I am using a G5/2Ghz/1.5Gb Memory/ OS 10.3.7.
I installed BOINC as per instructions but cannot find the client as it is supposed to upload/download automatically when a web connection is needed. Also I cannot find the 'allow trickle' preference. I seem to have some data stored but nothing like the amount SETI is chucking out. SETI is processing 4 units every 24 hours!

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This is not SETI, this is serious computation.

CPDN 'chucks out' a model every three weeks or so, and up to 2 trickles a day on a fast machine.
There are 72 trickles, with a 'phase change' at 24 and 48 trickles, when a LOT of disk activity occurs.
A trickle is only a few lines of data to let the server know the model is still being worked on,
and where it is up to.

I'm not a Mac person, so I can't help with where files are, but in Windows, the 'allow trickle' is an option,
not a preference.
It is 'Disable BOINC Network Access' in the GUI, which is something not on a Mac from what I've read.

You'll need to wait for a Mac person to tell you the string to type to do this.


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Oops! I've just read the next message up from this. 'Trickle Preference' must be unique to Macs.
I don't remember this when I set up Windows BOINC, although it was version 4.05 back then.
And I don't intend to upgrade if I can help it, as it works fine.
(WU is Work Unit, a bit shorter than model, which I really should use).

Les

> I installed BOINC as per instructions but cannot find the client

I am not sure I understood your question, but in the Terminal if you type

locate boinc_4

you will get the paths of all the files containing the word "boinc_4", which should boil down to the executable client. Then change to its directory, in my case

cd /Users/matthieu/boinc/

and launch the client

./boinc (then press the tab key for autocompletion)

This will run the client in the Terminal window - leave it open to see the progress.

HTH


- matthieu -

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