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Old 18-October-2007, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Sporally View Post
But all in all i don't see why they have such a rush getting them done. They could wait three months or more. Their only wait would be after reach run. But they would get more processors and get the job done earlier anyways.
The problem is that each workunit is sent to different machines.
If they had a three month or even longer deadline, WUs that returned not enough results for the quorum, would just lie around and fill up the pending work statistics and, far worse, the database.
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