WCG - nForcersHQ Team: Help Find A Cure For Cancer

[MiniMax]

I have done it! I have finally grown tired of the mushroom cure we are receiving at Grid.org, and have uninstalled the United Devices agent.

Instead I have installed the World Community Grid agent, and created a new team called (surprise!, surprise!) nForcersHQ.com.

The first WU is crunching as I type.

I might return to Grid.org again if UD starts to take the efforts of us volounteers serious again, so my devices will stay, but they won't be crunching any more.

I invite everyone to come and join me at the new team: nForcersHQ.com.

[vaioman]

If anyone joins and runs the windows gui client don't forget the download linked here

Without it your client is throttled to 60% cpu usage.

[vaioman]

Option 4.........left grid 16 months ago

[j3pflynn]

Are the agent and/or device administration any more friendly with WCG?

[vaioman]

Yes on all counts.

[MiniMax]

Yes on all counts.

Maybe the BOINC client. If you run the WCG version of the UD agent, it is virtually the same. Does this look familiar:



The web-based device profile management interface and device stats interface are also virtual identical.

[vaioman]

Sorry, I meant administration as in "the thing actually works"

[j3pflynn]

Thanks, y'all. I was hoping the administration of different devices on the same PC might be a little easier. As you can see if you look, I have a ridiculous number of UD devices due to numerous errors during re-registrations; I was hoping they might have a better system for that.

Is the device communication any better? I'm sick of things not getting sent because of "Unable to Connect to UD"(the message that would pop up if I were using the GUI agent rather than FireDaemon service).

Having to go through a number of slots on various PCs every week or two and run through with UD mon, clicking on that stupid "Unable to connect to UD" message box in the GUI agent and then having it go straight through is getting old. Not to mention that the remote PC in another city quit reporting again, probably for the same reason!

[wardog]

.... if UD starts to take the efforts of us volounteers serious again, so my devices will stay, but they won't be crunching any more.

Yea. We, Gay and myself, have considered this for some time now. Maybe now is that time.

..... back the UD dirs up to CD and go into a holding pattern. Gotta reformat anyways. Changing all seven of 'em to DFI Ultra-D's and that would be a good time to accomplish this.


.. Rick and Gay

[vaioman]

Server downtime etc occasionally happens but in my experience there it is generally planned downtime and is announced in advance.

As the userbase etc grows who knows but right now I would say it is, erm....98.5%* reliable.

Same problems could occur with project growth but hopefully WCG will "manage" any such scenarios better.

.......goes back to his folding

* I would say 99.9% but don't wanna give you guys ammo to throw at me later on