quick response cislman

this is a unique project and yes its explained fully but here is quick

A work units (ps) BIG LARGE work units... once these are done scientists have to manually go through them then they release 2 type B's (pe and se) for each type A these are much smaller run times... once they are crunched they create the type C work units (pq pd pr pc pl sq sd sr) there are about 250-350 type c for every type b.

why this project is so different is that scientist manually have to go through the work units from type a prior to type b being made and again through the type B before the type C can be made... this last "rain" was type B's so soon we are hoping to get type c's... when these show up you will be able to get some actual decent number of work units.

being there are so few type A and type B when they show up they normally get sucked up by crunchers who specifically hunt for them so people who are in the general mix of work units rarely get them (kinda like beta work units) so when the type c's show up the people crunching hard for these will put out there buckets and grab tons of them.... and this is your best way to grab them.

Nasher & AgrFan... thanks for the excellent explanations and suggestions... it now makes sense. I'm not in any rush to gobble up DDDT2 WUs... I have more than enough projects to chase after... I was just curious why I was seeing a very different behavior than other projects. I also have a sorta personal interest, since I live in country where various types of Dengue are common during the rainy season and affect the general population.

Dengue in Mexico

I agree... patience is very important and understanding this project's behavior will greatly help.

Again, thanks for making this clear and I'll keep an eye open for those type C WUs.

CJSL

Sometimes it takes a little before a profile change messages reaches the scheduler... if servers are busy.

Every time the "My Projects" page is saved all location profiles are overwritten for the project selection part.

BTW, A-Type only go to reliable devices [< 2 day return time and very low ''Invalid'' rate]... running cache > e.g. 2.5 days and then change science selection, then pumping cache further will lead to programmed disappointed. B/C Type go to all devices that happen to be there, right place, right time and meeting System Requirement specs.

The project scientist posted she was working on dg03 B_Types, so expecting both B and C-Type (latter off dg05) in the not too distant future.

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P.S. Sure I remember bbover3 agreed few years ago to change My Projects to "My Researches" or "My Sciences". The confusion at times perpetuates about the convention... WCG being a "Project" in the BOINC Manager, people actually trying at times to find how to attach to DDDT2 or another science ;>)

What we don't want to happen is for you not to have any work to crunch. I find the best way to ensure that you gat Dengue when then are available is to set your cache to 10 days and then enable Denque and a couple of others only. Download a few days of the others (less than 10) and reset to Dengue only.

It will then look for Dengue after 15 mins, then 30 mins, then an hour, then 3 hours, etc (or thereabouts) without you having to do anything. Every time you finish one of the others, WCG will look for a Dengue for you. It will also reset back to 15 mins, etc.

Before you run out of work, set those other projects again, get some work from them and reset to Dengue only, etc.

Mike

BMUP!!!!