MacOS PPC S5R2/S5R3 App 4.41 available for Beta Test
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A new MacOS PPC App is available from our Beta Test page.
Probably non-Windows users won't notice any difference between this App and the current official one. We just a added a feature that we'll need for S5R3. As this App can still process S5R2 Tasks, we publish it in advance for people to test before S5R3 starts.
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MacOS PPC S5R2/S5R3 App 4.41 available for Beta Test
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For my 1.83Ghz G5 imac with OS X 10.3.9 the new app 4.41 is behaving more like 4.29 than 4.34. The new app appears to be crawling along pretty slow. 4 hours of CPU time and only 7% progress on a WU name starting with h1_0515.20. The to completion time is around 55 hours. I could just be misreading things as far as progress goes. My G5 usually takes more than 2 days to finish WUs so I'll just let it crunch away and see where it is in a day or two. (Late edit: 4/55 is ~.07 so maybe I am misreading the "slowness").
I began the new app 4.41 just after 1 WU finished and another (already downloaded) WU started. I suspended the WU that had not started (and is crunching now) prior to installing 4.41. After installing I resumed the WU. I also set E@H not to get new tasks while I had the WU that is running now suspended just to make sure BOINC wouldn't download another WU and start it. After installing the new app I allowed E@H to get new tasks.
For what it is worth, I have BOINC setup to run as a daemon.
Update: I probably
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Update: I probably over-reacted about the "slowness" in my post above. The new app seems to be doing fine. It is up to 28% done now.
1 WU finally validated and it
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1 WU finally validated and it was OK. Time to complete has increased by 20,000 CPU seconds on a 448 credit WU.
I have updated from 4.34 to
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I have updated from 4.34 to 4.41 without problem on two PowerBook G4 1GHz. Updating did not disturb the ongoing crunching of a WU. Each computer has now crunched one WU entirely using 4.41 and credit was granted in both cases. Contrary to expectations, the CPU time for crunching WU's with comparable credit seems to be about 15% longer with 4.41 than with 4.34.
1 more WU completed &
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1 more WU completed & validated OK.
Bernd, who currently has poor
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Bernd, who currently has poor Internet connectivity, informed us that some last minute improvements were included in the S5R3 codebase. This means that, contrary to previous announcements, the current set of beta apps will NOT be able to crunch S5R3 results.
There are still a few days worth of S5R2 results in the server pipeline, so there's no immediate hurry. But you should be prepared to de-install any beta app you might still have, including the most recent one, in the next few days so that your computer(s) will automatically download the new S5R3 app once the new run begins. It's safest (and the most traffic friendly way) to let the whole currently loaded pipeline of results finish and only then remove the app_info.xml file (no matter how long that takes). If you perform the change earlier, any crunching and un-crunched results in your pipeline may be rejected, but you will get new ones after the currently available official app is downloaded automatically.
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Since I am going to wind down
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Since I am going to wind down my G5 so I can delete the App_info.xml file, I figure it is a good time to go from BOINC 5.10.7 to 5.10.20.
I tried searching for info to see if a BOINC version change should be done on an empty queue of in progress workunits or not. I didn't see anything right away. Is it best to upgrade versions of the BOINC manager when there are no active workunits running?
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I did not have any problems with active workunits running, they start out on the new BOINC version right where I left off with the old version.
RE: I tried searching for
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I’ve installed new versions over old without any trouble picking up where I left off, a couple of times now; my latest is only a v5.8.x but I haven’t noticed v5.10.x users reporting problems with that. I don’t think the apps really care what version of BOINC they’re running under—so although it may seem paradoxical, upgrading a client with a computation in progress is a less ‘traumatic’ event than changing apps.
Thanks for the posts about
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Thanks for the posts about upgrading the BOINC manager. I upgraded two of my computers with WUs in-progress and everything went just fine. All my computers are now using the stock app as well.