Of the work I received for 7.28 BETA, most have now validated.
I was able to restart 44 work units using different methods: pause/resume with LAIM off , stop/start Boinc, and even rebooted a couple of machines. A total of eight machines running Windows and Linux. Not a single one was marked invalid, and not a single one went to PVer.
I see now that they have released 7.28 for normal production. Well done to all concerned !!

All of my 7.28 BETA WUs are completed on my PCs. Two 7.27 WUs snuck in so I'm still working on them. So far no problems have surfaced. I have no idea how long these two WUs will take to finish, because the time left on both WUs are counting up rather than counting down.

We put the 3MB transfer size because that is the general size that we expected from the results. Members should not see a transfer size greater than that. The result file uncompressed has a max of 10MB, but is transferred compressed. Originally when we were looking at the results, the compression expectation was 1/3 with most files hitting the 10MB limit. This has changed since launch, we will change the expected upload once the files sizes stabilize from work units.

Thanks,
-Uplinger

The MCM1 WU vary greatly in size. You may find some taking an hour and some taking 20 or more times as long. At this point, this is normal. The techs may be able to stabilize the WU in the future as they gain experience with them. Or, because of the indeterminate nature of the research, they may not have the ability to do so. So, relax and let them crunch.
Cheers

Probability presently: Close to zero... X-mas on the way, no messing till at least the New year, just work stabilizing the environment for maximum service and most Set&Forget, for techs too:D