Subject: Re: Long processing times
From: Ponder
Date: 26/03/2005, 17:59
Newsgroups: alt.sci.seti

Hiya GMANIA.

In <news:FHg1e.56979$oy6.1461549@weber.videotron.net> you wrote:

Jeeze isn`t kind of useless having such long time to complete 
climateprediction project, i mean 800 plus hours to complete, that quite a 
lot of work there, and god forbid anything happens and you have to restart 
or reinstall the bionc program...  look at seti, it takes me about 6 hours 
at most to get that done, which i find reasonable...

  I think each unit covers several centuries. You get credit for part
units. A reinstall of BOINC just overwrites old program, not data. Since
November I haven't had a hiccup with BOINC based work units even through
several upgrades.

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