Kevin, has there been any progress yet on upping/removing the 12Hr time limit?

We are making some progress on the timeout changes.

We are not planning any changes to checkpointing at this time. The checkpointing changes would be significant and intrusive into the research application and require saving large sets of data frequently. It would make the application even more IO intensive than it is now. We do understand that the checkpoints are much further apart than we would like, but some things are out of our control due to the nature of the research.

That's sad news about checkpointing. Due to changes in my personal pc usage, I can no longer run CEP. I have been turning my machine off daily lately and have been seeing some tasks start from 0% over and over even after more than an hour of run time. :-(

Will the non-redundant work units carry the same nomenclature, or will they be identifiable? I.e., will they all be name_0, or will the trailing quorum indicator be gone entirely?

@knreed: Congratulations on getting single-redundancy implemented. I'd been wondering when the results of the recent beta test would bear fruit.
Pity about the checkpointing.

A mod that looks like it would be not a huge task and might reduce disk I/O bottlenecks when multiple CEP2 WUs are run simultaneously, would be to merge into one directory the many common data files that are duplicated into each slot directory at WU startup time. Just a suggestion ...

@pball1224:
"I have been turning my machine off daily lately and have been seeing some tasks start from 0% over and over even after more than an hour of run time."

If your computer is running Windows (2000 and later), you may be able hibernate it instead of shutting it down normally. Hibernate writes a complete image of the RAM onto a file in the root directory of the boot hard drive, and saves the status of all processes. The reverse happens at startup, and processes resume as if nothing had happened. Power can be completely turned off during hibernation, and it works for BOINC and CEP2 tasks. [Edit]: IIRC, it is wise to Suspend processng from the BOINC Manager Activity menu before hibernating, and of course remember to resume activity after starting up again.

However, I've found that many machines won't hibernate, even though they are unning 2k, XP or 7 and hibernation is enabled; after selecting Hibernate and clicking OK on the Shut Down popup window, the screen goes black for a few seconds but then resumes normal activity. There are no diagnostics. This can happen if there is not enough space on the HDD for the RAM image, and also if there are devices installed whose drivers do not support hibernation, but in my cases the reason(s) remain mysterious.
It's worth a try though.
BTW, in Windows 7, "Hybrid Sleep" should also preserve and restore BOINC/CEP2 tasks.