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Michael

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Message 30799 - Posted: 4 Feb 2010, 14:21:54 UTC

I recently installed BOINC and I am happy that I can contribute to the effort.
I was assigned a task that will require 141 hours to complete and I know that since I will be leaving town in a couple days, that this task will not be able to complete by the time I leave. What is the proper way to handle this? Should I care? Is there a way to either refuse a task, "send it back" or can I limit the maximum run-time of tasks, when I know I will not be able to give it the time required?
Thanks.
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Les Bayliss
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Message 30800 - Posted: 4 Feb 2010, 15:30:45 UTC - in response to Message 30799.  

Which Project?

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Michael

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Message 30817 - Posted: 5 Feb 2010, 13:46:50 UTC - in response to Message 30800.  

The project is SETI@home.
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Richard Haselgrove
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Message 30819 - Posted: 5 Feb 2010, 14:17:34 UTC

Let it run for a while, and watch how the estimate changes. No SETI task (not even the Astropulse ones, recently re-released) should actually take as long as that.

But if it looks as if it's really going to over-run, set 'No New Tasks' (to avoid getting another one), and abort it - there are plenty of volunteers at SETI who will be glad of the resend.

Click 'update project' (to tell the servers that you don't need the task anymore), and enjoy your holiday.
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