Why No Credit?

marvinvwinkle
marvinvwinkle
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Topic 192669

I don't understand this. It completed the long WU and was successful, but received no credit even though the other two computers working on the WU did.

83465479 69250 22 Apr 2007 8:55:04 UTC 29 Apr 2007 18:56:44 UTC Over Success Done 141,411.08 319.83 0.00

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marvinvwinkle
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Why No Credit?

I'm also working on another Long WU (23 hrs into it at 59%), should I pull the plug on it. I don't like wasting computer time.

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Michael Karlinsky
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RE: I'm also working on

Message 63079 in response to message 63078

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I'm also working on another Long WU (23 hrs into it at 59%), should I pull the plug on it. I don't like wasting computer time.

No! Your result was deemed invalid. Meaning that the your result was (slightly) different than the result of the other two. This can happen. Probably the validator needs some fine tuning. (BTW you lost against two Linux host. Different platforms are most likely to produce different results.)

Michael

marvinvwinkle
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That may be true but it still

That may be true but it still completed the WU successfully and should receive credit :^)

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Keck_Komputers
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RE: That may be true but it

Message 63081 in response to message 63080

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That may be true but it still completed the WU successfully and should receive credit :^)


If it did not validate it was not really successfull, it just did not have a serious enough error that it could not finish processing.

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Alinator
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In this case though it was

In this case though it was probably due to the early cross platform validation problems.

My early ones validated OK with Mac partners, but the only Linux partner I've had so far is on a later version app with Dr. Allen and hasn't finished yet.

Alinator

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