Hi, I'm participating in Rosetta's CoVID19 project and the World Community Grid Open Pandemics project using the BOINC client. What are the Rosetta work units having my system do? For sometime the Rosetta work units require 3 or more days for my system to complete and at times receive priority over the Open Pandemic work units. I'm not using a Thread-ripper caliber system but my system has reasonable specifications. i7 8550U 1.8Ghz with 16GB DDR4, a SATA SSD and only an integrated Intel UHD 620 graphics controller. I'm also running folding @ home in its own client. The Rosetta work units didn't start out being so intensive. What has changed?

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Phill

I believe Rosetta looks at the process of how the virus works to try and find a way to stop or slow it down, each workunit has a 3 day deadline so it's best to have a small cache of workunits, very small in your case as you are running both WCG and Rosetta at the same time. The deadline is needed as the next batch of work is based on the last batches results, the faster the results come back the faster things move forward.

Hi Digi-U,
Your Folding wu, at Medium setting will probably be trying to use 6 of your 8 logical cores. Boinc can't see that so IT will also be trying to use as many cores as you allow it which will be slowing down work across ALL projects. You could try either limiting Folding to the Light setting to reduce its core use or limit Boinc to fewer cores, OR BOTH so that your cores are better allocated without so much competition for resources.
Setting Folding to Light will slow down the current task but the timeout for subsequent tasks will be adjusted accordingly.

Thanks very much = )