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So is the only option a stats file from every project or a stats file from a project manager?  If a project manager could be contacted that would be good, as presumably the stats for all your projects could be grabbed in one file, say once a day or less.  Or even the project manager might give just the rankings list?

Oops, yes I forgot BT is seperated from BOINC somewhat.  So there would have to be a separate contact made with the project server.  But nevertheless, it's just a "what position is Peter in", "324".  Not really an overhead.

Surely the question could be asked of the project server at the same time as the project is updating.  It already receives the number of points you have, all it needs is one more number.

Not sure why you think there would be "added overhead".  It's just a check for a number.  It's not downloading much data.  Compared to the projects downloading and uploading tasks, it would be nothing.

I mean the position you are in for each project.   There's an example of a monitor at the top of my websites, for example I am in position 597 in Moo.

I can't see it as much overhead, and opting in would be fine.  Just a column you could add which would invoke the lookup.

I know.  So you can put all your resources into the ranking then :-)

Well I want the stats.  I'm sure it wouldn't be that difficult or produce much overhead.

Presumably the stats can be gotten from all sorts of sources, you could use the projects themselves (as bam do), or bam (do I have to have a bam account for them to keep stats?), or don't boinc have stats themselves?

Cool!  Thanks!  I must have done that by accident a couple of times, but was never able to replicate it.

I've occasionally noticed that boinctasks will have a ^2 on one of the columns, which seems to show that it's a secondary sort.  How do I make it do this?

Look at this:



I've got two GPUs.  I have a single GPU task and a dual GPU task queued.  Boinc chooses to run the single one on one GPU leaving the other idle.  WHY?!?!?  Why not download more?!?!?

Yes I know, it's BOINC and not BOINC tasks that's causing it (probably).

Damn it, can't tell you if it worked now, I changed graphics card (to a newer one) and this one apparently doesn't do double precision maths?!?  How can a newer one do LESS functions?!?

You can indeed assume the BG SW does report the CPU package temperature, not the core chip temperature.

I think what threw me was my old motherboard had poor software with it, so I used speedfan, which used Tjunction like Tthrottle does.

Interestingly, my old PC would lock up (presumably the CPU switched off) when the i7 920 reached 100C Tjunction.  This one cuts the power to the whole system at 115C Tjunction.  Mind you I have fiddled with the BIOS and switched off 2 of the three safety features :-)  For example i7s have their own throttling, but mine seems to throttle very early on, at a Tjunction of about 80C, so I switched that off.

Oh well, if I get this watercooler to work better I won't be running so hot anyway - I suspect the interface between the cpu  and the waterblock is not conducting heat that well - the waterblock doesn't feel that hot at all - mind you with room temperature water running through it that may be normal.  I've ordered some very high quality heatsink gunk.

Yes, see my post immediately above that one - I made 2.

"TJunction read from CPU: 100  °C, TJunction using: 80  °C"

(Although I then changed it to 100 before I did that screenshot to see what would happen).

So are you saying that the CPU actually cuts the power at 115C junction temperature?  And the motherboard software is just plain wrong?

[Checked with "speedfan"]
Speedfan agrees with TThrottle.  It seems the gigabyte motherboard software is reporting the OUTSIDE temperature of the CPU, how stupid of it!

So.... you won't let me throttle at 110C?  Oh go on.....

Try using V 1.26 http://www.efmer.eu/boinc/boinc_tasks/download_beta.html
I made some changes to avoid misses.

Testing......

Here's a screenshot to show you what I mean - TThrottle is not agreeing with my motherboard software on what temperature the CPU is running at.



It would appear (if I'm understanding the junction thingy correctly), that TThrottle is getting a reading from the tJunction output of the CPU which gives a value from say 0 to 1, 1 being "maximum" or 100C.  But when my motherboard software tells me that the CPU temperature is 90C, the tJunction output must be at about 110 or 1.1.  TThrottle does not accept anything over 1, so reads a lower temperature than it really is, and doesn't throttle when it should.