None. If you confirmed the association of the devices to the profiles in the device manager and the clients communicated once to WCG they should pick it up and get work accordingly. In fact don't even think afa work selection is concerned, that any communication at all is required. BOINC clients only know of WCG, and use the profiles for settings. The science selection is never communicated.

But, if your client is associated with an account manager such as BAM, or other projects outside WCG it might be a ritual you have to perform. That requires more than a just a secret handshake. Don't think it's the case though.

Meantime, I want one of those school badges too. Which page can they be seen?

Here is the log after I restarted the service this morning. (minus a lot of repetive attempts for more work) I changed this client to a school profile about 2 hours before this log entry starts.

8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Starting BOINC client version 6.2.28 for windows_intelx86
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Libraries: libcurl/7.19.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8i zlib/1.2.3
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Running as a daemon
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Data directory: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\BOINC
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Running under account boinc_master
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 10]
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||OS: Microsoft Windows XP: Professional x86 Editon, Service Pack 2, (05.01.2600.00)
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Memory: 1.99 GB physical, 3.84 GB virtual
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Disk: 148.98 GB total, 50.84 GB free
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Local time is UTC -5 hours
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM|World Community Grid|URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 470316; location: work; project prefs: work
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 23-Jul-2009 14:09:02)
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Computer location: work
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||General prefs: using separate prefs for work
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Reading preferences override file
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when active to 1528.42MB
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 2037.90MB
8/3/2009 8:23:37 AM||Preferences limit disk usage to 0.93GB
8/3/2009 8:23:38 AM|World Community Grid|Task dddt1702o0797_100059_0 is 1.03 days overdue.
8/3/2009 8:23:38 AM|World Community Grid|You may not get credit for it. Consider aborting it.
8/3/2009 8:23:53 AM|World Community Grid|Fetching scheduler list
8/3/2009 8:23:58 AM|World Community Grid|Master file download succeeded
8/3/2009 8:24:03 AM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
8/3/2009 8:24:08 AM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
8/3/2009 8:25:33 AM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 0 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
8/3/2009 8:25:37 AM|World Community Grid|Restarting task dddt1702o0797_100059_0 using dddt version 607
8/3/2009 8:25:39 AM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
8/3/2009 8:26:04 AM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: Requested by user. Requesting 497660 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
8/3/2009 8:26:09 AM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
8/3/2009 8:26:09 AM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work sent
8/3/2009 8:26:09 AM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together
8/3/2009 8:26:09 AM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the website.
8/3/2009 8:27:09 AM|World Community Grid|Sending scheduler request: To fetch work. Requesting 497805 seconds of work, reporting 0 completed tasks
8/3/2009 8:27:14 AM|World Community Grid|Scheduler request succeeded: got 0 new tasks
8/3/2009 8:27:14 AM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work sent
8/3/2009 8:27:14 AM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work is available for Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together
8/3/2009 8:27:14 AM|World Community Grid|Message from server: No work available for the applications you have selected. Please check your settings on the website.

Test shows:

1. change profile from work to school, no other changes.

03/08/2009 17:18:25||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 03-Jul-2009 08:52:48)
03/08/2009 17:18:25||Computer location: work
03/08/2009 17:18:25||General prefs: using separate prefs for work
03/08/2009 17:18:25||Reading preferences override file

2. change a parm in school profile to force update:

03/08/2009 17:19:29||General prefs: from World Community Grid (last modified 03-Aug-2009 17:19:13)
03/08/2009 17:19:29||Computer location: work
03/08/2009 17:19:29||General prefs: using separate prefs for work

Not sure if it's a message server backlog, a client issue refusing to change, or a bug.

edit: This client is the same WCG recommended 6.2.28

Not sure if it is related but ....
I went ahead and changed all machines to a different profile to to see if I could find any trends.
I have 14 machines and 4 of those had late work in the last few days.
I have 3 machines not switching and 2 of them are of the 4 with recent late work, the 3rd is my only Linux system

-Jasm

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