Raj Rijhwani wrote:
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MY committment (to any project I am attached to) is for the life of
the project, or as long as circumstances allow.  I can't say that for
any particular machine, though.  And I'm not prepared to commit

The machine can change. What is important is the _data_. The CPDN client on this machine may well find itself being executed by various x86 compatible CPUs dependant on whatever upgrades. The CPDN simulation should continue regardless.

resource to a project which doesn't have a reasonable degree of
flexibility, resilience and allowance for component failure.  It's

A snapshot is saved regularly. If you shut down your machine for whatever reason, upon restarting again the simulation will continue from whatever was the last check point.

moot anyway, because I am never going to sign up to BOINC anyway.  It
just struck me that a 12 month work unit was a poor decision in
project design in principle.

There is more than just CPDN on Boinc. There will likely be many more projects running under the Boinc framework.


We have exciting times ahead. Also good times in that Boinc has the facilities to better share out all the available resources.


Happy crunchin',
Martin