Is there anyway I can request smaller workunits? On my P4s I average 5-6 hours/job. I can deal with that. On some older computers, it takes 15-17 hours for 1 WU. Anyway I can shorten that time(besides making my comps run faster)?

Is there anyway I can request smaller workunits? On my P4s I average 5-6 hours/job. I can deal with that. On some older computers, it takes 15-17 hours for 1 WU. Anyway I can shorten that time(besides making my comps run faster)?

The work unit has always been the same size from the beginning of Seti. Back then it took 70 hrs to process a single WU. Today's science application dig 10 time deeper to extract data and today's computers still do the work in a tenth of the time.

You get whichever WU is next in the queue. This may change in the future as Boinc can now provide some more detailed information about the system making a work request. It wont happen tomorrow and I wouldn't hold my breath as it will require a complete rewrite of the feeder server software to hand out work based on the AR of a specific WU and its expected crunch times. There are other irons in the fire at the moment such as the next application to handle the multibeam data. It promises faster crunch times for some systems over the generic applications as new optimization technique are being used. There is still AstroPulse under early Alpha testing. So the developers are pretty busy.

You may want to consider using the chicken optimized apps (see sticky post at top of Number Crunching forum) if you're not already doing so. It cuts crunch times by half on most systems, but requires that you stay informed about changes in the project applications since the new apps will no longer be automatically downloaded by Boinc when introduced.

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Boinc V7.2.42
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