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Message 34099 - Posted: 2 Dec 2013 | 13:46:11 UTC

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?

http://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=4948472

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Message 34100 - Posted: 2 Dec 2013 | 16:34:23 UTC - in response to Message 34099.

Afraid not it has been marked as "Timed Out"

I'm afraid that card is just too slow especially if you don't let it run 24/7

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Message 34102 - Posted: 2 Dec 2013 | 17:43:05 UTC - in response to Message 34100.

Afraid not it has been marked as "Timed Out"

I'm afraid that card is just too slow especially if you don't let it run 24/7


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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Message 34104 - Posted: 3 Dec 2013 | 0:04:08 UTC

I'm happy to say that it finished, was validated and got credit.
Run time: 270,503.22 seconds
CPU time: 44,268.71 seconds
Credit: 13,700.00

http://www.gpugrid.net/workunit.php?wuid=4948472

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Message 34108 - Posted: 3 Dec 2013 | 9:27:03 UTC - in response to Message 34104.
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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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