Not particularly opposed to the suggestion, but I would question the efficacy.

I've been watching my systems closely the last couple weeks and they are picking up work without having to micro-manage at all or hammer the system or any such thing.

It's been repeated ad-nauseum how to configure a system and anyone who wants the tasks can get them with minor effort.

If the power crunchers are getting the work, they are much more likely to return it promptly than is a random sampling of computers from the entire grid.

One less thing for the techs to worry about.

Having said that. If it's a relatively easy implementation and they think it will help, then by all means go for it.

I agree with the sentiments stated above by gb009761 - WCG has made BIG noises about recruiting more crunchers (good!) and hanging out the hook of Ebola (equally good as it clearly needs some input - remember the Flu scare and the speed that that was run through the system??) - BUT - (and it's a big 'un) there hasn't been the delivery of the WU's in an even handed way at all. This is not (and I stress NOT) a pop at the techs - they have enough to do and a fine job at that, one that would be beyond my knowledge, but the design of the system for distribution actually appears to be put under additional strain by badge chasers. Yes, we all 'chase' badges to one extent or another - personally, I am too busy to worry about these but I'm very pleased when a new one happens to come along after a while - a milestone of progress towards the global goal, surely the badge is not a goal in itself?
I'm unhappy to read that another cruncher has only received 5 OET WU's (I mistakenly thought that the 12 I'd received was pretty bad, but that's been well eclipsed!!).
When Uplinger returns from his well deserved vacation, perhaps a short period of contemplation could be given to resolve the apparent gross disparity between the OET 'Haves' and the 'HaveNots' - to at least level the playing field a little and distribute whatever work is available on more even handed basis?
I would also add that this is not a 'winge' - I am quite happy racking up vast numbers of MCM WU's in the interim.....while OET gets sorted out....

I sincerely and truly disagree with your proposal. Socialism and Communism are dead. They have not worked in real life and they will not work in any community.

Giving people the equal chance to do the work is the way how to do the work. Not giving them (us) equal amount of work w/o any restriction nor requirements. Crying and whining is the easiest way how to push our impotence into the higher dimension and to receive some kind of regret from the weaker part of the community. This weaker part of community will then try to find how to "help" us and to justify why we have to have the same amount of (money, jewelry, cars, houses...) tasks as people, who are the dedicated members of the community, who are cracking their **** out to deliver as much as possible not only to research teams, but also to the community.

In the one of the other threads (you have posted your idea also there), I have spotted (at least one ) guy, who has dedicated approximately the same amount of time to the WCG in 4 months as I am in 4 days (And the people like A Shrubbery are doing more than that in a half a day.). (S)He is crunching really important sciences in WCG less than occasionally and (s)he is demanding something from this community? WTF!

Several of us posted the manual how to get OET1 tasks which worked. Unselfishly. What do you want more from the community? Do we have to buy a flight ticket and travel to their places to set their computers? Or do we have to write to Santa Claus with a wish to do it instead of them (Even though SC is still not a member of WCG)?

W/o a hard effort I have achieved golden badge with 8 CPU threads. But, yes. All of them are shrubbing WCG 24/7. Do I have to put them in charge of such whiners? Every day they can crunch for one of them. Will it be in line with your Glorious-Perception-Of-The-New-Order? If yes, we can continue in this separate discussion in the separate thread.

How can you even try to propose such nonsense which will "equalize" lazy whiners, who will not do anything for the rest of us, with true members of this community, who are doing their best to support this whole community for years?

*edited to appropriate forum language - ErikaT

Some of us lazy whiners do read the forum, and realize that their 9-1/2 years of crunching don't count to some of the people here. I guess it's time for me to earn the last of the badges that I can reasonably earn, and then leave WCG.

Back when I was an IBM employee, WCG was started and advertised as being for anyone who could contribute unused cycles on their computers. But that philosophy seems to have gone out the window, what with people building their own server farms with 32 core systems, just so they could brag about how quickly they could earn a pretty colored badge. I guess sports cars aren't the only method of compensating.

And please don't tell me that I have to go through multiple steps to contribute to a project. If the scientists don't have their act together enough to provide work in a manner equitable for all volunteers, then the scientists and WCG technicians need to reexamine the appropriateness of that project.

Eric said

I think you have all missed the main point! I'm one of the so called power crunchers, I chose to move away from OET due to the lack of work. The main reason some users have been able to reach 10 years and others have only managed a couple or three wu's is a combination of things, from availability of wu's to when their machines are online.

This project was 'Oversubscribed' it was announced that wu's would be released in batches and there would be a shortage from time to time.

IMHO, it's wrong to pigeon hole users by the size of their contribution, as it is to suggest those with large 'farms' are using it as an extention in the same way as those with sports cars do.

As I've said several times, those wingmen with few cores validate the work of others, with and without farms. Their contribution is just as important to the overall effort as the likes of me with my farm.

Please stop demeaning fellow contributors, and the effort we are all making just because one project is not living up to expectations. Although what those expectations are is beyond me! As mentioned this project was going to be off to a slow start and being very topical was oversubscribed too!