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reddog99
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Hi, I'm new to BOINC & WCG and I'd like to know how large the returned work units are, and how often they get uploaded. I realize that this is probably a highly variable statistic, but a range would be useful.
The reason I'm asking is that my ISP has a cap on upload bandwidth (5 gig/mo.) and I have been having trouble staying under this limit while running F@H. For this reason I am being forced to abandon F@H and find another distributed computing project that isn't quite so bandwidth intensive. The current F@H CVS work units return about 20 mb each, and over a period of a month, this adds up to "over-my-limit".  I am currently running an 8-core Mac Pro and a homemade 4-core Q6600 pc. Thanks for any help! Pat |
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Sekerob
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Hi Pat,
----------------------------------------I've collected the information in a Matrix. The data is per-job since each computer runs different speeds and hours, thus completes different numbers of jobs up/download per day. Find it here: http://worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=17855 ciao
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reddog99
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Thanks for that info, Sekerob.
If I understand your chart correctly, it looks like most of the projects return less than 1 mb about 3-4 times a day? This would be very good for me. It also looks like the AC@H would kill me as far as my upload bandwidth limitations? If I were to upload 13 mb twice a day for each core (13 mb x 2 x 12 cores x 30 days= 9360 mb per month uploaded), my IPS (Wildblue) would throttle my connection to slow dial-up speeds, before finally canceling my service. Pat |
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retsof
Former Community Advisor USA Joined: Jul 31, 2005 Post Count: 6824 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yes, AC@H is between phases, but had very large files. When DDD-T resumes, file size is very small. FAAH files are also quite tiny. Since you are running 12 cores, nearly anything could run up against that limit of such a restrictive ISP. Just surfing the net will do more in a few minutes than some of these little workfiles.
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