It's a distributed rendering program. You can submit your own videos to render, or do what I'm currently doing and just help others. One client will use all the cores of your CPU, or 1 GPU. I'm not sure if it will use both, or 2 GPUs. It only supports Nvidia and not AMD, all my cards are currently AMD as they're better value for money, but they won't run Sheepit or GPUGrid. I'm getting a Nvidia shortly, it's third on my list of things to buy, after an orthopaedic mattress and a CV joint. I've been told you can run multiple clients easily, I think you just launch it twice. People did that a lot before multicore was made better. It's very easy to install, you just download the .exe file and run it. It connects to the server, gets a frame to render, and launches the blender program. I've told Boinc to pause the CPU whenever the blender app is running, that way Boinc fills in the gaps when there's no Sheepit projects to run.
This is the sort of thing they make, each frame takes 30 seconds to half an hour to render on a decent CPU (depending on how complex the scene is), but since it's distributed, and there are about 700 people online at a time, you get 700 frames done in that time: Top 10 ways to break stuff
No payment at all. There are paid renderfarms, but I think you (as the person submitting a project) are paying for the company's servers to render it. With sheepit, it's free to send in projects, because they're rendered by volunteers, like Boinc. And no, there's no Sheepcoin I know of.
There's work running about 80% of the time, but Boinc fills in the gaps. That's why I needed two Boinc clients, since the Boinc programmers refuse to add a function to only suspend CPU. Although Richard Haselgrove has agreed with me on Github so maybe one day.
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No payment at all. There are paid renderfarms, but I think you (as the person submitting a project) are paying for the company's servers to render it. With sheepit, it's free to send in projects, because they're rendered by volunteers, like Boinc. And no, there's no Sheepcoin I know of.
There's work running about 80% of the time, but Boinc fills in the gaps. That's why I needed two Boinc clients, since the Boinc programmers refuse to add a function to only suspend CPU. Although Richard Haselgrove has agreed with me on Github so maybe one day.
So you've given up on earning the max GC's at least for now?
And it can't be bothered saving a log for me to look at either. stdoutdae.txt (sounds like a disease) is empty in the second folder.
Why can't Boinc just work?!? [Bangs fist on table] Sloppy programming wasting everybody's time.
Now I've had to write a batch file to start it again every hour incase it's stopped.
Which failed, because it started running multiple instances of itself in the same folder. ARGHH! This used to work, what am I doing wrong? Why does it just close by itself? Why does it write no log?
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I'm doing the same. I made a folder for the second instance, then after allowing the first client to start normally (I have a 30 second delay in the batch file) I run the command (in windows):
This works, but it keeps (presumably) crashing. It doesn't seem to be writing any log to the log file (stdoutdae.txt) in it's own folder, so I have no idea how to troubleshoot this.
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That's the page I used to set it up. I've not changed anything on the primary client, should I have done?
I've only set up one secondary client, I increased the port by 2 as suggested. It appears to work fine to begin with. It's a random crash closing it for no reason. I've never seen a primary Boinc client just exit like that. And I've never known no logs be saved.
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Peter Hucker wrote: It's a
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Do you get 'paid' to do it or is it just for fun?
mikey wrote: Do you get
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No payment at all. There are paid renderfarms, but I think you (as the person submitting a project) are paying for the company's servers to render it. With sheepit, it's free to send in projects, because they're rendered by volunteers, like Boinc. And no, there's no Sheepcoin I know of.
There's work running about 80% of the time, but Boinc fills in the gaps. That's why I needed two Boinc clients, since the Boinc programmers refuse to add a function to only suspend CPU. Although Richard Haselgrove has agreed with me on Github so maybe one day.
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
Peter Hucker wrote: mikey
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So you've given up on earning the max GC's at least for now?
GCs earn bugger all, about 1%
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GCs earn bugger all, about 1% of the electric bill.
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Pah, the secondary Boinc
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Pah, the secondary Boinc client works for a while (about 12 hours), then mysteriously closes. The primary one continues to run.
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
And it can't be bothered
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And it can't be bothered saving a log for me to look at either. stdoutdae.txt (sounds like a disease) is empty in the second folder.
Why can't Boinc just work?!? [Bangs fist on table] Sloppy programming wasting everybody's time.
Now I've had to write a batch file to start it again every hour incase it's stopped.
Which failed, because it started running multiple instances of itself in the same folder. ARGHH! This used to work, what am I doing wrong? Why does it just close by itself? Why does it write no log?
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
During the SETI days and
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During the SETI days and contesting I use to run as many as a dozen BOINC instances to generate maximum credits.
All it took was creating mulitple BOINC folders and name them, BOINC1, BOINC2, BOINC3 etc.
Of course was using the Lunatics BOINC AIO which made that simple.
I'm doing the same. I made a
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I'm doing the same. I made a folder for the second instance, then after allowing the first client to start normally (I have a 30 second delay in the batch file) I run the command (in windows):
"c:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" --allow_multiple_clients --redirectio --detach_console --gui_rpc_port 31418 --dir C:\ProgramData\BOINC2
This works, but it keeps (presumably) crashing. It doesn't seem to be writing any log to the log file (stdoutdae.txt) in it's own folder, so I have no idea how to troubleshoot this.
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.
You are incrementing
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You are incrementing the --gui_rpc_port for each instance of BOINC, correct? So you would have:
"c:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" --allow_multiple_clients --redirectio --detach_console --gui_rpc_port 31418 --dir C:\ProgramData\BOINC2
"c:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" --allow_multiple_clients --redirectio --detach_console --gui_rpc_port 31419 --dir C:\ProgramData\BOINC3
"c:\Program Files\BOINC\boinc.exe" --allow_multiple_clients --redirectio --detach_console --gui_rpc_port 31420 --dir C:\ProgramData\BOINC4
Good primer here. [Guide] Setting up multiple BOINC Instances
That's the page I used to set
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That's the page I used to set it up. I've not changed anything on the primary client, should I have done?
I've only set up one secondary client, I increased the port by 2 as suggested. It appears to work fine to begin with. It's a random crash closing it for no reason. I've never seen a primary Boinc client just exit like that. And I've never known no logs be saved.
If this page takes an hour to load, reduce posts per page to 20 in your settings, then the tinpot 486 Einstein uses can handle it.