Queuing Tasks in E@H

Kumar
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Hi there!

Is there anyway to queue tasks in E@H?

What i want to do is,load up work units into the client so that the computer can crunch away even if there is no interm=net connection.

Michael Karlinsky
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Queuing Tasks in E@H

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Hi there!

Is there anyway to queue tasks in E@H?

What i want to do is,load up work units into the client so that the computer can crunch away even if there is no interm=net connection.

Change your general preferences (Your Account-page) and increase
the "Connect to network about every" interval.

Select E@H project in BOINC client and hit "update".

Michael

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Yep, the longer the intervall

Yep, the longer the intervall is, the more WUs are stored by your computer. It can take a few days until the intervall is met in a realistic way, though, because estimated finishing times are usually not very accurate at first.

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Agreed, work the cache up

Agreed, work the cache up slowly in small steps so BOINC can learn how you use your machine and adjust it's work requests accordingly.

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Thanks for the

Thanks for the replies!

Ive set the interval to 2 days.

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And remember the work fetch

And remember the work fetch code in the scheduler is much different in 5.8.x and is very sensitive to the length of the deadline.

But 2 days shouldn't be enough to freak out the scheduler.

Kathryn :o)

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They weren't for me. I went

They weren't for me. I went back to 1 day, though, because the box running Malaria Control got problems meeting the deadlines. So if you're running multiple projects, especially those with tight deadlines and WUs of very different sizes, you should be a bit careful. No problems with Einstein, though.

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Well my experience with a 3

Well my experience with a 3 day cache and sharing time between EAH and SAH with a biased split was even the 550 PIII had no trouble at all. It does mean that 5.8.x versions follow what a human might do for scheduling even less than before, but it still honors the resource share split over timeframes of a month or so and keeps the cache fuller AFAICT.

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