How long does an Astropulse workunit take to run?
The run times compared to SETI@home enhanced are long (sometimes a week or more), but you should receive the same number of credits per second for astropulse as for seti@home. credits/time should be in line with those using the default enhanced MB application. The initial deadline for Astropulse tasks will be 14 days. This will be kept under review by Dr. Eric Korpela and the Seti team. If the server believes that your computer is not fast enough to complete an Astropulse workunit within that deadline, you won’t receive Astropulse workunits. Long Term Debt For those attached to more than one Project, due to the long processing times, you may run up a high Long Term Debt (LTD) on Seti. This can mean that Astropulse will need to run at High Priority (EDF or Panic mode) and then pay back time to the other project(s). Therefore BOINC will not download any more Seti tasks until LTD is lowered. You may want to consider increasing Seti’s resource share if this bothers you.
