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Thread: Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together Phase 2 Beta Type A Dec 16 2009 |
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boulmontjj
Senior Cruncher France Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 317 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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There could be a couple of reasons as to why I got 23 beta WU's for 25 cores. Hi downtowndan, don't think my question was against you because i never thought that. The goal of my question was to know why nobody from team France (according to what i know on 1600 members) has got any beta while some members (you're not the only one) has got some, and sometime many. FYI, i was watching for beta for few days when there were released and was pressing "update" very regularly. And i'm not alone in my team. But no chance for us. No beta this time.  |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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just one question, is their a time-line for the next round of beta's No timeline yet. We have to get all the results in for this round first, then we'll need to inspect them and create the next type if this version appears correct. -Uplinger |
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The goal of my question was to know why nobody from team France (according to what i know on 1600 members) has got any beta while some members (you're not the only one) has got some, and sometime many. Maybe because the beta startet around midnight CET? Only computers running at that time could get a WU and I guess not many were awake and at their computers to press the update button at midnight... |
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It is just a matter of being in the right place at the right time. Beta caches are normally pretty small so when the go up for grabbing they can go pretty quickly. I have my cache set to 0.3 and managed to grab only one...but that one ended up running for 107 hours. I too do the same with just a minor tweak. In your "Device Manager" set all your profiles "Workunit Cache Settings" to Connect to network about every 0.1 days Cache 0.1 extra days of work  |
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sk..
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As usual I got no Beta tasks
 I understand that they all went in 50seconds, which explains why, but I dont understand why they were released in a 50sec period!?! Perhaps a bit of tweaking is required with respect to distribution: Say, no more than 2 task per system, 5 tasks per user, and to release tasks over several hours rather than within 1minute. That way more people would receive tasks, teams would be happier, the Beta work units would finish faster and the science would advance faster. |
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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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skgiven,
The beta is set up this way to run similar to how it would in production. In total I think the very few work units, only 633 copies were sent, went very quickly, something like within 15 minutes. Having someone who has a 4 core system get 4 processes running at one time is also part of the tests that are needed. I am sorry if someone did not get a BETA this time around but when we get to the type C work units we should have plenty more work units. -Uplinger |
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rembertw
Senior Cruncher Belgium Joined: Nov 21, 2005 Post Count: 275 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I'm a bit sad for not getting any beta's also. Then again, it is a lottery as suggested (because of the small batch) and I didn't win. I'm 22 days, 10 minutes, 10 seconds short of the next level in badges. I'll get there eventually.
Maybe a small upgrade to the aging farm could help. The RAM requirements were prohibiting for a lot of my cores. |
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Somervillejudson@netscape.net
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: May 16, 2008 Post Count: 1065 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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rembertw,
I have a brand new i7 with 3.33 ghz and 6 gb's of ram running on 1/2 day cache and no Beta's so just plain luck! |
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sk..
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Uplinger, is that the most scientific approach?
Review panels favour structured, defined and well set out criteria that can be systematically analysed for a reason. |
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skgiven ... I don't understand why you are suggesting a restriction by user. What if I happen to have Windows, Linux and a Mac, what difference does it make if "I" have them or if three different people have them? uplinger explained that multiple WU on the same system is a good and valid test yet you continue to question his methodology? I would bet that if the results did not provide proper coverage to satify the requirements of the test that there would be more sent out. So what is your real problem other than not getting any?
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