Hi all,

I apologise If this is in the wrong section, but I could not find a section for requests.

As many of you would be aware, electricity is becoming more expensive and our intelligent (sarcasm!) governments are rolling out smart meters or Time of use meters (TOU).

It would be ideal If Boinc would implement a fine grain approach which would allow us to do this, as in most cases night time electricity is considerably cheaper, so we can continue to donate our cpu cycles at a cheaper rate.

I look forward to input from other fellow crunchers!

That is already possible, through the "Do work only between the hours of" hours available in project preferences and BOINC advanced preferences. I use it so BOINC only runs between 9pm and 7am, indeed when electricity is cheaper.

And although on holidays the cheap rate continues as well as in the weekends, I have set BOINC to run at those days between 9pm and 7am only as well. Doing it that way I managed to get a return of 700 euro from my energy company (Gas + electricity).

---

That is correct, but it does not allow me to fold at a reduced level.

ie. during peak charges I would like to fold at a reduced level such as 30% capacity, then during off peak flip to 100% capacity.

It would also be handy, during shoulder periods (weekends) that one could set say a higher capacity or 100% capacity.

That is why a fine-grained approach would be great :)

That wasn't what you asked in the first post, but OK. It's been asked before and it is in http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/PrefsRemodel, which is something the developers use as a guide for future additions.

---