Hi,

now as the support for app-side "tweaking" is now included ( in some sense ) to the new boinc client side I wanted to try that :-)

Goal was run 2 simultanous hcc-task GPU-tasks so I made the following app_config.xml file and put that to wcg project folder:

<app_config>
<app>
<name>hcc1</name>
<max_concurrent>4</max_concurrent>
<gpu_versions>
<gpu_usage>.5</gpu_usage>
<cpu_usage>.5</cpu_usage>
</gpu_versions>
</app>
</app_config>

BOINC version is the newest whicH I found

17/12/2012 09:38:58 | | Starting BOINC client version 7.0.42 for windows_intelx86

I have no app_info.xml:

17/12/2012 09:38:58 | | No config file found - using defaults

I have AMD four core processor

17/12/2012 09:38:58 | | Processor: 4 AuthenticAMD AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 920 Processor [Family 16 Model 4 Stepping 2]

GPU is AMD 6850

17/12/2012 09:38:58 | | CAL: ATI GPU 0: AMD Radeon HD 6800 series (Barts) (CAL version 1.4.1741, 1024MB, 991MB available, 2976 GFLOPS peak)

still it is running three cpu-tasks and only one GPU-task .. So what is wrongly configured ?

JEklund ,

Actually, put 0 in max_concurrent, meaning "no limit" (presently). The tag is really designed for when you want to run less than maximum of a science. The suspicion though remains, that the current design makes no difference for what runs with same <name> tag, on CPU or GPU, where the GPU tags specify how many are allowed on GPU as subset, at most.

Still interested to learn from JEklund what happens with 5 in the max_concurrent. That would really reject or confirm, if the line adds up both resources or just works on CPU. His 4, and only 3 running on CPU and 1 on GPU suggests the both are summed.

BOINC is the creator of app_config. May we request them to shed some light on the ins-and-outs of app_config?
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