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jw164
Cruncher Joined: May 20, 2020 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline |
I have two machines in my account; a PC and a MAC. I've noticed that for the work items sent to the PC, another PC gets the same work unit for verification. Similarly if the unit is sent to the Mac, it is another Mac getting the same unit. Is this intentional? It seems that if the work units were split between different computing environments there would be an additional test of the code, ie. two different versions of the code got the same results.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The purpose is to always or for some project incidentally do a verification of the results at a bit by bit level. These verifications or validations are platform bound. A result from a OSX cannot be compared with a result from Windows or Linux, simply because each just outputs slightly different, enough to prevent bit for bit comparison for validation purposes.
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jw164
Cruncher Joined: May 20, 2020 Post Count: 4 Status: Offline |
Thank you
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