> What really concerns me is that David is enthusiastic about adaptive > replication. If a CUDA host had established a good record and had several > thousand unreplicated tasks then went runaway, all those tasks would be > assimilated as canonical results. As David has pointed out, the false > positives can be eliminated by NTPCKR and subsequent examination, but the > record shows the subband and time period of each of those tasks as having > been checked when it actually hasn't.
If adaptive replication unavoidable indeed, two things could be done to reduce damage to SETI project: 1) Always issue second task if first result was overflow. 2) Add new field in database to mark all results that were accepted w/o any quorum validation. This could allow to redo such WUs when project will need more confidence in its own data. _______________________________________________ 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.
