Posts by UltraDMA

1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Multiple sporadic computers on same data dir? (Message 89662)
Posted 17 Jan 2019 by UltraDMA
Post:
Hello Ageless,

thanks for this insight.

You write "... you can run and finish work started on one computer on another computer ...".

Taking this into account - would the following work?

Install BOINC on all computers ... assigning same BOINC account.

One computer "Master" stays normal and runs permanently. All others ("Slave-x, -y, ...") are forbidden to send data into the Internet but still can see the data directory of the Master.
Now, sporadically ...:
Slave-x boots, checks the WUs in the Master's data directory, and moves one which has not recently been updated into its own data directory.
Slave-x starts BOINC.
At a shutdown request, Slave-x stops BOINC and associated projects, moves the WU to the Master's data directory (leaving its own data directory free of any WUs) and shuts down.

Cheers,
UltraDMA.
2) Message boards : Questions and problems : Multiple sporadic computers on same data dir? (Message 89660)
Posted 17 Jan 2019 by UltraDMA
Post:
Hello *,

I found some hints how to run multiple computers on the same account but they all expect each computer to have its own data directory. This does not fit to my szenario ... which is:

I have some computers and I don't know when which one starts up and stops. But when running they shall do some BOINC work.
One of the computer starts up and starts processing a work unit, shuts down and starts up some days later ... when the partially processed WU would already be overdue and dropped by the server. It is probable that in-between some other computer of the pool started, which easily could have continued processing the already begun WU. But it can't see that WU. It could have done so if the work units of all computers would be situated in the same common data directory.

Is this configurable?

Cheers,
UltraDMA.



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