Hello there Mr. Met

What happened was when you shut off your pc for the night, your work unit was between checkpoints. So when you rebooted and the work unit started again, it started from the last known checkpoint.

Perfectly normal behavior.

Ciao

Mr. Met this FAQ best explains everything one could ever want to know about checkpoints:

Checkpointing FAQ

If you need anything more, just ask

Ciao,

Diana

Hello Mr. Met,
Yes, you can select as many projects as you want. To Abort a work unit, open BOINC Manager, select the Tasks Tab (in the Advanced view) and select the work unit, then click on Abort.

Are you aware that the progress indicator will naturally go up and down by small amounts? Many of our projects use non-deterministic algorithms, which means that the program will choose a vector and start moving that way but if it suddenly discovers that it is moving in an illegal way (a blind alley) it will back up (reducing the progress indicator) and try on a different vector.

Lawrence

Hello Mr. Met,

For which project? Here is a graphic image about the projects that Sekerob maintains in Start Here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=17855

If you look at Statistics by Project ( http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewProjects.do ) you will see that the work units are sized to finish in 8 hours for the average system. For FAAH ( http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewProject.do?projectShortName=faah ) the historical average is almost 10 hours. With a calculator, you can look at yesterday's results and compute the average recent length for any project.

Lawrence

Hello Mr. Met,
That sounds good. Yes, it returns results as soon as they are finished (and marks the completed work unit as 'Ready to report' in the Tasks tab). You can see everything that has been returned for several days in 'My Grid' - 'Results Status'. This web page is explained in the 'Start Here' forum.

Lawrence