There is an updated version of that list at 
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62573&nowrap=true#1062822

Given the limited number of hosts involved, in the short term the wastage 
(something of the order of 10% of SETI's limited download bandwidth), maybe 
could/should be stemmed by invoking 
http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/BlackList for the 19 hosts identified.

This approach has been used successfully by Milo at CPDN, although there is a 
suggestion that something (perhaps the replacement of max_results_day with 
per_app_version equivalents) broke the blacklist facility after he started 
using it - quotas which had been set to -1 manually became positive again. The 
SETI situation would be a useful test of this tool while a longer-term 
automatic solution is sought. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Raistmer 


  Hello.

  Looks like current quota system implementation can't prevent project 
resources waste in case of "partially" broken host.
  For example, host with anonymous platform running FERMI incompatible CUDA app 
on SETI.
  It will produce incorrect overflows almost always but few specific ARs that 
will be processed correctly and recive validation.
  This small nomber of validations + "GPU" status of app (GPU has greatly 
relaxed limits) allows continuous task trashing. Current quota system 
implementation can't prevent massive task trashing in this situation.

  But now more historical info about host behavior stored on servers, on per 
app version basis.
  Maybe smth new can be implemented that will take into account not only last 
successive validation but host history too?
  The testcases are known, SETI community has list of such bad-behaving hosts 
already: 
http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum_thread.php?id=62573&nowrap=true#1061788

  The aim should be to reduce their throughput to 1 task per day for NV GPU app 
until their owners reinstall GPU app.
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