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Forum: Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together - Phase 2 Forum
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Former Member
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it will take us 60 years to complete this project!
  Project launch: 2/17/2010 Today: 6/3/2010 only Results Returned 201,009 Results Per Calendar Day 1,932.78 https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...d,28748_offset,100#274957 44,000,000 WUs / 2,000 avg WUs per day = 22,000 days = 60 years |
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Former Member
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Hey eso, try this. divide the number of results returned by the number of days the project has been crunched, not the number of days the project has been running (intermittently)
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Former Member
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Hey eso, try this. divide the number of results returned by the number of days the project has been crunched, not the number of days the project has been running (intermittently) That's not my point though. My point is this incredibly intermittent process of waiting for the researchers to provide us with WUs is just not going to work... It's taken 3.5 months to produce 200,000 WUs out of 44,000,000 |
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pirogue
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 685 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I think the point that is being missed is that if the timeline works for the researchers, it should be good enough for us. They set the schedule, not us.
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Former Member
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I think the point that is being missed is that if the timeline works for the researchers, it should be good enough for us. They set the schedule, not us. Even if it takes 60 years? UTMB has underestimated in the past how long a project would take: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/printpost_post,131064 [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Jun 3, 2010 9:13:45 PM] |
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Former Member
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well I can do it in 38 min, but results will not be what they want, so if they need more time to get it right who are we to complain.
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Dataman
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At this rate ... the researchers will be retired or dead. Hopefully the rate will change.
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pirogue
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 685 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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As far as I've been able to tell (I'm sure someone will correct if I'm wrong), we are in a sort of "set up" phase. That is, making sure things work correctly and smoothly, before releasing the deluge. I sincerely doubt it will take 60 years once things are running full-speed.
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3715 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Even if it takes 60 years? Estimating the total duration of this project at this stage is about as meaningful as estimating how long it will take you to drive from New York to Washington while you are still stuck in the traffic in the heart of Manhattan.  |
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martin64
Senior Cruncher Germany Joined: May 11, 2009 Post Count: 445 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My point is this incredibly intermittent process of waiting for the researchers to provide us with WUs is just not going to work... That's how research works. I personally think that this is an excellent sign, because it shows that the researchers take their job very seriously, rather than just sending out WUs and later on find out that - oops - it should have been done differently. Give them the time they need, they probably know what they do.  Badges should not be their #1 priority (although I cannot wait to get this 1 hour more to achieve at least the brown badge  ).Regards, Martin  |
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