OK, this is a little annoying; wait for validation, other user aborts everything
8 May 2010 12:09:31 UTC
Topic 194922
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Noticed one of these today on WU
http://einsteinathome.org/workunit/73871120
So, I looked at the other users computer and saw
http://einsteinathome.org/host/2334354
which lead to his tasks; there are pages, and pages, and pages aborted at 0.0 secs completion
http://einsteinathome.org/host/2334354/tasks
Quote:
Task ID
click for details Work unit ID
click for details Sent Time reported
or deadline
explain Server state
explain Outcome
explain Client state
explain CPU time (sec) claimed credit granted credit
173971385 73907878 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971383 73905427 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971382 73905417 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971381 73905415 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971380 73905410 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971379 73905409 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971378 73905360 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971377 73905353 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971376 73905340 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971316 73907869 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971284 73907858 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971269 73907852 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971253 73784553 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971131 72994606 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173971104 73907814 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173897647 73874377 6 May 2010 17:07:41 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173897466 73874287 6 May 2010 17:07:40 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173897372 73874240 6 May 2010 17:07:40 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173897045 73874078 6 May 2010 17:07:40 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
173896793 73873953 6 May 2010 17:07:40 UTC 8 May 2010 11:29:34 UTC Over Client error Aborted by user 0.00 0.00 ---
There is 2.5 pages that look like that, followed by 7 WUs he didn't abort, then the remainder of that page is aborted. There's another 4 aborted; and at least from the downloads I had been seeing a disproportionate number of 160 credit WUs (the shorter ones) which got credited.
Is this one of those people who had been cherry picking the WUs which got mentioned in the forums sometime back, this AF>France>Dom-Rom>Polynesie-Francaise] Boris61? If that's what is going on, I'd like to express my displeasure as the ever growing pendings that sort of cherry picking of WUs causes other users, can be the difference between getting credited in time for
http://www.setigermany.de/boinc_pentathlon/25_en_Disciplines.html
or not. And though the pendings can be a natural part of looking for a quorum; running into users who sit there and actively hand abort almost all their units (how far back does this person's history of this go? only an admin could investigate) isn't exactly.
OK, this is a little annoying; wait for validation, other user a
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Taking a look on this host, from the pattern it's clearly he's taking part in the Pentathlon, but probably forgot to set "no new work" on Einstein@home, so downloaded a bunch of work on the 6. May. All this work except 7 has been aborted. Also, probably the work he couldn't finish by the end of the Einstein-part of the Pentathlon he downloaded the 29. April has also been aborted.
In "normal" races any work not finished by the race-end can just be crunched afterwards, and isn't neccessary to abort. But, an unfortunate disadvantage to the multi-project-part of the Pentathlon is these effects, that users can't finish the excess work after the race, since by this time the work will have timed-out by hitting the deadline.
"I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might."
Also, people don't do these
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Also, people don't do these tasks i.e. Global Correlations S5 Engineering. Take too long for too little credit. So they get aborted and peeps just let the binary pulsar search run. More credits, less time.
There are quite some people
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There are quite some people unable to write a proper xml-file, but they abort GW-workunits. If this happens right after receiving it isn't that bad, but most times the scheduler is resending them after a 5 to 10 days break. :(
Some people even abort there GW-wus after 5 days and it takes even longer until the tasks are send out again.
It would be a very nice idea, if resent work would have a shorter lifetime, e.g. 7 days.