"Jim Kent" <j.g.kent@markusplace.com> wrote in message
news:bcou00dis6trhr6v1ni1vp9e4khlnd3lm3@4ax.com...

I can't swear to it, but it looks like the list of tapes being split
on the Server Status page hasn't changed in quite a while.  Weeks,
perhaps.  It's making me suspicious that all the work done recently
amounts to a whole lot of redundant processing.  If that's true, I'm
gonna pack it in.

Can anyone confirm that we're doing actual useful work and not simply
processing the same WUs over and over again?

I am no authority. So all I am telling you is to trust the Berkeley
scientists. With my experience in the lab [working under professors on their
research (I only have a masters degree in physics)] I can tell you that they
would constantly go over their results wanting to make sure they nailed the
data on the head.

Now granted what we participate in is them allowing our machines to only do
"number crunching," but I would bet "dollars to donuts" that the gentlemen
at Berkeley (who have "brains the size of a planet") know well what they are
doing. So if they see fit for some wu's to be re-crunched then you can bet
your bottom dollar that they have a very good reason for it to be done.

-sweet
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