Result
From Unofficial BOINC Wiki
This is the portion of a Work Unit that is sent to Participants to be processed by a Project specific Science Application that performs the operations on the input Work Unit Data File. A Result describes an instance of a computation, either un-started, in progress, or completed.
With Redundant Computing (performing the same processing on the input Work Unit two or more times to allow Validation of the Results created through comparisons of the output Result Data Files) several Results are usually linked to a single Work Unit. The BOINC Powered Project, Climateprediction.net, is one of the few that processes a Work Unit only one time. This is due to the long run time required to process a Work Unit into a Result, on my fastest computers this is about 20 days of compute time, not wall clock time, that is more like two months or so of elapsed time.
A minor, but important point is that there is a difference between the Result Data Files and the actual Result reported to the Project because the Result Data File goes to the Project's Data Server and the Result goes to the Project's Scheduling Server, where, if it is eligible in the Quorum of Results after Validation, the user may be granted Credit.
Additionally, what we normally think of as a Work Unit is actually a Result. Or, another way to look at it is that the Work Unit is a "package" that contains some Results and the information that will be developed when the Result has been processed by the Participant. When a "Work Unit" is issued to a Participant they are getting a Result with the "calculated result" portion being empty (the actual answer that will be created as a direct consequence of the processing performed on the data).
A Result is tracked individually by an internal, guaranteed unique value called a Result ID which is a Primary Key value.
RSS Feeds
