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Message 2092 - Posted: 25 Jun 2004, 20:02:09 UTC

Dear Sir or Madam,

How often are the stats updated on the team page, and when is credit actually granted in one's account after a work unit has been returned?

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Sample of one of my WU's:




Result ID 146008
Name 11se03aa.2459.9569.92334.11_1
Workunit 48652
Created 24 Jun 2004 9:08:26 UTC
Sent 24 Jun 2004 13:24:48 UTC
Received 25 Jun 2004 19:13:54 UTC
Server state Over
Outcome Success
Client state Done
Exit status 0 (0x0)
Host ID 15833
Report deadline 8 Jul 2004 13:24:48 UTC
CPU time 12129.751726
stderr out 3.19





Validate state Initial
claimed credit 47.0044115520601
Granted credit 0
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Message 2152 - Posted: 25 Jun 2004, 21:26:41 UTC

The stats are generally updated nearly instant, but I suspect with the demand being more than Dev counted on, this might be somewhat delayed.

As for when credit is granted. There is no set time. Each WU you return must be returned by two other hosts, and the results from each must be verified as scientifically "accurate". What this means, is your data is compared with the others to see that they are near identical. If the three results match, you are granted credit. If not, the "bad" result is resent to another host.

In an instance such as this, credit granted can be delayed by weeks. The scheduler must re-queue the WU, and send it to another host. Then, depending on that hosts CPU speed, WU cache size, and when the host returns the result by, is when your credit is granted. :)
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Message 2408 - Posted: 28 Jun 2004, 3:00:24 UTC - in response to Message 2152.  

> The stats are generally updated nearly instant, but I suspect with the demand
> being more than Dev counted on, this might be somewhat delayed.
>
> As for when credit is granted. There is no set time. Each WU you return must
> be returned by two other hosts, and the results from each must be verified as
> scientifically "accurate". What this means, is your data is compared with the
> others to see that they are near identical. If the three results match, you
> are granted credit. If not, the "bad" result is resent to another host.
>
> In an instance such as this, credit granted can be delayed by weeks. The
> scheduler must re-queue the WU, and send it to another host. Then, depending
> on that hosts CPU speed, WU cache size, and when the host returns the result
> by, is when your credit is granted. :)
>

Devil's Advocate - what happens if the re-send returns a bad result?

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Message 2410 - Posted: 28 Jun 2004, 3:05:33 UTC - in response to Message 2408.  

> > The stats are generally updated nearly instant, but I suspect with the
> demand
> > being more than Dev counted on, this might be somewhat delayed.
> >
> > As for when credit is granted. There is no set time. Each WU you return
> must
> > be returned by two other hosts, and the results from each must be
> verified as
> > scientifically "accurate". What this means, is your data is compared with
> the
> > others to see that they are near identical. If the three results match,
> you
> > are granted credit. If not, the "bad" result is resent to another host.
> >
> > In an instance such as this, credit granted can be delayed by weeks. The
> > scheduler must re-queue the WU, and send it to another host. Then,
> depending
> > on that hosts CPU speed, WU cache size, and when the host returns the
> result
> > by, is when your credit is granted. :)
> >
>
> Devil's Advocate - what happens if the re-send returns a bad result?
>
> j
>
The scheduler will keep sending out more copies until a limit is met. If there still are not enough sucessfull returns after the limit to the number of copies is met the workunit will be marked invalid and give up on it.

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