1) Message boards : Number crunching : Result from 11-feb-2006 not granted ?!?! (Message 16119)
Posted 12 Jan 2007 by (retired account)
Post:
I also have one of those, although it is a bit more recent:

Workunit 1587613

Maybe the server wasn't quite sober at that time?

Seriously: One thing is a bit odd, my result is reported as valid, but it took a shorter time (if you take the different hardware into account) and claimed less credits. Maybe a validator problem?

Regards

Alex
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Very short workunit, but apparently not erroneous (Message 15570)
Posted 19 Nov 2006 by (retired account)
Post:
Hi River~~,

Thanks a lot for your detailed reply. And I appreciate the 0.08 cobblestones very much as it brings me one step closer to 150k on BOINC combined. ;-)

then the particles hit the wall of the tube on the first time round the loop, instead of going round 100,000 or 1000,000 times. This is, of course, exactly what the engineers want to know, so it is not an error.


Ok, makes perfect sense to me. There are similar workunits in other projects. For example CPDN cancels calculation for a climate model, when values (i.e. temperature) become too extreme.

My boxes will automatically go back to crunching my other projects as soon as the LHC job finishes, whether it is soon or late.


Yep, would be the same here, so I have no problem with short WUs. I keep monitoring LHC and I'm ready to donate more resources as soon as available work will increase.

Regards

Alex
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Very short workunit, but apparently not erroneous (Message 15559)
Posted 19 Nov 2006 by (retired account)
Post:
Hello,

I completed yesterday a very short workunit, please take a look here:

wb0055_v65b0055__1__64.33_59.34__8_10__6__60_1_sixvf_boinc288030

I first thought it was invalid and has been stopped early due to errors, but according to the results, they all seem valid. The other returned results are also very short ranging from 5 to 277 seconds computation time only (mine is the 277 seconds result btw :-) ).

I'm not crunching much for LHC, mostly for other projects, so my question: Are there more such workunits send out or is this something irregular?

Best regards

Alex



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