Project: 2684 (Run 5, Clone 11, Gen 1)

[GeneralRavel]

Had a question about this unit I submitted. I did not receive any bonus points for it. I have been receiving bonus points for awhile now, just not on this unit.

From my log file:

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[21:52:19] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[21:52:22] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[21:52:22] Unit 4 finished with 39 percent of time to deadline remaining.
[21:52:22] Updated performance fraction: 0.608102
[21:52:22] Sending work to server
[21:52:22] Project: 2684 (Run 5, Clone 11, Gen 1)


[21:52:22] + Attempting to send results [June 1 21:52:22 UTC]
[21:52:22] - Reading file work/wuresults_04.dat from core
[21:52:22]   (Read 100023972 bytes from disk)
[21:52:22] Connecting to http://171.67.108.22:8080/
[22:20:20] Posted data.
[22:20:20] Initial: 0000; - Uploaded at ~58 kB/s
[22:20:22] - Averaged speed for that direction ~43 kB/s
[22:20:22] + Results successfully sent
[22:20:22] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[22:20:22] + Number of Units Completed: 13

From the beginning and end times in the log I ran: 3 Days 16 Hours 5 Min
Avg TPF: 52m:51s
Should have been 49,875 points on top of the base unit 8,955 for a total of 58,830
(Or thereabouts)
Any help on this would be appreciated.
The unit posted on June 1 21:52:22

Username: Walter
Team: 50473

[toTOW]

Hi Walter (team 50473),
Your WU (P2684 R5 C11 G1) was added to the stats database on 2010-06-01 16:06:10 for 8955 points of credit.

But I have no clue about why you didn't get bonus for this WU since you completed it in less than 4 days ...

[bruce]

Did your passkey change? The passkey must be configured when the WU was downloaded and must not change while you're working on the WU.

[GeneralRavel]

Hi guys,
Thanks for the quick responses

I am sure I have not touched my config. I run these in a VM and my passkey is still configured the same as it always was.....

From my log when I got the unit:

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[06:14:54] + Attempting to get work packet
[06:14:54] Passkey found
[06:14:54] - Will indicate memory of 4859 MB
[06:14:54] - Connecting to assignment server
[06:14:54] Connecting to http://assign.stanford.edu:8080/
[06:14:55] Posted data.
[06:14:55] Initial: 43AB; - Successful: assigned to (171.67.108.22).
[06:14:55] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[06:14:55] Loaded queue successfully.
[06:14:55] Connecting to http://171.67.108.22:8080/
[06:15:04] Posted data.
[06:15:04] Initial: 0000; - Receiving payload (expected size: 24833960)
[06:15:22] - Downloaded at ~1347 kB/s
[06:15:22] - Averaged speed for that direction ~1201 kB/s
[06:15:22] + Received work.
[06:15:22] Trying to send all finished work units
[06:15:22] + No unsent completed units remaining.
[06:15:22] + Closed connections
[06:15:27] 
[06:15:27] + Processing work unit
[06:15:27] Core required: FahCore_a3.exe
[06:15:27] Core found.
[06:15:27] Working on queue slot 04 [May 29 06:15:27 UTC]
[06:15:27] + Working ...
[06:15:27] - Calling './FahCore_a3.exe -dir work/ -nice 19 -suffix 04 -np 8 -checkpoint 15 -verbose -lifeline 1002 -version 629'

[06:15:28] 
[06:15:28] *------------------------------*
[06:15:28] Folding@Home Gromacs SMP Core
[06:15:28] Version 2.19 (March 6, 2010)
[06:15:28] 
[06:15:28] Preparing to commence simulation
[06:15:28] - Looking at optimizations...
[06:15:28] - Created dyn
[06:15:28] - Files status OK
[06:15:30] - Expanded 24833448 -> 30791309 (decompressed 123.9 percent)
[06:15:30] Called DecompressByteArray: compressed_data_size=24833448 data_size=30791309, decompressed_data_size=30791309 diff=0
[06:15:30] - Digital signature verified
[06:15:30] 
[06:15:30] Project: 2684 (Run 5, Clone 11, Gen 1)

The work unit did error out at one point when I had shut it down and restarted it. I think my client went and got another work unit (which was the same one I believe), so I killed that one and restarted from a backup I made an hour or so before (I didn't want to lose over a day's worth of work). It ran without issue from that point, but I only got the base credit.

Thanks again...
Username: Walter
Team: 50473

[bruce]

When you restore from a backup, almost anything can happen. There's the original start time, the download time of the new assignment, and the finish time for one or the other. How can the server decide which two of those three times accurately describes how long you had the WU?

I'm not accusing you of anything, but clearly if the server happens to accept the results from the first download along with the start time of the second assignment, that would be a very effective way to cheat. Under circumstances like that, the server has to award no bonus.