BOINC: Failed WorkUnits
When work units fail in BOINC, it poses a question of how to handle the remaining work units still being processed. I’ve added code to minimally handle failures so that manual user intervention isn’t required, however there is still a burden on the developer to understand this situation and decide how to recover from it.
This is really no different from handling exceptions in non-distributed code, but I know all to well how exceptions are normally handled (hint: they aren’t). If you are interested, you can read my full post on the PyMW blog.
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