Sorry, upon re-reading I guess my initial post might have sounded naive. We already have a plan for a "custom validator" that can verify a result without checking it against its neighbor. I was really just wondering, API-wise, how to do validation on a single result as opposed to two. thanks again
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Adam Bazinet <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks, we're aware of the potential issues here :-) > > Now does anyone have an answer to the technical question? I suppose this > also applies to anyone using the AdaptiveReplication scheme (which we're > not) > > thanks, > Adam > > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Unless you have a quick method of getting back from the answer to the >> original question (i.e. one direction is hard and the other is extremely), >> do yourself a favor and use 2 tasks for validation. Some projects have a >> means of validating the result against the original answer and others do >> not. It really depends on the problem space your project is in. >> >> jm7 >> >> >> >> Adam Bazinet >> <pknut...@umiacs. >> umd.edu> To >> Sent by: [email protected] >> <boinc_dev-bounce cc >> [email protected] >> u> Subject >> [boinc_dev] single result >> validation >> 10/30/2009 01:59 >> PM >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> In the BOINC validator framework, what is the recommended way to validate >> just one result? The compare results function takes two results, of >> course, >> so I probably don't want to use that (right?) >> >> Is there some example code in the documentation or distribution somewhere? >> Or would any projects doing single-result validation be willing to share a >> template of their code with me? >> >> Currently we are using a default string comparison validator and the >> two_credit function - we're starting with two results/WU, but would like >> to >> cut that down to one for a particular application. >> >> thanks, >> Adam >> _______________________________________________ >> boinc_dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev >> To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and >> (near bottom of page) enter your email address. >> >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
