If you refer to my post under "No work being sent" thread I stated:

Does anyone find it ironic that as of the date of this posting the WCG home page banner reads "Clean Energy Needs You" yet there is currently a sever
paucity of WU's available to crunch? I understand WCG is always trying to recruit new members, but how would a new WCG member feel if they signed up
their computer(s) to work on this worthwhile project and find no or very limited amount of WU's available?


The reply from Didactylos ,Community Advisor, was:

In the rare event that no work at all is available for a particular project, most members manage to be patient. We have plenty of other projects after all.

But when there is simply very limited work, it is assigned first to those who have chosen the project exclusively.

Anyone expecting instant gratification from World Community Grid is really doomed to unhappiness, anyway. Humanitarianism requires the long view, patience, perseverance and hope. The overwhelming attitude of members (in my experience) is a positive one.


I do agree with Didactylos, and these WCG projects are to designed to further science and help humanitarian causes. I believed WCG should have featured another project, such as HFCC, until CEP was fully ramped-up with WU's so that new members would have an initial positive experience. Admittedly, l was also venting my frustration with CEP with that post, however in the long haul we all doing in this together to help excellent worthwhile Humanitarianism causes.

I set my quad to CEP only and last night and this morning it picked up 16 CEP tasks, so they're out there (2 day cache).

On multi project profiles and the low weight, you'll see few. Same for days only saw 1 or 2 RICE and even rarer DDDT. The widest availability is clearly with FAAH/HCC/HPF2/HFCC. When looking at the overall, things are very normal to me, to include the workweek effect and the reflection of the strong growth, somewhat obscured by the run time target increase to average 7 hours instead of 6.

Updating my stats...
The Clean Energy Project 83,835 62 0:044:12:00:54

12hrs to go for the silver badget...

The Clean Energy Project 41,648 31 0:031:14:40:22

Dear Leslie and Roberto, CEP Team

I appreciate that you have the hard part (real science and analysis) and are doing you best, and am grateful that you and your team, who are certainly smarter and more capable than I, are working on solving tough solar energy issues.

I just I think it would be more effective to wait until you are ready to handle the load of results we will gladly send your way and that it should be easy for WCG to change the banner. Until I volunteer to help out in some way beyond just crunching I will get off my soap box and let the people who are directly involved make the decisions without being second guessed by me.