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Message 83010 - Posted: 17 Nov 2017, 3:17:10 UTC
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I would like to suggest this to be on the next modification of the BOINC Manager Program. Each time that the program is run, that the program checks all of the Task to be run, and the Task that are running, to make sure that the Date and Time of those Task have not expired. If the Date or Time has Expired for a Task, to delete those Task automatically!

This will prevent the Client’s Computer from wasting time processing Task, that will be rejected upon the completion of that Task. This will save a lot of wasted processing time on the Clients Computer. Worldwide, this will save tens of thousands of hours (and probably more) of wasted computer time.

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Message 83015 - Posted: 17 Nov 2017, 8:10:45 UTC - in response to Message 83010.  

BOINC already does this, at each start-up and just prior to the start of each task. It may run tasks that have started already that are past deadline to the end, but any other non-started task past the deadline it will auto-abort. All other tasks close to their deadline will be run in EDF (Earliest Deadline First) mode, which if they are with many, may cause some of them to be over their deadline by the time they're finished.

Want to see how BOINC does that? Enable the rr_simulation flag in the Event Log Options (in the Options menu).
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Message 83020 - Posted: 17 Nov 2017, 13:24:23 UTC - in response to Message 83019.  

But yes, a client side option to always abort tasks that are overdue, started or not, would allow those who worry about this fringe waste to stop these.
That would mean that for some projects with very large tasks (like ClimatePrediction.net) good work is wasted because BOINC will abort work still being worked on, but over a deadline. CPDN is one of the projects that don't really have a deadline, where all returned work, whether it was crunched in a month or in a year, is still viable and will get credit.
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