I have two desktop PCs at work (set up as work and school) getting work units late at night or early in the morning (the 2300 to 0300 time frame usually). I have a laptop that I use with work that I've set up as my home machine but it is off the net during non-working hours that has as of late not been able to get work units during working hours. I'd like to be able to take a set of work on one of the desktops and copy (actually move) that work over to the laptop and have the laptop know the work is there, process it, and then report the results back to SETI central.

I do not wish to muck up the works of the installed software on the three PCs so I have not yet tried any of this. I wanted ask the knowledgeable SETI staff or other experienced users if this idea was possible and is there any specific steps, instructions, or procedure that must be done in order to complete this idea correctly.

Note: I am working on all Intel based Windows OS PCs. I am not yet trying to transfer between different OS platforms (Linex to Windows or the other way). Though that might be the wish of other users.

This is not possible. Someone (third party) may in the future write a queueing program for detached computers, however, it will not be a simple task. Each WU is assigned to a particular computer, and that computer signs the result. If a different computer crunches the result than the one that was assigned that WU, the result will be discarded, and no credit will be granted. You can thank the cheaters in S@H1 for this new security measure.

> This is not possible. Someone (third party) may in the future write a
> queueing program for detached computers, however, it will not be a simple
> task. Each WU is assigned to a particular computer, and that computer signs
> the result. If a different computer crunches the result than the one that was
> assigned that WU, the result will be discarded, and no credit will be granted.
> You can thank the cheaters in S@H1 for this new security measure.
Something like SetiQueue could be able to handle this. It is able to look like particular user's S@H1 client (on particular computer) and it could sign the incoming WU as if it were the target computer.

> Something like SetiQueue could be able to handle this. It is able to look like
> particular user's S@H1 client (on particular computer) and it could sign the
> incoming WU as if it were the target computer.

There's a bit more "paperwork" that would need to be done with the current WU format, for exactly the reasons you describe... ;-)

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