WOW the new einstein app.4.46 is 100 % faster
Anonymous
24 Nov 2004 14:00:03 UTC
Topic 10621
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This might be a reasonable place to post this comment and question.
I am thinking in the next several weeks to increase the length of the average workunit by about a factor of five to ten. So the run time would go from 30-60 minutes to five to ten hours. The main purpose is because this will cut down the strain on our server if there are fewer workunits to keep track of.
It doesn't make sense to do this quite yet. Until our code is stable, shorter workunits provide quicker feedback to everyone about what works and does not work.
But I'd like to know what our users think of this. Are half-day or even one-day long workunits reasonable?
Cheers,
Bruce
WOW the new einstein app.4.46 is 100 % faster
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> But I'd like to know what our users think of this. Are half-day or even
> one-day long workunits reasonable?
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There's no reason I can see where long running work units would have a negative effect for the users. The only ones who would care are those of us stuck with dial-up. It would be better for me to upload a few times a day rather than every 30 min. The only concern I would have is if the result were several MB's in size.
Wow -- this is very useful
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Wow -- this is very useful feedback for me!
Based on this discussion I think I will start planning workunits that are five to ten times longer than the current ones. This should allow most users to at least complete a workunit per day and get credit reasonably quickly.
In the long-term, perhaps we can make this a 'project preference' but for the moment it's not feasible: I need to keep things as simple as possible from an administrative point of view!
Cheers,
Bruce