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Thread: How much data traffic is generated (I have a hard cap DSL subscription)? |
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Former Member
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Can you give me an idea about the amount of data that woud be exchanged between my PC and the project? I would like to participate, but have a limit n my montlhy amount of up and downloads.
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Former Member
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Hello Ranger Piet,
----------------------------------------Just looking at my own system, I use notional values of 1.5 MB work unit download, then another 1.5 MB results upload for HPF. I cut this in half for FightAIDS@Home. Then I assume 3 downloads / uploads per day per computer. So, less than 300 MB per month per computer. (All this assumes that I do not have to constantly reload the application program, which is bigger.) Web surfing will quickly pass this amount of traffic. mycrofth Added: Depriens is right. FAAH is so small that I have never successfully measured it. I was trying to give upper bounds.  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 19, 2005 2:52:03 PM] |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Don't worry. The first time you startup the client it downloads approx. 4MB from the servers. When you've completed the first 'initial' task every new workunit is very small. The current AIDS workunits are almost 0 in size, I believe something around 20.000 bytes!
----------------------------------------The workunits for the Human Proteome folding are a little bigger, around 0,5 - 1 MB each. An average PC downloads a new workunit every six hours or so. [edit] sorry, I was typing too slow!  [/edit]  [Edit 1 times, last edit by depriens at Dec 19, 2005 2:28:48 PM] |
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