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RE: "For the betterment of BOINC" - Post suggestions on how to improve BOINC!
It would be nice that there would be more control over how each of the project tasks are prioritized. Right now if you suspend processing and then resume it, it would sometimes start a new task instead of working on the one already in progress. Adding something like "order" and ability drag individual tasks in the tasks list (advanced view), to change that order, would be a nice addition.
It would also be nice that in projects view you could also see number of available tasks for each project so not to wonder if it's something on your end.
Having more control over GPU utilization so that it wouldn't go to 100%, when working on certain tasks, would also be a plus.
Yeah, currently when doing GPU work it's a matter of 'Is or isn't crunching on GPU with full capacity' rather than 'use 10% of my GPU for this work unit'. I believe that this would require the project itself to limit the GPU utilization somehow through an introduce field on the boinc project website, as it'd be difficult for the BOINC client to reduce the resource utilization of a GPU work unit.
A summary of available work would be great, currently the best place to view this information is on gridcoinstats.eu
There is the alternative BOINC client 'Boinctasks' which may be able to provide you better control over work units, but you're right it can jump to a different project and leave a work unit for a previous project in a half completed state.
You can specify resource share within the boinc projects, so as to prioritize one project over another but you'll still get the half-way work unit issue.