bcavnaugh
How do I bunker?
Thank you bcavnaugh for that question. I wish someone asked that before the Pentathlon.
I'm no Tech buff, but I had to try my best once. After this I've given it thoughts, both morally and tactically.
I'll share my Limited knowledge, and I hope others will fill in, both With tip's and thoughts.
Basically, bunkering is to collect. Collect WU's, crunch them, but not deliver untill a spesific time/ date.
You download wu's.
Your computer will crunch as normal, all the WU's in the buffer.
Then, after the max download, you stop the network Activity in Boinc Manager:
In BOINC Manager/Activity/Network Activity Suspended
When this is checked, no WU's will be either downloaded or uploaded. This Counts for ALL project's !!
When you, let's say after 2day's check "Network Activity based on preferences" again, Your BOINC manager will upload ready WU's, and download New ones.
You have now delivered two day's Worth of work, all at once, a two day's bunker.
Before I og further into this, a Word about moral and ethics around this.
During the Pentathlon, I was presented this tachtic.
I was wondering, "Is this right?" Is this ethically and morally ok considering what we do ??
After some thinking, I had the final answer...... YES !!!!
See, some Challenges is based on how many wu's you can crunch within a Limited time. Typically for Prime Grid. Only the credit's downloaded AFTER a specified time and crunched ready WITHIN a specified time will Count.
Imagine this..... A Money collecting charity event.... "We will only Accept the Money you have earned between monday to Friday"
"So, you don't Accept my savings?"
I Guess you get my drift.
Projects have different approach to Challenges.
Yes, it has been cheating issues, but as long as Our credits cannot be changed in hard cash.... no actual problem.
Most Challenges compete about doing as much work for a specified Project as possible.... period.
So what's wrong about using Our savings???
Now, for some serious saving....
Hardcore crunchers like us should master the art of serious bunkering, meaning.....
Projects usually allow 10 days of work buffer, but default is 1 day.
So we must change this.
This is how and where to do this:
I take GPUGRID as an example (That's what I have available)
In "Your Account" in the actual Project:
Under "Preferences" and within "When and how BOINC uses Your computer"
Click low on the side, "Edit Preferences"
See the upper setting:
"Computer is Connected to Internet about every" ..... I have changed this from 1 day (Default) to 10 days (10 day's is Max)
Now the Project wants to Ensure you 10 day's of work.
BUT you need to change one more setting....
In Your BOINC Manager....
Under "Tools" and under "Computing Preferences" you will see this:
Now, change the "Minimum Work Buffer" to 10 days (As Shown), and "Minimum Additional Work Buffer" to 3 day's (As Shown).
This will prevent BOINC to limit the project's preferences.
Now, you should be all set to receive a 10 day's of work.
Remember, you will probably not receive 10 day's Worth of WU's right away.
If you have a lot of Projects onging, the Project may reject Downing more wu's due to the Resource share. It may say "Will not fetch more work, don't need".
This might be because of many Projects in the BOINC manager, and it will not read the actual Space for WU's.
You may have to clean up the Project's in the BOINC manager.
Also, it may take some time, (a day or two) before the Project give you a full 10 day buffer of work.
Therefore, prepare in good time.
This Method of crunching has advantages and limitations.
The advantages is that you might deliver a 10 day's Worth of WU's the first day of the Challenge. They who master this, get's a head start.
I Guess SETI.Germany have this in their Pocket already.
Downsides..
You stop all network communication, meaning no communication With other Projects.
No credit's update for as long as you bunker.
You must mind the deadlines, get to know the project' WU deadlines.
Upsides..
The feeling of be diciplined enough to sit on a BOMB of WU's
The revealing feeling of unleash thousands or perhaps millions of Points, right in the face of Our competitors.
See how the list of WU's pile up in "Unsent" in the BOINC manager.
Posting on Our forum..... "Fire in the Hole" or "INCOOOMING"
We will most likely land in the top 5 right away( or better), and With a reasonable chanche to stay there.
We will show Our competitors that Team EVGA is a bunch of hardcore crunchers, small enough to have a Nice and personal forum, but big enough to punish the biggest out there.
Yup, that's all I know about about bunkering I Guess
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