ARGOMENTO:

Con la nuova release in arrivo ci saranno importanti novità per quanto riguarda il wrapper
- prima, per creare una versione del wrapper era necessario utilizzare una versione di linux vecchia (molto vecchia). Adesso la cosa sarà più semplice, eseguendo su #GitHub CL. Per fare questo saranno necessarie librerie glibc aggiornate (e quindi distro linux aggiornate).
- Hanno aggiornato, un pò di tempo, la pagina per le VboxApps
- Con la nuova versione si condividerà lo slot e le dir dei progetti

A questo punto, però, chiedo l'aiuto del mio uomo all'Avana, ovvero il buon Saba per capire se tutto stò ambaradan sarà utile ai progetti e cosa cambierà per noi utenti...

Sharing of the slot and project directories is a VERY BIG deal in my opinion. I stopped running the Rosetta project because it would copy the executable from the project directory into every slot directory at work unit start. The executable was very large if I remember correctly. On my 128 thread server, the wrapper would try and copy the executable 128 times at BOINC client start. This would monopolize the disk for almost an hour. It would also cause the BOINC data directory to fill up and BOINC would terminate as it couldn't write to the client_state.xml file. The wrapper now <links> to the executable in the project directory so only need one copy.

entity ha scritto:

Sharing of the slot and project directories is a VERY BIG deal in my opinion. I stopped running the Rosetta project because it would copy the executable from the project directory into every slot directory at work unit start. The executable was very large if I remember correctly.

No, this is the multi-attach disk functionality, implemented some times ago
The sharing of folders is, if i'm not wrong, another functionality....

Thanks Boboviz. Maybe you are right. I do remember reading somewhere that there had been a new version of the wrapper built that corrected the problem but never actually heard if it was implemented. I also remember reading that Rosetta didn't seem interested in implementing the new wrapper anytime soon. I was dealing with this problem about 18 months ago. What was interesting at the time was there were other projects that were using the wrapper technology that didn't seem to have the same problem. Maybe the amount of data they were coping was a lot smaller where it wasn't as noticeable or they modified the wrapper for their project.

entity ha scritto:

Thanks Boboviz. Maybe you are right. I do remember reading somewhere that there had been a new version of the wrapper built that corrected the problem but never actually heard if it was implemented. I also remember reading that Rosetta didn't seem interested in implementing the new wrapper anytime soon.

Yes, rosetta@home project is VERY VERY slow to implement new boinc platform funcionality
And we must not confuse between boinc wrapper and boinc virtualbox wrapper

Detto, fatto.
Hanno rilasciato, dopo 1 anno, una nuova versione del wrapper, la 26207 (e anche una VM_image.zip).
Ovviamente nessuna release note....