Hi,

I jumped on with SETI in 2001 but haven't done much since my initial interest back then; was just browsing around and found the new BOINC interface. I just put the BOINC MenuBar application on my PowerMac and am running my old account again with SETI.

Had a couple questions:

1. where can I find out more about how BOINC uses my processors ? I have been watching them on the Activity monitor and they keep them busy ALL the time -- so far, I don't notice a decrease in performance. Should I be closing the application when I run Final Cut and Compressor and other intesive tasks ? Or does it know when to be quiet ?

2. I can't get the full GUI to decompress -- get an error after I download it. Is that because I have the menubar running already ? Can I have them both ? I wanted the menubar because it seemed smaller and wouldn't take up as much of my memory. I wanted to install the climate change @home system but they didn't seem to have anything for the Mac.

3. Do I need to create a new user account with each @home project ?

Thanks,
Damon

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1) BOINC uses "idle" time, so the processors will run at 100% at all times. When you do something else BOINC will "back out of the way and let the other thing take over. when there is idle time again BOINC and the sicence applications take up the "free" CPU time.

More on this and other things can be found in the Wiki, start with CPU and move on from there. Read the FAQ, do "Credit" and other things for fun too ...

2) You cannot run both at the same time. I do not know why it does not compress and mount correctly for you, it did for me. What version of OS-X? do you have an up to date decompressor? Did you try to decompress with BOINC Menubar turned off?

3) Yes

Edit, CPDN does have a Mac version. It always crashes on mine, but others have run them successfully on OS-X. For a more complete list of projects see the wiki ... :)

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What is the URL of the project you are trying to join?

CPDN is http://climateapps2.oucs.ox.ac.uk/cpdnboinc/

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And if you DO join cpdn with a Mac, make sure you download and install the extra library files on cpdn's download page.

THanks for the information. I will check out installing the library files and read the wiki.

I appreciate your help.

D

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