On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 19:00:25 GMT, "Starbase" <postmaster@127.0.0.1>
wrote:

"Klaatu" <mutster8_nospam_@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:0gUCd.7258$F67.1872@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com...

Starbase wrote:

beleive it is the case that BOINC does not offer work unit caching and
requires the box to be connected to the internet to return and receive
work units as they complete. Is this the case?,

The Linux Boinc client caches wu's.  Just set how often it connects to
several days on the website.  The number of wu's cached will depend on

your

processor speed.  I am normally connected 24/7 but have noticed when my

ISP

was down for a day the finished wu's are listed as uploading and finished
the upload when my internet connection came back up.  I'm using Mdk 10.1

so

the same should apply to your system.  If you upgrade to KDE 3.3+

KBoincSpy

is a good gui Boinc monitor, a good terminal client is Boinc bash script
http://phileimer.9online.fr/  Good Crunching

This is very good news, obviously I must have miss-understood some post or
another, or perhaps I have been crunching for so long now I just have a
mental block to change. But, having been able to install and use Linux I am
so excited anything is possible. Thankyou also for the additional
information I will experiment on my Linux box at the weekend.

Regards

Chris@starbase07

WHOA, SLOW DOWN, it does NOT cache like you are thinking it does, I
don't think. EACH machine MUST still have access to the net. There is,
at this time, no Boinc Client that will elt you remotely cache units
for machines to use! Windows has the same "caching" ability as Linux.
You can "cache" up to 10 days of work units on each machine but ONLY
that machine can crunch the units. This is VERY similar to the way
SetiDriver caches units.