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Forum: FightAIDS@Home Phase 2
Thread: Do we have an incomplete Wu's problem? |
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Sergio Ellerbracke
Cruncher Joined: Jul 14, 2010 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I have the perception that on several occasions, in different machines, in Windows and Linux, and for months, many Wu of FAH2 are assigned an estimation of insufficient computation time, which causes the Wu to be aborted without concluding, although the times are assigned to the accounts.
Over the months I have totalized 187 Wu's of FAH2, enough for a gold badge, but I have the perception that very few of them have actually ended, and I usually have computers turned on for an average of fifteen hours a day! I also have the perception that the project has advanced very little, only 19% in 19 months. regards |
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Seoulpowergrid
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 12, 2013 Post Count: 815 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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This projects' WUs determine the next WUs, so the results you give are part in a long chain of a super long WU albeit broken up among a bunch of users.
----------------------------------------At every checkpoint the results thus far uploads to WCG's servers so they are getting the information you just crunched and the next WUs are created based off of what you crunched for that WU. If a WU from this project does not complete 100% and runs out of time, then it counts the WU as "complete" from either the last checkpoint or roughly the spot where you stopped/ran out of time. This is good enough for the researchers and the servers as it simply creates the new WU from where the incomplete WU ended. The chain is not broken and the results are still valid as are your incomplete WUs. If you go to "Results Status" you can see how much run time has been uploaded for a specific WU and if a WU runs out of time the status changes from "in progress" to "completed". Edit: Regarding the completed percentage, the daily number of WUs has dropped from 40k ~ 60k from when the project started, to a few hundred in December and January, to roughly 9,000 WU these days (link). The project is still going along but the number of WUs is smaller than the people that want to crunch them. These days 11 years are getting crunched per day and 36,000 years have been submitted so far (link).  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Seoulpowergrid at Mar 13, 2017 12:27:52 AM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
You may want to request edit permission for the Community FAQs and redact the one which discusses the possible statuses of the WUs on the result status pages, and, on the go add verbiage under 'In Progress' touching on the 'trickle' function of the current production FAH2... ;?
PS, maybe Valid gets translated to Completed in other languages, but the only Complet I do is with  |
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