To estimate confidence level for result returned under adaptive replication and vitality of this approach I propose such experiment: Run on SETI main (cause we talk about statistical approach small user/host base and much lower device diversity of SETI beta will not fit) under adaptive replication for some time, enough to determine "trusted" hosts and go to replication of 1 for them. But keep track of all single replicated tasks. Then reissue all single replicated tasks again (and keep in mind, that all their results alrady in science databese) and do standart validation between previously returned (and still keeped - it's required for this experiment) result and newly returned one. % of failed initially returned results will show experimentally if adaptive replication is viable idea or ... not :)
Such experiment also (if we will keep results we eventually can avoid master database damage so it can be done) will show how much performance benefit we really can get (what will be % of "trusted" hosts and so on). One real complication - it requires to store recived results for pretty long time - big load on current SETI infrastructure possible. wbr Raistmer _______________________________________________ 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.
