I noticed today (the first time I've searched the SAH knowledgebase for a long time), that the search engine seems to be a bit... brutal.

If I enter a too-broad search term in simple mode, I get submerged in an enormous tidal wave of message text with no apparent way of collating, grouping, or otherwise organising the results in a simple, concise way. Normally, when I enter a simple search term, I want to be able to specify an organisation or hierarchy of results. That would be a huge help for people like me (in a hurry to find an answer to an immediate problem)!

The other thing I noticed, in using the advanced search, was that there's a limitation of 1 year on the post search results. Assuming that the question I want to ask does exist in the SAH database, if it hasn't been updated in the past year, then I'm not going to find it using advanced search. Unless I use the simple search - and that just returns too much undigestible information!

So it's an all-or-nothing result. For me, I now realise the question I was asking should be asked in the BOINC site, not the SAH site, but still, the question (how to manage multiple PCs on one account) is here, just not easily found!

I hope this gives some ideas for discussion. And I apologise if this feedback's been entered before, or if I've stupidly missed an obvious web control that would have done what I wanted.

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I noticed today (the first time I've searched the SAH knowledgebase for a long time), that the search engine seems to be a bit... brutal.

If I enter a too-broad search term in simple mode, I get submerged in an enormous tidal wave of message text with no apparent way of collating, grouping, or otherwise organising the results in a simple, concise way. Normally, when I enter a simple search term, I want to be able to specify an organisation or hierarchy of results. That would be a huge help for people like me (in a hurry to find an answer to an immediate problem)!

The other thing I noticed, in using the advanced search, was that there's a limitation of 1 year on the post search results. Assuming that the question I want to ask does exist in the SAH database, if it hasn't been updated in the past year, then I'm not going to find it using advanced search. Unless I use the simple search - and that just returns too much undigestible information!

So it's an all-or-nothing result. For me, I now realise the question I was asking should be asked in the BOINC site, not the SAH site, but still, the question (how to manage multiple PCs on one account) is here, just not easily found!

I hope this gives some ideas for discussion. And I apologise if this feedback's been entered before, or if I've stupidly missed an obvious web control that would have done what I wanted.

The answer to the question you wanted answered is to just attach them all with the same email and password that you added the first one with.

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BOINC WIKI

...but still, the question (how to manage multiple PCs on one account) is here, just not easily found!

You can manage multiple PCs remotely from one machine with BOINC manager. See this FAQ entry or Controlling BOINC remotely in the BOINC wiki.

You could also use an (external) account manager like BOINCStats BAM! or GridRepublic.

Gruß,
Gundolf

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