The original Boinc Project through SSL involved the search for Black Holes in space. This project was put on hold due to equipment shortages, problems with the Seti Project and so forth. Does anyone know if this will become a main line project in the future, once again.

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> The original Boinc Project through SSL involved the search for Black Holes in
> space. This project was put on hold due to equipment shortages, problems with
> the Seti Project and so forth. Does anyone know if this will become a main
> line project in the future, once again.

It will, under the name Astropulse.

Excellent. I'll look forward to the Astropulse Project.

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You know, as more project come out people will have to start really choosing which ones they want to run. Now it's easy to run all of them with 3 real active projects (Pirates barely has work and LHC is down; Einstein is still quasi-closed). With many more I won't have enough RAM to keep them all stored in memory so I'll have to choose some favorites :(

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> You know, as more project come out people will have to start really choosing
> which ones they want to run. Now it's easy to run all of them with 3 real
> active projects (Pirates barely has work and LHC is down; Einstein is still
> quasi-closed). With many more I won't have enough RAM to keep them all stored
> in memory so I'll have to choose some favorites :(

I don’t think RAM will be the factor witch makes you have to choose between what projects you want to run. If you set your “switch project every X min” to a value grater then it takes for the WU’s to complete (well not CPDN), then you wont be limited by having all projects stored in memory.

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From my understanding it would be inefficient to run a program and not have it stored in memory. If it's not stored in memory you lose any progress you might have made on a work unit since the last checkpoint.

Maybe I'm wrong though, if someone wants to correct me.

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> From my understanding it would be inefficient to run a program and not have it
> stored in memory. If it's not stored in memory you lose any progress you
> might have made on a work unit since the last checkpoint.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong though, if someone wants to correct me.

Yes you are correct.
But if you set your “switch project every X min” to a value grater then it takes for the WU’s to complete, then the WU will finish before BOINC is supposed to switch to another project. When the WU is completed, BOINC switches to the project with greatest debt.

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> From my understanding it would be inefficient to run a program and not have it
> stored in memory. If it's not stored in memory you lose any progress you
> might have made on a work unit since the last checkpoint.
>
> Maybe I'm wrong though, if someone wants to correct me.
>

When the WU's are stopped they are not stored in 'real' memory, they are stored in 'virtual' memory, which means they go into the paging file if the system runs low on real memory. If theres a memory size problem for your system simply increase the paging file size.

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Aloha, Uli