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NAP2614
Master Cruncher Joined: Mar 27, 2007 Post Count: 2546 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Why are members so upset because of the small number of available tasks?
----------------------------------------Yves, Your question is far from stupid. There seems to be several reasons for unrest amongst the natives. The one and only reason I was upset is the people who gathered, to join in the battle, were enticed here, by me, to fight Ebola. Then after a day or so of work units, the devices ran dry and I was left with a red face. They joined because of Ebola and left for lack thereof. I have placed a band aid on my "ego" and will do some fancy talking, if and when more work is available. They all know about other projects, so don't need a friendly reminder.  |
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Former Member
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NAP2614 - Thank you for your explanation. If I get one work unit a day among my four computers, I consider myself to be very lucky. We really want a large amount of WUs to be made available so we can contribute.
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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IMO what is upsetting is not so much the shortage of workunits for OET afterall uplinger made it clear from the start:
----------------------------------------Please note, this project is going to be running slower than our normal applications. So there will be periods during the day that no work can be downloaded for the application. and then there was a problem with checkpointing mid job about which uplinger said once we get checkpointing mid job working, then we will speed it up. What is upsetting is that since that post (Dec 8) there has been no tech posts on this, or any other matter. |
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anhhai
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Mar 22, 2005 Post Count: 839 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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guys it is December, even IBMers deserve to take vacation during the holidays. In fact most IBMers are out most of December, please be patient.
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RT
Master Cruncher USA - Texas - DFW Joined: Dec 22, 2004 Post Count: 2636 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Keeping things in perspective:
----------------------------------------There is plenty of work to be done and while I am disappointed that there are no Ebola work units to be run, there are still tons of work to run. In the overall scheme of things, this is but a minor bump. Not like you have Ebola, or Cancer or so many of the other things that could be wrong with you; (Cancer survivor here). So be happy you are alive and are able to afford the resources to contribute to the great causes here..further that you are generous enough to do so. Merry Christmas Everyone!  |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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"There is plenty of work to be done..." A very true statement  "...while I am disappointed that there are no Ebola work units to be run..." Minor correction: Ebola WUs are available (I have just received 17)... maybe a more accurate statement should be "... there are not enough Ebola work units available for my liking..."  and yes, A Very Merry Christmas to all the crunchers !!! CJSL Crunching for a brighter future... ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by cjslman at Dec 23, 2014 8:17:35 PM] |
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johncmacalister2010@gmail.com
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 16, 2010 Post Count: 799 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Merry Christmas to all. I look forward to crunching more Ebola tasks next year as well as getting to my five year badge for MCM.
----------------------------------------"There is plenty of work to be done..." A very true statement "...while I am disappointed that there are no Ebola work units to be run..." Minor correction: Ebola WUs are available (I have just received 17)... maybe a more accurate statement should be "... there are not enough Ebola work units available for my liking..." and yes, A Very Merry Christmas to all the crunchers !!! CJSL Crunching for a brighter future...  crunching, crunching, crunching. AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro (part time) |
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nasher
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 2, 2005 Post Count: 1423 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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oh no i am not worried that i didnt get enough of those work units yet...
----------------------------------------right now some of the heavy hitters are probably grabbing most of the work units i still have a bit to go on genome till i reach the minimum badge i am going for and i concentrate more to get this badge. yes i would like the badge but i am not going to move the world if i cant get enough in one time.  |
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joshuacheung
Cruncher Joined: Dec 22, 2014 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I keep updateing the project but no Ebola WU is downloaded, anyone knows why?
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anhhai
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Mar 22, 2005 Post Count: 839 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Ebola WUs are only available in spouts (every couple of hours based on my "results" page) and they are only a very limit amount. I only get enough WUs to run for 15-20% of the time
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