> Consider a possible scenario where the children are allowed to use the > host > for gaming when they have finished their homework, and the games leave the > GPU in a bad state. Such a host could transition from reliable to > unreliable > daily, and hundreds of corrupted results could be assimilated each time. > If > the host were turned off at bedtime, it would be in reliable condition > when > turned on the next day. > > The daily quota is no protection for scenarios like that if the host is > also > doing CPU work for the same project. All it takes is one good CPU result > for > each 49 bad GPU results to keep a daily quota of 100 at max. > -- > Joe
Just the same I've seen on one of my PCs with dual GPU. 9400GT go mad time to time (maybe system overheat, maybe some another reason) and starts to produce legal but bad results. And this case even worse (in regards to quota) than described above cause the same host has another fast (relative) GPU - 9600GSO - that continue to produce correct results. It + CPU surely can keep quota far from zero... and even possible discrimination between CPU and GPU quotas will not help in this case... _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
