It is an old WU, but I just noticed that this WU which is one of the ones I reported in the "report your ~6 month old dead WU here" thread was actually sent to the same system twice.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=521960

What are the odds of this happening? Would the validator take into account if a WU was sent to the same system twice?

I am curious :-)

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What if they were seperate but identical hosts that were merged together after the work was returned?

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This is a server side control.

one_result_per_user_per_wu
If present, send at most one result of a given workunit to a given user. This is useful for checking accuracy/validity of results. It ensures that the results for a given workunit are generated by different users. If you have a validator that compares different results for a given workunits to ensure that they are equivalent, you should probably enable this. Otherwise you may end up validating results from a given user with results from the same user.

(source)

AndyK

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