Posts by KnightFire

1) Message boards : Number crunching : How long to wait before work is available? (Message 3248) Posted 5 Oct 2004 by KnightFire Post: Its not a good idea to give one project 99.99% and another 00.01% as BOINC will normally make sure it has at least 1 WU for each project, and the one with 00.01% share will probably expire before you finish it, holding up the project and preventing the other people given that WU from getting credit until its sent out again and someone else processes it. One of the features people would like to see, and which will eventually end up in BOINC will be the ability to set proper backup projects, for which a WU will only be downloaded if the primiary projects have no work. These need to be projects with small WUs, as once a WU is started it aught to be finished. Large projects like CPDN wouldnt make a good backup as you would miss the deadline, and CPDN would have to wait another year before getting the result in. KF
2) Message boards : Number crunching : credit reset = wu reset? (Message 2923) Posted 30 Sep 2004 by KnightFire Post: when they reset the credit, do they also reset the WU status? I have a 14 hour wu here, and as I dont crunch 24/7 it wont be finished for a few days, if they are going to reset everything and not accept it when BOINC goes to subit it, then i might as well drop it. If they are going to still accept it then I will keep crunching it... KF

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