Sek's *hint* this time is that WCG is very stable. It does not crash and is only occasionally taken down for maintenance and we get advanced notice when that is going to happen. WCG runs spectacularly when compared to just about any other project (gratz to the smart people behind the scenes).
The longest downtime I have seen recently (probably in th last year) is 6 hours ... I have a cache of .35 (8 hours) to make sure I don;t run dry. In some small way I think it helps WCG in general when I turn makeup WUs around quickly.

Hypernova,

Look at the My Grid, My Statistics > My Stats History, to see the records of your daily validations. That's the one to use. One line lower you can even get it per active device

[Very OT]Have a GTX220, 1gb DDR2 waiting very patiently... CUDA drivers 195.24 WHQL in place, OpenCL ready to run. Snapped up last week for a very snappy price. It says 16 cores on the box, whatever that means, PCI x16 slot user and that's what is being used now by an old GS8300. [/Very OT]

As long as your "very powerful machine" doesn't manage to crunch atleast 50% of all WCG-wu's sent-out each day , you'll reach a "steady-state" there you'll on average crunch X wu/day, and also on average X wu/day will be validated...

Instead of having a single machine, more realistically you'll have a large farm of computers crunching under your name. But, as long as you're not responsible for 50% ** or more of total production, there isn't really any problem. It can take a few days from you starts running before you've reached a steady-state, but after you do, you'll get more or less a continous stream of granted credit. There will of course be some daily variations, but if you instead of daily looks on weekly production, there will be less variations, and basically the weekly granted will be directly linked to how much you've crunched.


** Well, in sub-projects that uses Homogeneous Redundancy, if you're using a fairly uncommon cpu-type (or OS), it's possible there aren't really anyone else running it, so you'll either completely block the work-queue in this sub-project (you grabs 50% of the work, and no-one else can get any work since wrong cpu/OS-combination), or project must re-configure so your computers validates eachothers results.

So, in practice you'll likely get problems if your computers is nearing 50% of total production in a sub-project, but no-one is even close to reaching this kind of production in WCG.

This 50% story is far divorced from reality. Not only that, distribution of quorums is allowed to be to multiple devices of the same member i.e. validation flow would not be impaired. Lastly, homogeneity down to rare CPU's is still rare and might, but improbable and very remotely play only a role for HCMD2. WCG in past has taken such distributions out from eligibility.

edit: Oh yes, 1 machine, monster... would not get more than currently 300 or so tasks per day. Each of the projects has ~60,000 or more results daily validating. This monster manager needs to negotiate with the techs.

Sekerob,

I tried now the measure things on a 7 day period which is what My Stats allows.

So over the last 7 days I get with My Statistics 498 WU returned and points counted. I understand these are Validated WU's.

Of these 349 were returned over the last 4 days. So you have 70% over the last 4 days.

If I look at My Device Statistics over the same 4 days period I get 805 WU's returned. But here I suppose it is everything and not only validated one's. Are the In progress WU's also in this total or not?

But I must say I still feel there are incoherences in all these numbers.
That's not too important anyway.

What counts is that I am at 1.84M points and my target is 2Million by the 17th of December which will make exactly 1 year I started crunching.

At the beginning it was really little stuff but I am improving. I started with 4 physical cores and no HT and running part time. Now I am at 16 Physical cores and 32 virtual all i7 and all over 3GHz. Of these 16 will run fulltime WCG only so I should reach my year end target. This will be my christmas gift.