Message boards : Number crunching : Task time estimate wrong. Will finish a day late. Will get credit?
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I have a task that was estimated as twenty something (28 IIRC) hours. It has been running in priority mode for a couple of days and has finally reached 92% at about 70 hours. It was due yesterday at 1PM and will probably finish about a day after the due date. So far, it hasn't been assigned to anyone else. When it is turned in, will it get credit? | |
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Betting Slip Send message Joined: 5 Jan 09 Posts: 670 Credit: 2,498,095,550 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications     | |
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Afraid not it has been marked as "Timed Out" | |
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Afraid not it has been marked as "Timed Out" The machine is a dedicated cruncher so it does run 24/7 and it normally finishes GPUGRID tasks in the time estimated. I was reading other forum threads after I started this thread and it looks like this is one of the LONG work units that was mistakenly put in the SHORT work unit queue. If it wasn't taking close to 50 hours longer than it said it would, it wouldn't be late. It hasn't been assigned to another machine, probably because it was supposed to go in the long run queue. The tasks that were mistakenly put in the short run queue and hadn't been assigned to user machines were deleted from the short run queue IIUC. The task name is I389-SANTI_baxbimSPW-0-62-RND4384 It's currently at 97.891% and climbing steadily so I'll definitely let it finish whether it gets credit or not. I just hope they don't delete the task in the next few hours so that they can get and use the result. BTW, the job says the minimum quorum is 1 and the initial replication is now zero (it was 1 before mine timed out), but the max # of success tasks is 6. If they're only handing out one task at a time but allowing 6 successful results, then they're either accepting timed out results or the job configuration is a little weird. | |
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I'm happy to say that it finished, was validated and got credit. | |
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Stefan Project administrator Project developer Project tester Project scientist Send message Joined: 5 Mar 13 Posts: 348 Credit: 0 RAC: 0 Level  Scientific publications  | |
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Super! I guess it was one of the "rotten" Santi WU's which were meant for the long queue instead of the short. Congratulations though on managing it. The new Santi ones on short should be normal length. | |
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