[SiDock@home] Changes in task scheduling and monitoring mechanism

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Dear participants, at the start of current search we set deadline for "CMDock long tasks" to 14 days or 336 hours. But average time required to process an individual task is 40 hours. Also, we see, that many of uncompleted tasks which prevent completion of the set to which they belong, "produced" by computers that catch some tasks and didn't get in touch again. Due this, we plan:
1. To perform a gradual reduction of the deadline;
2. To implement a simple mechanism which finds computers that are lost in computing space (those who did not send requests to the server in last m days), and mark its tasks as lost. For example, m may be 10, 8, 6 or 5.

This should not interfere with computers actually participating in the calculations, but can be greatly enhance "results logistic".

Source: https://www.sidock.si/sidock/forum_thread.php?id=256