Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of SingleJob

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03/30/09 11:07:08 (8 months ago)
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    33BOINC is designed to handle streams of millions of jobs. 
    4 It takes some work to set up a stream: you need to fiddle around with 
    5 apps and app versions, WU and result templates, validators and assimilators, etc. 
     4It takes some work to set up a stream: you need to create 
     5apps and app versions, WU and result templates, validators, assimilators, etc. 
    66 
    7 However, the '''single job submission''' system lets you run a job remotely without any of this hassle. 
     7BOINC's '''single job submission''' mechanism lets you run a job remotely without any of this hassle. 
    88To do this, configure your BOINC server to handle single jobs (see below). 
    99Set the environment variable BOINC_PROJECT_DIR to the root directory of the project. 
    1919 '''--outfile name''':: specifies an output file. 
    2020 '''--stdout name''':: direct the program's stdout to the given file. 
    21  '''--platform''':: the program is to be run on the given [[BoincPlatforms platform]] (default: i686-pc-linux-gnu). 
     21 '''--platform''':: the [[BoincPlatforms platform]] on which the program is to be run (default: i686-pc-linux-gnu). 
    2222 
    2323You can include as many --infile and --outfile options as you want, 
    6161After you do this, re-run the '''single_job_setup.php''' script as above. 
    6262 
     63== Job estimates and limits == 
     64 
     65Jobs submitted this way will have the following parameters: 
     66 
     67 * processing estimate: 1 GFLOPS-hour 
     68 * processing bound: 1 GFLOPS-day 
     69 * memory bound: 500MB 
     70 * disk bound: 1GB 
     71 * delay bound: 1 week 
     72 
     73You can change these by editing the boinc_submit script. 
     74 
    6375== Notes == 
    6476 
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