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Originally Posted by Pinemarten
The deadlines are a new thing. Do they only give us so much time to crunch a WU before they give it to another sys?
Can I run SETI on one CPU thread and Rosetta one the other? I think I will stick with two projects max.
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Deadline is the far right column in Tasks tab, and yeah if a WU is not finished by deadline (on most projects) it is sent to another, and you get no credit. Assuming you have an always-on connection, and crunch 24/7, the scheduler is usually smart enough to ensure that you don't DL more work than you can finish in time, but the algorithm is very complex, so you should watch for a few days to see if any are in trouble.
Partly because the scheduler may have to run 2 WUs from a single project in order to honor your resource share, or occasionally to avoid missing a deadline, you can't pin a project to a specific core/thread (with stock BOINC client). For example if your share is 80% Seti and 20% Rosetta, you would see 2 seti WUs crunching most of the time.
And I did think you were prolly joking about the math projects -- sorry if I didn't make that clear, or came off hostile.
