WU's not issued to other computers!
28 Feb 2005 20:13:53 UTC
Topic 188145
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I have received about 24 WU's in the last few day ( competed about 16), but only 1 of them has been issued to other computers. Why is this?
How long does it take for WU's to be sent to othe computers?
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WU's not issued to other computers!
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> I have received about 24 WU's in the last few day ( competed about 16), but
> only 1 of them has been issued to other computers. Why is this?
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> How long does it take for WU's to be sent to othe computers?
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> http://einsteinathome.org/account/tasks
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I have the same problem. I think there are too many people with unfinished WUs so that nothing more can be sent to them.
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One more thing...I'd rather
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One more thing...I'd rather they be unsent then sent to computers which won't be able to complete them before the deadline.
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if it's not a bug, it's not a
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if it's not a bug, it's not a problem.
> if it's not a bug, it's not
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> if it's not a bug, it's not a problem.
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UhOh...next it will be a feature...
There are two secrets to life: 1) Don't tell everything you know...
Then the scheduler sends out
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Then the scheduler sends out work it trys to give you WU’s for data-sets that you already have. If there aren’t any more WU’s for the data sets you got, then you will be given WU’s from a new data-set and you will have to download that data-set. For every data-set there is 150 WU’s and every WU is sent out to 4 computers.
So lets imagine that you have a fast computer and that you are the first one to download WU’s for that data-set. You download 24 WU’s (nr 1-24) and are computer nr 1 on all of these. After some time there are 3 more computers downloading WU’s from your data-set they download 20 (nr 1-20),10 (nr 1-10),15 (nr 1-15) WU’s. You download 24 more WU’s (nr 25-50). New computer downloads 7 WU’s. There is already 4 computers on WU nr 1-10 so it gets nr 11-17. The old computer that downloaded 10 WU’s gets nr 16-25.
So if you only manage to crunch one third of the WU’s the rest of the computers that crunches WU’s from your data-set and none of them are faster then you, you are going to be computer nr 1 on all 150 WU’s. All the other computers will be getting WU’s that you have already crunched.
Then you're really interested in a subject, there is no way to avoid it. You have to read the Manual.