62 AP_V5 Left In The Field

Now only 60 left out in the wild. Will the world as we know it, come to an end, when we reach zero AP 505's?
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/The grumpy old Swede.

"I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"

Now only 60 left out in the wild. Will the world as we know it, come to an end, when we reach zero AP 505's?

Now only 60 left out in the wild. Will the world as we know it, come to an end, when we reach zero AP 505's?

And...the sky is falling.

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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

And...the sky is falling.

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And...the sky is falling.

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Can we even hold out until mid-December 2012, at this rate?

Now only 60 left out in the wild. Will the world as we know it, come to an end, when we reach zero AP 505's?

It's an exponential drop-off, so the fewer left the longer it will take.

I estimate the last one will come back sometime in mid December 2012...

Exponential decay is only valid when considering large numbers of events (e.g. uranium atoms decaying in a nuclear reactor). In this case, as the number of results in the field gets smaller, the fit to exponential decay will get less and less good. In addition, a host can only have a task for a limited time before it times out and someone else gets to process it. All AP5 tasks still in the field must have deadlines in May, so I doubt we will still be waiting for them to reach 0 in December.

I'm wondering what's going to happen with the stuck ones, like mine:

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/workunit.php?wuid=836060425
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
Charles Darwin

We had a similar countdown at NumberFields@Home recently, and when we'd got down to 40 tasks, their Eric assured us that "all the remaining pesky WUs have been issued to 'reliable' hosts". Even so, I still got a resend several days later from a host which turned out not to be so reliable after all.....

I don't know whether 'our' Eric has used, or considered using, the facility for accelerating retries by using only reliable hosts: I rather suspect not. So, it could still be a while yet.

We had a similar countdown at NumberFields@Home recently, and when we'd got down to 40 tasks, their Eric assured us that "all the remaining pesky WUs have been issued to 'reliable' hosts". Even so, I still got a resend several days later from a host which turned out not to be so reliable after all.....

I don't know whether 'our' Eric has used, or considered using, the facility for accelerating retries by using only reliable hosts: I rather suspect not. So, it could still be a while yet.

There actually IS such a feature in the Boinc server software? I thought I remembered it being floated as an idea, but did not know it really existed.

We had a similar countdown at NumberFields@Home recently, and when we'd got down to 40 tasks, their Eric assured us that "all the remaining pesky WUs have been issued to 'reliable' hosts". Even so, I still got a resend several days later from a host which turned out not to be so reliable after all.....

I don't know whether 'our' Eric has used, or considered using, the facility for accelerating retries by using only reliable hosts: I rather suspect not. So, it could still be a while yet.

There actually IS such a feature in the Boinc server software? I thought I remembered it being floated as an idea, but did not know it really existed.

Yes, it's definitely there and available to be used. Accelerating retries

54 now. It takes time to get down just one task. Maybe by mid summer (northern hemisphere) we're at zero :-)
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/The grumpy old Swede.

"I'm so old, that 98% of all trees in the forest, are younger than I am"

LoL