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Message 1590788 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 16:31:00 UTC

After my recent complain about the download nonsense of blanked AP tasks, I want to raise a new issue. I don't remember correctly if this was also present in AP_v6.
Why does a 100% blanked task get the same credit like a non-blanked task although it takes only about 3 seconds of cpu time?!? Pretty weird nonsense!
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Message 1590793 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 16:49:54 UTC - in response to Message 1590788.  

My compaint concerns WU 1621822108.
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Message 1590796 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 16:51:43 UTC - in response to Message 1590788.  

I also complain: why has it never happened to me?
I always get 0.4 credits in these cases... :-(

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Message 1590799 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 16:52:56 UTC - in response to Message 1590788.  

Well, it is rare occurrence of 'lucky' WU ;)
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Message 1590806 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 16:58:36 UTC

It is a rare exception. I have had 3 like that vs 26 that granted the normal smaller credit out of my past 500 tasks.
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Message 1590810 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 17:03:34 UTC

Yes, fairly rare. Out of 36 100% blanked AP v7 tasks that have validated on my hosts, only 5 have inflated credits, between 246.57 and 534.44. I think these will slowly disappear as more hosts reach their 11 validations threshold.
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Message 1590828 - Posted: 23 Oct 2014, 17:25:08 UTC
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It is not a new problem I mentioned this V6 WU to Richard in a PM conversation, not long ago

3752962736 	6619064 	25 Sep 2014, 5:14:07 UTC 	25 Sep 2014, 5:23:39 UTC 	Aborted by user 	0.00 	0.00 	--- 	AstroPulse v6 v6.06 (opencl_ati_nocal_100)
3752962737 	7257788 	25 Sep 2014, 5:14:11 UTC 	25 Sep 2014, 15:55:16 UTC 	Completed and validated 	6.17 	2.39 	588.48 	AstroPulse v6 v6.01
3752993168 	6714690 	25 Sep 2014, 6:34:20 UTC 	25 Sep 2014, 7:57:58 UTC 	Completed and validated 	4.29 	1.17 	588.48 	AstroPulse v6 Anonymous platform (NVIDIA GPU)
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Message 1591253 - Posted: 24 Oct 2014, 7:54:44 UTC

A rare exception? Check out the 'lucky' WUs 1622921029, 1622922858, , 1622927828, 1622934557 and 1622938732.

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