Out of curiosity: would it be possible with reasonable effort to configure the client to have exactly one "graphical" task running for the graphics and the faster version running on the other CPU cores?
Bernd On 6. August 2014 01:08:37 MESZ, Bernd Machenschalk <[email protected]> wrote: >Add a project-specific prefs setting. The name of the tag and value to >be used depends on e.g. what the default should be. >Set up a plan class for the non-graphical app version. >Use <project_prefs_tag> and <project_prefs_regex> in plan class >specification to disable that plan class depending on the project prefs > >setting. > >hth, >Bernd > > >Eric J Korpela wrote, On 05.08.14 18:53: >> There's lot of copies of data to and from shared arrays. Even when >the >> screen saver is off, the check to see if data needs to be copied is a >> non-zero overhead. There are optimizations that become difficult >when the >> graphics code is enable. The lab is having network problems, so I >can't >> currently get you a speed ratio of the no-graphics to graphics >versions. >> It would be difficult to add graphics back into the versions that >don't >> currently have it. >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Rom Walton <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> What overhead is left for the regular app with regards to graphics? >>> >>> I thought all the major overhead is in the graphics app itself. >>> >>> ----- Rom >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On >Behalf Of >>> Eric J Korpela >>> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 11:49 AM >>> To: [email protected]; David Anderson >>> Subject: [boinc_dev] Feature request: Preference for graphics apps >or >>> fastapps. >>> >>> Hi David, >>> >>> Starting with Astropulse 7 we're going to have both a standard app >with >>> graphics code for the screen saver and a faster version without the >>> graphics overhead. If I just release them as is, the non-graphical >>> version will quickly become dominant. >>> >>> There are still people out there who like to see the screensaver >>> graphics. >>> I haven't come up with a way (apart from custom code) to allow >people to >>> choose to get a slower version with graphics over a faster version >>> without. >>> >>> Any ideas on whether such a thing could be done? >>> >>> -- >>> Eric >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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. >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > >_______________________________________________ >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. _______________________________________________ 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.
