LHC@home

By chance I noticed this strange WU:
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/workunit.php?wuid=509911
Computer 47120 claimed only 4.61 credits and has error messages:
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boinc_init() 4.65
No heartbeat from core client for 30.059123 sec - exiting
boinc_init() 4.65
boinc_finish(0)
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As far as I know, exiting the computation process after aprox. 10000 CPU secs (where the other computers took much more) should not lead to a valid result.

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Udo

I think the difference in numbers may be because your pc is running linux while the other machines are running windows.

The 'claimed credit' would be different because the linux client has a different result for a benchmark than the windows client.
From the FAQ... "Linux client claims less credit than windows client for the same work. This is a BOINC client problem and we can't do much about it."

The error code is an error message from the boinc core client, not the sixtrack computation client.
So.. boinc restarted from the last saved good point, and continued crunching. I think restoring from a savepoint could affect the credit timer (based on ramblings from previous bugs with previous boinc cores).

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I'm not the LHC Alex. Just a number cruncher like everyone else here.

Yes, it's a BOINC problem. This happens to other project too http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/forum_thread.php?id=2754

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