One of my machines (ID 285024) has not received any credits in over a month, even tho it has crunched at least 15 WU's. After a completed WU is reported it shows up as "Completed, validation inconclusive" and is sent out to another user. After a few days it then "goes away" with no indication (at least, not anyplace that I can find) as to its status. What's going on here??? That machine is crunching WUs for other projects and receiving credit OK.

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HELLO.... Anyone out there??

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You have 3 machines on your profile.

Can you post some links to WU's that are the issue please?

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This one right here (at the moment) is Pending as your wingman hasn't returned it yet.

http://milkyway.cs.rpi.edu/milkyway/workunit.php?wuid=72309933

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You have 3 machines on your profile.

Can you post some links to WU's that are the issue please?

I would if I knew where to find them... The machine ID is shown in my original post.

Saturday I reset the project, but that didn't seem to do any good. This morning I detached, rebooted the machine, and reattached. I'm waiting to see if I get any credit for the WU now in progress.

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Your computer 285024 downloaded task 103501154 and reported it about 2 days later. Another task was sent to a CPU wingman for validation. Validation was still inconclusive and a 3rd iteration was sent to a GPU. Validation was again inconclusive and a 4th iteration has been sent to a GPU.

The 2 HD 5800 wingmen both have over 100 consecutive valid tasks. Therefore if the 4th task iteration of this work unit is completed and reported it is likely that your task 103501154 will be marked invalid. This is probably what has been happening to the other tasks that you have completed on computer 285024. It is possible that task 105094683 completed on the Xeon CPU will also be marked invalid. Once the work unit is completed it is purged from the database very quickly.

Here are the 3 task iterations that have been reported so far for work unit 71312287:

v0.88, Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz, Computer ID 285024, Task 103501154
<background_likelihood> -3.002860514894183 </background_likelihood>
<stream_only_likelihood> -143.187387267274180 -10.166715562831477 </stream_only_likelihood>
<search_likelihood> -2.928372010919170 </search_likelihood>

v0.88, Xeon(R) CPU E5506 @ 2.13GHz, Computer ID 216111, Task 105094683
<background_likelihood> -3.002860513689446 </background_likelihood>
<stream_only_likelihood> -143.187387266921520 -10.166715554441502 </stream_only_likelihood>
<search_likelihood> -2.928372009750395 </search_likelihood>

v0.82, (ati14) ATI Radeon HD5800 series, Computer ID 285598, Task 105458923
<background_likelihood> -3.002860510921325 </background_likelihood>
<stream_only_likelihood> -143.187387266921520 -10.166715550631581 </stream_only_likelihood>
<search_likelihood> -2.928372007258208 </search_likelihood>

OK, the 4th iteration of the task completed:

v0.82 (ati14), ATI Radeon HD5800 series, Computer ID 320514, Task 105471785
<background_likelihood> -3.002860510921325 </background_likelihood>
<stream_only_likelihood> -143.187387266921520 -10.166715550631581 </stream_only_likelihood>
<search_likelihood> -2.928372007258208 </search_likelihood>

The 4th task iteration and the 3rd validated with Status "Completed and validated". The first 2 task iterations which included your task 103501154 were invalid with Status "Completed, marked as invalid". The work unit was purged from the database within a few minutes after it was completed.

It means your computer 285024 is not producing valid results.

Excuse double post, I just thought you may be interested to know what happened if you didn't happen to catch it, seeing as the information is only available for a minute or two.

It means your computer 285024 is not producing valid results.

If that's the case, then I guess it hasn't been producing any valid results for the past six weeks or so ... but it was previously, so what's changed??

Since it isn't doing anything useful for the project, I'll detatch it and let it work on projects for which it can do useful work.

My other two machines are starting to get 'validation errors' as well, so guess I might as well detatch them as well.

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Have you tried updating to the latest app? We updated the code a few months back, and new WU's may not validate properly if you are running the old code. You may also need to update your GPU drivers.

I'm hoping that Matt A. will be able to chime in with more information.

-Matthew N

w1hue was only running CPU applications on his 3 computers. He was not using an anonymous platform so the MilkyWay applications are the current default.

Since no one has come up with any viable ideas, I have suspended milkyway work on my three machines. All of the pending WU's (except one from a detatched machine that the system apparently thinks is still attached...) have now gone away with no credits being given. Not worth my or the project's time to work on WUs that apparently result in invalid results... Maybe after Travis finishes diddling with the validator I'll give the project another try. In the meantime, I'll let the machines crunch for cosmology@home (along with seti@home, einstein@home and LHC@home)

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