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,

BOINCuser

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.

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?

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

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

Thanks,

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?

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?

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.

Thanks all for helping me out!
I will try the given suggestions!

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

@Dagorath, I went to sign up for Correlizer and they don't seem to be accepting new accounts.

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@Dagorath, thanks.

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