Hi Uplinger,
by now I have many of my devices dedicated to DDDT, so I would like to know (if possible) more information about how many days will during this scheduled change (i.e.: all next week ? or just from monday to friday ?) .

With this information I will setup 10 days of work hours in my profile / preferences, before the unavailability time of DDT WU's distribution...
Thank you in advance. Regards.
Gib@

To be even more specific we are going to do the following:

1) We load the work into BOINC in groups we call 'batches'. We picked the last batch yesterday that will run with redundancy and loaded it into BOINC. There are currently about 11,000 results left to be sent out for DDDT. We have recently been sending around 32,000 results per day for DDDT so we will 'run dry' for DDDT within then next 12 hours or so.

2) Once we run dry, we will let the work continue to run as normal for about 2 days. You will periodically be able to get work for DDDT as extra copies are generated to complete workunits.

3) After two days (likely around 1-2 UTC on Sunday) we will begin to 'over schedule' DDDT. This means that we will force any workunits still in progress to generate an extra result. We will repeat this a day and a half later (likely around 12-13 UTC on Monday).

4) Finally we will wait another day or two for the result to come. Based on past experience, there will only be a small number of workunits still in progress. Most of these will complete with the results still in progress. Thus we will go ahead and release the new application version and single redundancy workunits.

This is a bit of a messy process and we don't like the way it works. However, if we release the new application version prior to the workunits that were originally processed with the previous application version, then as additional results are generated for the workunits as needed, those results will not compare between versions. This results in a lot more troubles with lots of results being marked INCONCLUSIVE and eventually INVALID.

Ok. Now it looks like there are no new DDDT WUs available...

Keith/Kevin,

got a version number for the upcoming release so folk can reconfigure and don't find systems crawling or hanging.

Thx
Rob

Didactylos wrote:

I'm ready to pick up any that trickle in today or tomorrow (Saturday) morning! However, if one generally takes a bit longer than average to crunch, would you advise against being available to grab units on Sunday or Monday?

By the way, I assume that the 6.05 application contained the self-validating feature on which the upcoming version relies, and that the roll-out is occuring because no 6.05 work units passed the internal validation but failed when validated against the result from another computer? If so, thank you for taking the time to verify that this works!