MilkyWay@home

August 19, 2008 Validator and Awarded Credit Change
We've made a change to our validator which basically puts a speed limit to the amount of credit any given host can be awarded (per cpu). While this shouldn't effect the vast majority of our users (as the speed limit is quite high), it will help prevent the project from giving out more credit than intended.

August 16, 2008 More Deadline Changes
The deadline has been increased to 3 days (up from 2), mainly for computers that need to go offline for weekends. Hopefully this should work well for everyone.

August 15, 2008 Increased WU Queue and lowered deadlines
Due to some problems with multiple processor machines, I've increased the WU queue back to 20, but I've lowered the deadline for WUs to two days. Hopefully this will help keep peoples machines crunching without any downtime. We're still looking into a way to get a per-core queue and hope to have that going soon.

July 30, 2008 Reduced WU Queue
Due to the longer WU calculation time we've reduced the WU queue to 8 (from 20). Let us know if this causes any problems.

June 18, 2008 Server Downtime
I'm taking down the assimilator to let the purge get the database back to running smoothly and to let the validator catch back up as well. After the downtime hopefully there'll be better WU availability and things will be running smoothly, as we'll be running the purge as a daemon.

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