Posts by old_user133329

1) Questions and Answers : Preferences : how to limit the number of work units that i download (Message 18009) Posted 10 Dec 2005 by old_user133329 Post: There was a version of BOINC that would download extra models at startup sometimes. Try upgrading to the 4.45b version found here: http://arnaudboinc.free.fr/ or the 5.1.4 development version from berkeley. I joined ClimatePrediction.net a day ago, and received a sulphurn download. After 24 hours, it appears it will take 3000 hours, or 125 days (4 months) to complete. This morning I found a 2nd Sulphur download, which is also running. Together they will take 8 months to compute. That\'s OK, deadline is 11/21. I just want to ensure that I won\'t get a 3rd download, which will make all three miss the deadline. However, I would really prefer to have just one project at a time, and see it through to completion before getting the next, since they are so large. I\'m also running SETI (50/50). I have 10 short completed projects waiting to upload for days now -- lost one through error. I expect Sulphur will have glitches/ problems too, and fear losing weeks of computing time -- especially if my PC goes down. I believe you\'re \"trickling\" results, so not everything would be lost. But it\'s just safer to run one large project at a time. REL