Work preference, one project vs. another

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Troglodyte Send message Joined: 30 Jun 04 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,181,608 RAC: 0	Message 25832 - Posted: 13 Sep 2004, 8:17:48 UTC
	Is it possible to set up SETI to run all the time and have something else (ie. Climateprediction.net) run only if there is no work from SETI? http://boinc.mundayweb.com/seti2/stats.php?userID=941
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HOAP Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 May 01 Posts: 35 Credit: 15,569 RAC: 0	Message 25893 - Posted: 13 Sep 2004, 13:22:54 UTC Last modified: 13 Sep 2004, 16:13:19 UTC
	no not really.... But you can get farely close by setting resource share to 1 for climateprediction and 1000 for seti. That would make climate prediction run for 1 hour every 40 days or so unless seti runs out of work... Close enough I'd say happy crunching
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Anthony Brixey Send message Joined: 24 Jun 00 Posts: 102 Credit: 701,208 RAC: 366	Message 25971 - Posted: 13 Sep 2004, 17:22:09 UTC Last modified: 13 Sep 2004, 17:28:20 UTC
	It seems that a large percentage of people want to have one main project and a backup project for when there is no work from the main project. Hopefully the Boinc team will add the ability to set projects as backups. I posted in the ‘Wish List’ a couple of days ago about backup projects. Personally I wouldn’t set CPDN to run only 1 hour every 40 days as the work units take hundreds of hours to run. They may have a report deadline of about a year (which sounds a lot) but unless your machine is on 24/7 and Seti has a lot of down time you are not likely to finish the work unit. Projects with fairly small work units like Seti that can be done in less than a couple of days are more suitable as backup projects.
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Pascal, K G Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 2343 Credit: 150,491 RAC: 0	Message 26000 - Posted: 13 Sep 2004, 18:16:18 UTC - in response to Message 25893. Last modified: 13 Sep 2004, 18:17:12 UTC
	> no not really.... > > But you can get farely close by setting resource share to 1 for > climateprediction and 1000 for seti. > That would make climate prediction run for 1 hour every 40 days or so unless > seti runs out of work... > > Close enough I'd say > > happy crunching > > If you use those number you should stay away from CPDN, because depending on your cpu speed, you would not meet the 1 year deadline and would just screw the project up............... Exampke p4 3.0 about 400 hrs to crunch, useing your 40 to 1 that would = 1600 days on a 3.0 cpu.....plus the hrs that the other project would be crunching, I am lousy at math so some one who is good at maath can figure it out....
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