I don't normally poke around my statistics much, because I know I will never get within tens of thousands of places in the so-called leader board.

That said, I was poking around my statistics this morning. Looking at my completed projects, the site says I have ninety-three completed projects pending validation, some going back as far as 2011 (AD).

What is required for a project to be validated, how long does it normally take, and how long do these unvalidated projects hang around here before someone says "meh" and round-files them? I would think six years would be long enough to validate a project, but I am not any more a computer wizard than I am an auto mechanic.

Could someone explain how projects are validated, and why they hang around so long? It would seem an awful waste of my computer resources to work on so many projects that will never be used because they are not considered valid.

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CPDN does not use the BOINC validation process, so models are never validated in that sense. The project may well have its own processes for assuring quality but, if so, the results of those processes are not visible here.

This matter was extensively discussed last year in this thread. You'll have to go in a fair way from the last posting to get to the start of it.

Thanks, I'll do that. I appreciate your help.