Hi everybody,

as a former SETI@home classic member I am new to BOINC. I like the web-based setup very much, as well as different profiles for PCs located at work or home. Management of different workstations gets very easy.

At work I have several servers that should be allowed to do "number-crunching" the whole weekend. On weekdays I want these machine to work for BOINC only at night (say 6 PM to 8 AM). I didn't find a way to deploy this setup using the web interface. Does somebody know how to achieve the desired behavior?

Best regards,

Alex

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Go to your acct and set your preferences to run at that time I think that may work......

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> Go to your acct and set your preferences to run at that time I think that may
> work......

Hi Queen,

of course, this is the obvious thing to do. I've set the computation intervals this way (6 PM to 8 AM) but these settings are also valid for weekends. What I want to do is let SETI run the /whole/ weekend, i.e. friday 6 PM to monday 8 AM. Currently there is no way to achieve this through the SETI website configuration. Is there one?

Best regards,

Alex

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> > Go to your acct and set your preferences to run at that time I think that
> may
> > work......
>
> Hi Queen,
>
> of course, this is the obvious thing to do. I've set the computation intervals
> this way (6 PM to 8 AM) but these settings are also valid for weekends. What I
> want to do is let SETI run the /whole/ weekend, i.e. friday 6 PM to monday 8
> AM. Currently there is no way to achieve this through the SETI website
> configuration. Is there one?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alex
>
No, but I believe that it has been wished for. It would not hurt to go to the find the wish, and add your vote to "I have this problem too."

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BOINC WIKI

What if you leave it on all the time but, change the settings to not do work while the computer is in use. Then change the wait til computer is idle for xx number of minutes and set this to an amount that wouldn't interfere with people using it. Its not exactly what your looking for but, it does let it run after it is ilde the specified amount of time.

Jon

> What if you leave it on all the time but, change the settings to not do work
> while the computer is in use. Then change the wait til computer is idle for xx
> number of minutes and set this to an amount that wouldn't interfere with
> people using it. Its not exactly what your looking for but, it does let it
> run after it is ilde the specified amount of time.
>
> Jon

Jon,

this is actually what I set up now. I hope this works since all computers terminal servers and I don't know exactly how idle time detection works. Terminal sessions are active during weeksdays at daytime only. I don't want users to get confused seeing 100% CPU load all the time (although scheduled with low priority). This was the case with SETi@home classic - I used planned tasks to get around that issue.

Hopefully somebody at SETI/BOINC will implement the feature setting computation intervals based on days as requested in my original post.

Regards,

Alex

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I'm not sure your solution will work if you're running the BOINC client as a service. I read in another post that the service has no knowledge of user-interactions. The post suggested running the service with 'allow service to interact with desktop'. Also once the service has been paused, it will not start again.

I'm also keen to get this to work, as I want exactly the same thing as you, overnight on weekdays and the whole weekend. I checked feature request database (link at the top of http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_dev.php) but I couldn't find a similar request searching with keyword 'days'. Unfortunately I couldn't add a request as it said database was read-only.

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Hi everyone

I have this same problem, so I posted this request in the wish list. If you also share this wish, please go to:

http://setiweb.ssl.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=7000

and click the "I also have this question" button.

Roberto

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