1) Message boards : Number crunching : credits (Message 9422)
Posted 16 Aug 2005 by Hefto99
Post:
<blockquote>thank you

but why are all invalid

mfg

locke

</blockquote>

Locke, is your machine OverClocked? I had this problem before, sixtrack is very
sensitive for that...
2) Message boards : Number crunching : credits (Message 9402)
Posted 15 Aug 2005 by Hefto99
Post:
<blockquote>
All off the credit's are "grande credits"

invalid results = 0

http://members.kremstalnet.at/kpeter/bilder/seti/lhc.jpg

mfg

locke</blockquote>

Hello Locke,

for instance following your results are invalid:
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/result.php?resultid=1994952
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/result.php?resultid=1994966
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/result.php?resultid=2001103
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/result.php?resultid=2190681

... almost every of your result. Those are granted by cca 0.5*claimed_credit
and are not visible in total's.


edit:
=====

you can go to your host
http://lhcathome.cern.ch/show_host_detail.php?hostid=46412

then click to 'Results', then click to 'Result ID'
--> there you can find 'Validate state' (invalid in almost all cases).
3) Message boards : Number crunching : credits (Message 9398)
Posted 15 Aug 2005 by Hefto99
Post:
<blockquote>Good morning
as can be it on my "Results" approx 150 credits to be indicated however with my "total credit" only 23.5 mfg kpeter

Name : locke
ID : 10590</blockquote>

It is the same problem as described by Saenger in forum

The most of your results are 'Invalid'. You are granted by some credits for those
invalid results, but those credits are not counted into your total credit.
4) Message boards : Number crunching : Running 2 WU's simultaneously with one processor after benchmark.. (Message 8687)
Posted 19 Jul 2005 by Hefto99
Post:
It happened also to me. Results were OK, CPU time was just divided for both applications, so it took longer time to complete WUs. I restarted BOINC and
everything was normal again afterwards.
5) Message boards : Number crunching : Bug in the credit assignment? (Message 8623)
Posted 17 Jul 2005 by Hefto99
Post:
Hi all, thanx a lot for your responses. My problems were caused by a strange
combination of OC+BOINC(LHC)+eMule. I overclocked my machine a little bit,
then run Prime95, it was working without problems. Then I produced valid
results in BOINC projects (including LHC) several weeks with this configuration
... until I started to run eMule. Since that time, I started to produce invalid
results in LHC. Normally, I would not notice that, because I was awarded
with credits for such results. I was just started wondering, why I get just half
of clamied credits for so many WUs. Then I have found, that others get much more.
E@H was working well all the time (probably not so sensitive as sixtrack).

So , therefore I think that I shall not get credits for an invalid result.
I have just 1 host for LHC, so it is easy to monitor results and behaviour on the system.
But if somebody has many hosts and one of them starts to behave in a strange way,
it is not easy to find it out if gredits are granted. 0 gredit for WU would indicate
that there is a problem with this host...

I run 2 days Overclocked system only with BOINC, and my results are OK again.
So it is interesting, how other software may influence BOINC results...
Anyway, I'm back on original frequency, just to assure that I will produce
valid results all the time, regardless what else is running on my system...

6) Message boards : Number crunching : Bug in the credit assignment? (Message 8551)
Posted 15 Jul 2005 by Hefto99
Post:
There is also another reason why invalid result shall be granted with 0 credits, than just to be fair to others. If I produce invalid results, but being awarded
with credits, I have no indication that something is wrong at my side. I think
that nobody checks regulary if he/she is granted with the same amount of credits
as others. I've noticed this case just by an accident. It happens sometimes, that others are claiming much less than me, so I get less credits than expected.
This case is different, as I've returned invalid result. This may be an accident too, but if I return invalid results more often, I'm not being aware about it.
If invalid result is granted with 0 credit, I can see immediately - oooops, something is wrong and try to find out what.


Edit: Yeah, I have found that more results are invalid... good to know...
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Bug in the credit assignment? (Message 8549)
Posted 14 Jul 2005 by Hefto99
Post:
> Look, please, at following link: 4 users were granted with 32 credits, 1 user was
> granted with 16. How is this possible?
> If result of host 37093 was invalid, 0 credics shall be granted. If result was
> OK, I would expect 32 credits.
> Result was returned as a 2nd one, so it shall be no difference with others.
>
>
> here is the
> link
>


Ups, problem with the link. It shall be

http://lhcathome.cern.ch/workunit.php?wuid=300995

8) Message boards : Number crunching : Bug in the credit assignment? (Message 8548)
Posted 14 Jul 2005 by Hefto99
Post:
Look, please, at following link: 4 users were granted with 32 credits, 1 user was granted with 16. How is this possible?
If result of host 37093 was invalid, 0 credics shall be granted. If result was OK, I would expect 32 credits.
Result was returned as a 2nd one, so it shall be no difference with others.


here is the link


Edit: Validate state of the result is invalid. So I should be granted with 0 credits to be fair to others.



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