On Einstein we have had a mini-debate about the transition of the CUDA application mostly because of the heavy use of the CPU along with the GPU meaning that throughput is going to suffer. Many of us would have wished to opt out of running these tasks but were caught by the surprise of the migration. One day no CUDA, next day it was live.
This is part of an exchange: Of course you could have changed the site adding the option to not do CUDA, made an announcement, given us a week to make our choices and then made the switch. That would have been far more friendly. Right, we also considered that approach. However, the BOINC web preferences implementation only shows the opt-out check boxes for deployed/enabled application types (i.e. NVIDIA GPU). The point here is that the current server side code does not allow a transition time where the project can announce the change to have a CUDA/GPU application and allow for the users to select their opt-in or opt-out choice before the application is fielded. There should be a way that the settings can be made manifest before going live. _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
