"f/f george" <george@yourplace.com> wrote in message
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Remember under Boinc you can choose how much of your computer you use
for the different "distributed net" programs. Climate predictions,
AstroPulse, Black Hole research, have all expressed an interest in
Boinc, there are others. Some are Beta testing, some aren't yet.
The next Seti is in the Beta testing phase thru Berkeley now.
AstoPulse is looking for someone to take over the project and develop
it for Boinc. Climate predictions is currently asking for testers,
they are not working thru Berkeley but are using the Boinc project as
it was intended, a base to work from.
You as the user can choose to have say 50% for Seti, 30% for
AstroPulse and 20% for Climate work, your computer your choice.
You will be able to choose as the different projects come along.

f/f george -

You may remember my hopping on the new BOINC SAH alpha site, a week or two
ago, and then jumping off when I realized the rightful intended purpose of
the site.

I briefly saw the GUI area, where one can decide the distribution
percentages, when running multiple projects under BOINC. But there was one
thing that wasn't clear to me:

Will the projects' client's run concurrently, allowing BOINC to change the
client's use of cpu resources in the same way as Unix' 'nice' settings, or
XP's 'priority levels' via the taskmanager?

Or does BOINC determine project run percentages by simply running clients
serially, invoking individual work units one at a time?

If the latter, it might get a little funky w/CPDN models taking 20 - 30
days on fast machines, and 6 - 8 weeks on slower ones. And that's the time
for the current 3 phase model. They've recently added a beta 4th phase,
which forces a yet longer running model. Ostensibly, this 4th phase will
also become part of the standard model, before too long.

If a SETI unit were required to wait for a CPDN model to fully process,  it


could easily pass the current BOINC 3 week WU expiration period.

I just wondered if you were aware of the details of how the percentage split
is implimented.

Strat