BOINC Pentathlon 2011

[vaughan]

The BOINC Pentathlon will start on 05/05/2011. The first project is already announced: 05.05. - 10.05.: Help Conquer Cancer in the World Community Grid discipline.

The further anncouncements can be retrieved by
* Blog: http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/category/boinc-pentathlon/
* Feed: http://www.seti-germany.de/blog/category/boinc-pentathlon/feed/
* Twitter: http://twitter.com/SETIGermany
* Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SETI.Germany

All announcements are available in english, french and german.

The BOINC Pentathlon stats are here:
http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pentathlon/statistiken/pentathlon.php
Your team stats are available at:
http://www.seti-germany.de/boinc_pen...AMD+Users.html

[NeoGen]

On the blog it already says the second project, for the GPU discipline, will be Primegrid.

[SuicideCabbage]

Is there a way to allow BOINC to download but not upload?

[NeoGen]

I would say.... set your buffer to the maximum allowed on the boinc preferences (10 days of work? If memory serves...), let it download everything and then go to the boinc manager and disable the network communication.

This may or may not work, it depends from project to project... some projects let you run off with hundreds of WUs, while others don't allow you to have more than a few WUs per core at a time...

[BobCat13]

NeoGen has the correct instructions except WCG's HCC has a 7 day deadline, so you might want to set the preference to 7 instead of 10.

I believe WCG has a limit of 80 tasks per core / day.

[SuicideCabbage]

I already have a large batch of WCG precrunched, by disabling network communication as you said. What I wanted to do was download PrimeGrid WUs while not uploading any of the WCG ones.

[Ramjet]

3RD project of the Pentathlon is QMC@home, 4th project is Rosetta@home, 5th is still pending................

[SuicideCabbage]

Two CPU projects running 100% parallel this year, well that's new. Which one are we as a team going to focus on?

[vaughan]

I already have a large batch of WCG precrunched, by disabling network communication as you said. What I wanted to do was download PrimeGrid WUs while not uploading any of the WCG ones.

I think one solution is to have a dual boot setup to achieve this. I have this on my MacBookPro where I can run native OSX or run VMware Fusion and that has Win 7 64bit Ultimate installed. Effectively this gives two BOINC installations on the one computer.

[SuicideCabbage]

I figured out a way to do it, but during my messing around ended up erroring out about 40 unstarted units, no matter though I started a batch of PrimeGrid along with a new batch of WCG. Tonight when the Pentathlon officially begins I can restore the last batch of complete, upload, call home, then I should be able to put the batch of WCG and PrimeGrid I am crunching now back in, and keep network activity suspended until I can upload both projects. (If that makes any sense) Unfortunately I have about a three hour window to do this, before the ~80 units I already have done miss deadline, and I won't be home at the time. Hopefully I have this VNC stuff all setup right, have done remote administration a million times, just never served from the home network.