Gee Bro

Don't be so up tight, I wouldn't know if it's old news or not many wouldn't. No matter how much it's been talked about I feel I have a right to ask.

Still that link is 5 years old when it had 12 steps.

Not a current valid reason, so I'd still like to hear from someone that matters....

Next....

I did see all that, even before I asked the question thanks very much.

However there is no reason for it when most times letting it run just a few more hours gives the full result with out having to send it back out.

I asked for a current valid reason, what else do you have that's not 5 years old structured for different WU's and has been changed once already anyway??

Can you offer something related to my question in terms of current information?? This after all is a Forum, not a Q&A page I'm not searching it out. I have enough to read every day and a good number of things to deal with. Maybe it's my nature in that if my team can't work with facts they don't work for me and I've done all the real research within my life I care to do, I'm well and long ago retired. If I didn't have to banter back and forth with you and/or we had a honest/current Q&A page this could be done already.

Is it because they don't want the WU's to get done to fast so they send them out over and over to balance that with validations?? Is it because they feel they take to long fewer people will run them?? Is it because they only want to deal with compounds that fit within that range?? To me that makes the least sense. I'd also like to know why there are no metals, but I bet that's past most cruncher's range. Is it all some or none of that?? I mean really it's just a number in a program, whats the big deal in changing it ?? After all it places a limit on the number of electron shells and complexity any one compound can have ....

If you have nothing else to offer your information has been noted and I'm disregarding it. I feel you did not add anything new. That is after all what a forum is best for.
Next......PLZ

Yes I seen that....a discussion on what happens with a 18 hour limit.

Lets get into the why? One of my WU's got to 18 hours and didn't even get past job one ("0") and it's a older computer I made from peaces and parts that so far has done two years running two at a time. With a newer computer odds are it's twice as fast as mine and one got all the way to saving job 4 in 18 hours he/she got credit I got zero for the 3rd time in two weeks.

The 18 hour limit isn't based on a computers ability to preform it's based on the clock within it so it would seem. There are FAAH2 WU's that can take 24-26++ hours why is CEP2 based on 18 ???

A 18 hour limit may be a fast way to screen them based on a filter program that kind of works so they can pick what they like on the 1 out of what a few 100 that fit the bill of what they are looking for.

So whats the matter with 24 or 30 or 36 hours why are we forced to eat ANY dead CPU time because a WU never got passed the first job.

Why not base the limit on a different value like getting past the first job and then a 18 hour limit?? Because it seems the code is good enough to not get into endless loops let us at least complete the first job......whats the big deal????????????? To me it really displaces the value they tell us we are worth to them, like it'as all so much plant food.

This project started with a 12 hour work limit. It was increased to an 18 limit on December 18, 2013. here In reading the forums it appears the reason for the new limit had several reasons. The 12 hour limit was imposed as a limit so most of the machines could finish most of the time. It was also a preventive measure against a divergent condition versus a convergent condition (different from an infinitely looping problem). It appears the limit was changed in response to a change in project to accommodate some larger molecule sizes. There was also a change in the work units from 16 jobs per WU to 8 jobs per WU. These larger molecules started generating upload files approaching 100 mbs. I presume if the length of the jobs was allowed to go even longer, the size of the upload files would have been proportionally bigger. For those on slow ISP's the upload times would have become untenable. In conclusion it seems the 18 hour limit was an arbitrary compromise to satisfy most of the crunchers most of the time and yet still get the needed information to the scientists.
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