I'd like to do some configuration on on the the BOINC projects.

Is there a way to manually pull one one job from a project and repeatedly run it to completion in different configurations. I don't care if the results are reported.

Thanks

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Yes. The volunteer developers for the SETI@Home project have a sophisticated bench testing tool which allows chosen tasks to be run repeatedly, using different versions of the SETI scientific application and different configurations. The tool monitors and reports both the run time of each test, and the accuracy of the results generated compared to a reference result.

The version I know only runs on Windows: it's basically a batch file, with a few small command-line apps to handle things like the accuracy test.

A tool like that would only work for the specific project it was designed for, so you should ask at SETI if you're interested. At the moment the project is going through a fairly mature, settled, phase, so there's not much development work going on: but there is preliminary work active at the moment in preparation for bringing a new data source online, so the applications may need to be tweaked again soon, and that should bring the developers out of hibernation.