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Message 92929 - Posted: 30 Mar 2005, 21:53:49 UTC

What happens if you go past the return date with a file?
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Message 92938 - Posted: 30 Mar 2005, 22:03:57 UTC - in response to Message 92929.  

> What happens if you go past the return date with a file?

If you pass the deadline you most likely will not geet credit ...

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Message 93136 - Posted: 31 Mar 2005, 5:31:16 UTC

You will get credit if credit has not yet been granted. If credit has been granted you will get no credit.
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Message 93286 - Posted: 31 Mar 2005, 14:43:09 UTC

To follow up... You get credit if either of the following conditions are met:
1) You are one of the first three to return the WU
2) You return the WU within your deadline

This ensures that even if you return your WU after the deadline you'll get credit for it if it was used for the quorum. Even if a quorom has been formed, you still get credit if you return your WU within your deadline.
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Message 93932 - Posted: 2 Apr 2005, 9:53:59 UTC - in response to Message 93286.  


> This ensures that even if you return your WU after the deadline you'll get
> credit for it if it was used for the quorum.

You may want to take a look at this WU from Einstein to confirm this. The last result has certainly been returned after the deadline (sent on 21 Mar 2005 6:42:40 UTC, which means that the deadline was 28 Mar 2005 6:42:40 UTC, returned on 28 Mar 2005 19:01:07 UTC) but still got credit because it got to be the last in the quorum.

> Even if a quorom has been formed, you still get credit if you return your
> WU within your deadline.

So what happens to this last WU later on? We know it gets credit, and the cruncher is happy, but is it any useful for scientific purposes after the quorum has been formed and canonical result has been chosen? Is it used in later stages of the project for further analysis or just trashed away?

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Message 93975 - Posted: 2 Apr 2005, 12:03:17 UTC - in response to Message 93932.  

> So what happens to this last WU later on? We know it gets credit, and the
> cruncher is happy, but is it any useful for scientific purposes after the
> quorum has been formed and canonical result has been chosen? Is it used in
> later stages of the project for further analysis or just trashed away?

It is discarded, the only data saved is the information for the canonical result. Of course, if they wished to repeat the test, the WU can be recovered and re-run ...

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