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New Boinc 5.8.8 released
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Does anyone know if this is a good update for PPC? Is there still any reason to install the optimized BOINC Superbench "core" into the BOINC app? Haven't all the PPC projects moved away from benchmarking?
BTW, nice update to the forums. Looks great!
Chris
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Hi,
how can I implement the <return_results_immediately/> command into the new client? With the truxoft optimized client this was easy, but how do I do that with the PPC- and the Windows-client 5.8.8?
Thanks in advance!
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Here is the change list.
* Version 5.5.4 BOINC Manager for the Mac introduces new, stricter security measures. If you experience problems with this software, you can re-install a version of BOINC prior to 5.5.4; this will automatically revert ownership and permissions to the earlier implementation. For details, please see the ReadMe file.
* New tools for Macintosh system administrators are available.
* New CPU Scheduler.
* New Work Fetch Policy.
* CPU Capability detection.
* Revamped logging solution.
* Improved security for POSIX compliant systems (only implemented for the Mac)
* Add support for file compression on upload.
* BOINC Simple GUI.
* Added memory usage limits for BOINC applications. (Check preferences for new settings)
The "file compression on upload" might matter a lot for people who are bandwidth constrained (and might help Berkeley even more). The rest is a mixed bag. For some people, this may be just the upgrade. I'm in the CLI camp, and not seeing any must-upgrade features. I'll give it a few weeks to shake out any bugs.
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I don't understand this release, as 5.8.8 is still in beta testing.
If you look in View, Simple View is available. However it does not work properly. It displays the wu's in progress but will only display two, If your comp has more than two cpu it will not show them. If you click on the arrows to the right, presumably to step through the wu's, it drops down too a one wu display and sticks there. That's my experience anyway. I have reported it to dev.
K.
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There will be a 5.8.9 very shortly. Not sure why the rush to release 5.8.8 as the recommended version.
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I currently have 5.8.8 installed on all three machines and have not seen any problems on my end.
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The 5.8.8 upgrade broke my BOINC installation on my PPC G5. Every World Grid task gets a computation error (faah 5.10 mainly) and the message screen reports that a zero status is returned but no finished file.
Anyone know what's up? Otherwise I'm going back to the earlier installation.
--Chris
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Are they erroring out on your machine? Or they just not validating correctly? Assuming the latter, it is because 5.8.5+ changes the way the "CPU Type" is displayed. WCG relied on that field to decide if you got a PPC or an Intel task. WCG has since fixed the problem. Try aborting all the jobs downloaded before about 2:00 PM PST Friday, and downloading new jobs. They should work now.
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Originally Posted by zombie67 
Are they erroring out on your machine?
Yep, erroring out before they even finish. So I went back to 5.4.9 and now BOINC is completely broken. Won't even start up, even after I trash the application, all BOINC-related files in the Library, and re-install. Ugh -- I have *never* had this kind of problem before on a Mac, BOINC 5.8.8 really screwed things up.
--Chris
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Originally Posted by hempcamp
Won't even start up, even after I trash the application, all BOINC-related files in the Library, and re-install.
--Chris
If BOINC still won't start, make sure you do not have a stray LOCKFILE somewhere. This stops BOINC if there is.
K.
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I guess I'll wait a bit for more feedback to come out before installing this... 
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I don't know what I did exactly, but it's now working again (5.8.8)... at least I haven't received any error messages yet but it'll be a number of hours before I'll see verified results.
--Chris
Edit: Update: Nope. 5.8.8 fails again. Back to 5.4.9.
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Last edited by hempcamp; Feb 4, 2007 at 04:25 PM.
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