There's no 3.0 or faster. They only go to 2.0 and faster result returning devices. If a slower device just has no cache and runs 24/7 and does a task every 24 hours that's good enough. Then there is 8 days to complete and in fact as I wrote a few days ago, my slow duo got an extra augmentation on that... 9 days deadline. It's not like WCG want to run a total exclusivity club just because of credit/validation urges. The ethos is: Facilitate to have as many as possible participate in as many sciences as possible, even if it does not achieve maximum speed... and when the PI scientist has only 2 hands to handle both DDDT2 and FLU2, what's the rush of having the results sitting idle on the shelf ... so the slower pace has been very consciously calculated in :>)

honestly NO the scientists did not mess up. they got the project out to us as soon as they could... if they decided to run all the alpha phase in house they could have all the bravos and then a wait on till the charlies are ready (by batch).. but instead and cause we wanted them they released the alpha work units to us and told us we WILL have some times with no work.

if they waited for themselves to crunch all the alpha's it might be next year before we saw this project now with all the computers on it we can crunch it much quicker and knock it out of the park quickly.

yes i am very happy to see the work units comming i have a few pending validation now and a few waiting on my computers till they knock out the work units that were when no work avalible.


@skgiven the reason alot of those longer tasks had shorter work times was that they were resends of the original 1000 (x2) run. also i keep my cache running at .2 i believe so i dont worry if my slower older computers get a work unit it will get it done within the required time..

hopeing for bronze soon

Thanks for the reply Sek,
I forgot about the ongoing CPU-task matching and CPU pairing efforts, should help quite a bit.

Improved to 73Valid, 71PV and 75 In Progress.
A few on a Q8400, and the rest on various systems (only one really slow system).

Nasher, good luck with the badge.
I keep my cache low mainly to facilitate GPUGrid, where new tasks depend on previous tasks. As this helps the DDDT2 project, I now have 2 reasons to keep a low cache. Unfortunately some systems are remote and some use intermittent Internet connections, so I have to keep a larger cache there.

@DKT if you do that be sure to have other projects if no work avalible.

yes there are DDDT2's out there and they are slowly comming faster but there are alot of dry times as well as alot of very lean times.

if you are close to another badge work that one out quickly then check back here and hopefully this project will have more steady work units

but this project is expected to have lean and dry times throught the entire project so dont expect to get a steady flow of work units .. more of a trickle right now

Please rember that this is a PRODUCTION project (even though the app keeps changing) and it is NOT INTERMITTENT (even though you can't get wu's most of the time). WCG says so. Sounds like my goverment talking. It's NOT a tax or a fee (you just have to pay it).