WU Deadlines
All work units are time sensitive and have deadlines. There are 2 deadlines attached to most WUs:
Preferred deadline
Final deadline
A few projects have no final deadline, aka deadlineless or timeless.
When a client does not return a completed WU within its Preferred deadline, the WU is assumed lost. The WU will be reissued to another client to make sure the results will be returned. Every WU is important to each project even though a WU is only a small part of a single project, and part of the Folding@home Project.
A client that exceeds the Preferred deadline of a WU still has time to complete the WU before its Final deadline. Full credit will be awarded when a WU is returned before the Final deadline. The scientific value of the work is slightly reduced because it had to be duplicated when the client passed the Preferred deadline.
If the client were to exceed the Final deadline of a WU, the client will discard the partially completed WU and download a new WU. No credit will be awarded.
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So it seems that it will not continue folding the WU once it passes the final deadline. If it is still working once the final deadline has past, stop folding and then start folding again. It should see that the deadline has past, delete the WU, and get a new.
Keep us posted Koala.
@ Glas, what time is there now? it's 10:30 am here in the states. If running 24/7 your SPU should complete a WU in between 24 & 29hrs (if I remember right) or 1% every 17-18 minutes at the most. So by that estimation you would need just over 2hr to complete the WU. If you OC you can get you done in around 19hrs. This info is taken from Oddballs folding results with the same CPU.
