This is specific to CEP2. This project's checkpoints are hours apart. You can try enabling LAIM(Leave Applications in memory) in the BOINC manager and hibernate rather than shutdown if you want to run this project. Otherwise, un-check this project it and choose other projects.

I am one of those with 4 computers (12 cores) that are never turned off. Until HCC completed, most of my processing power went to HCC. Now, most of that time is being split among all active projects. It seems that most of the completed WUs are for CEP2, but I do not have any problem with the situation described here. I have had a problem in the past with the task terminating after 12 hours and I had enough computing time available to complete all parts of the WU -- I am currently seeing the first eleven jobs completing successfully and job 12 exits with with RC = 0x1. Jobs 13, 14 and 15 are skipped.

The only question I have is why are the last four jobs even contained in the set of jobs for the WU? It seems to be it bit of a waste when it leads to questions like this being raised. If all that is needed/wanted are jobs 0 to 11, what is the point of having jobs 12 to 15?

Where is the post by knreed that explains quite well what is needed or used for CEP2?

Hello dkt, The 16 jobs are arranged in groups in order of importance. The scientists want to cover the entire molecule space in as few years as possible. As long as the first 3 jobs are run, that is useful info, but they would like it all. However, careful thinking on their part has convinced them that it is better to get partial results on 2 molecules in 24 hours than complete information on one molecule in 24 hours.

My opinion is that if we had enough computers to complete their project in a year or so, they would probably remove the time limit.

Lawrence