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rembertw
Senior Cruncher Belgium Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Post Count: 275 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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... this lop sided fiasco of a science. ... I gues this depends on point of vieuw. As I see it, there is work to do for research on Ebola. Even better, WCG is offering that possibility for everybody to contribute. Everybody here should be excalted that we gobble up the work units faster than the scientists can produce them. It means that from our side we all really do all we can, and are pushing the scientists as fast as we can. Think about it, we really hit the upper limit of their capacity, constantly! What does it matter that our machines are asking for more work units? More important is that the scientists have a virtual zero-waiting time for their results so they can keep on working. How is your glass? Mine is half full.  |
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asdavid
Veteran Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 521 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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mine also
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MechWarrior99
Cruncher Joined: Aug 14, 2010 Post Count: 38 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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got my first WU for the project YAY .
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NAP2614
Master Cruncher Joined: Mar 27, 2007 Post Count: 2546 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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... this lop sided fiasco of a science. ... I gues this depends on point of vieuw. As I see it, there is work to do for research on Ebola. Even better, WCG is offering that possibility for everybody to contribute. Everybody here should be excalted that we gobble up the work units faster than the scientists can produce them. It means that from our side we all really do all we can, and are pushing the scientists as fast as we can. Think about it, we really hit the upper limit of their capacity, constantly! What does it matter that our machines are asking for more work units? More important is that the scientists have a virtual zero-waiting time for their results so they can keep on working. How is your glass? Mine is half full. You have missed the point by a country mile.  |
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Sandvika
Advanced Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Apr 27, 2007 Post Count: 112 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Great idea, except I can't find cache settings in the Windows client!
---------------------------------------- I have my own cunning plan with multiple instances oversubscribing the number of cores, so that each core will crunch UGM flat out when there is no OET and share the workload when there is OET. However, after 12 hours of fishing only for OET, the over-subscribed instance has failed to catch a single one - and I'm kicking it with a manual update from time to time, when I'm passing!  Which reminds me, this is all possible because of Lynn Conway..... #ThxLynn..... Update: got 1 OET per thread on my over-subscribed instance, but none queued. My cunning plan sort-of works    [Edit 1 times, last edit by Sandvika at Dec 15, 2014 9:57:55 PM] |
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nasher
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 2, 2005 Post Count: 1423 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Would love to get more of these than i have but while i wait i crunch on other work units.. i am sure once people get to the badge level they want they will open up to other projects as well then the rest of us will gt a bigger trickle of work units for this project
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rembertw
Senior Cruncher Belgium Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Post Count: 275 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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@NAP
Don't be so certain of that. I just choose to see the positive side instead of wallowing in negativity. It sure makes me feel better. It just also might help explain new members what is happening. In short: there are not enough tasks to keep everybody working on this. "Why" has been explained before. Since the half empty glasses seem to be the more vocal here for the moment, i decided to post a half full glass message as compensation. Good hunting for the micromanagers btw.  It does work if you put energy in the hunt. |
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Jim1348
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 13, 2009 Post Count: 1066 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It is not possible for the computing resources provided by the volunteers to exactly equal the amount needed by the scientists. Either too much is provided, and the supply waiting to be distributed is close to zero, or too little is provided, in which case the backlog grows longer.
Guess which is better? |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Get new crunchers, to work on Ebola, no tasks, they went away. I don't know about new crunchers going away, but I'm sure that WCG didn't want this situation. I imagine there is an urgency to get the OET WUs out the door and there was an unforeseen issue with the "flex" WUs. Wish I had never seen this lop sided fiasco of a science. I sure WCG is not hiding the OET WUs just to piss you off Some users are even up to 2 years, we have 1 day. This is normal. Those "power" users have more CPU potential than you and me and a whole bunch people together. BTW, I don't have a day's worth of OET WUs either. CJSL Crunching for a better world... |
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NAP2614
Master Cruncher Joined: Mar 27, 2007 Post Count: 2546 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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@NAP
----------------------------------------In short: there are not enough tasks to keep everybody working on this. "Why" has been explained before. Since the half empty glasses seem to be the more vocal here My glass is neither half full, nor half empty, it is just too big for the job. |
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