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gl2845
Cruncher Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Post Count: 6 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Does anyone know if I am able to download multiple tasks ?? With the up coming outage of up to 2 days, I would like to download 6 or 8 tasks so that my processors (I have 2 cores) will have workunits to work on while I am "offline". Is this possible ?? If so, how do I do it.
I tried marking my 2 current work units for WCG as SUSPENDED, hoping that BOINC client would request some more work units (I suspended the tasks, not WCG itself) however it didn't seem to request more work units. Thanks |
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rilian
Veteran Cruncher Ukraine - we rule! Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Post Count: 1460 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Does anyone know if I am able to download multiple tasks ?? With the up coming outage of up to 2 days, I would like to download 6 or 8 tasks so that my processors (I have 2 cores) will have workunits to work on while I am "offline". Is this possible ?? If so, how do I do it. I tried marking my 2 current work units for WCG as SUSPENDED, hoping that BOINC client would request some more work units (I suspended the tasks, not WCG itself) however it didn't seem to request more work units. Thanks Open BOINC manager in Advanced View At the top toolbar - by File /View /Tools /Activity/ Advanced - click Advanced Go to Preferences Under the Network Usage tab in the new box - you can set "additional work buffer", for example 3 days Click "ok". Wait a minute while BOINC will connect to servers, or just go to Projects tab, select WCG and click "Update" PS: suspending tasks will not help, as they ARE in cache already ---------------------------------------- [Edit 2 times, last edit by rilian at Jan 7, 2009 8:25:46 PM] |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3716 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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gl2845,
----------------------------------------Follow rilian's advice, or you can do the same on the website in the profile you are using and then don't forget to force an "Update" of WCG from the Projects tab of BoincMgr. And top of both ways to do it, Make sure you have no suspended tasks in your list! As long as there is any suspended task Boinc never asks for more work. Cheers. Jean. ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by JmBoullier at Jan 7, 2009 10:41:29 PM] |
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gl2845
Cruncher Joined: Nov 19, 2004 Post Count: 6 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks. Both our your advice helped. I now have multiple extra units of work ready for when we go offline.
Thanks for your help.  |
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