Yes, we are not only in contact with academics but also with the industry. This year is going to be exciting because after working on the infrastructure for most of last year we get to harvest the results now.

I don't believe the 12 hour 'limit' is so much a limit but just a stopping point to gather the data. In other words your work will not be lost if you take longer than 12 hours, you will not be denied wu's if your processor did take longer and you will still get credit for your crunching and the results will still be useful.

Also, FWIW I have seen many times a unit will stop in the 6 or 7 hour range because it is seeing that there is no more 'useful' computation to be done for that chunk, and it moves on. The 12 hour thing is not especially 'significant' to validity or worth, if that makes sense. All your computations whether you worked it 4 hours or 12 hours still provide useful valid data they can use.

If you are worried about being able to get work to keep your processors gainfully employed, I do not see this 12 hour thing as any issue at all with it. Besides for the occasional server hiccup, I have always seen work issued when I have requested it.

I have one compy running now that's a horrible old dog that I probably should have put out in the field and shot years ago but even that one, regurgitates units that are satisfactory for the project. The 12 hours really isn't an issue to worry about IMO.

Aaron

dkt,

We are working on the change to extend the cutoff time. There are a couple of other items ahead in the queue. I would not expect the cutoff extension to be in beta any earlier than the end of the month.

Thanks,
armstrdj

Thank you for letting us know the status of this. I had one other question about any changes to the amount of replication for this project; any news on this?

Can someone explain the 12 hour cutoff to me?

Does each WU have a certain number of things it needs to compute or does it just run for a certain amount of time like Rosetta@home and just computes more and more runs in that time?

What happens after the computer hits the 12 hours? I just noticed that on my old p4 machine all the WU hit the 12 hour cutoff. What does that mean exactly?