Post copies of the result work unit distribution and it will be a lot more informative in terms of helping to guess what's on with those.

@Rob
So for one of the instances I was the first to get the WU (WU ends in 0) and another I was the 3rd to get the WU. The last instance I can't check as WCG deleted it.

@Sgt. Joe
I was pretty sure I saw this before but never checked again as it looked like a one off. Today, as I saw three more aborted WUs, I decided to post this.

It's a pity they were not caught at point of distribution, to see the original deadlines. Those results are rather current, so it's not like troppo tardi and techs in a rush to get a quorum complete to finish an old lingering batch. "So happens" [quoting Bill], have two 8 cores on running a combined 13 UGM and 3 CEP2 which they've been doing for over a month now. I'll take out the flee-comb and see if any fresh show this, i.e. none have reported yet. Maybe something surfaces from this.

ttyl

... so 10 minutes later and opening up 45 IPs, only one showed with 1 returned results, 1 had a 3rd copy because an original went legs up, in amongst the IPs were copies of batch 20546 and 20550. Just wonder [Bills dartgun], if there's joysticks attached to the servers and a shoot them up [read wind them up], games are played, kidding of course. No raison d'être for this to happen, maybe one or the other host is spitting intermittent errors [wingman] soon after, and therefor some anticipating action is taken [extra copy], to make sure the server lifetime of a batch does not go long.

Summation: Without techs fezzing, nothing to understand to let it rest [shut up and crunch ;o]

(I admit, now that I have a solid Hunting Tool v2.0q (one with now 76000+ results having passed through and the other 12000), I hardly ever visit the RS pages... what I do not know, cannot concern me ;P)

Seeing this as well:

Workunit Status



Project Name: Uncovering Genome Mysteries
Created: 12/01/2015 00:39:02
Name: ugm1_ugm1_20524_1200
Minimum Quorum: 2
Replication: 2



Result Name App Version Number Status Sent Time Time Due /
Return Time CPU Time / Elapsed Time (hours) Claimed/ Granted BOINC Credit
ugm1_ ugm1_ 20524_ 1200_ 2-- 728 Valid 12/2/15 14:02:57 12/3/15 08:46:10 2.90 72.6 / 64.5
ugm1_ ugm1_ 20524_ 1200_ 0-- 728 Valid 12/2/15 13:58:53 12/2/15 16:00:41 2.00 56.4 / 64.5
ugm1_ ugm1_ 20524_ 1200_ 1-- 728 Server Aborted 12/2/15 13:58:43 12/3/15 11:00:39 0.00 0.0 / 0.0



I'm the _1 that got the WU before the _0. The _2 went out about FOUR minutes later. Either we have an anomaly in the spacetime continuum or BOINC is psychic!

Don't know why any of the tag tech-team is not responding 'we're looking at it' or 'this is why', but I'm assuming [dangerous], that whence there's N copies 'in-progress', an 'error/no reply' will just invoke sending a new copy until max copies is reached without checking if enough IP are IP.

Is 7 days the standard deadline these days(?), then those extras also go out with seven [a film I will never ever watch again]. Spooky.