If you want more or less instant credit gratification you could consider only doing FAAH & HFCC who have no redundancy, except when random verification jobs are send out.

HCMD2 does a type of CPU matching to optimize something else, so that would then be your second choice.

And for me and all the others who cant be bothered with PV tasks waiting on wingmen... we know that when they do validate, and they do in 99.9999%, the taste is even sweeter ;>)

Oddly, I run about 1.5 day cache and have 3 only in PV... and a substantial part is RICE and they run quorum 15 10 My last 4 days has 83 results validated, so 3 on 86 is 96.5% validation within the first 4 days.

Then my duo had 24 validated and the quad 57 in that period... both using same amount of e-power.

Thus, if you suppose you were astray in your assumptions and perceptions... start counting

edit: corrected RICE quorum. HPF2 has quorum 15.

As I said it was a hypothetical case.
I will have to do some statistics to check. But I am nearly sure I do not have such a high validation rate 96.5% in four days.

At the moment I have the following situation:

54 WU are PV over a span of 9 days.
If I take all the WU which are Valid on the same span of 9 days I have a total of 210.

This means the total number of WU over 9 days is 264. I have then a validation rate that is 79.5%.

That is not too bad but could be improved.
I wonder what will happen with some 22 more cores kicking in at the end of this week.

Hypernova

Hypernova,
there are two other points to correct in your reasoning. The first one is a joke, the second one is serious.
Not possible: traditionally at WCG it is Movieman who owns that wonderful machine.
Even if you are extremely unlucky and all your wingmen put you in the worst case described by Sekerob gb009761, then, at the beginning, you will have 14 very sad days with no points coming in. But after these 14 days points will fall strictly at your rhythm.

In reality things are never black or white, so you will have most WUs validated in 0 to 4 days and a few others will wait longer. So, after the startup period, you will get points more or less at your rhythm, with some days above average and some below, that's all.

And back to the title of your thread the only impact on performance is because (for these projects with double distribution, i.e. HCC and HCMD2) each WU has to be computed twice. But that is the price to pay for reliability for this type of projects where the no-redundancy concept is not applicable.

Cheers. Jean.

Edit: It was not Sekerob, it was gb009761.

It is more a matter of each individual's cache size. If we are going to invent hypothetical worst case scenarios then how about this one ... what if Movieman, who has one of the top three (I believe) machines in WCG , sets his cache to be 10 days (the maximum allowed) then most people, regardless of their PC will be waiting for his returns in order to validate when he is their wingman. Yes, how ironic would it be if the P4s of the world were waiting for MM :sofa:
Like already said ... don't worry, they will all validate eventually ... we applaud your core count

Realistically ... set your cache to 2 days and you will end up with very little in Pending. I believe the stats (Sek, please help) say that on average over 90% are validated within 2 days. After that the curve slopes quite a bit so it does not help to set a larger cache, it only slows down other people from getting their validations

Movieman I confirm you have at the moment probably the most stellar machine if it crunches 24 threads at the time.

If I can do better in the future I will tell you. But for sure if we could use all the CUDA cores in a GTX200 series Nvidia card it would be nice. I have three of these cards available GTX285, GTX280, GTX260 on the machines but unused for WCG. A real pity.


JM Boullier, yes you are right I take the numbers from My Result Status pages. So yes you are right I probably miss many of them.

But how then should I proceed to be sure to have the true account ?