Is it possible to run BOINC calculations without network connection?

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santaclaes

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Message 16849 - Posted: 25 Apr 2008, 7:55:04 UTC

I have a bunch of computers on a private network.
Is it some how possible to download input files for later transportation to the private network and then vice-versa?
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Message 16853 - Posted: 25 Apr 2008, 11:48:42 UTC - in response to Message 16849.  

I have a bunch of computers on a private network.
Is it some how possible to download input files for later transportation to the private network and then vice-versa?

That seems to be very complicated. Perhaps this thread can help.

In this thread the use of USB sticks is described.

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Message 17049 - Posted: 1 May 2008, 21:57:15 UTC

you can install 17 copies of BOINC onto a USB stick, and then just share it on one PC on the LAN and then have each computer run one copy. Due to the disk space requirements of BOINC, and the limited read/write speeds of flash (when 17 PCs are vying for one flash drive), and the somewhat limited number of writes flash can handle, copying them all to a folder on a hard drive and sharing that would probably be better.

BOINCView will let you control all of the machines from one console relatively easily too. If you create two BOINC folders per PC then at the end of each week you can switch each PC from running from BOINC folder 1 to BOINC folder 2, take BOINC folder 1 home to upload/download, and then reverse the process for folder two the following week.

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