multiple computers - one account??

Jimbo
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Just a quick newbie question here... if I am going to be running Einstein@home on several computers (just happen to be on the same network also) should I have multiple accounts? ... or should I just stick with the one I have already created and just feed the same info into each seperate computer?

Ocean Archer
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multiple computers - one account??

Jimbo --

Use the same name and account code for each machine. The system will keep track of them for you...


If I've lived this long - I gotta be that old!

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RE: Jimbo -- Use the same

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Jimbo --

Use the same name and account code for each machine. The system will keep track of them for you...

Thanks!

Gary Roberts
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Also, if you install one

Also, if you install one machine first and get it all setup correctly with the preferences and projects you desire you can just copy a couple of files from the running version and preload them into a precreated installation folder on each subsequent machine. That way all the configuration will happen automagically as you run the install program on each successive box.

The files you need are the account_*.xml files (one for each installed project) and the folders like einstein.phys.uwm.edu which you will find as sub-folders in the projects folder. With this latter one, populate the sub-folder with files like sun, earth, config_* etc and the science app but leave out the very large data file(s) like w1_xxx.yy that you might find as you do need to download a new one of those for each box. However the other configuration and executable files are standard and you will save repeated downloads of them if you preinstall them for the new installation to find.

The above details apply to EAH but the real savings would come if you were going to setup multiple projects on each box. You can repeat the above EAH instructions for each separate project and have the lot fire up during the BOINC install. It really saves a lot of time.

Cheers,
Gary.

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