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Message 19542 - Posted: 22 Jan 2006, 19:43:26 UTC

Not sure if I should post here or at BOINC, but did a search and found nothing.

I\'ve been running my first climateprediction.net project for just over a week now, and am very confused by the \"to completion\" column in BOINC manager. What is this showing me?

BOINC mgr currently shows me 128:17h CPU time and 8.44% complete, suggesting a total CPU time of 128:17/8.44 = 1519 CPU hours. This then gives, by my calculation, 1519 - 128 = 1319 hours to completion. However the \"to completion\" column shows 1479h and has only reduced by 6 hours in the last few days (~60h CPU time).

Am I missing something?

I am using BOINC mgr 5.2.13 under WinXP.
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Message 19550 - Posted: 22 Jan 2006, 20:50:18 UTC

The to completeion time is very poorly calculated until you have done a few work units. Your 1519 total hours should be reasonably accurate.

BOINC used to be good at this for CPDN ( and calculate 1519 same as you have) but poor for other projects. BOINC improved its method for other projects but now it acts in this manner of not being good until a few work units have been done.

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Message 19652 - Posted: 25 Jan 2006, 18:14:43 UTC - in response to Message 19550.  

my to completion time ia also a bit erratic it has gone from about 2000 hrs to 2300 so i might suspend other projects every now and then for a day or two just to bring the time down a bit ive got till 22/11/06 to finish it so am not to worried .
also will i be wasting my time if other people finish the same wu first ???
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Message 19653 - Posted: 25 Jan 2006, 19:05:35 UTC - in response to Message 19652.  

my to completion time ia also a bit erratic it has gone from about 2000 hrs to 2300 so i might suspend other projects every now and then for a day or two just to bring the time down a bit ive got till 22/11/06 to finish it so am not to worried .
also will i be wasting my time if other people finish the same wu first ???


Do not worry about due dates. If you trickle every so often, getting it back late is not an issue.

I have run several, and I think my slowest one was about 8 months, but I have bad memory, so it may not have taken that long.

Welcome to the project. Sit back, enjoy.


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Message 19654 - Posted: 25 Jan 2006, 19:46:46 UTC

> also will i be wasting my time if other people finish the same wu first ???

There is no \'quorum\' as with other projects. The only one processing that set of parameters is you. Unless the model on your computer fails, in which case that data set will be marked for possible re-issue.

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Message 19674 - Posted: 26 Jan 2006, 17:27:32 UTC - in response to Message 19654.  

thanks i will keep on crunching
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