I'm running 4 projects, one of which (climateprediction.net)tends to always have deadlines months in the future. My suggestion is simply to allow the user to specify which tasks/projects to run at any moment based on deadline, instead of equal time as is now apparently the case.

Suggested quite a lot of times, but will never be added. The work scheduler will run work in first in, first out mode. If it were to run based on deadline alone, and one would add Malaria (3 days) and Climate Prediction (1 year), it would run only Malaria up till the point where it wouldn't be able to finish the CPDN models anymore due to severe time constraints.

BOINC manages all those things fine enough, giving you time to do something useful with your life for the rest of the day.

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