FP estimate and FP bound

RetLaw
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Hi,
boinc_cmd told me some big numbers, for "FP estimate" and "FP bound", and I've no idea what they mean.
Could some explain that to me, please?

Thx in advance.

Keck_Komputers
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FP estimate and FP bound

FP estimate is the expected number of floating point operations for a given task (estimated runtime from the project). FP bound is the maximum number of operations that will be performed before the task is automatically aborted.

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RetLaw
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Thank you. That means "FP

Thank you.
That means "FP estimate" is proportional to the time the Computer will probably take to compute the result, right?

Alinator
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Correct. In addition,

Correct.

In addition, exceeding the FP bounds usually manifests itself as an abort due to Max CPU time exceeded (derived from the FP bounds and the FP benchmark).

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