Hurrah wrote:

"John Donson" <harigejan@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:41088045$0$29602$ba620dc5@nova.planet.nl...

What does this mean? A lot of work for nothing?

July 28, 2004
The project is currently down. We found a bug in the scheduling code
such that returned results were not being updated in the database.
We are now running a fix script on the DB, marking each affected
result as unsent so that it will be resent. Unfortunately, credit
was not given for results affected by the bug.

Does that mean all the work I did the last week was for nothing?

VERY probably...!

Also, from what it sounds like (and I wished they would get someone
to write the news who was not so ambiguous):

any WU you sent, the data would have been cleared off the computer
that did it - so, the actual work may be lost as well as no-one's
computer retains info on the work done (ie in a back-up), so the bit
about being "resent" sounds false - more like:

"we'll have to make that WU available for download again, so it can be
crunched again and then returned again, by which time, the scheduler
code will be fixed"


Yet another big blow for BOINC.....!

I wondered why my credit hadn't gone up for the past week while my power
bill has. I've been running four machines 24/7 on BOINC.

That will really annoy me if that's all been for nothing, no science and no
credit. I've gone without other stuff (like food<g>) to pay for the
electricity.
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~misfit~