Points earned 3 or 4 years ago
15 Dec 2012 22:55:06 UTC
Topic 196690
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I recently began running E@H after approx. 3 or 4 years of abstenance, during which I was running the program on 7 or 8 machines.
I'm curious about a couple of things. Firstly, would it be possible to 'reclaim' the points earned during the earlier period? I believe I was using the same user ID in my earlear participation.
Seconly, I have a couple of work units that are over a week old, with several being 5 or 6 days and have not as of yet been validated. This may be normal, but as I can best recall from my first participation that most were validated the same day. I could be wrong as it's been 3 years or so, but is a validation period of longer than a week 'normal'?
Thanks,
Ford
Points earned 3 or 4 years ago
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You'll have to figure out what email address you used to register the old account with, then you can log off from this one, log back in on the other one (or have a temp login sent to the email address).
To get your computer to add to the other account's credits, you will also have to remove the project from BOINC and add it again with the other account.
The email address is the unique identifier, so it's not possible that you used it twice to register two accounts. And before you ask, no BOINC accounts cannot be merged.
RE: Seconly, I have a
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It is not uncommon to have pending results, waiting for the wingman, for 1 or two weeks. While most hosts will finish any given task in a matter of hours or at most a few days, some hosts have huge caches of workunits, so that that time between download and actually reporting and uploading results can eventually converge to close the deadline (14 days). The GW search using "locality" scheduling which increases the probability that you are having the very same "wingman" for several results in a row. So if you unlucky, this can lead to a cluster of pending results.
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