Of the 56 Wu's that I have had, I still have 2 in PV waiting for the wingmen to return theirs on 25th - there have been several other repairs over the last couple of weeks where WU's have had time outs - just wondering if they are due to over-full caches not being turned around quickly enough on slower machines??

I'm sorry to hear that there is due to be another lull for checking, I was hoping to get a silver by the end of the month but that will have to be put on hold again....maybe silver by Christmas?

From what other posts say it may be a couple of weeks before we see anything... and I just need one day for the bronze...

''Only'' 87 validated yesterday. If one visits the Crunching Chart thread one sees that the last wave was approached much more leisurely than the first, the work fetched in a much more relaxed way... hence, the repairs will have been also picked up in a more spread manner.

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... and needing 23:02:10:42 days to lift the present balance of 0:156:21:49:19 above 180 days to reach Ruby

The WCG staff will not publish this information to anyone as this information is for their internal use only. You can determine if your machine is reliable to seeing the number of invalids, error, user aborted, too late returns, as they are all "black marks" against your computer. Also how fast your computer returns WU's will determine if your computer is eligible to received "repair" WU's. I believe I may have read somewhere (not completely sure) that the computer must successfully return approximately 45 consecutive WU's and have a very low (<1%?) error rate to be classified as a "highly reliable" computer. If you have quick return times, and you have received "repair WU's," then it is safe to assume your computer is deemed to be "highly reliable."

The main stipulation is that your machine returns work within 48 hours. The other requirement is a low overall error/invalid rate with none in the past X work units.(I don't know the exact numbers).