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Message 41316 - Posted: 26 Nov 2011, 17:51:54 UTC

Hi,

I am new on this Forum. But not on BOINC.
I have a question.
I gave my old laptop to my parents and they are using it so now and then.
I was wondering if there is a project for like the titel says, laptops or computers that arn't turned on that often. Because we have this deadline for projects.If they turned on a laptop/pc for a few hours a week, they could do some workunits too right?
Some projects with very small workunits or really long deadlines?

Can someone help me out with this?

Thanks,

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Message 41318 - Posted: 26 Nov 2011, 18:50:33 UTC

Its not easy. Much of the projects have only 14 days of deadline. So some smaller WUs on CPDN could help out with longer deadline.
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Message 41319 - Posted: 26 Nov 2011, 18:55:12 UTC - in response to Message 41318.  

CPDN has always big WU's :(. That takes over 20 days and more..so basicly projects are only usefull if they are running very often?
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Message 41320 - Posted: 26 Nov 2011, 19:03:30 UTC - in response to Message 41319.  

CPDN has always big WU's :(. That takes over 20 days and more..so basicly projects are only usefull if they are running very often?


Yes and no, I dont know what you are want to run. But you can check our wiki for more information depending in cpu speed and ram usage too.

http://wiki.bc-team.org/index.php?title=BOINC-Projekte/en
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Message 41322 - Posted: 26 Nov 2011, 19:37:48 UTC - in response to Message 41321.  

Its a MSI CX600-050.
2.0 Duo Core.
Here are all specs:

http://www.laptopshop.nl/product/76834/msi-cx600-050nl.html#product_specifications

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Message 41325 - Posted: 27 Nov 2011, 8:04:06 UTC - in response to Message 41324.  

That's a nice laptop. When you said "old" I thought you meant something as old as a P4 or Athlon 64. Correlizer would work very well on that laptop, maybe even CPDN. CPDN used to have very long tasks but they had a very long deadline and even if you missed the deadline they would accept your result and give credits. I think maybe they have changed recently to shorter tasks and a shorter deadline and they might not accept results after the deadline the way they used to.


Thanks for the reply!
Old..haha. Sorry. Thats because I have a much faster and better laptop now;p.
Wich would be doin better on the laptop? How can I find out wich one have small workunits with a long deadline or something like that?
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Message 41326 - Posted: 27 Nov 2011, 8:07:12 UTC

A little bit off-topic.
What is Corolizer about? I went to website but i dont understand what they are talking about haha. With their numbers and stuff..My English isnt that perfect haha.

Its about diseases?
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Message 41340 - Posted: 27 Nov 2011, 19:00:16 UTC - in response to Message 41316.  


Some projects with very small workunits or really long deadlines?


First, set a zero day cache with a tiny amount of additional work buffer to keep the number of WUs to a minium, ideal 1 WU downloaded per core. But you knew that already :)

For projects, two approaches:

Long deadlines: Climate prediction. You'll never complete a WU, but the project 'trickles up' so you'll be doing something useful. Don't know if BOINC will kill the WU once it's gone over deadline and download a new one, but CPDN don't seem to worry about deadlines anyway.

Small WUs: Primegrid subproject Proth Prime Search LLR would be ideal. About 20 minutes per WU.

Al.
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Message 41342 - Posted: 27 Nov 2011, 20:12:33 UTC

Thanks all for helping me out!
I will try the given suggestions!
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Message 41377 - Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 8:04:47 UTC - in response to Message 41340.  


Some projects with very small workunits or really long deadlines?


First, set a zero day cache with a tiny amount of additional work buffer to keep the number of WUs to a minium, ideal 1 WU downloaded per core. But you knew that already :)

For projects, two approaches:

Long deadlines: Climate prediction. You'll never complete a WU, but the project 'trickles up' so you'll be doing something useful. Don't know if BOINC will kill the WU once it's gone over deadline and download a new one, but CPDN don't seem to worry about deadlines anyway.

Small WUs: Primegrid subproject Proth Prime Search LLR would be ideal. About 20 minutes per WU.

Al.


Hey,

what do u mean by this? I dont get it.

First, set a zero day cache with a tiny amount of additional work buffer to keep the number of WUs to a minium, ideal 1 WU downloaded per core. But you knew that already :)

thnx
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Message 41396 - Posted: 29 Nov 2011, 19:37:59 UTC - in response to Message 41339.  

@Dagorath, I went to sign up for Correlizer and they don't seem to be accepting new accounts.
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Message 41412 - Posted: 30 Nov 2011, 15:51:11 UTC - in response to Message 41401.  

@Dagorath, thanks.
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