As many of you know WCG has now given us the opportunity to once again crunch cancer work units.
The down side to this is that the project requires some rather healthy system specifications that a number of machines may not meet.
Namely that being 750MB of RAM minimum.
What this means is that anyone who wants to focus primarily on cancer but has a crunching herd with equipment that doesn't come up to specifications will either lose the crunching power of the machines that are lacking or they are forced to check multiple projects in their WCG profile in which case all their machines would get mixed work units rather than focusing on a primary project.
Having a couple of machines that are memory deficient myself I experimented and what I learned is that as long as you are using the BOINC client you can keep HDC (cancer) checked as your only crunching choice in your BOINC/WCG profile
(not applicable to those crunching using the WCG/UD client) but if you also check the box in there that says to allow other projects if HDC should run out of work the deficient machines will then download work from the other projects and continue to crunch.
This way my best equipment is all running HDC (cancer) and the other three right now are showing FAAH work units in progress whereas when I first made the change I lost those three machines.
Just thought this might help someone out.
