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The whole concept is very simple here. The project settings determine what YOU crunch. That's it. *****

**Edited for inappropriate forum language** TKH

My *opinion* is... that if it were technically possible, to have a fairly equal share of work for the selected sciences, whatever mix selection is made. If that were possible, which is not AFAIK, than I'd be not in need of changing profiles every other day. Mixes are good for efficiency on multi-threaded device, which is why I try to always have 2-3, heavy and light. If then only light comes, or only heavy, it is a defeat of the optimal *put at disposal* resource.

Whatever other speculation of underlying evil or nefariousness... If WCG uses the 'All projects' selected devices pool to balance the different sciences, is fine with me. After all, those with ''All projects'' have chosen to volunteer their cycles to the community as a whole, without giving any preferential statement on any of the researches. If a particular science is on the brink of an much promising experiment and pushed ahead in the hopper conveyor, that's fine too to me. Anyone objecting?

Net, I'm not opposed to how WCG steers the 'All project' devices, but like for fair shares to arrive for those that have paired in down to a few. Those on 1 science get anyway preferred service... they've made the choice to focus on *their* science.

Rest assured if it were money say someone donating a million to SCRIPPS to ensure FAAH research is conducted without diversion, then SCRIPPS will manage other sources of funds it already was receiving towards other researches. We have no say in that I'd think. FTM, WCG puts up the millions to keep the grid in top notch operational state. Without that, there would not have been the science done for most of those what's hosted here.

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P.S. The small print in my previous post stands. If it were possible.

It's Thursday today for the distributor reweighing. Now that DSFL runs hours shorter, it be nice if there could be put more into the hopper far as I'm concerned. The 7 day running share dropped to 6th spot. ;D

edit: spelling monster

Ringraziamenti Sr. Uplinger Sir, and kwool you put a PH in for the item of contention. [Extended] Beta testing next week after... it's really time to turn that gold far top left into red ;?

-- SekeRob

edit: Briefly increased my Windows machine's cache to nearly 2 days and saw a nice share of Clean Water + Leishmaniasis arrive, the CEP2 quantity selected already maxed. Thx, just as the doctor ordered. \o/

You cannot change amount of runtime given to a project, but you still can change the amount of work done in this runtime

Exactly, so as you do twice the wu's on your powerfull machine,
it will slow down the amount it hands out to others to balance.

Crunch and be happy :)

Whilst the more experienced individual crunchers will have some feel of what runs best under what OS and what CPU, running the [personally] preferred project on the most powerful system is not necessarily the best utilization of the horsepower, noting that WCG as yet has nothing in place in server / task assignment logic to send specific tasks to best equipped devices and at what mix [the mix is important]. Further into the future BOINC server and client releases will have that skill. Of course, this ''best suited'' may not fit the idea of individual volunteers, so from past discussions, there may well be an option to say yes / no to that approach... if a donator wants to only do XY or Z, that has to be respected. Anyone badge hunting might still want to do e.g. the heavy CEP2 to put in the time, though the device might not be optimal, so when that automations comes it will add yet another few bells and whistles to the device profiles.

Now was this thread about how long DSFL will run... the average run time climbed back up by half and hour in the last few days after dropping 2.75 in the days before that ;?

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