![]() Believe that OpenZika and Outsmart Ebola Together are VINA though. Had a quick look and don't think Mapping Cancer Markers is VINA. Glad you're enjoying experimenting with different OS versions. I really need to make a script to automate this.Įdit: I also tried to run Linux Puppy, CentOS and OpenSUSE in VirtualBox, but Ubuntu was the only one I got to work with BOINCĮdit2: CPU is Q6600 in case anyone is interestedĮdit3: 'Estimated computation size' is 14,011 GFLOPs in both Windows 7 and Ubuntu, so they seem to be the same tasks? They just run faster under Ubuntu. I'll run some more SCC on Windows 7 to increase my sample size, but I remember a lot of tasks running for ~1 hour. ![]() I quite often have to reduce the CPU cores to 3/4 while running in the virtual machine to reduce lag while im using the computer, but even so, it's worthwhile for the SCC tasks. So it seems that SCC runs much faster under the virtual machine, while MCM might run a bit faster. I also had 3 task results of MCM from both Windows and Linux, small sample sizes, but here are the results:Īverage CPU time Windows 7 圆4: 4h22m (4h25m - 4h21m)Īverage elapsed time Windows 7 圆4: 4h45m (4h54 - 4h35m)Īverage CPU time VirtualBox Ubuntu: 4h21m (4h22m - 4h19m)Īverage elapsed time VirtualBox Ubuntu: 4h25m (4h28m - 4h23m) (I didn't calculate the average elapsed time for SCC under Ubuntu because in nearly all cases it was identical to the CPU time) I calculated some averages from the results saved at WCG, unfortunately there were only seven Windows Smash Childhood Cancer results still available compared to the ~100 Linux SCC results:Īverage CPU time Windows 7 圆4: 38.3 minutes (1h5m - 16m)Īverage elapsed time Windows 7 圆4: 43 minutes (1h13m - 18m)Īverage CPU time VirtualBox Ubuntu: 25.9 minutes (52m - 10.8m) Wow! I just got a virtual machine setup running Ubuntu 16.04.1, the speed increase on VINA tasks is amazing! *For example currently is much faster on Mac, POGS is faster on Mac and possibly Linux and project applications at World Community Grid and elsewhere based on the molecular docking program VINA are almost always substantially faster run on Linux. ![]() In the past the VirtualBox version bundled with BOINC was not working there and a more recent VirtualBox version needed to be installed. I'd prefer to get stuck into it a bit more if stats were being exported.Īnyone interested in running Sourcefinder Duchamp should read the forum there first to check for current issues. It's an Aussie project so I'd like to support it if/when it gets going properly. When I get some new memory next week for Skylake box I may give it another go. Haven't been back to Sourcefinder Duchamp since the admin embarrassed himself by trashing the whole database, so don't know how its development is going now. Just uninstall VirtualBox and your BOINC install will remain intact. No harm done if if doesn't work properly or is unsuited to your system. So if any of the projects using VirtualBox applications interest you, then perhaps you can suck it and see. Some comments by myself and others about this can be found in this thread: As to how efficient that is or not, well it's a bit academic as if you want to run Duchamp tasks or other projects' VirtualBox tasks then there is no alternative.Īlthough Duchamp VirtualBox application actually worked fine for me I still have some misgivings about projects' compulsory use of VirtualBox. I don't know how other projects using VirtualBox work, but Sourcefinder Duchamp starts up a separate virtual machine within VirtualBox for each task that is running. That is, VirtualBox is a separately installed program that is started by BOINC only when VirtualBox projects are run. In other words standalone BOINC and the BOINC that bundles VirtualBox with it are the same BOINC program. So that means that unless you are running a project that uses VirtualBox from within BOINC on the host operating system then there is no extra overhead at all, as VirtualBox doesn't run. It used the same VirtualBox version that I already had installed. ![]() It was only recently when I first ran a VirtualBox project, Sourcefinder Duchamp application, from within a Windows OS host machine's BOINC. So didn't vote in poll as I already had VirtualBox installed separately. I've been using VirtualBox for years and running BOINC in a virtual machine with Linux or MacOS guest operating system on projects that run faster on their Linux or Mac applications.* Although now I sometimes use VMWare Player instead of VirtualBox as I found it a bit more efficient.
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