1) Message boards : Questions and problems : Out-of-BOINC tasks downloading and adding then files to BOINC. (Message 30689) Posted 26 Jan 2010 by AlexNG Post: I have heavy INet restrictions at office (can't download files larger than 2Mb and big 400-500Mb traffic of multiple small files will also be punished) while I would like to participate in distributed computing. I see that many projects like climateprediction.net, rosetta etc have large files (3-20Mb+) in downloads required, and total task download traffic can consume these 400-500Mb. How can I download task files separately and feed them to BOINC so it will start to do the task ? What about output data size estimation, will it be of same size so require separate uploading procedure again ? Can you advise me API documentation on tasks requesting ? I hope such out-of-BOINC download can/will be implemented.

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