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Message 1150393 - Posted: 9 Sep 2011, 13:01:54 UTC - in response to Message 1150390.  

BOINC can be customized in many ways, and "optimal" settings depends on what your goals are.

My guess is that you want to make sure you're getting the most out of your system for crunching data. In that respect, there's not really much you can do with BOINC because the actual performance is in the science applications. BOINC is just a framework that allows you to connect to science projects - it doesn't do anything in the way of crunching the data and therefore cannot be optimized for performance.


That being said, there are specially-coded science apps from third parties that will use more capabilities of your CPU to efficiently process work. The only caveat to using third-party science apps is that they break BOINC's ability to automatically update the application if a new version is released, meaning that you are responsible for making sure the science app is as up to date as possible.

If you're not willing to install a third-party app, then there's really nothing more for you to do to get the most out of your computer. The only other most common setting within BOINC that's used is the ability to cache work locally so that if the project runs out of work, you can keep going for a few more days.

Or better yet, just join multiple projects to ensure your CPU power is spread out over many projects. :-)


If you have any questions about using third-party science applications or changing your cache options, feel free to ask and we can help you.
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Message 1150665 - Posted: 10 Sep 2011, 2:34:59 UTC

However, 32MB of RAM is all that SETI actually requires - even the optimized applications use only about the same amount.

There are other projects that need more RAM.


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Message 1152745 - Posted: 16 Sep 2011, 13:25:48 UTC - in response to Message 1150393.  

I am running Rosetta@Home right now on several off my computers...two of which i rarely use so they sit on my desk running Boinc. How can I increase the efficiency on these computers... you mentioned third party applications.. how does that work?
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Message 1152758 - Posted: 16 Sep 2011, 14:00:27 UTC - in response to Message 1152745.  

I am running Rosetta@Home right now on several off my computers...two of which i rarely use so they sit on my desk running Boinc. How can I increase the efficiency on these computers... you mentioned third party applications.. how does that work?


Third-party applications are provided by programmers with access to the source code who can look for ways to optimize the program's execution.

SETI@Home's source code is open for all to see, download, re-compile and distribute on their own. A few talented people have done just that by providing optimized science applications.


As far as I know, Rosetta@Home's source code is not open source, and therefore there is no way for a third-party to review the code to improve on it's efficiency.
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