Now that the Boinc SIMAP project has come to an end on the BOINC platform, Boinc is saying that Rosetta & WCG aren't the highest priority projects and wanting to fill with SIMAP tasks that'll never come through. How do I tell Boinc to ignore SIMAP? Do I just set it to "No New Tasks" or is there a better way?

Fwiw I'm looking to replace SIMAP with the Malaria project - just as a back-up. Does anyone have any better suggestions for a practical science project that I should consider?

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Use the "Detach" button in your BOINC Manager (Projects tab).

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Fwiw I'm looking to replace SIMAP with the Malaria project - just as a back-up. Does anyone have any better suggestions for a practical science project that I should consider?

POEM@home, perhaps? They are looking at protein folding from a different angle to Rosetta.

Use the "Detach" button in your BOINC Manager (Projects tab).

I don't have detach (Boinc 7.4.27) but I guess that's "Remove". I kind of want to still show it in Boinc as a past project though and I'm guessing "Remove" does what the name implies.

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Fwiw I'm looking to replace SIMAP with the Malaria project - just as a back-up. Does anyone have any better suggestions for a practical science project that I should consider?

POEM@home, perhaps? They are looking at protein folding from a different angle to Rosetta.

Pretty good. I'll keep that in mind for the future. Thanks.

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Use the "Detach" button in your BOINC Manager (Projects tab).

I don't have detach (Boinc 7.4.27) but I guess that's "Remove". I kind of want to still show it in Boinc as a past project though and I'm guessing "Remove" does what the name implies.

Yes, remove serves the same purpose as detatch.

You could set "no new tasks" but your system will continue to routinely try to check in with the SIMAP server for updates even though it won't try to download anything. It won't happen too often as your systems should learn to back off from the server, but it will take up a tiny amount of bandwidth and processing power as well as clogging your Event log with redundant entries.

BOINC stats will continue to remember your old project data despite it being removed from your BOINC Manager. I have five projects listed at BOINC stats despite only having three active in my BOINC Manager at this time.

You could set "no new tasks" but your system will continue to routinely try to check in with the SIMAP server for updates even though it won't try to download anything.

Only if the project uses <next_rpc_delay>. You can check that in the corresponding sched_reply_#project.url#.xml (in BOINC data dir). I'm not sure, but in this case suspending the project in addition to NNT might fix it. But as others has said, there's no reason to keep a dead project in BOINC Manager, that's only additional load for the client.

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You could set "no new tasks" but your system will continue to routinely try to check in with the SIMAP server for updates even though it won't try to download anything.

Only if the project uses <next_rpc_delay>. You can check that in the corresponding sched_reply_#project.url#.xml (in BOINC data dir). I'm not sure, but in this case suspending the project in addition to NNT might fix it. But as others has said, there's no reason to keep a dead project in BOINC Manager, that's only additional load for the client.

Ok, I'll remove it. Boinc has enough problems already without me making it worse. Thanks all.

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