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| 2 | BOF 2: (BATCH SCHEDULING) |
| 3 | use BOINC's reliable mechanism to improve turn around on important workunits |
| 4 | set server parameters to escalate priority of additional results generated for a workunit, these get sent to clients which return work quickly and reliably |
| 5 | |
| 6 | tell the hosts to communicate with server every X days |
| 7 | if a host doesn't communicate with the server within that time frame (maybe + Y), good chance it's gone |
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| 9 | how can we tell that a computer will be around? |
| 10 | keep track of uptime |
| 11 | many are not around on weekends |
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| 13 | }}} |