Availability of tasks
Fri, 2009-07-24 13:26
I think it's time now to bring this up.
I already wondered far earlier why the creation of WUs isn't like on BURP. The WUs here are always available in cascades like on some other usual projects, just like they would be generated time after time.
On BURP it's completely different. All WUs are generated before giving them out and then you can see in a status field how much are still available.
Two renders are in progress right now, but I only got 1 WU so far because of that, even with a high ressource share. Seems I don't have luck. ;-)
Can you explain why WUs are generated this way? And would it be possible to make it like BURP?
From what I understand, this is because ORE (renderfarm.fi?) has a newer version of boinc on their servers. The idea behind this one is that it generates WUs as they are needed. I have too found that I don't always get all of my WUs, but usually doing and update in BOINC will solve the problem for me.
~What would be nice is to see the number of how many WUs are left, even if they are not created - I liked that number to look at, Istvan.