Graphics

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Jack Schonbrun Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 115 Credit: 5,954 RAC: 0	Message 3037 - Posted: 13 Nov 2005, 1:13:35 UTC - in response to Message 3033. can we volonteer to be beta testers? DK tells me that he first batches of graphics work units are coming back okay, so I think it won't be too long before everybody (with Windows) has the graphics version. ID: 3037 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

UBT - Halifax--lad Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 157 Credit: 2,687 RAC: 0	Message 3054 - Posted: 13 Nov 2005, 3:31:12 UTC That is truly one good graphic if it looks as good as that preview then it beats any other graphic on all the BOINC Projects or so I say anyway!!! This project is ace Join us in Chat (see the forum) Click the Sig Join UBT ID: 3054 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Honza Send message Joined: 18 Sep 05 Posts: 48 Credit: 173,517 RAC: 0	Message 3068 - Posted: 13 Nov 2005, 8:15:15 UTC Yes, very good graphics. Thanks for clarification on application version changes via homepage news :-) ID: 3068 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

KSMarksPsych Send message Joined: 15 Oct 05 Posts: 199 Credit: 22,337 RAC: 0	Message 3076 - Posted: 13 Nov 2005, 11:19:31 UTC will we get the updated graphics stuff automatically with a wu? or will we have to download something? sorry for the stupid question. Kathryn :o) The BOINC FAQ Service The Unofficial BOINC Wiki The Trac System More BOINC information than you can shake a stick of RAM at. ID: 3076 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Honza Send message Joined: 18 Sep 05 Posts: 48 Credit: 173,517 RAC: 0	Message 3085 - Posted: 13 Nov 2005, 12:40:40 UTC - in response to Message 3076. will we get the updated graphics stuff automatically with a wu? or will we have to download something? Getting a new application (hence graphics) is a server-driven process; no need to do anything from users [other than crunching]. Once WUs on Work tab are finished, need will be downloaded. You may notice version change on Work tab...now it's Rosetta 4.79 ID: 3085 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Ace Paradis Send message Joined: 4 Oct 05 Posts: 51 Credit: 96,906 RAC: 0	Message 3086 - Posted: 13 Nov 2005, 14:10:29 UTC WOW! I didn't know that this forum would generate this much traffic. What you guys are doing is truly amazing! I love this project, there is a real community feel to it. But hey here is anouther thought to the whole graphics idea. We do live in a world where there are millions programmer and you guys are really busy doing Rosetta, I wouldn't want the project to fall behind to the production of graphics. Why not post a few a contest of who can develop with the most streamlined and optimized graphics system, Post the API's and a test WU specifically for them and give it a few months. Do what SETI did, make known on the Discovery channel and make it a contest, You want to genereate interest, I am certain that this would do it. Any takers on this idea ????????? ID: 3086 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Aaron Finney Send message Joined: 8 Oct 05 Posts: 52 Credit: 109,589 RAC: 0	Message 3105 - Posted: 13 Nov 2005, 16:58:20 UTC - in response to Message 3086. Considering that the graphics are almost done.. It would be rather silly to start a contest. ID: 3105 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Fuzzy Hollynoodles Send message Joined: 7 Oct 05 Posts: 234 Credit: 15,020 RAC: 0	Message 3113 - Posted: 13 Nov 2005, 17:55:35 UTC - in response to Message 3076. will we get the updated graphics stuff automatically with a wu? or will we have to download something? sorry for the stupid question. Kathryn, I think they'll send out the WU's with the graphic, when it's implemented, so you can have an eye on your BOINC manager, and when it's running a Rosetta WU, just click on it, and see if the "Show graphics" button will be active. If it's not, then the button will be greyish, and when it is, WOWWWW! I can't wait! :-D [b]"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me[/b] ID: 3113 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Los Alcoholicos~Megaflix Send message Joined: 10 Nov 05 Posts: 24 Credit: 77,199 RAC: 0	Message 3203 - Posted: 14 Nov 2005, 17:51:51 UTC The screenshot of the screensaver looks great. Looking forward to seeing it! ID: 3203 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

scsimodo Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 93 Credit: 946,359 RAC: 0	Message 3206 - Posted: 14 Nov 2005, 18:38:35 UTC - in response to Message 3203. Last modified: 14 Nov 2005, 18:39:36 UTC The screenshot of the screensaver looks great. Looking forward to seeing it! Did I miss something? What screenshot? [EDIT] Found it! ID: 3206 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Ace Paradis Send message Joined: 4 Oct 05 Posts: 51 Credit: 96,906 RAC: 0	Message 3224 - Posted: 14 Nov 2005, 22:02:03 UTC I just downloaded my 100 max que and hoped the best for the screensaver units, I did get all 4.79 units, named 1hz6A_abrelaxmode_random_length20_jitter02_omega_sim_aneal_#####_# and so forth but these are not the screensaver units, has anyone downloaded one yet??? or am I confusfused and they are not out there yet, cuz I thought there were few beta's floating around???? If you get one, let us know. ID: 3224 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

David E K Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Jul 05 Posts: 1480 Credit: 4,334,829 RAC: 0	Message 3225 - Posted: 14 Nov 2005, 22:10:24 UTC I just sent out 200 graphics work units. If anyone gets a workunit with "graphics" in the name (Windows only), try out the graphics by either setting BOINC as your screensaver or clicking the "Show graphics" button, and then post comments here please. I have it running right now on my laptop. Very cool. I will send out 200 more at 5pm PST. ID: 3225 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

stephan_t Send message Joined: 20 Oct 05 Posts: 129 Credit: 35,464 RAC: 0	Message 3235 - Posted: 14 Nov 2005, 23:21:08 UTC - in response to Message 3224. I just downloaded my 100 max que and hoped the best for the screensaver units, I did get all 4.79 units, named 1hz6A_abrelaxmode_random_length20_jitter02_omega_sim_aneal_#####_# LOL and me who thought I would be the only one depraved enought to reach my max daily WU on purpose with that very goal in mind... ;-) Team CFVault.com http://www.cfvault.com ID: 3235 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Purple Rabbit Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 28 Credit: 4,331,732 RAC: 853	Message 3247 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 3:41:09 UTC I just got the rosetta_graphics_beta 4.79 application with a WU. It looks good and seems to work well. I saw little decrease in the calculation speed while I ran it. Of course I only ran it a few minutes, twice. I didn't want to press my luck :-) ID: 3247 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jack Schonbrun Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 115 Credit: 5,954 RAC: 0	Message 3259 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 6:07:37 UTC - in response to Message 3247. I just got the rosetta_graphics_beta 4.79 application with a WU. It looks good and seems to work well. I saw little decrease in the calculation speed while I ran it. Of course I only ran it a few minutes, twice. I didn't want to press my luck :-) I'm glad to hear that somebody besides us has officially seen the screen saver running! Boinc allows us to set the maximum fraction of the cpu that the graphics routines are allowed to use. We've set it to 10%, but I suspect on most machines the graphics won't even take this much. Most modern desktop Windows machines have hardware accelerated graphics, and your graphics card will actually be doing most of the graphics computation. ID: 3259 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Webmaster Yoda Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 161 Credit: 162,253 RAC: 0	Message 3265 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 7:05:12 UTC - in response to Message 3259. Last modified: 15 Nov 2005, 7:11:03 UTC I'm glad to hear that somebody besides us has officially seen the screen saver running! Worked OK for me too (I was lucky enough to get one on the laptop). Interesting to see the protein jiggle around. Didn't seem to take much longer (although it's hard to tell given completion times vary a lot) One odd thing is that this WU has gone into PENDING status in stats and hasn't come out of it after 10 minutes. All others tend to sit in pending for maybe half a minute. But perhaps the validator is down and it's just coincidence. EDIT: I returned a regular WU on one of my other machines since, which went straight through while this one is still pending. * Join BOINC@Australia today * ID: 3265 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Jack Schonbrun Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 115 Credit: 5,954 RAC: 0	Message 3268 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 7:19:33 UTC - in response to Message 3265. One odd thing is that this WU has gone into PENDING status in stats and hasn't come out of it after 10 minutes. All others tend to sit in pending for maybe half a minute. But perhaps the validator is down and it's just coincidence. I'll look into this. I need to make sure that the graphics threads are exiting so that the work unit completes. It seemed that things were okay our tests, but let me know if this persists. ID: 3268 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

David E K Volunteer moderator Project administrator Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 1 Jul 05 Posts: 1480 Credit: 4,334,829 RAC: 0	Message 3269 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 7:22:52 UTC The assimilator and validator for the graphics app was not running. I started them up so credits should start to be granted and work units shouldn't sit pending for that long. The workunits are completing okay. ID: 3269 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Webmaster Yoda Send message Joined: 17 Sep 05 Posts: 161 Credit: 162,253 RAC: 0	Message 3270 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 7:30:18 UTC - in response to Message 3269. The assimilator and validator for the graphics app was not running. I started them up so credits should start to be granted and work units shouldn't sit pending for that long. The workunits are completing okay. I confirm the work unit in question has now been granted credit. Thanks. * Join BOINC@Australia today * ID: 3270 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

AnRM Send message Joined: 18 Sep 05 Posts: 123 Credit: 1,355,486 RAC: 0	Message 3271 - Posted: 15 Nov 2005, 7:41:22 UTC Last modified: 15 Nov 2005, 7:42:43 UTC Hey,David and Jack.....don't you guys ever sleep?? I admire your dedication...Cheers, Rog. ID: 3271 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote