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Thread: Uneccessary duplication of effort? |
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marky1124
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I'm curious to understand why this project hands out each unit to 19 machines and looks for a quorum of 15. Is it really necessary to use 19 times the minimum cpu effort per unit?
I presume that units are handed out to multiple machines to avoid rogue machines returning invalid results, however would it not be enough to send each unit to 3 and have a quorum of 2? Is this the best use of the grid? Cheers, Mark |
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Sekerob
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Hi,
----------------------------------------as suggested on the result detail page there is faq around in Help and the Start Here forum. In a nutshell, all 19 work units are different but grouped to permitted a relative validation of the work. Several threads in this forum also touch on the topic. Particular posts by knreed elaborate. This is the optimal in fact versus any type of standard quorum comparison. cheers
WCG
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marky1124
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Thanks very much for the pointers Sekerob. I'd missed the Start Here forum.
----------------------------------------Cheers, Mark FWIW: Anyone following in my footsteps might like to read this post [Edit 1 times, last edit by marky1124 at Mar 4, 2008 5:42:47 PM] |
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