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Four Laws of Distributed Computing

Rudy Toody

Rudy Toody

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First: The longest work unit always lands on the slowest computer.

Second: A power outage only happens while crunching non-check-pointing work units.

Third: Things that can go wrong, will go wrong.

Fourth: Every system upgrade results in an equal and opposite system failure.

Fourth (Inverse): Every system failure results in an equal or greater system upgrade.
 
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I have changed the title of Toody's Law to indicate that it is a law of distributed computing.

This way, when I come up with more laws, you can differentiate among them. And FMC can cite them in his homework without confusion!
 
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yes...case in point, a 50+ hour WCG WU lands not on either of my new quads or on even on an E7200 but on the slowest AMD dual-core 4200+...
 
I guess I should find comfort in the fact that these things happen to other people too. 😉
 
Rudy Toody said:
I have changed the title of Toody's Law to indicate that it is a law of distributed computing.

This way, when I come up with more laws, you can differentiate among them. And FMC can cite them in his homework without confusion!
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I'd still quite possibly be confused. But that's okay. Keeps more entertaining this way.
 
My video card just went to 2D speed (thus cutting in half that production) and I don't want to reboot and chance losing a 56,000 point CPU WU that has been crunching for over two days and will finish in five hours 🙁
 
Both Laws of Distributed Computing are fully supported by all the three Laws of Thermodynamics; especially the second ...

This indicates, but it needs to be proven, that the Laws of Distributed Computing are laws of nature and thus have a similar impct.
 
Fred, time to update the first post with two new laws: Soggy's law and Fardringle's law.
I second those out of experience ... 😉
 
GLeeM said:
My video card just went to 2D speed (thus cutting in half that production) and I don't want to reboot and chance losing a 56,000 point CPU WU that has been crunching for over two days and will finish in five hours 🙁
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I've lost 2 of those after 2 days crunching, so I know what you mean. Although I find the 1.0 image has been pretty good for rebooting.
 
Fardringle said:
Every system upgrade results in an equal and opposite system failure.
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With this I disagree. My experience is roughly the converse:

Every system failure results in an equal or greater system upgrade. ^_^
 
Ken g6 said:
With this I disagree. My experience is roughly the converse:

Every system failure results in an equal or greater system upgrade. ^_^
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In my opinion and experience both sets of this law apply:

First there is a system failure, then you search for problems, then you upgrade the computer.
 
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