After installing the core client 4.02 over version 3.20 I expected it to automatically run the benchmarks, and it did not.

It normally does (it did when i upgraded from 3.19 tot 3.20. I didn't looked at it this updgrade.

I only played with BOINC 3.nn and SETI to familiarise myself ready for CPDN. I uninstalled BOINC 3.nn and then installed 4.02 and the automated benchmark ran OK and automatically for me, as per 3.nn, for example:

2004-08-05 17:19:25 - Running CPU benchmarks
2004-08-05 17:19:26 - Suspending computation and network activity - running CPU benchmarks
http://climateprediction.net/ - 2004-08-05 17:19:53 - Project prefs: using your defaults
2004-08-05 17:20:27 - Benchmark results:
2004-08-05 17:20:27 - Number of CPUs: 1
2004-08-05 17:20:27 - 1629 double precision MIPS (Whetstone) per CPU
2004-08-05 17:20:27 - 3517 integer MIPS (Dhrystone) per CPU

Maybe the problem is limited to upgrades as opposed to new installs?

Now that you mention it, Keith, I don't recall seeing it in my Linux upgrade, either. I have another box to do, so will keep an eye open for it.

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The weird part is that I clicked on "Website" and it ran the benchmarks a few hours after starting boinc.

There seems to be a bug in BOINC that will not run benchmarks on major version changes. It did run them for me going from CCv4.01 to CCv4.03.

> There seems to be a bug in BOINC that will not run benchmarks on major version
> changes. It did run them for me going from CCv4.01 to CCv4.03.
>
CCv4.03!? Where did you get CCv4.03?

jm7

> > There seems to be a bug in BOINC that will not run benchmarks on major
> version
> > changes. It did run them for me going from CCv4.01 to CCv4.03.
> >
> CCv4.03!? Where did you get CCv4.03?
>
> jm7

Download 4.02 from the site here and you get 4.03 :D

--- - 2004-08-06 03:46:00 - Starting BOINC client version 4.03 for windows_intelx86

The CPDN client is 4.02 though (to complimate things)
climateprediction.net - 2004-08-06 03:46:00 - Resuming computation for result 004x_000025162_0 using hadsm3 version 4.02

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Jordâ„¢

yeah I'm afraid I botched the Win client version file to read 4.03, although "officially" it's 4.02 (as the Mac & Linux clients). Hopefully when there's "official Berkeley builds" we'll just use them.