This is just a question related to BOINC itself, rather than SETI@home.

Is it possible to run more than two (2) applications at a time, or not? Because, however many applications I have active, I can only seem to run two (2) at a time...

Thanks,
Alex Waters.

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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
--Albert Einstein.

Because, however many applications I have active, I can only seem to run two (2) at a time...

That's because your GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5900 @ 2.20GHz computer only has two (2) processors. :-)

Gruß,
Gundolf

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Computer sind nicht alles im Leben. (Kleiner Scherz)

SETI@home classic workunits 3,758
SETI@home classic CPU time 66,520 hours

Thanks for that :D

I'm not the best with computers, so I'll ask if there is a way to increase the number of processes?

Thanks again :)

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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
--Albert Einstein.

You could force BOINC to run more than one process on each processor (core), but that wouldn't increase productivity; on the contrary, two tasks on one core would take more than double the time to finish. The exception to that would be "hyperthreading", a feature of some (Intel?) processors, but I can't give you more information on that (I don't even know if your computer is hyperthreading or not:-).

So, the only meaningful way to increase the number of processes would be adding hardware to your computer, a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) for instance.

Gruß,
Gundolf

OK, thanks heaps for that :D

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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
--Albert Einstein.

Only some later Pentium 4s (needs 800MHz Front Side Bus), Xeons, and more recently the Atoms, the i3, i5 and i7 have hyper-threading capability. All versions in between don't.

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None of which I have :P
Thanks :)

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"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
--Albert Einstein.