Hi,

I understand there are bonuses for returning tasks inside 24hrs and inside 48hrs. Owing to the outage, tasks completed inside 24hrs could not be returned and as a result got the lesser bonus. Will this be corrcted?

Seriously?
You would rather have them manage a special case temporary issue for bonus points due to a power outage they have no control over instead of doing real science?
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Thanks - Steve

I "lost" a bonus as well, shit happens :)
So be it, don't bother too much with this, the real work an the data base stability is more important.
If it's just one or two clicks in a menu, do something, but otherwise: just let it be.
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Working on a faster app would be better than spending time with any temporary measure.
The power outage affected everyone, so there is no need to compensate this.
We were lucky it didn't happened on friday night.
However, a bigger WU cache would be better for fast hosts running 24/7. Running out of work bothers me more than a lost bonus. (losing not just credit, but precious GPU time)

Working on a faster app would be better than spending time with any temporary measure.
The power outage affected everyone, so there is no need to compensate this.
We were lucky it didn't happened on friday night.
However, a bigger WU cache would be better for fast hosts running 24/7. Running out of work bothers me more than a lost bonus. (losing not just credit, but precious GPU time)

As soon as the minumum goes up to three WUs then there will a LOT more WUs that do not get returned within 48 hours and have to be resent. This not only causes more work for the project but the frequency of the complaints of "wasted" effort will increase. I would say if we could cache a minumum of two (which would be the same as we get today) and a max based on the average returned within 24 hours per gpu that might strike a reasonable balance between keeping our cards crunching and keeping the project on schedule. Yes, slow cards would only get two and the fastest cards could get about 10-12 max. Someone will post it is not fair that fast cards get more WUs but the reality is that slow cards are still caching relatively more time so doesn't that mean it is unfair to people who have fast cards?

Unfortunately any scheduling logic that is "non-standard" from a BOINC perspective causes the project to write their own custom code and also makes them have to review all BOINC server changes in greater detail to make sure they can roll over their custom code without breaking anything. And if we think it is difficult for us to deal with a power outage, think about how the really smart guys who are waiting to work with the results must feel!!!
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Thanks - Steve

I like the WU limit of 2 as long as the bonus limit is 1 day. This project doesn't have much downtime and BOINC now supports backup projects so setting Collatz for instance with a project priority of 0 will allow it to DL a minimal amount of work until GPUGRID returns. No wasted GPU cycles. Keep up the good work guys!