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Former Member
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How do I retire a particular device installation? Searched everywhere but there's no info anywhere on how to retire a single device.
I was asking so the work units alloted to one of my machines can be allocated to someone else before I retire it from participation. As it is I have 5 device installations to my 3 machines because of a series of unfortunate events ( like hardware failures in 2 of them). Now I have only 2 and I have to sell off one of them to buy a new system. I'm not worried about my points, just don't want to waste the time the WCG servers will spend waiting for results. |
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Former Member
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You don't have to do anything...just abort them and get rid of it...any WUs will be sent to others...
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Former Member
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Hello N@ga and welcome to the forums.
 If you have time to finish the work units already in your queue: • go to the Projects tab • highlight the WCG project • then in the left-hand column, click on "No new work tasks" If you don't have time to finish the work units: • go to the Tasks tab • highlight a work unit • then in the left-hand column, click on "Abort" • repeat for each work unit Do not worry about the servers waiting for the results. Redundancy is built into the system for reasons like this, plus a myriad of other reasons (power outages, computer deaths, people quitting, etc.) Off topic: Waves to Scribe in the rear-view mirror. |
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Former Member
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Thanks. Will finish the work units before selling the machine off.
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Former Member
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Off topic: Waves to Scribe in the rear-view mirror.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
If ever one has a large(r) buffer and need to retire/upgrade a device, simply detach from a project(s) while on-line. This will send a message to the servers to invalidate all work 'in progress' so it can be immediately queued for reissue to another user.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
lavaflow:
... simply detach from a project(s) while on-line... Thanks for the info. Sometime this week, I'm going to re-install XP. This way will come in handy. |
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