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by Contact
Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:37 am
Forum: Help Desk 🛎️
Topic: How to create BOINC hosts in the clouds
Replies: 0
Views: 11

How to create BOINC hosts in the clouds

1. Create a virtual machine (VM) "instance" with Oracle . You'll need an active credit or debit card, which won't be charged. Set everything to default except the operating system "image" should be Ubuntu and the processor "shape" should be AMD (or Intel) (NOT Ampere [A...
by Contact
Sun Mar 12, 2023 7:25 pm
Forum: Help Desk 🛎️
Topic: Forgot BOINC Project Password
Replies: 1
Views: 545

Re: Forgot BOINC Project Password

If you use an account manager (BAM! etc.) you can retrieve your password from their website or your browser.
by Contact
Fri Mar 10, 2023 3:25 am
Forum: Help Desk 🛎️
Topic: BOINC took control of my computer
Replies: 2
Views: 54

Re: BOINC took control of my computer

Steve53 wrote: Wed Mar 08, 2023 4:57 pmThe CPU has 64 cores.
If 64 tasks that require 2G memory each are running at the same time = 128G memory
by Contact
Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:19 pm
Forum: Help Desk 🛎️
Topic: BOINC took control of my computer
Replies: 2
Views: 54

Re: BOINC took control of my computer

I will guess that the computer is running out of memory with too many tasks being processed at the same time.
Try attaching to only one project and with a setting of Use at most 10% of the CPU's and see if that helps.
by Contact
Sun Jan 01, 2023 10:14 am
Forum: Help Desk 🛎️
Topic: Install BOINC in Linux
Replies: 0
Views: 173

Install BOINC in Linux

Install via PPA https://www.reddit.com/r/boincstuff/comments/1004so3/comment/j2fhwpr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 To install via PPA just open up Terminal and run the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:costamagnagianfranco/boinc sudo apt update To add BOINC go t...
by Contact
Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:33 pm
Forum: Projects 🚧
Topic: BURP
Replies: 3
Views: 704

Re: BURP

To clarify, I am a volunteer that contributed CPU cycles to the BOINC project Big and Ugly Rendering Project (BURP) which orchestrated the rendering of Big Buck Bunny.

Cheers!
by Contact
Sat Jun 25, 2022 7:31 am
Forum: Team Challenge 🏆
Topic: BOINC Games
Replies: 0
Views: 291

BOINC Games

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https://www.boincgames.com/
BOINC Games is a year-round BOINC competition aiming to keep BOINC fun and interesting for all involved.

Register here to participate in BOINC Games

BOINC Synergy
by Contact
Sun May 29, 2022 6:51 am
Forum: Team Challenge 🏆
Topic: PrimeGrid's Challenge Series
Replies: 0
Views: 205

PrimeGrid's Challenge Series

https://www.primegrid.com/challenge/challenge.php 2022 Challenge Series Date Time UTC Project(s) Challenge Duration Results 1 17-20 January 17:17:00 GFN-17-LOW GFN-17-MEGA Heptadecagenarian Challenge 3 days Team Results 2 21-26 March 03:21:00 321-LLR World Water Day Challenge 5 days Team Results 3 2...
by Contact
Sat May 14, 2022 8:39 am
Forum: Projects 🚧
Topic: LODA
Replies: 0
Views: 366

LODA

https://boinc.loda-lang.org/loda/ LODA is an assembly language, a computational model, and a distributed tool for mining programs. You can use it to generate and search programs that compute integer sequences from the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®). The goal of the project is to ...
by Contact
Thu May 05, 2022 5:50 am
Forum: Team Challenge 🏆
Topic: BOINC Pentathlon 2022
Replies: 1
Views: 310

Re: BOINC Pentathlon 2022

The thirteenth BOINC Pentathlon has started! Obstacle Run 05 May - 19 May: Universe@Home (Obstacle Run) Javelin Throw 07 May: NumberFields@home (Javelin Throw, Day 1) Cross Country 09 May - 14 May: PrimeGrid (Cross Country) The BOINC Pentathlon Overall Standings can be found here: https://www.seti-g...