AMD host burned by WU - Wasted 80 CPU hours
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AMD host burned by WU - Wasted 80 CPU hours
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 JDWhale  Send message Joined: 6 Apr 99 Posts: 921 Credit: 21,935,817 RAC: 3 
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wuid=237465654 Just came across this WU in one of the queues... Too bad the host that claimed 1374.19 credits errored out. Wasted 80 CPU hours for nothing :-( Just coincidence that both failures were AMD's ? ID: 732917 ·  |
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Alinator Send message Joined: 19 Apr 05 Posts: 4178 Credit: 4,647,982 RAC: 0
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Yep, this has been seen before and has happened on Intels as well. Fortunately it's not like it happens a lot, but that doesn't make it any less annoying when it happens to one of your hosts! ;-) Alinator ID: 732918 · |
Gecko  Send message Joined: 17 Nov 99 Posts: 454 Credit: 6,946,910 RAC: 47
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wuid=237465654 Hi John. Yes, just a coincidence. There's a thread a few months back that talks about the same thing. It's a petty rare event, but either it will complete and error-out, or it will seem to run forever and a person has to abort. These WUs would show something like 3-4% complete and an unusually huge number of hours to completion. The consensus was to abort if you noticed any of these. Seems the AMDs got a couple @ same time. ID: 732920 · |
Sirius B   Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24879 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 
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Book him, Danno! Another point with this wu - One of the other hosts had a client error yet done claiming 40.87. How is this possible? I thought with Client Errors, one lost the credit? ID: 732922 · |
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Alinator Send message Joined: 19 Apr 05 Posts: 4178 Credit: 4,647,982 RAC: 0
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Whether there is a claim or not depends on the type of error which occurred. Some will still make a claim, others don't. Since they all result in no granted credit, I never bothered to categorize which kind do what. ;-) Alinator ID: 732924 · |
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JDWhale Send message Joined: 6 Apr 99 Posts: 921 Credit: 21,935,817 RAC: 3
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No more problems with that WU... Crunched and verified! Thanks all. ID: 732951 · |
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