Posts by mrwizer

21) Message boards : Number crunching : canonical result (Message 262)
Posted 20 Sep 2005 by mrwizer
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First, although many including myself crunch for the science aspect, you cannot deny the appeal of statistics and their mass draw to the genera public. Many people do crunch for stats, and we should not turn them away because of this. CPU time is CPU time, regardless of the reason behind it. That being said, stats should be taken seriously.

With only one work unit being sent out, you are ignoring many of the lessons learned from Seti Classic. The reason that validation and duplication was set up was to handle the inevitable problem of cheating. Various methods can be used for this, and I am not talking about games or loading your computing with other tasks. Their are methods used to manipulate computer time passage. If you computer is running at full load, yet the time is being manipulated, you are able to change the credit granted. You do not have to modify benchmarks, just the time. I am not sure if this is possible in Windows, but I have heard of it with other projects using Linux, such as FaD. And it does happen, again look at Seti Classic.

To keep the integrity of the project and its data, I think that you have to have redundancy. It is unfortunate and a waste of computer time, but a reality.
22) Message boards : Number crunching : My experience with Rosetta WU's (Message 245)
Posted 20 Sep 2005 by mrwizer
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Guess I should have looked at the other threads first. Others are having the same issue.

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=18
23) Message boards : Number crunching : My experience with Rosetta WU's (Message 243)
Posted 20 Sep 2005 by mrwizer
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Every time I restart my laptop, the CPU time on the Rosetta WU resets to zero. I do not loose any percentage completed progress, just the time. Wont that effect the credit given? Or is it just an error in the display of time, and not the actual logged time when the WU is reported?


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