Any idea which platforms the work is going to be for. I often see a lot of we have no work for your platform. Im running pentiums / amd's single processors multi processors / windows / ubuntu. Im at a loss as to what platform is getting all the work.

and i know someone wants to say it so ill save you the trouble. No, I won't get a mac :D

Aaron

Running Linux seems a good idea, though. At least it worked well for me. I've grabbed tasks resulting in more than 18 CPU days during the rain showers in the last few months. On a single core.

What I'm doing is to use a profile where only the intermittent projects are selected and no others. And then, when I read in this thread that new Dengue tasks are available I simply switch profiles for the relevant machine and slightly increase the cache size from 1 to 1.5 or 2 days just to make sure (this works also for beta tasks, BTW). That's usually all I had to do. Continually hitting the Manager's Update button and things like that weren't absolutely necessary.

EDIT: Of course you should also deselect the box labelled "If there is no work available for my computer for the projects I have selected above, please send me work from another project." or else this might not work, either

The problem with this is that you are running no work until something comes out for the intermittent project(s). Another option is to select Dengue PLUS Clean Energy Phase 2 Then limit Clean Energy to just the number of processors on your PC (or maybe one more), but bump the cache size up to 2-3 days. In this way you will always be running work, but always looking for more, so you don't need to make changes when it rains Dengue.

I have two machines. One has 2 processors and one has 4 (sort-of: hyperthreaded Xeon)l The only was I know of to limit the number of processors would limit the number for all BOINC processes, not just WCG. And for WCG, I do not know how to control number of processors per WCG task other than 0 or all. How is this done?

Any news about new tasks to be distributed ?