Lawrence I may have misinterpreted what you mean when you say "they would probably remove the time". If they removed the time limit would that not cause the job to continuously run and never finish? Is that what you were meaning or are you meaning to remove the time limit to allow the job to run for as long as it takes to complete the 16 jobs within one task?

You can do much better job letting your machine to crunch nonstop. I cant think of any better use for it, than adding its power to 10 PetaFLOP machine focused upon crunching CEP2 in a week instead of two years by 10% of total amount of host within WCG. Cray Inc hasnt approved CEP as first priority for "Titan". Thus, for two years we have been stagnating greatly.
We are not playing games here. What we compute has sense, because people on Earth drastically need alternative energy resourses, clean water and food in great amount to preserve ecosystem and human lives. After resolution we may think about rising theirs and ours living standards.
We dont have endless amount of time to solve all problems by means of supercomputers and distributed computing. Some say we have 10 years left until civilization will reach its peak (see "Home" by Luc Besson).
We will not be able to make widespread introduction of any product if product's cost will remain high. Within current economy problem resolves partially by effective altruism and production of electric energy within customer's private property.
Some people are poor because they have nothing to give to wealth ones. There are billions of them. The wealth ones and a billion of their servants are highly dependent on each other and several billions living worldwide to serve to one billion. Its not bad to serve or be served, cause its simple specialization, but why inequality?
Its a shame many people making money producing, for example, teddy bears and clay sculptures, playing music, sharing knowledge, producing some advanced electronics of DisplAir to avoid poverty, thus further approve participation in virtual development of civilization, while at the same time dozen of thousand of kids a day worldwide find themself dying having nothing to eat.
Solar cell is mass productive weapon of freedom, concerning commercial application or, more than that, free energy giveaway. Despite the price, its handsfree, what is useful when you need to build your own production lines, being in the same time sharing finances and property with village or town, making decisions about shopping. Sure, there is no go without altruism. No one has to be left behind, no one.
Summing up, society cant afford selfsustainable abundance without alternative energy sources, which are needed ASAP. Few Terawatts would be just fine for the start.
Thank you. See "Venus Project" for further details.

Hi Lawrence,
Thank you for the clarification. I was fully aware that you were only referring to CEP 2.

When it skips the ones after job 12 it isn't a time issue, its the program looking at the previous jobs and determining that there is nothing useful to be gained from continuing. Only the people over at Harvard would know what 'useful' would be. I think its safe to assume that they have it setup so that whatever your crunching at any given time is for the most beneficial to the advancement of the project.

yaren