newbie: confused by what \"to completion\" is meant to be

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old_user147568 Send message Joined: 9 Jan 06 Posts: 4 Credit: 4,555 RAC: 0	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. ID: 19542 · Reply Quote

crandles Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 16 Oct 04 Posts: 692 Credit: 277,679 RAC: 0	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. HTH Visit BOINC WIKI for help And join BOINC Synergy for all the news in one place. ID: 19550 · Reply Quote

old_user113184 Send message Joined: 23 Nov 05 Posts: 18 Credit: 1,856 RAC: 0	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 ??? ID: 19652 · Reply Quote

Pooh Bear 27 Send message Joined: 5 Feb 05 Posts: 465 Credit: 1,914,189 RAC: 0	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. ID: 19653 · Reply Quote

Les Bayliss Volunteer moderator Send message Joined: 5 Sep 04 Posts: 7629 Credit: 24,240,330 RAC: 0	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. ID: 19654 · Reply Quote

old_user113184 Send message Joined: 23 Nov 05 Posts: 18 Credit: 1,856 RAC: 0	Message 19674 - Posted: 26 Jan 2006, 17:27:32 UTC - in response to Message 19654. thanks i will keep on crunching ID: 19674 · Reply Quote