Posts by Martin Ruck

1) Questions and Answers : Windows : Unreasonably short deadlines (Message 30074) Posted 1 Sep 2009 by Martin Ruck Post: Thanks again. The optmised apps certainly help things - I tried both sse4.2 and sse2. sse2 seems marginally better and turns work units round in about 75 min. I'll stick with it for now...
2) Questions and Answers : Windows : Unreasonably short deadlines (Message 29858) Posted 28 Aug 2009 by Martin Ruck Post: Thanks banditwolf. I infer from your reply that this project is not suitable for people who have relatively slow individual machines that are sometimes switched off. Perhaps it would help to state that clearly somewhere: I don't have the time or inclination to trawl through pages of forum posts hoping to find an answer to my question. I like this project as it's close to my own interests, but I don't want to waste my CPU time. I think I'll switch to something that is more flexible.
3) Questions and Answers : Windows : Unreasonably short deadlines (Message 29740) Posted 26 Aug 2009 by Martin Ruck Post: Two days offline for a weekend break, I switch on my laptop again and resume the task I was running. It completes after 5 hours of processing and reports, but alas 15 minutes after the deadline. Then I get the error message "result not needed" - because someone with a super-fast whizzy machine (which they, no doubt, don't own) has picked up the "late" task and done the whole thing in 6 minutes. I am annoyed. Why should my work be wasted just because I am 15 minutes late? I could have told you I was about to finish... Can you not give longer deadlines and/or the ability to schedule in downtime on users' computers?