- to limit I/O, the Pendings page has been modified to show only the sum of claimed credit. For individual tasks it refers to the Tasks page, filtering Pending tasks.
BM
Adding the Pending Claimed Credit total to the 'Your Account' web page might further reduce the need for accessing the Pending page detail.
My understanding is 'pending credit' is badly skewed for GPU users; the BRP tasks in particular give 500 credit and take an absolute age on a CPU, reflecting the computational effort required - but a GPU can chew through the same work far faster. So while the host doesn't claim much credit (resulting in a low pending score) when the work is validated you get credited the full amount (reflecting the work done).
Maybe it's possible to change 'pending credit' so it reflects the credit that will be granted once the work is validated, instead of the amount claimed by the host?
In our first own implementation of "server assigned credit" per workunit the claimed credit of a task was set identical to what would be granted if the task was found valid. Pendings, claimed and granted credit etc. actually were pretty much in sync.
Subsequent development of BOINC code (API, client, server) later messed this up. We would need to derive significantly from standard BOINC if we want to get that working again as it used to.
Knowing that the pending credits are not even close to what it's supossed to be... Why does people care about them? Is this usefull for anything?
I mean, what is the point in loading the servers quering the DB and adding those claimed credits? Wouldnt be enought to show only the number of pending tasks?
The number of Pending Tasks just became available a few days ago, whereas the Pending total has been available all along. Right or not, I have been using the Pending total as a crude measure of Credits in reserve. One measure of many used to assess host performance as processing capacity is added.
I mean, what is the point in loading the servers quering the DB and adding those claimed credits? Wouldnt be enought to show only the number of pending tasks?
Summing up one column doesn't load a (MySQL) DB significantly more than counting the rows.
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Adding the Pending Claimed Credit total to the 'Your Account' web page might further reduce the need for accessing the Pending page detail.
Gord
RE: Adding the Pending
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Thanks. Done.
BM
BM
How is the pending credit
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How is the pending credit calculated? At the moment I have
It seems to me that this number connot be correct...
My understanding is 'pending
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My understanding is 'pending credit' is badly skewed for GPU users; the BRP tasks in particular give 500 credit and take an absolute age on a CPU, reflecting the computational effort required - but a GPU can chew through the same work far faster. So while the host doesn't claim much credit (resulting in a low pending score) when the work is validated you get credited the full amount (reflecting the work done).
Maybe it's possible to change 'pending credit' so it reflects the credit that will be granted once the work is validated, instead of the amount claimed by the host?
In our first own
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In our first own implementation of "server assigned credit" per workunit the claimed credit of a task was set identical to what would be granted if the task was found valid. Pendings, claimed and granted credit etc. actually were pretty much in sync.
Subsequent development of BOINC code (API, client, server) later messed this up. We would need to derive significantly from standard BOINC if we want to get that working again as it used to.
BM
BM
RE: RE: Adding the
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Thanks Bernd. It looks good!
Gord
Knowing that the pending
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Knowing that the pending credits are not even close to what it's supossed to be... Why does people care about them? Is this usefull for anything?
I mean, what is the point in loading the servers quering the DB and adding those claimed credits? Wouldnt be enought to show only the number of pending tasks?
The number of Pending Tasks
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The number of Pending Tasks just became available a few days ago, whereas the Pending total has been available all along. Right or not, I have been using the Pending total as a crude measure of Credits in reserve. One measure of many used to assess host performance as processing capacity is added.
Gord
RE: I mean, what is the
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Summing up one column doesn't load a (MySQL) DB significantly more than counting the rows.
BM
BM