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Message 41623 - Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 22:40:19 UTC

hi. I'm new. Set up BOINC on 3 computers, but turns out one of them is too old and feeble to make any progress. the time remaining just kept getting bigger and bigger over 3 days. so I retired that PC: I removed all projects and uninstalled BOINC. But now I see that PC is still in my account and still has tasks pending. Sorry! I thought removing a project would let the project team know. I can't figure out how to remove this PC frpm my account, or otherwise cancel those tasks. Sorry about that.
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Message 41624 - Posted: 20 Aug 2010, 23:11:47 UTC - in response to Message 41623.  

Hi Michael, don't worry and no need to feel sorry. The server will just wait until the deadline on the 27th and send the task to another participant. Such things happen a thousand times every day on the BOINC networks and therefore BOINC servers are designed to cope with it.

Btw, you could have forced the server to resend the task faster by aborting every single task before detaching from the project. But that's not necessary.

I guess that old computer is a laptop. If you still use it for other things you might want to look into some projects which don't require much processing power or don't use the full cpu load at all. Projects like HAL@Home, WUProp@Home or the Quake Catcher Network run happily in the background, the last requires additional hardware however. Projects like Spinhenge, malariacontrol.net or Simap usually have short running tasks which can be calculated from time to time if the laptop is in use.

Just click on my name and you find quite a lot of projects to choose from... ;-) (not all are still online, however, but you'll see).
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