Can I prioritize based on project?

Questions and Answers : Preferences : Can I prioritize based on project?

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Numanoid Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 13 Aug 99 Posts: 42 Credit: 4,119,139 RAC: 0	Message 993870 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 20:33:58 UTC
	I'm a SETI guy and want to put all my resources here when work is available, but have it work another project when no work is available. I have 6 cores (and a CUDA core) sitting idle waiting for SETI work. I don't want to work on 2 projects at the same time. How can I do this? ____________
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Hammeh Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 21 May 01 Posts: 135 Credit: 1,143,316 RAC: 0	Message 993879 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 21:08:34 UTC
	A quick search on google turns up this: http://www.boinc-wiki.info/BOINC_Powered_Backup_Project Normally, I just keep a fairly large cache of seti@home work units. Even with this outage I have enough work units for about another 2 days! Hammeh ____________
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Aurora Borealis Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 14 Jan 01 Posts: 2975 Credit: 4,236,518 RAC: 2,605	Message 993911 - Posted: 3 May 2010, 23:52:50 UTC
	Starting with Boinc Version 6.10.30, Boinc understands the concept of a backup project. Setting a project with a resource share of 0 makes it a backup project which Boinc will only get work from if other work is depleted. Unfortunately, this feature also needs to be implemented with an update of the projects server software and many project are very slow at installing the latest changes. Older server software wont accept 0 as a Resource share. On these project you could try using a RS value of .0000001. I'm not sure but I think Boinc will interpret this as a 0 RS. At least, when I tried it, 0 got stored in the client state file which I believe is where Boinc looks for the project RS. ____________ Questions? Answers are in the "Unofficial" BOINC Wiki. Boinc V7.0.27 Win7 i5 3.33G 4GB, GTX470
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John McLeod VII Volunteer developer Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 15 Jul 99 Posts: 22343 Credit: 439,209 RAC: 396	Message 993912 - Posted: 4 May 2010, 0:01:21 UTC - in response to Message 993911.
	Starting with Boinc Version 6.10.30, Boinc understands the concept of a backup project. Setting a project with a resource share of 0 makes it a backup project which Boinc will only get work from if other work is depleted. Unfortunately, this feature also needs to be implemented with an update of the projects server software and many project are very slow at installing the latest changes. Older server software wont accept 0 as a Resource share. On these project you could try using a RS value of .0000001. I'm not sure but I think Boinc will interpret this as a 0 RS. At least, when I tried it, 0 got stored in the client state file which I believe is where Boinc looks for the project RS. No, BOINC won't, however, if you think about the resource fractions involved, a resource share of 100 for project A and 0.0000001 is 8 orders of magnitude, or less than an hour every year for the secondary project. You can always make the magnitude of the ratio even larger (say 100000000 to 0.000000001... ____________ BOINC WIKI
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Questions and Answers : Preferences : Can I prioritize based on project?