At 04:02:55 UTC i received my "last" Beta-WU...

Is anyone getting still Betas at the moment or are they now gone!! :D

Of 17 WUs processed by this box and 78 completed or in progress overall I have (1) that exhibits the same behavior I've seen on my slower Linux devices,
Significant difference between Elapsed and CPU time, 6.5 hrs at this point.

Environment:
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I7 P920 Quad with HT (enabled) Stock
12 GB Ram
GPU disabled
Vista 64


(8) Beta tasks running

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11/04/10 9:15 PM (CDT)
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Name				BETA_E200564_248_A.26.C19H11NO2S3Si.71.4.set1d06_0

Application			Beta - The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 635
Workunit name			BETA_E200564_248_A.26.C19H11NO2S3Si.71.4.set1d06
State				Running
Received				11/4/2010 6:16:36 PM
Report deadline			11/9/2010 5:16:39 PM
Resources			
CPU time at last checkpoint		00:08:21
CPU time				00:20:14
Elapsed time			02:57:54
Estimated time remaining		15:04:32
Fraction done			2.811 %
Virtual memory size		224.04 MB
Working set size			83.51 MB
Directory				slots/5
Process ID			5644

CPU %				11.31 % and dropping

stderr.txt
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INFO: No state to restore.  Start from the beginning.
[18:17:53] Number of jobs = 16
[18:17:53] Starting job 0,CPU time has been restored to 0.000000.
[18:20:10] Finished Job #0
[18:20:10] Starting job 1,CPU time has been restored to 125.627605.
[18:27:06] Finished Job #1
[18:27:06] Starting job 2,CPU time has been restored to 501.995618.

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11/05/10 1:01 AM CDT
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Name				BETA_E200564_248_A.26.C19H11NO2S3Si.71.4.set1d06_0

Application			Beta - The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 635
Workunit name			BETA_E200564_248_A.26.C19H11NO2S3Si.71.4.set1d06
State				Running
Received				11/4/2010 6:16:36 PM
Report deadline			11/9/2010 5:16:39 PM
Resources			
CPU time at last checkpoint		00:08:21
CPU time				00:38:40
Elapsed time			06:45:31
Estimated time remaining		21:07:05
Fraction done			5.371 %
Virtual memory size		224.83 MB
Working set size			85.78 MB
Directory				slots/5
Process ID			5644

CPU %				9.49 % and dropping

stderr.txt
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INFO: No state to restore.  Start from the beginning.
[18:17:53] Number of jobs = 16
[18:17:53] Starting job 0,CPU time has been restored to 0.000000.
[18:20:10] Finished Job #0
[18:20:10] Starting job 1,CPU time has been restored to 125.627605.
[18:27:06] Finished Job #1
[18:27:06] Starting job 2,CPU time has been restored to 501.995618.

Edit: within a few minutes of posting status changed to:
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11/05/10 1:52 AM CDT
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Name				BETA_E200564_248_A.26.C19H11NO2S3Si.71.4.set1d06_0

Application			Beta - The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 635
Workunit name			BETA_E200564_248_A.26.C19H11NO2S3Si.71.4.set1d06
State				Running
Received				11/4/2010 6:16:36 PM
Report deadline			11/9/2010 5:16:39 PM
Resources			
CPU time at last checkpoint		00:08:21
CPU time				00:41:04
Elapsed time			07:22:15
Estimated time remaining		10:07:43
Fraction done			2.403 %
Virtual memory size			224.71 MB
Working set size			84.78 MB
Directory				slots/5
Process ID			3920

CPU %				81.80

stderr.txt
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INFO: No state to restore.  Start from the beginning.
[18:17:53] Number of jobs = 16
[18:17:53] Starting job 0,CPU time has been restored to 0.000000.
[18:20:10] Finished Job #0
[18:20:10] Starting job 1,CPU time has been restored to 125.627605.
[18:27:06] Finished Job #1
[18:27:06] Starting job 2,CPU time has been restored to 501.995618.
01:39:44 (5644): No heartbeat from core client for 30 sec - exiting
No heartbeat: Exiting
[01:40:13] Number of jobs = 16
[01:40:13] Starting job 2,CPU time has been restored to 501.995618.

Correct. My centrino duo was shaking, so after 5 hours suspended one beta that ended with 24 minutes ''gap'' (on 11 hours) and the second let to run afterwards nearly dead the full 12 hours and has 49 minutes gap. There's no doubt that the hardware must be up to the job to handle the large IO on multi-core devices.

In practise with default (no override selection) and observing on Linux quad, a multiple-science profile HFCC/C4CW/CEP2 did work such that as soon as the CEP2 job was completed AND reported, and none (CEP2) were in a 0.01 buffer, the first new job to backfill was always a CEP2 job. The comboing with short running sciences such as C4CW/HCC is thus delivering maximum CEP2 time on 1 core, but obvious not 24 hours in a day. When running in combo with HPF2, the time there wont be a CEP2 to crunch is rather long.

Personally, an intermediate setting of n / cores = 2 so that quads can have 2 in the buffer combined with a shortish cache would be the ideal without need of micromanaging on a mix science profile and not put performance on tilt. That would kind of work out that most of the time 1 will be crunching, sometimes 2, which a quad of first generation handles well. The I7s seemingly do very well from reports in this thread. Not remembering reports how I5 duos with HT as virtual quads fared.

PS, just validated, the outcome of this test on my duo:
BETA_ E200560_ 074_ A.26.C20H11NOS4.319.1.set1d06_ 0-- 95711 Valid 11/3/10 21:26:58 11/4/10 16:17:47 11.61 118.8 / 128.2
BETA_ E200560_ 071_ A.26.C20H11NOS4.295.4.set1d06_ 0-- 95711 Valid 11/3/10 21:26:25 11/4/10 08:33:06 10.55 108.1 / 105.3
BETA_ E200520_ 840_ A.24.C21H17NSSi.9.0.set1d06_ 0-- 95711 Valid 11/1/10 22:41:14 11/2/10 11:20:40 12.00 118.4 / 140.3

Got 44 WU on 3 devices.
All passed without any problems.

I received 3 Betas on my XP Pro 32 bit box. I let them run 1 at a time on a hex core. The first one ran 3+ hours and then I received C++ runtime errors and all 6 WUs running failed with computation errors. I rebooted and tried again. Same issue only this time the Beta only ran for 7 or 8 minutes. Rebooted and let the box crunch for 2 days with the third Beta suspended. No problems so whatever is happening the Beta is causing it.
Log from first failure.

Result Log

Result Name: BETA_ E200560_ 620_ A.26.C20H11NOS4.283.1.set1d06_ 1--
<core_client_version>6.10.32</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
INFO: No state to restore. Start from the beginning.
[19:00:29] Number of jobs = 16
[19:00:29] Starting job 0,CPU time has been restored to 0.000000.
[19:02:22] Finished Job #0
[19:02:22] Starting job 1,CPU time has been restored to 101.234375.
[19:06:34] Finished Job #1
[19:06:34] Starting job 2,CPU time has been restored to 338.671875.
[21:01:05] Finished Job #2
[21:01:05] Starting job 3,CPU time has been restored to 6964.500000.
[21:06:38] Finished Job #3
[21:06:38] Starting job 4,CPU time has been restored to 7281.421875.
[21:10:30] Finished Job #4
[21:10:30] Starting job 5,CPU time has been restored to 7504.000000.
[21:14:29] Finished Job #5
[21:14:29] Starting job 6,CPU time has been restored to 7731.937500.
[21:18:36] Finished Job #6
[21:18:36] Starting job 7,CPU time has been restored to 7968.359375.
[21:24:14] Finished Job #7
[21:24:14] Starting job 8,CPU time has been restored to 8295.750000.
[21:27:55] Finished Job #8
[21:27:55] Starting job 9,CPU time has been restored to 8508.046875.
[21:32:11] Finished Job #9
[21:32:11] Starting job 10,CPU time has been restored to 8754.921875.
[21:41:51] Finished Job #10
[21:41:51] Starting job 11,CPU time has been restored to 9323.187500.
[21:46:59] Finished Job #11
[21:46:59] Starting job 12,CPU time has been restored to 9618.468750.
[22:20:32] Finished Job #12
[22:20:32] Starting job 13,CPU time has been restored to 11590.359375.
Application exited with RC = 0xc0000005
[22:24:02] Finished Job #13
[22:24:02] Starting job 14,CPU time has been restored to 11796.203125.
[22:24:02] Skipping Job #14
[22:24:02] Starting job 15,CPU time has been restored to 11796.203125.
[22:24:02] Skipping Job #15
22:24:10 (3964): called boinc_finish
It's listed as valid.

Log from second failure.

Result Log

Result Name: BETA_ E200560_ 666_ A.25.C22H17N3.8.0.set1d06_ 0--
<core_client_version>6.10.32</core_client_version>
<![CDATA[
<stderr_txt>
INFO: No state to restore. Start from the beginning.
[17:29:34] Number of jobs = 16
[17:29:34] Starting job 0,CPU time has been restored to 0.000000.
[17:31:25] Finished Job #0
[17:31:25] Starting job 1,CPU time has been restored to 102.265625.
[17:37:00] Finished Job #1
[17:37:00] Starting job 2,CPU time has been restored to 419.359375.
Application exited with RC = 0x1
[18:02:59] Finished Job #2
[18:02:59] Starting job 3,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #3
[18:02:59] Starting job 4,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #4
[18:02:59] Starting job 5,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #5
[18:02:59] Starting job 6,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #6
[18:02:59] Starting job 7,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #7
[18:02:59] Starting job 8,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #8
[18:02:59] Starting job 9,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #9
[18:02:59] Starting job 10,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #10
[18:02:59] Starting job 11,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #11
[18:02:59] Starting job 12,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #12
[18:02:59] Starting job 13,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:02:59] Skipping Job #13
[18:02:59] Starting job 14,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:03:00] Skipping Job #14
[18:03:00] Starting job 15,CPU time has been restored to 1925.781250.
[18:03:00] Skipping Job #15
18:03:00 (2752): called boinc_finish

</stderr_txt>
]]>
This one is PV.
I have no idea why this is happening. I went in and reinstalled the runtime libraries after the first failure. That obviously didn't help.

XP Pro SP3 32 bit
3GB DDR2 PC 6400 ram
4GB swapfile
BOINC 6.10.32

This 1055t hex is running OC'd to 3.5 GHz. Could that possibly have anything to do with it? All the other projects run fine and all other betas have run fine.