What happens to the Validator?
4 Mar 2006 14:44:55 UTC
Topic 190860
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CPU-Time : 0s
Claimed Credit : 0
Valid state : valid
Granted Credit: 5,49
Host ID: 406681
http://einsteinathome.org/workunit/5280020
http://einsteinathome.org/workunit/5281460
Chris
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What happens to the Validator?
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Seems that the BOINC client does not report CPU time correctly.
Michael
Team Linux Users Everywhere
The machine in question looks
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The machine in question looks like it had a bad run at the benchmark, which set something to 0. Since everything runs around the benchmark speed (currently), and you multipy 0 by anything, you get 0. The WU was crunched correctly and gave am answer as close as anyone else's, so it got validated. The machine did it's work, so it got credit.
This has been seen before, and will be seen again, until they make the change in BOINC to count the actual flops.