I would really like to see columns to be sortable again (like in old versions 4.xx) to sort for progress or report deadline for example.

i'd like to have that too

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I would really like to see columns to be sortable again (like in old versions 4.xx) to sort for progress or report deadline for example.

Seconded. It would be nice if BOINC would remember the most recent 4 or 5 sorts, too - and preserve them as much as possible in the new sort. This way I could - for example - sort projects alphabetically, then by resource share. The result would be an alphabetic listing of my 800 share projects, followed by an alphabetic listing of my 100 share projects, followed by... you get the idea.

Heck, even if that's too much, just being able to drag-n-drop the projects into order would be okay.

Another suggestion: Once sorted or moved into a particular order, that order should be preserved and displayed on every tab of the manager.

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After trying to do something and getting (paraphrased) "you are already attached to that project" message, I would like to suggest what unfortunately is a MAJOR alteration.

On the Project tab, there are 3 columns that led me to try this... Project, Account and Team. I immediatly knew the Team column was just data on a 1-1 with Account. However, I thought (hoped) that Project and Account was a one to many relation allowing me to attach to the same project under multiple accounts on the same BOINC instance to allow me to lend cycles to multiple teams in the same project.

This I'd like added to the implementation of BOINC. Sadly, I also know that unless someone thought of this and built it into the original code long ago and only bypassed it, this is NOT a tweak or minor change (except possibly on the server side, but even there a change in primary key change in the dbase is NEVER a 'minor' thing)... as it affects at least (and probably a WHOLE lot more) project prioritization, cpu project rotation, directory structure on clients (different WUs), 3rd party coding for cross project stats ... I know there are some other BIG issues I'm missing.

As for cheating possibilities - how so? Zero sum game - actually possibly gives a penalty due to overhead: on a single machine- account(prime)>=account1+account2 where account(prime)=single account.

As for a secondary suggestion, as it is already partially enabled... allow localized prioritization of projects in he same server level preference... I have a few machines that I'd like to tailor their specific project/network/cpu usage independently... I'd also like the group tailoring to allow more specific settings based instead of only hours of the day but on day of the week and hours of day - e.g. M-F do this during these hours, Sat&Sun do this during these hrs... or any combination of days/hours...

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My wish list item would be to have the ability to disable the nagging "Network Connection" reminder. I use dial up and connect once a day or so. So, I *know* I have files to be uploaded. I have not upgraded the manager since 5.2.13, since after that they have added not one, but multiple "network connection" messages that each must be closed separately to clear the screen. A truly stupid idea that should have never made it past alpha testing.

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A truly stupid idea that should have never made it past alpha testing.

I did try...

Aug. 12, BOINC developers email list:

The slider for the reminder frequency of BOINC popup messages goes from zero to 120 minutes.

Can't zero be "shut off" and the maximum 24 hours?

At this moment when someone sets it to zero, there is no way to stop the popups, but for a reboot and a quick change after that. Or using BoincView to reset the reminder frequency.

Jord.

Rom:

Please put a min of 60 seconds on reminder freq
-- David

Isn't even 60 seconds as a minimum "too minimal"?

But really, shouldn't there be an off option? For people trying out something they know will give that message?

Jord.

Dead silence after that. Off is apparently not an option. :-(

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I would really like to see columns to be sortable again (like in old versions 4.xx) to sort for progress or report deadline for example.

Seconded. It would be nice if BOINC would remember the most recent 4 or 5 sorts, too - and preserve them as much as possible in the new sort. This way I could - for example - sort projects alphabetically, then by resource share. The result would be an alphabetic listing of my 800 share projects, followed by an alphabetic listing of my 100 share projects, followed by... you get the idea.

Heck, even if that's too much, just being able to drag-n-drop the projects into order would be okay.

Another suggestion: Once sorted or moved into a particular order, that order should be preserved and displayed on every tab of the manager.

Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please add sort option to the Project name at a min. I have 5-10 projects attached at a time. This would be a huge help.

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Its already been discussed and the answer was it will appear someday there are other more important things to do at the moment

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A menu item and text box would be nice to let you specify what drive/directory you want to use for the project files. After input,the manager would then look for files in the new directory and/or move any current files from the old to the new directory.


Another helpful item would be a test during project updates that traps the AMD-64 linux error (platform 'x86_64-pc-linux-gnu' not found)when there is no native 64 bit app, and automatically requests the 32 bit linux app instead. I see this as something that would be pretty high bang-for-the-buck fix. It should be a relatively easy piece of code to write for one person, instead of the multitude of AMD-64 users each having to manually download the x86 files and manually edit configuration files, and then have to do the process all over again every time a new app version gets released.

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A menu item and text box would be nice to let you specify what drive/directory you want to use for the project files. After input,the manager would then look for files in the new directory and/or move any current files from the old to the new directory.

You can specify where to install BOINC to through the BOINC installer. Then all other files are always with the BOINC directory at that drive.

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A menu item and text box would be nice to let you specify what drive/directory you want to use for the project files. After input,the manager would then look for files in the new directory and/or move any current files from the old to the new directory.

You can specify where to install BOINC to through the BOINC installer. Then all other files are always with the BOINC directory at that drive.

You can in Windows, but then you have to uninstall BOINC first, reinstall, re-connect with the apps, etc. In Kubuntu/Debian I found a way to do it buried in a README file, but again, somewhat involved. As disks fill up over time, it would be nice (and seemingly simple to code) to be able to do basic disk-space management right from the BOINC Manager.

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I would like to have something like this:

One PC can download max. 5 (or so, depending on the time it will take to crunch) workunits at a time. After reporting a workunit it can download another unit but to the maximum of 5 workunits at a time.

This will help against "everything-grabber" but will not slow down the crunching of the workunits if one PC is out of work. :-D

let me call it "maximum number of workunits per time"
- no grabbing of everything, better distribution of work
- no slowdown for the project if PC is out of work
- the PC can hold the deadline because it does not have to much WUs

An additional (already implemented) daily quota will help when a PC returns many WUs with errors.

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At WCG it's regulated... u can get 10 at the time and max 120 a day (for the really fast machines, but there is the work buffer function of X days on each project website, so each DC can regulate how much u get once the buffer is filled it starts trickeling new work on the bases of WU's completed, for each one returned u get one back, or none if the project has used up it allocated time like TANPAKU has at the moment on my machine...they send 3 at the time...... so what's your point again?

At WCG using the Boinc-Client?
So that's what every project with only some work to be ready in a short time should use.

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Question about the screen saver.

At home I have a dual core CPU and dual Monitors; and I figured with that kind of power going to waste for 18 hours a day (Sleep at midnight and wake up for work and return home around 6:30ish) that I'd install boinc here as well. However I noticed now that when the screen saver engages that it just enables monitor 1 and flips back and forth, while not doing anything on monitor 2. Would it be possible to show each task of my dual core on each screen when dual monitors are detected?

Thanks,
I really hope this is an appropriate place to post a wish list / request item like this.

~RSA

Would it be possible to show each task of my dual core on each screen when dual monitors are detected?

No, that's a physical incapability of OpenGL 1.2, it can't do multiple monitors. OpenGL 2.0 can, as far as I know, but the older ones can't. And since the graphics are written in OpenGL 1.2 ...

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May be someone else has wished it before, but let me allow to wish it an additional time.


1. I would like to have an "Update"-Button on the Task-Tab to report finish results without switching the tab.

2. Also I would like to have an "Update all"-Button on the Project-Tab. One click, all projects will be up to date.

3. It is unnecessary to mentoined the Sort-function for the columns. ;)

Is anything feasible?

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Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please Please add sorting to the advanced view. allow sorting by project, resource%.

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Process dependent suspend/resume.

I have a media PC (Windows XP MCE) that is used as a DVR. When a BOINC process is running while recording TV, the video gets jerky. If BOINC is suspended while recording, the video is fine. This is all regardless of the priority of the DVR recording process (BOINC crunching process is "low", DVR recording process is "abovenormal"). I understand that it is probably due to both BOINC and the DVR trying to write to the HD at the same time.

If I could set BOINC to go into suspend mode when a particular process starts and then resume it's previous state when that process stops, that would be very useful (to me anyway). I imagine that it would be useful for any number of other automated "time critical-streaming data recording" tasks that someone might have on their PC, maybe. I know it would be useful for me though.

Thanks,

Mac

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If boinc was configured to suspend or even exit when particular applications start up, you might still get immediate workunit crashes because boinc takes sometimes several seconds to react to these commands. This is why we have to suspend or exit BEFORE starting other programmes that can cause conflicts.

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My wish list... Forced EDF Button!

Would it be possible to implement such a function? I frequently don't have internet access at the weekends, but my computers are still actively crunching. Partially due to the fact that I am running multiple projects, I find myself having to manually suspend longer deadline w/u in order to get the ones that need to be reported before Monday morning completed by Friday afternoon.

Obviously I can continue as I am, but it would be so much easier if I could just turn the EDF on for a day (or whatever) when this happens.

Cheers,
MacDitch

What version of BOINC are you using? What do you have your connect every X set to? Which projects are you attached to?

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