Good morning from Italy and thank for this so important initiative.

I have to ask if could be implemented a way to manage the workload of the CPU, to permit various level of its management.

Considering the size of each task, requesting several hours to complete, in this particular moment of health emergency I'm worried about the chance that some CPU could get a bit overstressed in olders PC System, this way risking malfunctions from overheating problems.

In other words, it could be useful to choose a maximum limit of CPU workload (for example 90% or less) to help all users in preventing overheating malfunctions.

Thanks again for all you do, my best wishes.

That's already built into BOINC.
Computing Preferences, Use at most N % of CPU time.

Set this to 50% and for every 10 seconds BOINC will pause computations for 5 seconds, run them for the other 5 seconds.
You can also limit the amount of CPU cores with the Use at most N % of the CPUs option.

And if you require a better temperature based option, do look at the excellent 3rd party Tthrottle from https://efmer.com/.

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Great, that's perfect.

Just experimented succesfully, thanks a lot!