Hello Eric_Kaiser,
From the Department of Confusing Messages: The WCG staff must have decided to withdraw some batches of work units. They were probably all giving Errors. The code they had the scheduler send to anybody who had already downloaded some of these units labelled the units "Too Late".

At least, that is what I am guessing.


Lawrence

Sorry for the delayed response, but there are a few things that go into this. (note all numbers are hypothetical and may or may not be used on actual projects)

So, there are limits set for each work unit on the backend of BOINC. Here are a few:
1. Max number of results (example 9)
2. Max number of error results ( example 5)
3. Max number of success results (example 5)

Say you download a work unit that already has 4 error work units but requires a quorum of 2. This means that you and another member have a work unit in progress when you download it. This at a minimum would mean 6 total results have been sent for the work unit. Then your wingman with an active result returns it in error. This would cause the server to try and abort all remaining results in progress. If your device had started it before the server abort message was set, then it'll allow your device to complete it.

Also, number of max successes means that the results are not validating against each other. For example all 5 copies have different results.

Hope this helps,
-Uplinger

Hello Eric_Kaiser,
No.

Lawrence