Is it possible for one machine to pull w/u's from another on the same network?

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Message 954186 - Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 15:48:27 UTC - in response to Message 954185.  

No, this is not possible with BOINC. SETI Classic had SETI-Queue (or was it called SETI-Q?) since there was no caching built into the client. BOINC has caching options built-in which allows each client to hold their own pool of work negating the need for a central workunit distributor on a local network.
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Message 954196 - Posted: 12 Dec 2009, 16:32:57 UTC
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The work is assigned to individual machines caches, and that system has to process the work and return the result. The possibility of a master Boinc manager that will have the ability to redistribute work among a network of computers has been discussed before. This concept is still very low on the priority list. There are still many other improvements to Boinc on the to-do list that take precedence. It may still be a couple of years before the developers can take this on. A system will need to be developed that tags in a foolproof way the results to the machine that does the work to prevent users from creating the 'cheat' of a super cruncher which is one of the things that was happening on Classic.

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