You might want to try Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 as well. The workunits have a 18 day deadline (although they are a little bit longer then the Help Conquer Cancer workunits)

Kevin, if the machine is really slow there is a serious risk that two hours of consecutive work will not be enough for reaching the next checkpoint in the last third of the computation. I have often seen 45 minutes between two checkpoints at the end of a HPF2 WU with a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4.

Cheers. Jean.

Sek, out of curiosity, have you given it its own core (by limiting Boinc to 3) or is it competing with 4 Boinc jobs? I already have a UD running at 25 % in the P4HT and I don't want to waste any cycle of my quad for testing it there...

Where have you seen the word "affinity" in my question?

I was simply asking if you limited Boinc to use only three cores, thus leaving the fourth one to UD. Then the OS would do what it has to do to have these four jobs running on a fair basis, wherever it finds it best.

Or if you kept Boinc starting four tasks as usual and let UD expect some slices of CPU from the system whenever it can.

Nothing more sophisticated than that, and I fully agree on not trying to play with CPU affinity or anything like it.