I received this from Karl Chen [quarl@hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu] in response to
my earlier post.  It doesn't address the issue of controling when the cache
returns results and downloads new WUs.

Karl,

Please respond to the News Groups, since there are several people asking
questions about the BOINC cache/proxy as it compares to SETIQueue and
SETIGate.

Mike.

No. We don't assume that 100% of current SETI@home participants
have a direct internet connection. We know many people use
SETIqueue.
We know that 99.9% of people have either a direct internet
connection or an indirect internet connection through a proxy such
as SETIqueue. If you can use SETIqueue, you can use any other
proxy.
Yes, we are for the moment ignoring the 0.1% of users that use
external removable media to transfer work units between computers.

"Michael" == Michael D Ober <obermd.@.alum.mit.edu.nospam> writes:

Michael>
Michael> It appears that the designers of BOINC made an
Michael> assumption that every system that's processing BOINC
Michael> data has an internet connection that provides access
Michael> to the BOINC servers. This assumption is flat out
Michael> _incorrect_ and will result in a lot of lost
Michael> processing capability.
Michael>
Michael> Mike Ober.
Michael>
Michael> "Alessandro Freda" <ciccio@formaggio.it> wrote in
Michael> message news:3f898e01.74782145@powernews.libero.it...

Hello,

at http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/boinc_transition_plan.html I can
see that boinc will include the caching function. However I've a
problem with my actual configuration:

1) PC n.1 at home with SetiGate and an internet connection.
2) PC n.2 at office with SetiGate and NO internet connection, plus
many other PCs and workstations at office that point to PC n.2 as
off-line proxy.

I move WU from PC n.1 to PC n.2 with SetiGate export/import function,
the same to move results from 2 to 1, via cd-rw or pen-drive.

I've read the transition plan and I'm afraid that BOINC will haven't
this possibility.
Do anyone know a way to continue this off-line WU/res transport with
BOINC, or if will be a version of SetiGate for BOINC ?

Regards,
Alessandro

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Ciao,
-Ale

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