15 cores checking all day did not see any here. Must have been a few re-issues.

This is the pits. I am going to reduce the work held in my cache to one day (currently four). I have gotten two WUs both sent on 3/23 and completed on 3/28 due to the work I had going for Rice. I have gotten the Sapphire badge for Rice so I want to concentrate at least one machine on using a smaller cache to see if I can get some of the DDDT2 work.

Just check this project and one other, keep your cashe to 1 days work, and keep an eye out for when they release the mother load. Then dedicate it to this project. Just a suggestion.

Same boat here and I've got decent machines too.

If someone is hogging them perhaps it's time to limit how many a person can get.

How on earth can anyone justify a 10day cache legitimately? I don't even bother considering such conduct if it is indeed possible.

I've tried going in and setting my projects to just Dengue but then when I forget to change it back to including HCMD the machines run out of work.

I understand that the bottom line is that it is all about the science & looked at in a cold logical way, I'm glad that the work for the scientists is getting done.

That said however, the fiasco that is DDD2 really sucks. My computers over the years have proven themselves reliable (as a glance to the left of this post will show) & while they aren't the latest & greatest top of the line machines, guess what, they work for me & what I ask them to do in everything other than grid work.

That point is very important & one in which the WCG techs need to read over & over. To many, many of the volunteers here there is no need/reason to have the latest & greatest fastest machine available. For WCG to make a big deal about adding a new project, to the point of emailing everyone involved announcing it, but not having work available for everyone really is a kick in the gut. Then to look into it further & find that pretty much the only way to get any of the few work units available is to have a top of the line machine pretty much dedicated 24/7 to grid work, the kick in the gut turns into a kick in the balls.

It is fine to say that in the grand scheme of things very little of the total work has actually been done & that eventually there will be work for everyone to do. However, to those of us that want to do some work, and have gone to incredible lengths to try to constantly adjust their computer's settings to perhaps grab ANY work units, only to be thwarted again and again, then being essentially patted on the head & told like you were a young child that you just need to wait & eventually Santa will get here, it's an incredibly condescending attitude (especially when one is able to look at others badges & see that there are several people who've already earned ruby or emerald badges for DDD2 when personally I've only gotten TWO work units total).

Getting the science done IS the ultimate goal here. However something needs to be done to adjust how work units are distributed so that most everyone who wants to be is involved from the very beginning (on future projects at the very least). It might slightly slow down the end result, but it would greatly decrease the bad feelings/anger that this project is developing.

WCG needs (or should) be a place for anyone to donate whatever time they can with whatever computer power they have available. Right now though, that is true for everything except for the highly touted new project. There it seems that you can only participate if you have a near top of the line machine dedicated 24/7 to WCG. Now that might be (& probably is) completely wrong, but that is the impression that is being given.

Hopefully this will be something that the techs keep in mind when developing future distribution protocols....