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kateiacy
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It is possible to set BOINC to run only when the computer is idle. I see from the BOINC web page that BOINC detects mouse or keyboard use as the computer being in use. Does anyone know whether BOINC also detects the computer being in use when someone is using voice recognition software to control the computer?
----------------------------------------My husband uses Dragon Naturally Speaking to dictate documents and give voice commands to his computer. If someone has experience specifically with BOINC and this software, it would be especially helpful. Thanks in advance. Kate  |
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Hello kateiacy,
I don't think BOINC can do that. Here is a thread where snoekie tries to minimize problems running both BOINC and Dragon (I think): https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...ad,33091_offset,20#378001 Lawrence |
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kateiacy
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Hello kateiacy, I don't think BOINC can do that. Here is a thread where snoekie tries to minimize problems running both BOINC and Dragon (I think): https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...ad,33091_offset,20#378001 Lawrence Thanks very much, Lawrence. It looks as if I'll be doing some experimenting with "suspend if CPU usage is over x%" and exclusive apps to try to set up my husband's machine for the most crunching with the least impact on his work. |
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Reference: kateiacy <Sep 9, 2012 12:31:07 PM> post
How did the experimentation go? With possible complications arising from interrupting some WUs (the latest beta-HCC-GPU_v6.51-WUs for example), your options to have a VR (voice-recognition) app run alongside BOINC may thus be constrained. I tried VR apps before and these class of apps consume a lot of computer-resources*. Notes: *Conventionally, any user-interaction (say mouse-click or key-press) with the UI is regarded as user-activity which is sometimes confused with 'computer-in-use'. But with VR, the confusion may as well not matter -- in the same vein that the visual element of the UI is affected when a GPU-app is running. The aural-component of the UI (voice/speech) did not take off in the same way that GPUs came about to aid in the (visual) processing. That leaves the CPU as the lone processor for the aural component of the UI, thus the heavy loading from VR apps. Having lots of memory to assist the CPU in VR-processing helps. ; |
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kateiacy
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Reference: kateiacy <Sep 9, 2012 12:31:07 PM> post How did the experimentation go? Hi andzgrid, In our case, this has worked out very easily. For running overnight, I have BOINC set for maximum usage. In the morning when he wants to start using the computer, my husband sets BOINC to 60% CPU usage and no GPU usage. His experience with running Dragon Naturally Speaking alongside BOINC at those settings has been fine. The computer has an AMD A10-5700 chip (4 cores plus GPU in the one chip). Dragon Naturally Speaking apparently can use multiple threads, so it seems to be plenty fast using some CPU time on all the cores. [Edit 1 times, last edit by kateiacy at Sep 22, 2012 7:36:07 PM] |
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Hello kateiacy,
The AMD Fusion chips proving to be a nice fit for the situation with a VR (voice-recognition) app and BOINC in the mix? Ok, good to know. The next iteration of the Fusion chips should even be more capable. ; |
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