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When can we expect the next batch of wu's?
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Send message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 8 Credit: 11,170 RAC: 0 |
Hi: Title says it all Mark reiss |
Send message Joined: 2 Sep 04 Posts: 309 Credit: 715,258 RAC: 0 |
Ah, the ultimate question! The answer isn't 42 though. :( |
Send message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 40 Credit: 1,742,415 RAC: 0 |
A Game Producer say :it's done when it's done. For LHC@Home it is: It has work, when it has work. Don't ask every week. |
Send message Joined: 2 Oct 04 Posts: 9 Credit: 36,319 RAC: 0 |
Just leave your computer attached to LHC. Your computer will grab them when they're available. ----- |
Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 133 Credit: 162,641 RAC: 0 |
When will we get more work? Hmmm. Almost as difficult as this question - http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/5/messages/869.html |
Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1173 Credit: 54,817,803 RAC: 15,853 |
Well I just got all the work and added 1,616,042 credits to my stats and did all of that in a nano second on just 3 computers! Actually since LHC has always been this way I go full speed with Einstein. But since LHC has been up and out even more than the beginning I decided to run the Boinc-Seti in place of LHC on my faster machine just to run up the stats like back in the Seti Classic years. (no I don't run the box of my stats on these pages since I remember how much slow torture I would get on the dialup since 1999 and really feel sorry for those still stuck with that) But I do let LHC run in the background 24/7 just in case........... Ok I just had to do that. Volunteer Mad Scientist For Life |
Send message Joined: 15 Feb 06 Posts: 67 Credit: 460,896 RAC: 0 |
Ah, the ultimate question! The answer isn't 42 though. :( Actually it is. Of course, we now have to define what type of unit we have 42 of, and which base 42 is actually in :P More serious answer: only evil never sleeps, so by extension only evil never takes a holiday either. sQuonk Plague of Mice Intel Core i3-9100 CPU@3.60 GHz, but it's doing its bit just the same. |
Send message Joined: 25 Nov 05 Posts: 39 Credit: 41,119 RAC: 0 |
Ah, the ultimate question! The answer isn't 42 though. :( Which explains why there's no rest for the wicked >;) |
Send message Joined: 19 May 06 Posts: 20 Credit: 297,111 RAC: 0 |
Just leave your computer attached to LHC. Your computer will grab them when they're available. If you're lucky. I always have LHC connected, and I think I completely missed out on the last two batches of work. Each failed request for work seems to create a greater delay between it and the next request. Eventually it partially gives up and won't make another request for like 5-7 days. If you're in this state when work is released, I think you're going to miss out. As for the original question, I don't think anyone knows when more work is available. If you stay connected all the time, hopefully you'll get some. You could also check in very regularly, but apparently entire work batches can be gobbled up within 1 hour or so, so you'd have to be pretty luck on when you check, too. Letting the program handle it is probably the easiest way, even if it still requires some luck to get work. |
Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 133 Credit: 162,641 RAC: 0 |
[ quote]As for the original question, I don't think anyone knows when more work is available. If you stay connected all the time, hopefully you'll get some. You could also check in very regularly, but apparently entire work batches can be gobbled up within 1 hour or so, so you'd have to be pretty luck on when you check, too. Letting the program handle it is probably the easiest way, even if it still requires some luck to get work.[ /quote] Don't you just love taking part in a lottery !!! |
Send message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 21 Credit: 1,707,785 RAC: 0 |
I must have blinked and missed it, but one of my computers got some work on the 5th. 20 work units with a total granted credit of 0.2 cobblestones. Yes, that's a total of 0.2 - each WU claimed 0.02 and was granted 0.01. Must have been those super extra short WUs... -- Tony, thinking he should go out and buy a MegaMillions ticket tomorrow... |
Send message Joined: 12 Dec 05 Posts: 8 Credit: 1,923 RAC: 0 |
I to check the LHC@home website for new work most days and have missed the last 3-4 times work has been sent out. I think this is mainly 'cos only a few WUs have been sent out. I would just like to point out that the LHC is not finished yet. Completion is set for mid 2007 and experiments to start in 2008. I think the WUs given are for magnetic test purposes. When the LHC experiments (ATLAS etc.) are gathering data it will be equivalent to the data throughput of the whole of the euro telecom's systems. This should give everyone enough WUs. Here are some links you may find interesting... LHC homepage Cryoqenics overview I believe 42 aardvarks is the average time between WUs given out. Where 1 aardvark is not equivalent to anything. |
Send message Joined: 2 Aug 05 Posts: 33 Credit: 2,329,729 RAC: 0 |
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Send message Joined: 12 Dec 05 Posts: 8 Credit: 1,923 RAC: 0 |
I was using an aardvark as a unit of time. I maybe the first to do this. You may only use an aardvark as a unit of time if you have prior consent by said aardvark, in writing and witnessed by said aardvarks parents. Really, I just like the word aardvark. ;o) |
Send message Joined: 15 Feb 06 Posts: 67 Credit: 460,896 RAC: 0 |
I was using an aardvark as a unit of time. I maybe the first to do this. You may only use an aardvark as a unit of time if you have prior consent by said aardvark, in writing and witnessed by said aardvarks parents. Ah, so you don't use the Humpty Dumpty method (sound of scrabbling as dozens of geeks raid their feminine side's collection of classic children's literature). I suspect, however, that the aardvark as a unit of time is similar to the Roman hour, which was variable in length if I remember correctly. Just as the Romans considered that there were always 10 daylight hours and 10 nightime, irrespective of the time of year, so may the aardvark be defined as 1/42 of the time between two batches of WU. Anyone reading this nonsense is probably going to conclude many of us are a couple of quarks short of a hadron. They may well be right. sQuonk Plague of Mice Intel Core i3-9100 CPU@3.60 GHz, but it's doing its bit just the same. |
Send message Joined: 27 Sep 04 Posts: 11 Credit: 156,184 RAC: 0 |
Really, I just like the word aardvark. Then you must be a Cerebus fan. And if you aren't, you should be. |
Send message Joined: 12 Dec 05 Posts: 8 Credit: 1,923 RAC: 0 |
Never heard of Cerebus. I thought it was a 3 headed dog (or was that fluffy?) until I just googled it. Apparently it's an aardvark on the edge. On the edge of what is not specified. BTW the Germans have no word for fluffy. Must get the German ver of Harry Potter. 1/42 of the time between WUs seems like the best definition to me. |
Send message Joined: 4 Sep 05 Posts: 112 Credit: 2,059,098 RAC: 437 |
Really, I just like the word aardvark. You know about HMVS Cerberus?? Wow! I'm impressed. :-) Click here to join the #1 Aussie Alliance on LHC. |
Send message Joined: 13 Jul 05 Posts: 133 Credit: 162,641 RAC: 0 |
Hi Mike! HMS Cerberus doesn't show up in a Google search unless you include the 'HMS' Fascinating story, though! Is it visible at low tide? |
Send message Joined: 4 Sep 05 Posts: 112 Credit: 2,059,098 RAC: 437 |
HMVS Cerberus - His Majesty's Victorian Ship Cerberus. Pre-Federation Battleship - Non dreadnought. I know it's there, I've divied in and around it. ;-) Click here to join the #1 Aussie Alliance on LHC. |
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