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Thread: Not receiving Beta Testing units [RESOLVED] |
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CandymanWCG
Senior Cruncher Romania Joined: Dec 20, 2010 Post Count: 421 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi all,
----------------------------------------I have decided to join the effort for Beta Testing a couple of weeks ago and I have checked the boxes on all my profiles (currently using 3 - one for each machine) and yet I have received no such units so far. I am not using local preferences on any of these 3 machines, but the profiles from the site. Is there something that I should do or doing wrong, or should I believe that there were no such units in the past 2-3 weeks? Thanks in advance! Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world! - Albert Einstein   [Edit 1 times, last edit by CandymanWCG at Mar 26, 2011 11:16:30 AM] |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Beta WU's are very rare, and when they do come (best to keep an eye on the Beta testing forum for news), they're very quickly snapped up - as there's generally only a few thousand for each run.
----------------------------------------There are various tips/techniques you can use to raise your chances of getting some when they're around, but for that, you'll have to read the various threads   [Edit 2 times, last edit by gb009761 at Mar 25, 2011 11:40:59 AM] |
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CandymanWCG
Senior Cruncher Romania Joined: Dec 20, 2010 Post Count: 421 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Oh, I see. I guess that kind of falls into the third category: maybe there haven't been any lately or I haven't been one of the "lucky" few.
----------------------------------------No worries then! My time will come.  Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world! - Albert Einstein |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It's really hard for the average cruncher to get many Beta WU; it's just the way the math works.
Yesterday WCG did 667,000 WU and you are averaging 2 per day and we have nearly 100,000 active crunchers. If there are 4000 Beta WU released there is 1 Wu for every 25 crunchers. So there's that. In addition, my Quad polls for a new WU about 18 times per day, giving me 18 chances in 24 hours to pickup 1 in 25 WU. At 2 Wu per day, you are only getting 2 chances in 24 hours. Plus if all 4k WU are gobbled up in an hour, the window might be closed before you even have a chance. So there's the math, but don't give up. I started with one single core computer for a while.  |
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sk..
Master Cruncher http://s17.rimg.info/ccb5d62bd3e856cc0d1df9b0ee2f7f6a.gif Joined: Mar 22, 2007 Post Count: 2324 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The results status seems to be going quite fast these days; I looked yesterday and there was 7 returned, all picked up in the last week, today only 1 is listed. So even if you do get one, you might not know about it. They also seemed to complete quite quickly; on an reasonable system <2h. So even if you get a few of these betas you're probably not going to progress much towards the next badge anyway. The time you can make significant badge progress is when a new project is about to launch - there tends to be many more betas.
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CandymanWCG
Senior Cruncher Romania Joined: Dec 20, 2010 Post Count: 421 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks, skgiven. I'm not out badge hunting, I was just curious why I don't get this type of units. However, I would assume that if I did get one, it would show up in my Results page, which is not the case.
----------------------------------------Anyway, I got my answer, thanks again! Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world! - Albert Einstein [Edit 1 times, last edit by CandymanWCG at Mar 27, 2011 9:51:23 AM] |
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