David Anderson

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icon company UC Berkeley icon location Berkeley CA icon location I'm a research scientist at University of California, Berkeley. I developed BOINC and worked on SETI@home. Now I'm working on other stuff.

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GPU task switching causes computation errors for asteroids@home when using 2 or more different models of gpu of the same type

The issue is whether the task crashes because it runs an a different GPU than where it started, or because 2 tasks are trying to use the same GPU. The...

GPU task switching causes computation errors for asteroids@home when using 2 or more different models of gpu of the same type

One option would be for the app to compile its kernels each time it starts.

GPU task switching causes computation errors for asteroids@home when using 2 or more different models of gpu of the same type

If we pin each GPU job to a GPU instance, the following could happen: jobs A and B are running on GPUs 0 and 1 respectively. Job C arrives, with...

client (Unix): add support for idle detection in a separate process

Uh, sure.

client (Unix): add support for idle detection in a separate process

fixed (I hope)

vboxwrapper: don't create projects/virtualbox

Other than the comment, is the change OK?

Modify Windows installer to enable secure BOINC to run VirtualBox tasks

It seems to me that secure mode should mean that apps run as a separate user, NOT that the client runs as a separate user.

Modify Windows installer to enable secure BOINC to run VirtualBox tasks

Yeah. Vitalii, am I right in assuming that Win secure mode has the client run as a separate user? That would account for the registry access failing. Can we change...

Modify Windows installer to enable secure BOINC to run VirtualBox tasks

Sounds good!

'Fatal error: Allowed memory size ... exhausted' when opening the private messages inbox

I'm looking at the code and can't immediately see an error. It has something to do with processing [code] and [pre]. Can you look at your PMs in the database...