Are these not limited by the number of cores as before? I just got 14 on a 4 thread system.

They HAVE 1 day deadline, else we'll be here 2 years or more instead of 1.

Just received 5 units, but to be honest, on day is a pretty short deadline. Not everyone is running dedicated devices 24/7. Seeing jobs timing out because the personal device was offline for one or two days may be frustrating for some volunteers.

Greetings,

It has been explained multiple times in the past, and I hope I can shed some more light on the topic if that is needed here. The way these work units operate, is that they get sent out and returned. Say they do 6 hours of work, after they come back and others in the batch are back, some processing is needed. The next step of 6 hours is sent back out for processing. In previous experiments, we did this over 150 times.

If a work unit has a 7 day deadline, we see some that don't come back for 10 days due to going out to reliable after failing. The average for these work units coming back is 3 days with a 7 day deadline. This would mean to do this experiment at a 7 day deadline, best we're going to see is 450 days, and that is with zero overhead (which there is some). At worst, we are going to be doing this project in about 1500 days, because we need ALL simulations past the 150 mark.

Now a 1 day deadline, gets the average result back in about 16 hours, this mean with zero overhead it could reach 150 in about 100 days...Worst case we are sitting closer to about 300 days.

We understand the complaints by the members, discussions with the researchers and ourselves, we think 1 day deadlines are best for this project. As others have mentioned, not every project has a 1 day deadline.

Hope this helps with some of the thoughts.

Note: The 150 mark is just an example, it depends on what the researchers need for the experiment.

Thanks,
-Uplinger