On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 09:11:44 -0500, Husky <cbminfo@toast.net> wrote:

I'm just now For the 1st time moving on to boinc. I've been using seti for
years.

Possibly from the setup and the home page, it makes me ask.. Just how do any of
those other projects 

Boinc : BOINC-based distributed computing projects include: 
Boinc : 
Boinc : Climateprediction.net: Improve the accuracy of long-term climate prediction. 
Boinc : Einstein@home: search data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and from the GEO 600
Boinc : gravitational wave observatory in Germany for signals coming from rapidly rotating neutron stars, known as pulsars. 
Boinc : LHC@home: improve the design of the CERN LHC particle accelerator. 
Boinc : Predictor@home: Solve biomedical questions and investigate protein-related diseases. 
Boinc : SETI@home: Analyze radio-telescope data, looking for evidence of extraterrestrial life. 

expect to get ANY processor time to do anything ?

Everyone has their personal favorites. I do Seti and Einstein, others
do just one project, some others do other combinations.

example. When I got this new machine and found I had 2 processors I
re-installed seti. Which promptly grabbed 100% of both processors time. I was
cranking out units like flapjacks, but couldn't do anything else.

In Boinc it is easy to leave it at 2 and adjust the settings in your
account, view or edit Seti@home preferences and then adjust the
resource share. That will let you say put Seti at 900% and Einstein at
100%, seems funny but the total is out of 1000%. Now my Seti runs 90%
of the time and Einstein runs 10% of the time.
You can even set the max cpus to 1 instead of 2 in your account, view
or edit general preferences.

And the above suggests that these other 3 programs can co exist with seti on a
single processor ? I got news for you it sounds like nothings going to get done
if I add anything else with seti.

Works fine on all of my 17 machines!

I don't use screen savers. If I'm not at the desk, the machine is OFF!.
It's been known to call out on it's own b4 except when it's off.

There is a setting in Boinc to disable network access.

I don't know if windows has this option, but Amiga had a program where you
could assign priorities to EVERY program or service running on the machine if
the Amiga was guessing wrong ie: 99% assigned to a chess game and 1% assigned
to system. You could take and reverse these two.

I do not think Windows has this but the Boinc program does. See above
for how.