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Thread: Uninstall UD before installing Boinc? |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That was a point I wondered about. I know of no way with the UD agent to stop it from downloading a new WU at the point it returns the "last" result from you. Even if you abort the agent during the download, or even at the beginning, does the WCG server still see that that WU was "assigned"/"sent" to you? That's what's so nice about BOINC. One click and you can stop it from getting any new work.
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The workunit that is allocated to you will timeout and the work will be sent to someone else.
The system (both UD and BOINC) were designed expectating that a certain number amount of work will be abandoned. It is more efficient if work was never abandoned - but that isn't realistic, so the systems have timeout mechanisms in place so that the work will still get done.  |
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That point that knreed made is one that is assumed by those of us that have been involved in this stuff forever. So we forget (read I forgot) to put it in our writeups
---------------------------------------- . I just added it to the instructions. Your questions are themselves sometimes very instructive. Thank You! |
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