It means that the upload itself is finished, but the result needs to be logged. Sometimes these clear automatically after enough time connected. If not, you can go to the BOINC project page, select the worldcommunitygrid line, and click the update button. the report workunits should acknowledge and clear in a minute or two if connected. A new workunit may or may not download. BOINC has a mind of its own. Don't keep hitting the update button. BOINC will then complain some more about "too frequent updates" and not download any new work for awhile until it finishes sulking. You will get some eventually, depending on how your days between connect is set, controlling the queue length.

I fire up the connect each morning and go out for a walk.
If you are running a LOT of workunits, I would advise clearing it yourself at least once per day. There's a 50/day workunit quota that can come into play if you delay too long and skip a day.

In the meantime, you can still ignore BOINC most of the time if you want. Simply getting onto the web and surfing allows BOINC to do its thing. I'd still not drop the connect in the middle of a download/upload.

Hi Tom WCG & dseto,

The best to start is visit a previous thread: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=11703 . In the second post is a link to the Wiki explaining the "Ready To Report" functionality.

Why it sometimes takes a day/days or sometimes a week or more AFTER the "Ready to Report" transmission was acknowledged, is because a quorum is required to ensure that 1 strangers computer and another 2 strangers computers have processed the work unit with identical outcome (all WCG projects except HPF2 a.t.m.).

As for the various phases a work unit goes thru from transmission to client to return and validation is explained in the Start Here forum under this thread: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=6105#48791

Sekerob

PS dseto, officially the systems are not happy with that 'Update' to force the reporting. BOINC tries to accumulate those RtR's and send the confirmations to a separate part of the database called the Scheduler, which is discussed here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=4925#89228

It works!
Thanks retsof, Sekerob & dseto, especially for the links.



I am still confused even after reading the threads in the links.

Should I hit the "Update" button to get rid of the annoying "Ready to report" message (and possibly speeding up the process) OR just wait until BOINC does it by itself? In other words, is it "bad" for the whole system (my BOINC, WCG servers, etc.) if I hit "Update" often when I see the annoying "Ready to report" messages?

I think I am beginning to get it now!

1. "Uploading" has to do with sending results of work units to a particular server ("Result Server").

2. "Ready to report" has to do with scheduling, whereby my computer reports to another server ("Scheduler Server").

3. The "Update" button we have been talking about merely update the "Scheduler Server" about my completed work units.

Wow! This is fun.

If my understanding is correct, I now see why I should not burden the "Scheduler Server" with my schedule update requests. Much more important thing (which is processing and uploading work units) has already been accomplished .