Message 28252.  

>seen a single hickup.....
be happy Woody, just be happy.

It's fine if it's work yourside, that's basically important

I don't know how many clients you have to "manage",

myself, I had to reduce BV cpu usage, the p2400 512MB (m$, XP) as an monitoring station had to put 40-70%, sometime til 90% of the resources.

It's not the "problem" of BV, it's the problem to have high load on BV.

Always speaking for my environment, perhaps not the best settings, I use it on a 35 sek intervall, this for every client. this could reduce the cpu demand in a massive way.

Now a question is there, do I want to use all cpu cycles to monitor or wouldn't I spend the boinc client as much as possible of the cycles?

Really cool would be, having a tool doing the Update, or better spoken, the "ask for communication" (both directions) in an automated way, the tool would should be able to manage all clients of the farm. Without a user intervention.

something like sending an Update every hour or so while we are sleeping
this is missing.. this would be cool.


Well, sorry no alfa, no beta, no zeta, no gamma, just a *ugly* user, came over on june 24. from seticlassic. I do have very low experience and I do have "nearly" never seen a wu.... ;-)






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Message 28261 - Posted: 20 Sep 2004, 5:59:23 UTC - in response to Message 28249.  
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> You should note that just because it says "Ready to report" in the work tab,
> doesn't mean it hasn't already sent. Completed workunits are generally sent
> immediately (if your settings allow). As long as network access is not
> disabled, completed workunits will appear in the transfer tab until they are
> actually sent. Once they are sent, they stay in the work tab saying "ready to
> report" until you update the project. I don't know why that is, but just the
> way of things. You can confirm it by looking through the log and finding where
> things have been uploaded.

Uploading results is a 2-step proces. The result XML file is uploaded as soon as the work unit finishes (if network access is available). This does not give you any credits though. The credits are claimed by communicating with the scheduler which happens when you 'update' the project. It also happens automatically if the work unit that just finished is within 24 hours of its deadline or your cache has reached the low-water mark. When either of those conditions is met, BOINC automatically contacts the scheduler and updates your claimed credit and (maybe) asks for more work so as was pointed out above, there really is no need to click 'update' on your entire farm every day. It may take a couple of hours or days (depending on your cache settings) before you claim credit for the completed work units but it will happen automatically.

Actually this is all explained in Paul's BOINC user manual. I never have a link handy when I need one though. His web page should be required reading for all new members! :)


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Message 28289 - Posted: 20 Sep 2004, 9:20:57 UTC - in response to Message 28261.  

> Actually this is all explained in Paul's BOINC user manual. I never have a
> link handy when I need one though. His web page should be required reading
> for all new members! :)

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