The XXXLs are back:)

[Mike029]

Hey all, RNA world has tasks that run between 200 to 800 hours depending on your system and give 4X credit. The drawback is that these tasks do NOT checkpoint!

They are actually called XXL tasks at RNA world but about every 50th XXL will be one that runs over 150 hours and I call those XXXLs! Normal tasks receive 2X credit but tasks that run a very long time get 4X credit. If you have a reliable system and power they can be quite profitable. My power is not very reliable and I do not have a UPS so I only run one or two of these tasks at once and abort the rest. I am planing on getting a UPS for one system and running these exclusively though because they pay so well.

JagDoc is making lots of credit with a modest farm by running these tasks exclusively. Some of the tasks he is turning in are earning over 100 credits per hour which is pretty good compared to some projects.

http://www.rnaworld.de/rnaworld/show...php?userid=980

Anyway, just a little plug for a project I like that I like. Keep crunching!!

The no check point scares me.

I may try a couple on my 24/7 box

[Bikermatt]

The no check point scares me.

Yes, I have lost tasks with over 400 hours crunched before due to power bumps or my own stupidity. The power bumps are usually less than a second so I have a UPS on the way that should account for 99% of the power problems. The getting stupid is another thing that I will have to tackle eventually also.

[STE\/E]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I lost about 2000 Hr's on the Box that was running 5 RNA Wu's It must have rebooted it's self around 40 Hr's ago & the Wu's reset to to 0 Hr's again but had built up to 40 Hr's again. Good thing is I got Credit for all the Hr's at WUProp & now have 2800+ Hr's for the RNA Project. I was tired of running them anyway & shouldn't have had 5 on 1 Box for just the very reason the Box could reboot & it finally did. I know the Lattice Garlic Wu's I only run 1 on a box for that reason but didn't realize the RNA Wu's ran that long ... ... I really can't believe they don't have Checkpointing on these Wu's, not very considerate of the Participants but then that's the way most Projects are ...

[Duke of Buckingham]

yeha they have a checkpoint around 1 minute and then must run to the end that is not good for me. Some times they do inversion to the electric power that just restart my computer. I had to give up after a lot of crunching. It is a pity but I can not do nothing about it.

[zombie67]

GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I lost about 2000 Hr's on the Box that was running 5 RNA Wu's It must have rebooted it's self around 40 Hr's ago & the Wu's reset to to 0 Hr's again but had built up to 40 Hr's again. Good thing is I got Credit for all the Hr's at WUProp & now have 2800+ Hr's for the RNA Project. I was tired of running them anyway & shouldn't have had 5 on 1 Box for just the very reason the Box could reboot & it finally did. I know the Lattice Garlic Wu's I only run 1 on a box for that reason but didn't realize the RNA Wu's ran that long ... ... I really can't believe they don't have Checkpointing on these Wu's, not very considerate of the Participants but then that's the way most Projects are ...

That's why they award like 4x the credits. It's to cover all the likely restarts. You could have that happen two more times, and still come out even.

[Al]

I have 13 days on one XXL. Three more days to go. It's running on my Q6600, my slowest, but most stable rig. What amazes me is Progress Energy hasn't dropped the ball so far...none of their normal momentary blip outages. I have 2 more XXL's running, but the deadlines are both on March 18th. One has 34 days to finish and the other 142 days...WTF? Guess I'll let them run and see if I can get some wuprop credit.

Edit: The last 13% just completed, 3 days ahead of schedule. Now just wait for validation. This wu hasn't had too good of luck from the looks of it. Is this pretty normal on these long wus?

25 Jan 2013 14:18:06 UTC 25 Jan 2013 16:00:46 UTC Error while computing 113.14 0.00 0.00 --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
25 Jan 2013 8:56:38 UTC 28 Jan 2013 15:15:48 UTC Client detached 0.00 0.00 --- --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
26 Jan 2013 5:48:39 UTC 26 Jan 2013 6:04:24 UTC Error while computing 17.05 0.75 0.00 --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
26 Jan 2013 6:02:48 UTC 15 Feb 2013 6:02:48 UTC Timed out - no response 0.00 0.00 --- --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
27 Jan 2013 13:20:23 UTC 27 Jan 2013 16:23:36 UTC Aborted by user 3,296.91 3,163.90 15.99 --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
29 Jan 2013 11:04:10 UTC 18 Feb 2013 11:04:10 UTC Timed out - no response 0.00 0.00 --- --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
28 Jan 2013 21:25:08 UTC 17 Feb 2013 21:25:08 UTC Timed out - no response 0.00 0.00 --- --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
21 Feb 2013 21:11:11 UTC 21 Feb 2013 21:14:49 UTC Aborted by user 72.53 52.73 0.44 --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
22 Feb 2013 0:01:14 UTC 22 Feb 2013 0:31:10 UTC Error while computing 6.21 0.64 0.00 --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
22 Feb 2013 0:19:18 UTC 23 Feb 2013 4:58:51 UTC Aborted by user 667.39 521.64 1.85 --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
22 Feb 2013 5:36:58 UTC 14 Mar 2013 5:36:58 UTC In progress --- --- --- --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
22 Feb 2013 5:45:57 UTC 14 Mar 2013 5:45:57 UTC In progress --- --- --- --- cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32
23 Feb 2013 14:35:00 UTC 11 Mar 2013 1:21:16 UTC Completed, waiting for validation 1,201,720.31 1,084,083.80 7,351.32 pending cmsearch XXL (long) 1.0.2 v0.32