I think I will use my Linux machines without VirtualBox in City Run and Swimming (and Sprint or Cross Country if they are CPU instead of GPU) -- and outside of those in Marathon with Cosmology's legacy application which does not require VirtualBox.
pschoefer: it's perfectly fine to run camb_legacy if you can't or don't want to run vbox apps
Posted: Sunday Apr. 30, 2017 at 20:08.
Well crap. Cosmology is just like vLHC in that you can't suspend the network, or the task will suspend too!
Ah, that sounds better because I have very few CPU's. But like Tony questioned earlier, how do we bunker up if we can't turn off networking for Cosmology?As a consolation, long task runtimes make it easier to fill out long bunkering times .
Regarding low credits/task and low credits/day, that's not an issue in the Pentathlon. Similar to the Formula Boinc sprints and marathon, the team rank in each of the five disciplines is weighted by special "Pentathlon points" (from 100 to 1 for ranks 1 to 30). That way, it's fair to have a project with high credits yield in one discipline and a project with low credits yield in another. There is never going to be a direct comparison of credits between projects.
how do we bunker up if we can't turn off networking for Cosmology?
More screwy-ness from Cosmology (using VM).
Sub-Project Planck Parameter Sims likewise uses multi-threaded VM tasks, and likewise gives errors.
So that only leaves camb-legacy tasks, which Cosmology flat out tells you is of little use the them. I don't like it. I don't like it at all.
<app_config>
<app>
<name>camb_boinc2docker</name>
<max_concurrent>3</max_concurrent>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>camb_boinc2docker</app_name>
<plan_class>vbox64_mt</plan_class>
<avg_ncpus>3</avg_ncpus>
</app_version>
</app_config>
<app_config>
<app>
<name>camb_boinc2docker</name>
<max_concurrent>2</max_concurrent>
</app>
<app_version>
<app_name>camb_boinc2docker</app_name>
<plan_class>vbox64_mt</plan_class>
<avg_ncpus>5</avg_ncpus>
</app_version>
</app_config>
I asked and the admin fixed it so we can get lots more tasks!I can only get 40 WUs and then "This computer has reached a limit on tasks in progress".
LOL! How funny (but to be expected), I've blocked myself from going and visiting the Cosmology website by using the 'hosts' hack to prevent uploads.