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Message 1982444 - Posted: 27 Feb 2019, 10:24:53 UTC

Hello,
I run diffrent projects over the Boinc Manager. Some of those projects run faster over the GPU (like SETI). Some of the other projects only run over the CPU like WCG. My problem is that, for excample, SETI runs over CPU but very slowly. In the same time, the project could run much faster over GPU so the CPU runtime would be better used for WCG. My proposal is that we can change the setting for individual projects like SETI to run only over the GPU or CPU in the manager.

Thanks for considering my offer.
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Message 1982445 - Posted: 27 Feb 2019, 10:33:40 UTC - in response to Message 1982444.  

Using specific hardware is a project preference. And with good reason, for while it may be easy to set this for one computer in BOINC Manager, consider people with tens, hundreds of computers. They'll go absolute bonkers having to set each of them individually through BOINC Manager only, whereas now they can put them in a group and in one swat put whole groups of computers to use a specific hardware resource. Additionally, the BOINC Manager app under Android works differently - plus you can't use the GPU there, even if it's being recognized as GPGPU capable.
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Message 1987020 - Posted: 25 Mar 2019, 13:05:38 UTC - in response to Message 1982444.  

I agree, I would prefer to run just the GPU as they are so powerful today, and not use up the slower CPU.
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Message 1987063 - Posted: 25 Mar 2019, 16:48:24 UTC

Simple - on your project account options page ([url]https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/prefs.php?subset=project[/url]) deselect the CPU options, save changes, and in a few hours time you will stop getting work for your CPU.
You can then either let those you've got run to completion, or abort them - just be careful when aborting just to do the CPU tasks and not any GPU tasks by mistake....
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