Amazing Numbers of New Hosts

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Anonymous
30 Jul 2008 7:33:27 UTC
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    I haven't looked into the DB yet, but my guess is that a large part of these 'new hosts' comes from the 'e-science GRID', where every node of every cluster they submit an Einstein@home job on is potentially recorded as a new host at the server side (currently this 'participant' has ~250.000 hosts registered).

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    Amazing Numbers of New Hosts

    30 Jul 2008 8:59:39 UTC
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      ... every node of every cluster they submit an Einstein@home job on is potentially recorded as a new host at the server side (currently this 'participant' has ~250.000 hosts registered).

      OK, thanks for the explanation. It seems "inefficient" (maybe it's not) to have what must be only a relatively small number of thousands of hosts turn into 250,000 registrations. You would have thought there would be some way to "reuse" the previous registration and keep that seemingly unwieldy number down to more manageable proportions.


      I know that they now have their own management of hostids, but apparently this didn't work always as it should (remember the monster-host?).

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