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Thread: Getting more than one unit queued with BOINC |
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Former Member
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Being a Windows user up until recently, I've been using Ubuntu for a while and so I downloaded and installed BOINC, and attached it to my profile without incident.
Thing is, is there any way to queue more than one unit for processing at a time? At the moment it's doing the default thing of uploading one and downloading another. |
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Former Member
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Hi
----------------------------------------(the following based on windows boinc) In the profile for boinc you can tell it how often to connect to server by default. I think it is preset at 0.1 days............if you switch that to, say, 3 days, it will then send you a supply of work units. I think you can set it to a maximum of 10 days.......which is handy for non-permanent connections........gives you loads of work to do. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Dec 26, 2005 2:34:15 PM] |
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Former Member
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Ahhhhh, I see now....I was looking for the setting within the BOINC client and not on my Device profile pages. Whoops :)
Thanks Vaio, I can now get more than one unit at a time! Woo and yay! :D |
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Former Member
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Glad you're sorted
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Former Member
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Just a word of caution.
The time to compute work units can vary by up to a factor of 10. It is probably a good idea to be cautious about asking for more than 2 days of work units. |
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Former Member
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Thanks for the cautionary words, I tried 10 days and then noticed the huge stream of incoming units
 Not to worry as my machine will chop through them in time, I think however I'll back it off to something like 5 days in the future though.  |
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Former Member
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Please consider the other members of your Quorum.
Think how long it will be before any of them get any credit. A 10 day queue is far too long  |
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Former Member
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Please consider the other members of your Quorum. Think how long it will be before any of them get any credit. A 10 day queue is far too long Fair point |
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Former Member
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Please consider the other members of your Quorum. Think how long it will be before any of them get any credit. A 10 day queue is far too long I've placed the queue at 2 days now. Er, what's a Quorum? |
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Please consider the other members of your Quorum. Think how long it will be before any of them get any credit. A 10 day queue is far too long I've placed the queue at 2 days now. Er, what's a Quorum? Quorum = 4 So if you hog one WU for 10 days 3 people have to wait to on you.  |
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