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RTorpey
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Aug 24, 2005 Post Count: 67 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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You could always run Windoze in a VM on the Linux hosts until more ARP WUs are available ;)
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nanoprobe
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Still not worth the extra electric costs for limited work.
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Speedy51
Veteran Cruncher New Zealand Joined: Nov 4, 2005 Post Count: 1326 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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nanoprobe I am sure you will make the right decision for you. [OT] you have got a good badge level short amount of time [/OT]
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Jean-David Beyer
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There was a discussion with Uplinger (above in this thread) about what reliable means. It seems that until your machine has returned 10 consecutive valid WUs for a given project it won't be regarded as reliable for that project. Is that not a catch-22 situation? If I have an "unreliable" machine, they will send me no work units. But until I complete 10 consecutive work units, they will not consider my machine reliable, and therefore they will not send me work units?  |
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BKraayev
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Is that not a catch-22 situation? If I have an "unreliable" machine, they will send me no work units. But until I complete 10 consecutive work units, they will not consider my machine reliable, and therefore they will not send me work units?
----------------------------------------The reliability factor (I believe) is just used for the resends (-2, -3, etc) ... original sends (-0 and -1) will go to machines that haven't had any units before.  |
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RTorpey
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Still not worth the extra electric costs for limited work. That was meant in jest - hence the ;) |
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Mike.Gibson
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Now getting message no work available instead of tasks committed to other platforms.
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Is that not a catch-22 situation? If I have an "unreliable" machine, they will send me no work units. But until I complete 10 consecutive work units, they will not consider my machine reliable, and therefore they will not send me work units? The reliability factor (I believe) is just used for the resends (-2, -3, etc) ... original sends (-0 and -1) will go to machines that haven't had any units before. Resends will go only to reliable hosts. Original sends will go to all hosts. Thanks, -Uplinger |
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Jack007
Master Cruncher CANADA Joined: Feb 25, 2005 Post Count: 1604 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Hey did you guys do something?
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DrMason
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Jack007 - I came to the thread to ask the same thing. I received a bit more than double the amount of units that I typically have. I'm hesitant to speculate, but wouldn't it be great if the researchers were happy with the data so far and wanted WCG to ramp up?
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