My Asteroids account shows a total of 1379 work units, of which there are 811 valid ones, 11 invalid and 548 errors.

How can that be? why would 40% of my WUs be invalid or errors? Of my other projects, SETI, which I have been crunching for nearly ten years, has never shown any invalid WUs or errors at all. My POGS account shows 5 invalid WUs.

So what is it about Asteroids that causes 40% of my work to be in vain and discounted?

S. Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

My Asteroids account shows a total of 1379 work units, of which there are 811 valid ones, 11 invalid and 548 errors.

How can that be? why would 40% of my WUs be invalid or errors? Of my other projects, SETI, which I have been crunching for nearly ten years, has never shown any invalid WUs or errors at all. My POGS account shows 5 invalid WUs.

So what is it about Asteroids that causes 40% of my work to be in vain and discounted?

S. Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

MOST of your errors are 'download errors' and that has been an ongoing problem here and there is nothing you can do about it. Some of your other errors could be because you are using an older version of Boinc and not the latest 'release version' of 7.4.42. You are using version 7.4.27, there have been some changes, but I am not positive they are affecting your results, but to be safe upgrade and see if some of the errors go away.

My Asteroids account shows a total of 1379 work units, of which there are 811 valid ones, 11 invalid and 548 errors.

How can that be? why would 40% of my WUs be invalid or errors? Of my other projects, SETI, which I have been crunching for nearly ten years, has never shown any invalid WUs or errors at all. My POGS account shows 5 invalid WUs.

So what is it about Asteroids that causes 40% of my work to be in vain and discounted?

S. Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

MOST of your errors are 'download errors' and that has been an ongoing problem here and there is nothing you can do about it. Some of your other errors could be because you are using an older version of Boinc and not the latest 'release version' of 7.4.42. You are using version 7.4.27, there have been some changes, but I am not positive they are affecting your results, but to be safe upgrade and see if some of the errors go away.

Thanks, Mikey. I'll try to upgrade to the newer version of BOINC.
Steve Gaber
Oldsmar, FL

http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/results.php?hostid=79360&offset=0&show_names=0&state=5&appid=

Almost all of the 'Invalid (11)' are caused by the server - click on every 'Work unit' to see for yourself.

Only 'Completed, too late to validate' and 'Completed, marked as invalid' may be 'your fault' (which don't depend on BOINC version)

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