After any years absence.

I have two old machines which I downloaded BOINC onto, both running XP, both with intermittant internet connections.

A few questions.

Is there any way of ruling out duplication of processing tasks between machines with one account setup? I probably skipped something vital somewhere.

Second, the screensaver. Looks nice, but starts flashing .. shall have a read through the Q&A.

Suggestions welcome!

Many thanks~!

Mike

BOINC looks after the delivery of tasks to your machines. I have three that sit on the same account, at the same location, but because they have different ids they each get their own tasks.
The simple way of avoiding the flashing screen save is not to use it. However if yo want to use it pop over to number crunching where there has been a bit of discussion about this problem.

---

Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

Is there any way of ruling out duplication of processing tasks between machines with one account setup?

What do you mean by this??

Second, the screensaver. Looks nice, but starts flashing

See:
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=75190&postid=1552674#1552674

---

 


- ALF - "Find out what you don't do well ..... then don't do it!" :)
 

After any years absence.

I have two old machines which I downloaded BOINC onto, both running XP, both with intermittant internet connections.

A few questions.

Is there any way of ruling out duplication of processing tasks between machines with one account setup? I probably skipped something vital somewhere.
Mike

Welcome back.

Whether to allow duplicate tasks to be sent to the same machine or same account is a project setting set by the project administrator. Most production projects have this so that the same account will not get a duplicate of a task it already has. There will be a duplicate sent to another machine as a double check. If both tasks come up with very similar answers, the task is called a match and both get credit at that point.

---

BOINC WIKI

I started again one week ago, after 18 month's of absence. By the way
You can 'merge accounts'. PC., too, as I did this only computer.
[url=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php]This one.[\url]

It also runs in a 'virtual box '. Very little experience with virtualizing but
it defenetly has some serious funktion taking care off the need, updating your
"What-ever" software to yet another O.S.&(environment).

I started again one week ago, after 18 month's of absence. By the way
You can 'merge accounts'. PC., too, as I did this only computer.
[url=http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/hosts_user.php]This one.[\url]

It also runs in a 'virtual box '. Very little experience with virtualizing but
it defenetly has some serious funktion taking care off the need, updating your
"What-ever" software to yet another O.S.&(environment).

You can merge computers within an account (sometimes). You cannot merge two accounts.

---

BOINC WIKI