Hi Guys,
Sztaki Desktop Grid project which is one of the Marathon events for this years Formula Boinc is officially closing on May 31. These means we only have a few more days to secure our spot / points for the year on the project. the same Xtra Sneaky team is pushing the team behind and ahead of us to try to block / steal points from us and we need as many people working on this in the last few days to stick it too them and win a few extra points for the year.
This project is tricky to get work for and you likely will only be running on or 2 threads max at a time per machine you put it on with lots of periods of no work, so you can easily run this without affecting your other projects and you also won't get too hot as its only a few threads.
Step 1 is to download the Boinc Manager if you haven't done so already: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Step 2 : from tools menu in boinc, choose add project and select "Sztaki Desktop Grid"
>>>When prompted to create and account and then join team [H]ard|OCP
Step 3 >>> This is the most important Step!!
most of the time when your boinc checks the project there will be no work. To help this you can make a batch file that forces boinc to check for Sztaki work more often.
Simply open a text file and paste this in:
for /l %%x in (1, 1, 10000) do (echo %%x
"c:\Program Files\Boinc\boinccmd.exe" --project http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ update
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 140 > nul)
>> Then save the file as Sztaki.bat (Make sure to select all file types instead of .txt so it saves as batch file)
once saved simply click the file and it should start running. Leave it running and you will get way more work , but you will still only get a couple of work units every so often.
Lack of work is why we need to push hard on this one.
This project doesn't care how big or how fast your computer is! the most important thing is that you have it running on as many computers as you can even if they are 10+ years old. This only runs on CPU and only a few work units are downloaded at a time at most so even if you have paused for the summer you can easily run this without breaking a sweat.
For the adventurous you can install Virtual Machines, or Virtual box copies of an OS and run multiple boinc clients on one rig to maximize efforts. I currently have 15 instances of boinc over 4 computers and it makes a big difference but do whatever works for you.
Message me if you have any questions about this or the virtual box setup. there are also scripts you can run to ping the project if you prefer to run in linux so let me know if you need that.
We only have 2 or 3 days to beat those eXtra Sneaky bastards! so time is of the essence.
Sztaki Desktop Grid project which is one of the Marathon events for this years Formula Boinc is officially closing on May 31. These means we only have a few more days to secure our spot / points for the year on the project. the same Xtra Sneaky team is pushing the team behind and ahead of us to try to block / steal points from us and we need as many people working on this in the last few days to stick it too them and win a few extra points for the year.
This project is tricky to get work for and you likely will only be running on or 2 threads max at a time per machine you put it on with lots of periods of no work, so you can easily run this without affecting your other projects and you also won't get too hot as its only a few threads.
Step 1 is to download the Boinc Manager if you haven't done so already: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Step 2 : from tools menu in boinc, choose add project and select "Sztaki Desktop Grid"
>>>When prompted to create and account and then join team [H]ard|OCP
Step 3 >>> This is the most important Step!!
most of the time when your boinc checks the project there will be no work. To help this you can make a batch file that forces boinc to check for Sztaki work more often.
Simply open a text file and paste this in:
for /l %%x in (1, 1, 10000) do (echo %%x
"c:\Program Files\Boinc\boinccmd.exe" --project http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/ update
ping 127.0.0.1 -n 140 > nul)
>> Then save the file as Sztaki.bat (Make sure to select all file types instead of .txt so it saves as batch file)
once saved simply click the file and it should start running. Leave it running and you will get way more work , but you will still only get a couple of work units every so often.
Lack of work is why we need to push hard on this one.
This project doesn't care how big or how fast your computer is! the most important thing is that you have it running on as many computers as you can even if they are 10+ years old. This only runs on CPU and only a few work units are downloaded at a time at most so even if you have paused for the summer you can easily run this without breaking a sweat.
For the adventurous you can install Virtual Machines, or Virtual box copies of an OS and run multiple boinc clients on one rig to maximize efforts. I currently have 15 instances of boinc over 4 computers and it makes a big difference but do whatever works for you.
Message me if you have any questions about this or the virtual box setup. there are also scripts you can run to ping the project if you prefer to run in linux so let me know if you need that.
We only have 2 or 3 days to beat those eXtra Sneaky bastards! so time is of the essence.