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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 4:38 pm Post subject: eOn low on WUs

If no one at eOn shovels some more work into the servers soon, there might be a problem. All 10 knights at eOn keep an eye on the spare WU graph

Edit - big fat juicy WUs left to do - take 3 times longer but lots more points Smile

Edit 2 - Eeeeww, some of these are those 3 hour extra long johnnies. Sad

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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 5:23 am Post subject:

Problems at eOn with work being cancelled and aborted after being done. Take a pause people as this might not be solved until Monday. E-mail sent to head honcho.
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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 2:34 pm Post subject:

E-mail back from Vice Head Honcho (is n't that a rock band?)
"This was a part of a benchmark calculation that was being performed for an upcoming paper. We wanted to determine how quickly on average we could solve a certain global optimization problem. I wanted to run several simulations and average them together to get an estimate of how quickly the distributed computing project could accomplish this task. In order to do that I needed to cancel any outstanding workunits after a certain time frame so that the next simulation would start running on all of the computers. I have enough information now that I don't need to run in this aggressive way. Thanks for putting up with it. We should have a paper out before too long that shows some of our results."

Back to crunchin' as normal guys and gals!

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Edit - seems like I spoke to soon - no work and the credits are only 1/3 what they were ... Mad

Edit 2 - work back ... don't know on credits. Confused

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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 2:58 pm Post subject:

On credits, and large percentage reduction, Vice Head Honcho,
"Projects don't have any control over how the credit system works. In my opinion the credit system is too complicated and doesn't fairly reward work. We don't do anything to change how much credit is assigned for each work unit. This is somewhat by design as otherwise there would be massive point inflation. I wish that there was a simple way to insure that everyone received the correct amount of points, but I'm not sure of a way to do that. Typically, when we change the length and type of our work the credit system goes crazy for a while and then fixes itself."
Further complaint lodged!
Idea - cpu time * n (amount per unit of CPU time) - there, damn simple!

Jeez! #ni-1

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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 12:31 am Post subject:

No work folks (or very little) again. As it's the middle of the night in Austin now, you might want to look at some other projects for work.

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Sir Papa Smurph · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 5:34 am Post subject:

Switching back to DistRTgen
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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:26 pm Post subject:

We're back up at eOn again - crunch on - those with an outrageous accent are cranking it up!
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PS - the bounders have passed us and the WUs are these long jobs again - woe, woe and ... emm ... trice woe! Sad

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Concrete-mixing Moose · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 5:33 am Post subject:

This is getting to be a real pain in the ... umm, you know what.

The work has dried up again like ... WUs in Texas! Laughing

Stick with your other projects folk 'til things getted sorted out. Monday now I suppose ... Sad

Edit - work's back, but it's those big WUs that don't pay so well Sad

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Killerrabbit · Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 11:46 pm Post subject:

Credit rewarding has always been an issue.

Maybe the Texas bandwidth is being swallowed up by Big Oil.

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The King's Own · Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:02 am Post subject:

Those Texans owe you. I only crunch this to support your efforts. Smile

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