Hello there,

Last month I saw quite much WU's which are granted 1000.00 cobblestones while the chrunchers only claimed 180 or more. It looks like a bug in the validating system which grants the max amount of credits for WU's with a CPU time higher then a certain amount of seconds.

Not that I've problems with it, but it doesn't seem quite fair to me.

I also saw this behaviour, especially when the WU's take a long time to complete (about 5-6 hours). I don't mind too, but I agree on the fact that it is not really fair.
On the other side, the project is almost 100%. Maybe they are giving the points as gifts for the volunteers ;)

I'm not sure exactly why they do it, but that's normal for longer workunits. If you've noticed, ABC generally grants more credits than the BOINC clients claim. It does cap the limit at 1000 though, which is probably what you're seeing.
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Yup, 1000 credits is the maximum credits for any WU.
When this "feature" was added I my oldish P4s crunched those big WUs in over 30 hrs but of course with my newer boxes those WUs only need 8-9 hrs now. ;-)

I consider these 1K-WUs as an extra motivation... especially when crunching with older PCs. *grin*



EDIT: Besides these 1K-WUs are quite rare... I have to crunch a lot of 'normal' WUs before I get one of these jewels. ;-)))
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Lovely greetings from Cori

If you've noticed, ABC generally grants more credits than the BOINC clients claim.

The longer the task, the greater the credits. And it goes up exponentially with a 1000 cap. This is intentional. See here for why:

http://abcathome.com/forum_thread.php?id=148&nowrap=true#3360



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Team SETI.USA

Okay, granting credit is exponential... thanks :)

Okay, granting credit is exponential... thanks :)