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David Anderson Volunteer moderator Project administrator Send message Joined: 10 Sep 05 Posts: 539 Message 51358 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 6:09:53 UTC Starting with version 7.2.28, the recommended BOINC installer for Windows also installs VirtualBox, open-source virtualization software. This allows volunteered computer to run VM applications , benefitting both scientists and volunteers. ____________ ID: 51358 · Reply Quote
Is there anywhere that explains more about how this combo of Boinc and VirtualBox works, it's setup and performance on the computer it runs on? What level of control do we have over what uses virtualbox or do we have to decide plants vs zombies to use virtualbox for some projects? ID: 51375 · plants vs zombies Reply Quote
David, Not sure if you have any contacts with the folks who manage plants vs zombies LinuxMint, but they still have version 7.2.27 of BOINC in their App Store. If you can, (I've already requested via email) could you request they update their version, so I (we) can start using VirtualBox with BOINC? Thanks In Advance, Rick ____________ ID: 51482 · Reply Quote
The bundling of BOINC and VirtualBox installers applies to Windows only. They are two different applications, and (if the Windows experience can be followed - I have no Linux experience) an installation of VirtualBox by itself will be detected and utilised by BOINC v7.2.27 VirtualBox availability for Linux is described at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads . You should check that the version of VirtualBox you install is compatible with the BOINC project you wish to run - some, like Test4Theory, are having problems with the latest releases. ID: 51487 · Reply Quote
The bundling of BOINC and VirtualBox installers plants vs zombies applies to Windows only. They are two different applications, and (if the Windows experience can be followed - I have no Linux experience) an installation of VirtualBox by itself will be detected and utilised by BOINC v7.2.27 VirtualBox availability for Linux is described at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads . You should check that the version of VirtualBox you install is compatible with the BOINC project you wish to run - some, like Test4Theory, are having problems with the latest plants vs zombies releases. Thanks for your reply Richard. I've already installed Vitualbox on my Linux machines, but I'm running climate@home, which requires BOINC 7.0.28 or above, hense my request. Thanks for the feedback though. Regards, Rick ____________ ID: 51488 · Reply Quote
... which requires plants vs zombies BOINC 7.0.28 or above ... That is indeed what I read at http://climateathome.com/climateathome/ . But you said LinuxMint ... still have version 7.2.27 of BOINC in their App Store. Surely 7. 2 .27 is 'above' plants vs zombies 7. 0 .28? ID: 51489 · Reply Quote
... which requires BOINC 7.0.28 or above ... That is indeed what I read at http://climateathome.com/climateathome/ . But you said LinuxMint ... still have version 7.2.27 of BOINC in their App Store. Surely 7. 2 .27 is 'above' 7. 0 .28? Oops, sorry. I meant 7.0.27 is currently in their App Store. Rick ____________ ID: 51493 · Reply Quote
Starting with version 7.2.28, the recommended BOINC installer for Windows also installs VirtualBox, open-source virtualization software. This allows volunteered computer to run VM applications , benefitting both scientists and volunteers. plants vs zombies I'm sorry David but how it's possible to have benefit plants vs zombies from this? Any VM require a certain ammount of CPU time and RAM to work and this will influence the overall CPU usage of BOINC client, becaus he can take only the maximum CPU percentage that we assing to the VM. So it is possible that the host system have more CPU to use for BOINC operation, but it's limited by the VM. ID: 51498 · Reply Quote
Any VM require plants vs zombies a certain ammount of CPU time and RAM to work and this will influence the overall CPU usage of BOINC client, becaus he can take only the maximum CPU percentage that we assing plants vs zombies to the VM. So it is possible that the host system have more CPU to use for BOINC operation, but it's limited by the VM. I agree with Heki. Not long ago clustering (many devices act as one big brain or supercomputer) was a hot topic elsewhere. I did the math and it turned out that on an 8-device plants vs zombies quad-core ARM setup, with the clustering software being offered, the crunching power of 2 devices/8 cores were "lost" just administering the cluster/ additional software layer. Maybe these ideas scale better when there are ,000s of multi-core devices. ____________ The difference plants vs zombies between 0 and 1 is greater than the difference between 1 and 1,000,000,000 ID: 51667 · Reply Quote
I'm sorry David but how it's
David Anderson Volunteer moderator Project administrator Send message Joined: 10 Sep 05 Posts: 539 Message 51358 - Posted: 19 Nov 2013, 6:09:53 UTC Starting with version 7.2.28, the recommended BOINC installer for Windows also installs VirtualBox, open-source virtualization software. This allows volunteered computer to run VM applications , benefitting both scientists and volunteers. ____________ ID: 51358 · Reply Quote
Is there anywhere that explains more about how this combo of Boinc and VirtualBox works, it's setup and performance on the computer it runs on? What level of control do we have over what uses virtualbox or do we have to decide plants vs zombies to use virtualbox for some projects? ID: 51375 · plants vs zombies Reply Quote
David, Not sure if you have any contacts with the folks who manage plants vs zombies LinuxMint, but they still have version 7.2.27 of BOINC in their App Store. If you can, (I've already requested via email) could you request they update their version, so I (we) can start using VirtualBox with BOINC? Thanks In Advance, Rick ____________ ID: 51482 · Reply Quote
The bundling of BOINC and VirtualBox installers applies to Windows only. They are two different applications, and (if the Windows experience can be followed - I have no Linux experience) an installation of VirtualBox by itself will be detected and utilised by BOINC v7.2.27 VirtualBox availability for Linux is described at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads . You should check that the version of VirtualBox you install is compatible with the BOINC project you wish to run - some, like Test4Theory, are having problems with the latest releases. ID: 51487 · Reply Quote
The bundling of BOINC and VirtualBox installers plants vs zombies applies to Windows only. They are two different applications, and (if the Windows experience can be followed - I have no Linux experience) an installation of VirtualBox by itself will be detected and utilised by BOINC v7.2.27 VirtualBox availability for Linux is described at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads . You should check that the version of VirtualBox you install is compatible with the BOINC project you wish to run - some, like Test4Theory, are having problems with the latest plants vs zombies releases. Thanks for your reply Richard. I've already installed Vitualbox on my Linux machines, but I'm running climate@home, which requires BOINC 7.0.28 or above, hense my request. Thanks for the feedback though. Regards, Rick ____________ ID: 51488 · Reply Quote
... which requires plants vs zombies BOINC 7.0.28 or above ... That is indeed what I read at http://climateathome.com/climateathome/ . But you said LinuxMint ... still have version 7.2.27 of BOINC in their App Store. Surely 7. 2 .27 is 'above' plants vs zombies 7. 0 .28? ID: 51489 · Reply Quote
... which requires BOINC 7.0.28 or above ... That is indeed what I read at http://climateathome.com/climateathome/ . But you said LinuxMint ... still have version 7.2.27 of BOINC in their App Store. Surely 7. 2 .27 is 'above' 7. 0 .28? Oops, sorry. I meant 7.0.27 is currently in their App Store. Rick ____________ ID: 51493 · Reply Quote
Starting with version 7.2.28, the recommended BOINC installer for Windows also installs VirtualBox, open-source virtualization software. This allows volunteered computer to run VM applications , benefitting both scientists and volunteers. plants vs zombies I'm sorry David but how it's possible to have benefit plants vs zombies from this? Any VM require a certain ammount of CPU time and RAM to work and this will influence the overall CPU usage of BOINC client, becaus he can take only the maximum CPU percentage that we assing to the VM. So it is possible that the host system have more CPU to use for BOINC operation, but it's limited by the VM. ID: 51498 · Reply Quote
Any VM require plants vs zombies a certain ammount of CPU time and RAM to work and this will influence the overall CPU usage of BOINC client, becaus he can take only the maximum CPU percentage that we assing plants vs zombies to the VM. So it is possible that the host system have more CPU to use for BOINC operation, but it's limited by the VM. I agree with Heki. Not long ago clustering (many devices act as one big brain or supercomputer) was a hot topic elsewhere. I did the math and it turned out that on an 8-device plants vs zombies quad-core ARM setup, with the clustering software being offered, the crunching power of 2 devices/8 cores were "lost" just administering the cluster/ additional software layer. Maybe these ideas scale better when there are ,000s of multi-core devices. ____________ The difference plants vs zombies between 0 and 1 is greater than the difference between 1 and 1,000,000,000 ID: 51667 · Reply Quote
I'm sorry David but how it's
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