Good plan. I like it!

Yes, the first 100 WUs with the 9 iterations flew by fast. Nearly all of that type that I can see in my Results Status have validated on all 9 hosts. I see only 1 host that returned Error and I suspect that 1 was an anomaly. It looks like HDC is going to run very smooth :)

Sek, I installed UD and Throttle Tool. Very nice! And hey... there's that throttle setting clearly visible for all to see!! Love the Throttle Tool, it couldn't be easier. Guess it wasn't necessary to email everybody after all.

OK, the original topic of this thread is pretty much done and over with, the quorum of 3 is still happening, it's not 9. So here's some additional rambling on about UD...

Although UD is proprietary, the fact that the throttle setting can be displayed suggests to me there there is a mechanism avaiable to the techs and programmers that allows various informations to be displayed on the graphics screen and probably on other screens too. I think that could be put to excellent use for HPF2 WUs. As we know, some HPF2 units take a very long time to converge during some parts of the computauions and that during those times the Progress Bar does not move. It has been said that WCG could make the Progress Bar indicate progress during each converge segment rather than indicate progress relative to the entire WU which would be a better indicator of whether or not the computations have stalled. Unfortunately, with that method the Progress Bar goes back to 0 at the start of each new converge computation routine.

It seems to me the solution to the problem might be to have 2 Progress Bars. One would indicate progress relative to the WU, the other would indicate progress relative to the current converge routine. The one would progress once from 0 to 100% for each WU, the other would be more active and would restart at 0 each time the converge routine restarts. If it hits 100% before the converge completes then it simply drops back to 0 and starts over. It might do that several times during longer converges.

The only thing preventing implementation of the above solution is that UD may not have the ability to display 2 Progress Bars. If Rosetta can provide stats on progress relative to the WU as well as stats on progress during each converge or progress between checkpoints then it should be possible to write a 3rd party app that would run alongside Rosetta and UD and provide 2 progress bars or maybe more. I will write that app if it's possible and give it over to the community as freeware, if somebody can point me to info on the Rosetta and/or UD interface(s), APIs or whatever. Or is all that info Top Secret?

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/viewTopic.do?shortName=cpuuse#230

OK, Grid MP SDK is what I need so I've requested it.