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Message 638 - Posted: 1 Oct 2005, 21:04:23 UTC

Is there a way to do a shared installation so that several machines could utilize a network share for the work units? Computers A,B, and C could dip into the available work pool for units that need done, A could finish partially completed results that C started, etc...This would also save on disk space overall.....

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Message 640 - Posted: 2 Oct 2005, 2:04:32 UTC

No, all computers download their own work units into their own cache.

Unlike Classic where it didn't matter which computer ran which unit - giving the option for one computer to re-run the unit 67 times without a problem, in Boinc's version of Seti (and all other projects) the work unit is registered to the computer that downloaded it. That same computer must also upload it.

So a dipping pool cache is not possible.
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