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Being a new guy, just started about 2 hours ago, I have a question about work units.

I'd like to queue them up. Is this possible? My reason is that shortly I will be taking this computer, a portable, on the road so to speak. I will be cut off from internet access for periods of 3 to 7 days at a stretch. However, while not actually in motion the computer will be running 24X7 and only be playing MP3's for the most part.

Sorry, but no queuing allowed.

Progress on future WU's depends on getting back the current ones in process as their initial conditions of each WU depend on the previous WU in each series. So a delay of a few days on just one WU would only hold up one series until it was turned in or reassigned to another person to do. Delaying a whole group would have much more impact on the progress of the research. So the client is not setup for queueing a number of WU's to process later. Besides causing a WU to be reassigned, any WU's you had longer than their preferred deadline would only earn you base points on return if that was before the final deadline.

Joe_H wrote:... a delay of a few days on just one WU would only hold up one series until it was turned in or reassigned to another person to do....

Note that queuing up even one extra WU means that that not only you won't be working on it, but since it would be assigned to you, nobody else can be working on it. Every WU is unique.