May we ask who has one, so that we can look at the performance of it?

The testing was done by Ray Hinchliffe, as mentioned in message 1956627. He provides BOINC-specific extensions to SIV, but I don't know if he runs SETI.

Ideally, I do not want to change Windows Power settings to never go to sleep. How can I keep SETI@home running if I step away for awhile?

I've NEVER seen the value set being "obeyed".

If one sets cpu_usage to say 0.1, and then run 4 GPU tasks one would reasonably expect to see one CPU thread/core used by all four tasks, but what one actually see is four CPU threads/cores used

The observation does not support your theory.

Where did I say "setting GPU usage above 1.0"?

In your previous post!!!

<cpu_usage>1.10</cpu_usage>

For example - on my Windows computer I have four SoG tasks running, with cpu_usage=0.1; according to your theory, that would only set 0.4 core/thread aside (probably rounded up to 1) for the four tasks, however each task is actually using approximately one complete core, and four cores/threads are used.

... and four cores/threads are used

The best place to "reserve" CPU cores/threads is in the BOINC manager ... "use at most xx% of the CPUs"

Can you use the app_info.xml aka: anonymous platform to cause the SOG app to process the Cuda42/50 data files?

would it be possible to use the same technique to have the stock seti SOG app process all the Cuda32/42/50
...
to hack together an "app_info.xml" file

When running SETI there is no point is setting GPU usage above 1.0

- the current batch of SETI applications do not have the ability to use more than 1 cpu core/thread.

<cpu_usage>1.00</cpu_usage> is best interpreted as "Try to use 1.0 cpu cores/thread", it does NOT mean "Use exactly 1.00 cpu core/thread".

<app_config>
 <app>
  <name>setiathome_v8</name>
  <gpu_versions>
  <gpu_usage>1.00</gpu_usage>
  <cpu_usage>1.00</cpu_usage>
  </gpu_versions>
 </app>
</app_config>

If those are your settings, it's doing exactly as you've told it to do.
Save 1 CPU core for each GPU WU that is running.

But I have 7 cpu tasks running and a gpu task running using 1 core. 7+1=8 (normal)
Under CSG/Rosetta I have 8 cpu tasks running and a gpu task running using 1 core. 8+1=9 tasks.

<app_config>
 <app>
  <name>setiathome_v8</name>
  <gpu_versions>
  <gpu_usage>1.00</gpu_usage>
  <cpu_usage>1.10</cpu_usage>
  </gpu_versions>
 </app>
</app_config>

I did look at the task manager and it still says 8 cpus.

Don't have access to the source right now

but I think I did a win version check at the top and limited it to 7+

set QO_BOINCver=7
set QO_PROC_2=boinccmd.exe
...
rem                                             ; verify boinc version
call "%QO_BOINCPath%%QO_PROC_2%" --version| FINDSTR /I "%QO_BOINCver%">nul
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 goto BOINCver_OK
	ECHO. BOINC is not running Version %QO_BOINCver%
	ECHO. Exiting ...
	goto EXIT_MSG
:BOINCver_OK

Good to see you, Bil

I am also confused about the documentation saying that this command will only work for a Lunatics distro?

It will only work on a system that had it's applications installed using the Lunatics Installer.

set QO_filenm=QOpt
...
ECHO.---------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO   Usage:
ECHO.  %QO_filenm% [-h] [-u] [-t] [-l] [-a] [-cx] [-k] [-m] [-b] [-r] [-y]
ECHO.
ECHO   Optional parameters:
ECHO.
ECHO    ?   Display this Options list
ECHO   -h   Display Help file - READ ME FIRST!
...
ECHO.  %QO_filenm% requires the following minimum environment:
ECHO.    1. Windows 7 or higher,
ECHO.    2. BOINC 7.x is installed and running and has been using SETI@home GPU apps
ECHO        to process work units. The GPU apps are commonly known as Cuda50, SoG,
ECHO.       SaH, etc. They are either automatically installed by the SETI web site,
ECHO        or set up using the Lunatics (v0.44 or greater) setup program.
ECHO.    3. GUPPIRescheduler 0.51 or higher is running successfully.
pause
ECHO.
ECHO.  %QO_filenm% may be installed and run from any directory. It will find and use
ECHO.  the file paths and directories you specified when installing BOINC. 

My normal BOINC startup .bat file:
pushd %~dp0
boinc.exe --detach
Result: GPUs detected, data folder the same as boinc.exe

A BOINC startup .bat w/o specifying extension for boinc.exe
pushd %~dp0
boinc --detach
Result: No GPUs detected, data folder the same as boinc.exe

...back to trying to guess Me-in-1999's password...

edit: funny enough, I originally joined 21 days after you, Ageless!

https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/show_user.php?userid=371471

This is all known information.

Not the correct answer or reply here, unfortunately.

What happens is that a 1/2 sized BOINC icon slowly circles a black screen, sometimes for minutes and sometimes for hours. Below this orbiting icon it says "BOINC screensaver loading." This may, at times, stop after a few minutes and the 3 or 4 different BOINC data screens will pop up and cycle along with what I call the colorful "noise box." BUT, sometimes it does NOT "load" and I see the small icon circling or hours. As I said, the screensaver is intermittent.

Does the "Noise box" display when you select it directly from the menu after you select a cpu task in BOINC?

I don't know what you mean? What menu is that and how do I select a 'cpu task?'

A few days ago BilBg, a Volunteer tester, posted that the screensaver DID work!

And I don't think setigraphics can work with the GPU apps

Why not?