I would say so! Six running on my main PC at the moment!

Just a little bit over half a batch has been sent out so far. Should be 4 total batches. So plenty to grab if you're hunting for them :)

Remember to try to force them to restart and restore from check point.

Thanks again for everyone helping test!
-Uplinger

We have a set of things that are needing to be saved to properly restore from check point. These are temporary files and should be all written about the same time during a check point. Most of the flies you have check pointed are the map files generated during simulation.

The way BOINC handles a check point is that when we get to a point in the code (in this case the end of a docking), we check with BOINC if it's ok to check point. If it is, then we write the files for the check point. A more detailed response for this is here: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BasicApi#checkpointing

Thanks,
-Uplinger

There are 3 ways to fully force a restart:

1. BOINC needs to have the application removed from memory when application is suspended via the BOINC client. This is a setting you can set on the website or in the client. (You should be able to see it removed from your task manager or ps)

2. You can exit BOINC. This means you need to check for the application boinc.exe isn't still running on your computer. BOINC consists of two main parts, boinc client (boinc.exe) and the manager (boincmgr.exe) that gives you the GUI interface. Just closing the manager doesn't close the client that controls the science applications.

3. A sure fire way to test is to *gasps* reboot the machine running BOINC. This will make sure everything is fully out of memory.

Thank you for the help in testing!
-Uplinger

[edit rewritten to make more sense -Uplinger]

Made my post a little bit more readable for others following the thread above. A majority of the results I have seen by manually inspecting them have atleast 20 dockings. (Some have quite a bit more, I saw some with over 5000 for a 3 hour work unit). With 20 being the low end, you should be safe to force a restart after 30 minutes. This would be past the max that BOINC has check pointing throttles (17 minutes) as mentioned previously by lavaflow.

Also, a single forced restart is plenty, but if you want to give our validation tools more work, then forcing a restart more than once in a run is great also.

Thanks,
-Uplinger