Congratulations everyone on some fine crunching.


Ccandido, there are a lot of explanations on how to get jobs for this project including step-by-step directions, in past posts, most likely in this thread.

When you *think* there will be rain, put a day or so of regular WUs in your computers queues so they have something to work on, then deselect eveything except the intermittant projects. Then bump up the queue size a bit (don't get greedy) and your computer will start asking for just those projects. Of course you have to refresh your client after each setting change. If you have multiple computers, a manager like BoincTasks is a great help.

I have only 3 computers (2 dual core, 1 quad core) and have managed to get ruby and I am halfway to emerald. It is possible without a giant task vaccum. I did the above 1 day before the recent rain cloud passed by. I got exactly 1 job per core. Over the years it slowly adds up.

Cheers

I think one can get the same frequent-ask behavior with Clean Energy set to 4 (or 5) work units at a time. That avoids the idle processors. When the rain is over, one could be shameless and abort any unwanted WU that haven't yet run.

If not, please enlighten.

With the recent shower of type B WU's end of may, we may expect a little steady rain fall of type C WU's fairly soon. I only need 30 or so days to finaly get to saphire. I would say "Crunchers, Get Your Rigs Ready"

The reason that you are not getting any WU is because there are none to get, ie: nada, zippo, zilch, squat, zero. You might wait hours, days or weeks; we don't know. It seems a shame to leave 3 cores idle when you could be working on a badge for one of the other projects, but it is your choice.

The fact that dddt2 is INTERMITTENT and has be noted to be so at least 100 times in these fora is speaking directly to you. For further proof, read the last paragraph: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/dddt2/overview.do

I had a search through your previous posts on this subject. I guess after you post questions you don't read the replies. Maybe this time. While I mean this in the nicest of ways, you might also look up the meaning of the word "intermittent". All will be revealed.

Actually, I do read the replies and I do know the meaning of intermittent.

My problem is not when I get no work when no work is available. My problem is when people are posting they have sapphire level and are going for the next, and that they get many work units when there is a "shower" and yet I still get none. I have been accepting work units since DDDT-1 days and never had trouble getting work units for that phase. But for Phase 2, only 14 work units (7 days) the whole time. And when there seem to be showers, I turn off all my other BOINC projects, and allow only one Clean Energy WCG work unit to run at a time, so my machine remains essentially idle. I have another machine that runs other BOINC stuff because it is too small to run either Clean Energy or DDDT2. (only 512 Meg RAM and only two 550 MHz Pentium III processors).