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theking2

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Message 84917 - Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 16:26:59 UTC

At our institute we have daily logon to the firewall to make the internet accessible. This is find during the week but in the weekend if often happens that a project unit of work is finished but no new work can be downloaded. Is there a way to configure the amount of work that is downloaded, and cached, so that the pipeline always stays full?
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Profile Jord
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Message 84918 - Posted: 26 Feb 2018, 18:06:14 UTC - in response to Message 84917.  

Computing Preferences.
Store at least N days of work.
Store up to an additional N days of work.

Some projects, like Seti and Milkyway (I think) have a hard coded amount of work you can download, being for Seti 100 for CPU (no matter how many you have, or how many cores) and 100 per GPU; Milkyway was 6, I think. But you'll have to wait for someone to confirm that.
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Message 84922 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 9:04:35 UTC

Counter intuitive, but setting a small "store additional days work" will allow you to have a continuously "full" cache (as set by the "store N days work" or project limit), as this triggers a call for work at every opportunity, while a large "store additional days work" will only call for work when the cache is below that trigger limit...
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Message 84937 - Posted: 27 Feb 2018, 18:11:33 UTC

MW limit is 80 tasks per GPU. Similar to Seti, just a bit lower.
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