Is it possible to tweak BOINC so that it would use only one of two crossfired ATI GPUs (that BOINC detects as two separate cards) when the user is active and use both when computer is idle?

No, such an option is not available yet; it may be in some unknown future.

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Is it possible to tweak BOINC so that it would use only one of two crossfired ATI GPUs (that BOINC detects as two separate cards) when the user is active and use both when computer is idle?

In the mean time, maybe this SETI thread might be helpful to you?

Peter

Besides GPUs, I'd like to suggest similar support for multi-core CPUs.

I think a substantial bump in overall CPU usage by BOINC clients worldwide could be gained by allowing some number of CPUs/Cores to be used when the user is active.

My laptop has 4 cores. With my CPU monitor I can see that one is 0% busy almost all the time. So even though I don't want to sacrifice performance when I have work to do (e.g. UI delays really aggravate me), I would be happy to slice off 2, maybe even 3 of my cores for 100% "background" use by BOINC even when "user is active".

So this suggestion is for additional agent configuration to allow separate CPU/GPU/Core settings for "active" vs "inactive" user states.

(My apologies if this is a repeat request. I did try to search the forums, but keywords like "CPU" and "core" have jillions of hits.)

Thanks!

(My apologies if this is a repeat request. I did try to search the forums, but keywords like "CPU" and "core" have jillions of hits.)

Yeah, but Wishlist doesn't. ;-)

Anyway, that actual request and the one for GPUs is in the contemplation list. No actual time table for when it's going to be included. Not in 6.12 which will have the new Notices tab, and presumably not in 6.14 which will concentrate on a whole new Simple View for BOINC Manager. (Possibly also a new Advanced View)

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