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Questions and Answers : Preferences : Boinc on a pen drive
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Send message Joined: 1 Sep 06 Posts: 1 Credit: 1,488,924 RAC: 1,647 |
Can I put Boinc on a pen drive and let run climateprediction on two PC alternatively ??? Thanks for your answer. |
 astroWXSend message Joined: 5 Aug 04 Posts: 1496 Credit: 95,522,203 RAC: 0 |
Welcome to the Boards, Guzzi. It could be done but would use the little drive in a way not intended. (I think it would be easier in Linux than Windoze, thanks to the Windoze Registry.) In additioon to being CPU intensive, CPDN also does a job on the hard drive, though it now has a bit lighter touch than in \"Slab\" days -- relatively speaking. It would probably be painfully slow. If it were me, I\'d give each machine its own work -- assuming each runs several hours, at least -- daily. [Edited for typo.] "We have met the enemy and he is us." -- Pogo Greetings from coastal Washington state, the scenic US Pacific Northwest. |
Pooh Bear 27 Send message Joined: 5 Feb 05 Posts: 465 Credit: 1,914,189 RAC: 0 |
Also flash drives have limited writes. So, if you hit that limit, you would lose data. That would be nasty if you were working on a coupled model getting to a point and then it fails, because it no longer can write. Months of work, dead. 
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