Power Management

Many people and companies want finer gain controls put into BOINC for better power management. We need to identify the various scenarios people and companies want to support before we can put together a plan to address them.

Power Policies

• BOINC should never change an operating system setting.

Usage Scenarios

Below is a list of scenarios we need to support:

• Company X wants to impose a company mandate that machines should go to sleep 30 minutes after the user goes inactive.

  TODO: BOINC already has the 'Suspend work if no mouse/keyboard activity in last X Minutes' preference, how does this differ?
  

• Local power company declares energy alert for a hot afternoon. User wishes to snooze BOINC until 8PM, the general time that power demand subsides.