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1) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Someone else getting credit for my workunits (Message 608)
Posted 7 Oct 2010 by JimB
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Hmm, the client state does indeed say "Cancelled by server". That hadn't crossed my mind - I thought my computer had done the computations only to have them ignored. So it's not really a problem. I'll chalk up the accepting of late results as one of the idiosyncrasies of BOINC.
2) Message boards : Questions/Problems/Bugs : Someone else getting credit for my workunits (Message 605)
Posted 7 Oct 2010 by JimB
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http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/workunit.php?wuid=7736835
http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/workunit.php?wuid=7736939
http://escatter11.fullerton.edu/nfs/workunit.php?wuid=7736250

I'd sent a PM to Greg about this when it was only one workunit, but now it's happened twice more. It seems that once a workunit is reissued as a new task, the person with the original workunit is able to submit theirs and get credit, even when it's three days after their deadline. My result is considered a duplicate even though I'm well within the deadline assigned to me.

I didn't think it was supposed to work this way - seems like some sloppy programming somewhere. Am I right to be upset over this?





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