Suggestion – Setup Power Crunchers Group
Purpose – Issue WU’s to Power Cruncher group devices
Aim - Speed flow of WU’s & Reduce storage requirements
Benefits – Reduced requirements for storing results & better flow of WU’s

Logic
It struck me that myself and several/many others known as 'Power Crunchers' have large numbers of WU's in PV prison, awaiting wingmen to validate.

This slows the flow of WU's and increases the storage requirement for results.

To alleviate this, if a group for power crunchers was created on the servers, in the same way as WU’s are allocate by OS to the wingman, if both the initial xxx_0 and the xxx_1 WU’s was sent to a Power Crunchers, they would validate each other much quicker. This would increase the flow of WU’s and reduce storage requirements.

There would have to be some criteria met to 'Qualify' for the Power Crunchers group, may be some or all of these possibly others too:

Number of results returned in a given period
Number of active devices
Number of RT days per day
Devices must be classed as 'reliable'

How will it work?

The initial group could be setup with known power crunchers, anyone returning more than, say, 500 Gflops or 500 results per day, with anyone dropping below a defined level for more than a couple of days dropping out of the group, returning as and when they reach the requirements again.

While in the group WU’s would be issued to the group members to crunch, anyone falling out of the group would get ‘normal’ WU’s. While anyone falling out of the group may reduce the flow slightly, over all it would still be an increase.

This would work in exactly the same way for anyone else who is currently (at the time of initial group setup) under the entry criteria for the group.

This suggestion may need some work around the detail, however, I believe the principle is sound. Whether or not it's possible is another matter...

Your comments/thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated…