LHC@home

Hi,

I've recently joined lhc@home and gotten my first Theory tasks.

I'm currently running one of these Tasks. The BOINC Manager "Remaining (estimated)" time for each of these tasks is very close to 3 hours. However, the one that is running has been going for almost 8 hours and the remaining estimated time is now almost 4 days. Does that seem right? I've seen the BOINC remaining times be off by quite a bit before, but not by multiple days.

Thanks.

Doug[/b]

Yes, some of these Theory tasks tend to take a long time but some will finish in 15 minutes. These tasks have a cut of time for 100 hours (~4 days). Some don't finish even in that time but use full CPU all the time, some will run the 100 hours but stop using the CPU very early on. So after 100 hours they get aborted and you don't get any credit for them. If you read these forums you'll see that they are full of complaints about that. Unfortunately there are very little we users can do about it.

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Hi Harri,

Thanks for the info. Naturally, less than an hour after posting my question, the task did finish (in about 8.5 hours), and my Task page shows "Completed and validated".

Thanks again.

Doug