Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of SingleJob

Timestamp:

Mar 30, 2009, 11:07:08 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

davea

Comment:

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SingleJob

@@ -2 +2 @@
 
 BOINC is designed to handle streams of millions of jobs.
-It takes some work to set up a stream: you need to fiddle around with
-apps and app versions, WU and result templates, validators and assimilators, etc.
+It takes some work to set up a stream: you need to create
+apps and app versions, WU and result templates, validators, assimilators, etc.
 
-However, the '''single job submission''' system lets you run a job remotely without any of this hassle.
+BOINC's '''single job submission''' mechanism lets you run a job remotely without any of this hassle.
 To do this, configure your BOINC server to handle single jobs (see below).
 Set the environment variable BOINC_PROJECT_DIR to the root directory of the project.
@@ -19 +19 @@
  '''--outfile name''':: specifies an output file.
  '''--stdout name''':: direct the program's stdout to the given file.
- '''--platform''':: the program is to be run on the given [[BoincPlatforms platform]] (default: i686-pc-linux-gnu).
+ '''--platform''':: the [[BoincPlatforms platform]] on which the program is to be run (default: i686-pc-linux-gnu).
 
 You can include as many --infile and --outfile options as you want,
@@ -61 +61 @@
 After you do this, re-run the '''single_job_setup.php''' script as above.
 
+== Job estimates and limits ==
+
+Jobs submitted this way will have the following parameters:
+
+ * processing estimate: 1 GFLOPS-hour
+ * processing bound: 1 GFLOPS-day
+ * memory bound: 500MB
+ * disk bound: 1GB
+ * delay bound: 1 week
+
+You can change these by editing the boinc_submit script.
+
 == Notes ==