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Nigel Garvey

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Message 50684 - Posted: 14 Aug 2011, 10:17:08 UTC
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I reported back in June that the new Separation app for Mac OS X PowerPC appeared to be flaky, since few of my results with versions 0.80 or 0.82 had validated. I was assured that my "inconclusive" results probably had validated later; but there were no points increases to bear this out and I eventually suspended the project.

I was tempted to give it another go during the recent double-points episode and did in fact pick up another couple of thousand points while that lasted. But since then, I've seen all but one of my MWH results marked "inconclusive" and eventually disappear from my Tasks page with no further increase in points. (According to Free-DC, my MWH score last changed on 4th August: 160 points. Before that, nothing since 26th July.)

Consistently invalidated results are obviously a waste of computer time and electricity and I've now suspended MWH again.

I had no problems with MWH before the 0.80 app appeared and the results for the other three BOINC projects on the same machine are usually fine. So the likelihood is there's an issue with the app itself or with the validation process.


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