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cre8or
Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 21, 2009 Post Count: 12 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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So as of late I have seen about 3 projects complete/finish. While it is GREAT to see this projects completing, I am starting to become alarmed that I am not seeing new projects coming to WCG
---------------------------------------- . I am wondering if there is a way that the WCG "hirer ups" could bring new projects for us crunchers to start on?
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KWSN - A Shrubbery
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 8, 2006 Post Count: 1585 Status: Offline |
New projects are always in the works. However, people have come to expect that 6+ projects is the normal. This is not the case as it is only recently that there have been so many projects running concurrently.
----------------------------------------The more projects, the more time is required by the WCG staff to keep everything running smoothly. This means less time for infrastructure upgrades, stability fixes, and *gasp* new features. There will be more projects in due time. Meanwhile, allow them some well deserved rest and a chance to get to the backlog of tasks currently pending. The well is not dry even if you can no longer have 17 flavors.  Distributed computing volunteer since September 27, 2000 |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
If you had been with WCG for as long as I have you would not worry!
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Right now we have 6 active projects:
----------------------------------------SN2S GFAM DSFL HPF2 CEP2 FAAH HPF2 is scheduled to finish very soon, SN2S is temporarily in low priority(until the scientists generate more work units). There are also two projects on standby: HFCC which should resume in a not distant future; C4CW which, according to the November 2012 update, the scientists were analyzing the data to see if more simulations would be needed(i.e. work units). No idea if it will resume soon(or at all) since there hasn't been any update since then. We have lots of work to do with the projects we have plus, if the techs spend less time maintaining the projects they can work on other stuff like badges or analyzing the science apps code and see if another compiler brings the same results but faster execution timer(like what happened with HCC and CFSW). AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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As Falconet has stated, there are still plenty projects to crunch on and the Techs have indicated (in various posts) that there are more projects on the way. So no need to worry... there's more than enough for everybody
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Former Member
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Nothing after Nov.12, for the C4CW work was crunched through Mar.13?
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2982 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yes cre8or, I can well understand your concern. What doesn't help in all of this, is the virtual silence from the WCG techs/admins and no sign, as yet, of anything happening on the Beta front. There has been the 'odd' scrap of information here and there of imminent new projects heading our way, but nothing official/firm.
----------------------------------------Hopefully, with the results of the recent survey (something else that will be keeping the WCG techs/admins busy, along with all the other plates they're currently spinning and attempting to keep up in the air), they're reconsidering the way they communicate through to us all. I'm not expecting a lot on this, although perhaps there is some compromise they can give so as to have "some" information on the proviso that "things can/will change", without loosing any impact on the newsworthy event of a new project launch. As said by others though, we're a long way off from totally running out of WU's to crunch  |
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Falconet
Master Cruncher Portugal Joined: Mar 9, 2009 Post Count: 3295 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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SekeRob,
----------------------------------------You are right. There was work until March 2013. Really didn't remember. AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz |
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Former Member
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Falconet listed 6 active projects in his post plus 2 on standby. C4CW just updated its status, so we know that it has finished work on the grid and is now analyzing the results. So the only standby project is HFCC. It is waiting for people to figure out how to crystallize the molecule containing Target #11 (the HCC problem) so that it can be Xrayed and a computer structure model created for our computers to use.
----------------------------------------2 of our 6 currently active projects, HPF2 and GFAM, are shutting down because of the US Budget 'sequester'. Both projects require personnel to run them who can no longer be afforded. So we are cutting down to 4 projects: SN2S DSFL CEP2 FAAH plus HFCC which is on standby for an indefinite period. This will allow the staff to work on projects creeping through the pipeline and on other tasks. Who knows? We may even get an official WCG BOINC 7 installation package. Lawrence [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 22, 2013 3:55:36 AM] |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you had been with WCG for as long as I have you would not worry! I remember when Scribe had the fastest abacus here. Then he had the fastest hamsters - which I still say were juicing. [shakes fist] Now I think he just laughs at the rest of us and that's the real reason he tries to encourage other crunchers. Entertainment value. It's not the same if everybody starts leaving and those who are left start agreeing about everything. Nah, I'm just kidding. Anybody who's been here for a while knows better. (hehehe)    |
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