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85 lines
2.8 KiB
PHP
85 lines
2.8 KiB
PHP
<?php
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require_once("docutil.php");
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page_head("Participating in multiple projects");
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echo "
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<p>
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You can join a second and subsequent projects as follows.
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<ol>
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<li> Visit the second project's web site and create an account.
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You don't have to use the same email address,
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but if you do so the accounts will be 'coupled'
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in terms of preferences and statistics.
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<li> Receive an email containing an account key.
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<li> Paste the account key into the project's web site
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to complete the account creation.
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<li> Run the BOINC client, and select the <b>Attach to Project</b> command.
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Enter the project's URL and your account key.
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</ol>
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<h2>General preferences</h2>
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<p>
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Each BOINC project has its own database and servers.
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Each account has its own copy of your
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<a href=prefs.php>general preferences</a>.
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When you edit your general preferences on a particular project,
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initially it changes only that one account.
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However, BOINC will eventually
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<ol>
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<li> propagate the new preferences to all computers
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attached to that account, and
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<li> propagate the new preferences to all
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accounts that are 'coupled' to the first one
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(i.e. that have the same email address,
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and have at least one computer attached to both accounts).
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</ol>
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This propagation is 'piggybacked' onto the
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scheduler requests between your computers and project servers.
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You can accelerate the propagation by using
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the Update command in the BOINC Manager.
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<p>
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Be careful about editing general preferences at different projects.
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If you change your general preferences at project A,
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then edit them at project B before the first changes have propagated there,
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the second changes will overwrite the first.
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To avoid this, pick a 'home project' and do all your edits there.
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<h2>Host location</h2>
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<p>
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Each host attached to a project has its own
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record in the database of that project;
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this record includes the location (home/work/school) of the host.
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BOINC doesn't try to make these agree -
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it's possible that a given host has location 'work'
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on project A, and location 'school' on project B.
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When the BOINC Manager starts up, it shows you
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that locations of the host on all the projects
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to which it's attached.
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<p>
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A host's location on a given project determines which
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project preferences are used:
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i.e., if a host has location 'home' an project A,
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and you've defined separate project preferences for 'home',
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it will use those preferences.
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<p>
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The choice of general preferences (if you've defined
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separate preferences) is determined by
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the host's location on the project from which the
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general preferences were propagated,
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i.e. from the project where you last edited them.
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So if you edit your general preferences on project A,
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a host's location on project A is 'work',
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and you've defined separate general preferences for 'work',
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the host will use those.
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";
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page_tail();
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?>
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