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JSYKES
Senior Cruncher Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 200 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That was fun while it lasted - it took me from 3 days short of Bronze to 3 days short of Silver in a little over a long weekend - although several WU's were server aborted (pity, they would have helped along the way!) and several others were lost to error.....although that seems to have been quite a common problem. The short return times didn't help, particularly if the betas were interleaved between long-running CEP2's and CMD's. It will be interesting to see how long before the next run of betas....
----------------------------------------Thanks to all the Tech Guys at WCG for their input to all this - I hope the exercise has proved to be worthwhile - ultimately, it is not the time/points that matter - is the whole system now more stable/efficient following the rejig and this trial?  |
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astrolabe.
Senior Cruncher Joined: May 9, 2011 Post Count: 496 Status: Offline |
16 days of Beta this round. Less than 3 days to Ruby.
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NigelMorton
Advanced Cruncher England Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 85 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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...although several WU's were server aborted (pity, they would have helped along the way!) and several others were lost to error.....although that seems to have been quite a common problem. The short return times didn't help, particularly if the betas were interleaved between long-running CEP2's and CMD's. Yes, I had an attack of mild grumpiness when my netbook picked up a FAAH beta WU that ran out of time after nearly forty hours of crunching.  |
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nanoprobe
Master Cruncher Classified Joined: Aug 29, 2008 Post Count: 2998 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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although several WU's were server aborted (pity, they would have helped along the way!) and several others were lost to error.....although that seems to have been quite a common problem. Definitely a bummer. Near as I can figure I lost 40 WUs to error/aborted although a few of the errors that had run time did get credit so they weren't a total loss. On the bright side, if the new bunch that is coming is a big one there will be more beta badges to award. 
In 1969 I took an oath to defend and protect the U S Constitution against all enemies, both foreign and Domestic. There was no expiration date.
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