In article <siriuskase-2D7260.18223419072004@news03.east.earthlink.net>,
Sirius Kase  <siriuskase@earthlink.net> wrote:

In article <JmSKc.283$66.99@newsfe5-gui.ntli.net>,
"Ken Phillips" <abc.def@ghi.jkl.com> wrote:

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BTW
Does anyone know if there will be anything like 'setiqueue' for boinc? It
looks like it's going to be almost essential.

The boinc software maintains queues on your own computer, you won't need 
an add on.  You will be able to set the queue size variables for upper 
and lower limit.

The BOINC queueing does not replicate the functionality of SETI Queue.

BOINC distributes the queueing among the crunching systems; if you have
to take one cruncher out of service for whatever reason, the queued WUs
have to be discarded--they can't be moved to another system.

With SETI Queue, individual crunchers don't maintain large individual
queues--I only have one more WU than the number of CPUs queued on mine,
so that they can start on the next WU while returning a result to the
SETI Queue system. If a cruncher goes down, the queued WUs on SETI Queue
get distributed to other crunchers.

What BOINC provides is more equivalent to SETI Driver, with the limitation
that WUs can't be moved between systems. (Yes, I know this is due in large
part to security and anti-cheating efforts.)

AFAIK, it also doesn't provide the nice star map with all the completed
WUs plotted on it--which, in my case, gives me a nearly solid green bar
between +30 and about +8, with a scattering as much as 10 degrees outside
that. That's what passing 45,226 results through it will do for you...

I'm still strictly Classic; I'll let all the growing pains subside, then
start switching over.


Gary
53,867 results returned, 93.395 CPU years, ranking 1,651, ahead of 99.967%

-- 
Gary Heston  gheston@hiwaay.net 

Contrary to popular opinion, _not_ everyone loves Raymond.