Does F@H ever run out of work? [No]

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Does F@H ever run out of work?

[John Naylor]

That depends on what you're asking...

If you mean are there temporary Work Unit shortages... then yes, on occasion it does (but extremely rarely for released clients - the Pande Group work very hard to make sure there are enough units to keep the entire network busy)

If you mean will there eventually be no more work to do... then yes, but the amount of work still to do is so incomprehensibly enormous that I doubt the project will finish this century without an increase in processing power of several orders of magnitude.

PS Welcome to the forums!

[Trivolve]

A quick scan of the server status page indicates about 400,000 WUs available, about 250,000 available for classic clients. With 209951 active CPUs (defined as thosed that returned work within 50 days), it's a possiblity, if Pande group goes on holiday for 2 months =P

[DanEnsign]

A quick scan of the server status page indicates about 400,000 WUs available, about 250,000 available for classic clients. With 209951 active CPUs (defined as thosed that returned work within 50 days), it's a possiblity, if Pande group goes on holiday for 2 months =P

Note that when a WU is completed, it generally is used to generate a new work unit. An analogy is, if your computer calculated the path from Boston to New York, then the work unit gets returned, and a new one starting at New York is created. If that one goes to Philadelphia, then the subsequent WU starts in Philly, etc.

Dan

[John Naylor]

But then someone who is driving beyond their capabilities crashes as they exit philadelphia, and someone else has to complete that part of the journey

AKA what happens if you overclock your machine too far.

[Xilikon]

But then someone who is driving beyond their capabilities crashes as they exit philadelphia, and someone else has to complete that part of the journey

AKA what happens if you overclock your machine too far.

Or someone forgot that a bridge is not completed on a path so every time he pass, he fall on that bridge.

That's for units who are inherently bad itself

[DanEnsign]

But then someone who is driving beyond their capabilities crashes as they exit philadelphia, and someone else has to complete that part of the journey

AKA what happens if you overclock your machine too far.

Or someone forgot that a bridge is not completed on a path so every time he pass, he fall on that bridge.

That's for units who are inherently bad itself

Not bad, guys!

Dan

[bruce]

Also, since the Olympic Torch Relay has to get to California (Palo Alto ?) without the aid of inter-city flights, and the runner has no maps or GPS, and can only see a short distance ahead, it's not clear which road he should take out of Philly or where his next overnight stop will be. He'll have to figure that out one step at at time.

[Amaruk]

Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.

Jake: Hit it.