Posts by old_user46311

1) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Long time to completion (Message 9411) Posted 16 Feb 2005 by old_user46311 Post: > I would expect a CPDN WU to take about 450-500 hours CPU time on your machine, > running at about 2.2 secs/timestep. You will run rather slower if using the > screensaver or graphics - advice is to disable the screensaver and not to have > the BOINC window showing the work or disk tab as these consume CPU time. You > can still call up the graphics when you want to see what is going on. > > CPDN WUs are very different from those of SETI - they are not really > comparable. See the FAQ. > Hello Andrew, I'm experiancing the same. I run an AMD 1.7Ghz. Nothing else running in the back ground and my project is predicted to be around 1500hours. Is this common? How can I alter the time step? (sorry If i'm sounding a bit newbie-ish, but I am fairly new to this software)
2) Questions and Answers : Getting started : Deferring Communications problem?? (Message 9406) Posted 16 Feb 2005 by old_user46311 Post: Hello, I have a problem (or think I have) the past week or so my Boinc client has been fine, but the past day or two I noticed this red little symbol coming over my icon in the task bar and its been there since. On my messages tab its a bit clear that boinc is having difficulty to connect and it keeps deffering communications by a time period to try again. It also says Master file fetch failed. I run a firewall which is configured to always permit incoming and outgoing traffic to my boinc client. Just recently I installed a proxy program to my browser to keep my anonmity but I dont know how this would affect boinc as its only browser based and its currently disabled at present. Is there a problem at my end or the server end of boinc? Answers on a post card! :)