The attempt is to count time * speed

-----Original Message-----
From: boinc_dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
William Stilte
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 1:08 PM
To: David Anderson
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] EXIT_TIME_LIMIT_EXCEEDED (sorry, yes me again, but 
please read)

Considering that we do not count flops but time...

Retreating to semantics?

And I've got a few cents to add on using RAC but I've run out of time to
share that particular balloon popper.


2014-06-12 18:45 GMT+02:00 David Anderson <[email protected]>:

> To reiterate (from discussions several years ago):
>
> - Resource shares apply to a host's total FLOPS, not time on particular
> devices.
>   This is the appropriate semantics.
>
> - We chose not to use RAC as a basis for scheduling because
>   a) there can be long and unpredictable delays in granting credit,
>      because of replication
>   b) jobs may not be granted credit for a variety of reasons,
>      in which case the client would (undesirably)
>      keep running jobs for that project.
>
> -- D
>
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