Good evening I was just wondering if it is possible to run 2(or more) projects at the same time I have an 8 core 16 thread Xeon so I have the cpu resources but whenever I turn the new project on it runs instead of Seti@home I have tried setting resource shares but no change. From reading on here and the pogs site I think I need to have different data directories but am not sure how to do that and would I be able to move everything to the new directory or would I be better off removing the new project and starting over. Thanks for any help.

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ME AND MY BOY LOOKING FOR ET

I run a second project once every blue moon. BOINC has a time share function that runs one project then the other back and forth. Don't worry about adding folders. It automatically keeps your project separate within its working directories.
You are going to have to ask what setting to use to change the time BOINC spends working each project. I don't know how to shorten the time interval it spends working on each project.

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I run 3 projects at the same time. I have the resource split 80/10/10 with SETI getting the biggest slice. When you start a new project, BOINC tries to equalize the time spent between the projects. So the project that has been running for several years gets short-shrift as the new project tries to equalize the amount of time spent crunching. This makes it look like the new project is taking over. If you give BOINC enough time, it will eventually run the various projects at the resource ratio you specify. You might want to set your resource percentage at the start to something like 99/1 for SETI/new project. You can also try downloading only enough work for a couple of hours for the new project and set NNT for a day. You just have to be patient that the equalization process eventually works itself out.

For example, I set MilkWay and Einstein to NNT for the WOW contest last month to run SETI exclusively on my crunchers. When I turned work back on for those projects, my newest cruncher that only has been running for a couple of months, ran MilkyWay and Einstein exclusively for a week after the contest ended to try and equalize the amount of time spent on all projects. My other 2 crunchers which have been running for over 5 years on all 3 projects just picked up where they left off with the percentage of work devoted to each project pretty much matching my resource split.

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Thanks for the info I will have to give it a try also I was wondering if it is possible to run 2 separate instances of Boinc 1 for each project using different preferences for each project as well. P.S. I had fun with the WOW event this year a little friendly competition is always fun.

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ME AND MY BOY LOOKING FOR ET

I was wondering if it is possible to run 2 separate instances of Boinc 1 for each project using different preferences for each project

Yes but you may have to set up a virtual machine to do it . each project does have separate prefs within each project . I noticed you have 3 Xeons with 2 750 GTX cards and 1 with a 650 GTX .

If I was you I would only run 1 project on each machine but just get each machine to do a different project .

Lot less trouble but that's up to you , good luck

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