I'm currently attached to a lot of projects on six machines and it's time to start using BAM.

Once in a while I like to change the resource share on a given project to a very high percentage on all my machines. This might be due to a deadline related plea from the operators of a project, a call from a team member to help on a project, or just because I'm temporarily feeling very kindly to one project or another. I might want to boost the share up to 90%.

With BAM it looks like this would be difficult to do because I'd have to adjust every project and then adjust them all back when done. It would be easier if I could adjust one project to a share of 10,000 or 100,000 for a while and later change just that one back down.

Number like this and even larger appear to be legal in BOINC. I tested by setting Leiden to 6,000,000 and it took and the client percentages updated appropriately (and, needless to say, it looked for work immediately). It appears the limit is within BAM.

Any chance of changing that? Obviously it's not a critical thing, just a nice to have IMO.

Thanks,

- Dick

Nobody to answer ?

Are those machines with BOINC connected via LAN and RPC?

Have you considered using BoincStudio and it's concept of Backup project?

I'm not familiar with BoincStudio. I'll check it out, thanks.

Re RPC, I have had a lot of trouble getting it to work. Wait, let me rephrase that. I can't get it to work. :-) Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Aren't those really both circumventions for the limitation of BOINCStats though? I was hoping this is a relative simple change. Of course everything looks simple from afar. The devils are in the details.

- Dick

In order to make RPC working, you need to:
put allowed IP or host in remote_hosts.cfg
put a password in gui_rpc_auth.cfg (or leave it empty)

Note that those files are not created upon BOINC installation by default so you would propably need to create them manually.

Also, port 31416 needs to be opened on firewalls in order to let BOINC RPC go through.

Then you should be able to use BOINC Manager, BOINC Studio and BOINC View to manage and monitor your local/remote host.