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Message 24484 - Posted: 1 Oct 2006, 17:36:24 UTC

Can I put Boinc on a pen drive and let run climateprediction on two PC alternatively ???
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Message 24485 - Posted: 1 Oct 2006, 18:01:47 UTC
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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.

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Message 24490 - Posted: 1 Oct 2006, 19:21:09 UTC

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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