PoppaGeek
03-17-2010, 01:26 PM
I have had several times when I did not get a bonus for getting the WU in within 24 hours. I posted about it to the forums and got this reply. (http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=2068)
Also I found out why they want such a fast turn around on WUs (http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=730).
The deadline is short because the WUs depend on each other. They have to wait for results to get back before they can issue new ones. It's a serial process. When they extend the deadline as you suggest they could have started millions of models in parallel but they may not be able to finish a single one completely within a year. [to put some extreme numbers]
And science also means you work with the results.. you want to analyse them and improve your code etc. The goal is to get work done, not just started.
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Also I found out why they want such a fast turn around on WUs (http://www.gpugrid.net/forum_thread.php?id=730).
The deadline is short because the WUs depend on each other. They have to wait for results to get back before they can issue new ones. It's a serial process. When they extend the deadline as you suggest they could have started millions of models in parallel but they may not be able to finish a single one completely within a year. [to put some extreme numbers]
And science also means you work with the results.. you want to analyse them and improve your code etc. The goal is to get work done, not just started.
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