Martin wrote:

(And very expensive electricity to just increment your WU count.)

Also note that if your WU result is returned later than four other results for that WU, your result is of little additional scientific value. (You still get credited with a WU result being returned ofcourse.)

Return a result after the WU pool has been churned, and that WU result is just thrown away. (You still get credited with a WU result being returned ofcourse.)


My guess is that at present, if you can get WU results returned within about a week of downloading, your efforts should be helping science.

Otherwise, there are other worthwile projects out there that can better accept long return delays for their results.

Otherwise, save generating some waste heat.


...And then again, this project can be a good education!

Onwards with a more efficient (small queue delayed) crunch...

Regards, Martin