Many of us have been using BOINC for some time. What many of us noticed is: "when running same application in BOINC, the work gets done slower!"


The idea is to make new command in cc_config.xml that can regulate that. For example it would be writen like this:
<avoid_run_same_app>0|1</avoid_run_same_app>

That command will avoid running same application in the same time, and doing so making BOINC more efficient! But that command will not prevent to run the same applications, if they are downloaded & ready to start crunching. The command only is here to speed up the slow-downs, when the same applications are running on one computer (either in quad-core, dual-core, core2duo, quad-CPU or dual-CPU computers), in other word to make BOINC more efficient in this modern days when crunching dual jobs is normal...


Does it sound Logical at all?

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BOINC qualifications for Croatia for WCG.

It's way more complex than that. Running two applications (or two instances of the same application) that make heavy use of the CPU cache is the problem.

You would need a list of what apps play nice when running together with what other apps, and quite complex code to choose what app to run based on that list.

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