There ARE millions of WUs to come. They just come slowly due to required manual intervention. And our goal here anyway is the science, not badges.

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...d,28748_offset,100#274957

gb009761, Your statements are mostly correct. The only thing of confusion could be the label of intermittent and what has been run so far. I'm going to try my best here to explain it.

DDDT2 has been moved to intermittent not because the project is complete (as has been in the past for DDDT1, FLU1, CEP1) but because there will be times when the project won't have new work. Right now this project is in a 2-3 week period without new work. The researchers have received lots of results on their end and need to evaluate what the results show them at this time.

Here is what has run on the grid so far.

erlc - This is 80% returned, some type B batches haven't be run as type C yet.
ts01 - This has returned type A's and some Type B's are running.
ts02 - Same as ts01
ts03 - has not run on the grid (We investigating and issue with preruns)
ts04 - same as ts03
ts05 - only 50% of the type A's have been sent.
ts06 - This has started type C's but has not be returned to the researchers yet (very small batch only 30 type A's to start with)

The actual targets 1-18 have not been run yet, these have a naming convention that has yet to be given to us. Nothing is being run in prerun at this time (it is also in the 2-3 week pause)

So, as you can see, most of the work has been in type A and B, which have the least amount of work units. Type C's are where most will have a chance to run work.

Please remember this project is doing something that has never been done before on such a large scale. So analysing the data takes a lot of time and effort on the researchers end. Which for us as crunchers is patience because we want to give them lots of processing power to complete their research quickly.

The badges for members will come. If we had badges when Africa Climate @ Home was active and completed, members would have been clamouring for more work quickly as well. When that project completed we saw what the cpu runtime was after it was completed to give out badges fairly. I don't think anyone on that project ran for more than 1 year. What I'm saying is, if for some reason this project completes with small cpu usage distribution for the members, we may take a look at requirements for badges, but until then and with the estimation of work to come from the researchers still pretty large, we are going to run with the normal badge distribution.

I hope that I have explained this well, if there are more questions on this, I can respond next Monday.

Thanks,
-Uplinger

Thanks Uplinger for clarifying things

My own feelings as to why it should have been an intermittent project right from the off, was due to the stop/start nature of the project and that, it was made clear that there would be times when there were no WU's to process (due to the manual steps which are required).

Well said Whl (and others)
and, admit it, struggling to get a Bronze in DDDT2
has been FUN! wasn't it that much more enjoyable
after the minutes of slaving away changing settings,
then to just see another emerald or 2 after surfing
the web or doing laundry ?
Please note all this has been said with a smile