Posts by seafsee

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Moving a WU from one machine to another? (Message 19017) Posted 12 Feb 2008 by seafsee Post: Thank You Richard. Actually, that is very similar to how I had to update BOINC the last time on the laptop and probably again after I get the other issue sorted.
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Moving a WU from one machine to another? (Message 19015) Posted 11 Feb 2008 by seafsee Post: You would need to do lots of manual edits to client_state.xml; and I'd almost guarantee you'll screw up in the process. Oh ye of little faith! Thanks for the quick response. If you know of somewhere which gives an overview I would be interested in seeing it, none-the-less. I take it, what I am suggesting is not recommended, but I'd hate to run it out, invest four days and not have it finish and was hoping to avoid that especially in light of how seldom work is available for LHC. I have managed to successfully finish WU for SETI and Spinhenge on this old machine and assumed I would not be sent any work unless it was able to finish in a timely manner. It has never happened in the 2+ years I have run BOINC. Do you think I should abort it now and cut my losses or try to get done as much as possible?
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Moving a WU from one machine to another? (Message 19012) Posted 11 Feb 2008 by seafsee Post: I have an older Pentium machine with 82 MB RAM that downloaded a WU and began processing it. Originally, the time to completion was before the WU deadline. However, after running it for nearly 25 hours, achieving ~9% completion, the time to completion has increased (by an additional 8 hours!), and I fear it will not get done in time. I would like to move it to my Pent. 4 laptop and was wondering if there is anything special I need to do? I see the init_data.xml file contains a path to the files which are on a different drive in the older machine and I will edit this. Anything else? Expiration is in four days. Thanks, Charles

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