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To: Klutz Dohanger

Hey, Klutz...I had a 182-pointer that finished yesterday...and it's still not showing up in my stats. The first three I did showed up right away. I am now a third-of-the-way through my 5th WU.

Is there something I should do?

My display screen shows "Finished WUs: 4" but the team stats only show me at 3.

Pls advise. Thanks!!


139 posted on 01/11/2006 4:02:33 PM PST by paulat
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To: paulat

Can you cut and paste the part of the fahlog.txt that shows where it finished, and then what happened afterwards?

the log should be in your fah folder.

Sometimes, what happens is, a WU has an "early end", ie, something is corrupt in the checksums, or the data upload, and
someone at Stanford has to manually intervene, inspect it, and call it complete, or determine the percentage complete.

That's a safeguard built into the points crediting system, or else some unscrupulous folder would be garbling their workunits about 3 frames into a 600 pointer, and taking credit for a few minutes worth of work.


140 posted on 01/11/2006 4:21:32 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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To: paulat

Also, if you were shipped a "beta" unit, under the advanced methods, those have to be "post-beta" inspected, to make sure that the code is correct, and works likes it's supposed to.

The point totals are higher, but there is a built-in delay, while the completed workunits are tested and compared.

After all, it's not the "amount" of work that is the most important to Stanford, but the "quality" of work. If the work units they ship out are rock solid, that's that much less manual intervention they have to do, and a lot less work in documentation.

Again, the log is the only way we can tell what might possibly have happened.


141 posted on 01/11/2006 4:25:23 PM PST by Klutz Dohanger (Folding - Help science, as you browse the web. Team#36120)
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