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Thread: "Computing for sustainable water" vs CFCW ? |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Watch with the cussing Geo, this is a friendly site, for lack of a better word.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
"cussing'", i don't understand, but of course, it's a friendly site ..... it's the reason we can express and share personal opinion. ;-)
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Sorry, cussing means watch the use of "bad/foul language" and yes it is the reason we can discuss opinions openly.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Bashing, cussing is a nomal attitude in the scholarly world. Guys with innovative ideas and methods are not welcomed even if research is, by essence, a place for innovative ideas.
The best scientists in history have been often OVERCRITIZED !!!!! sad world !!!!! |
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BSD
Senior Cruncher Joined: Apr 27, 2011 Post Count: 224 Status: Offline |
Bashing, cussing is a nomal attitude in the scholarly world. What ever happend to good manners.  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
You right , BSD....... good manners are forgotten everywhere even in the scholarly world. !!!!!
I am 35, but I have already seen old professors twice my age with a very bad daily attitude with basic technicians. It's shameful !!!! |
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KWSN - A Shrubbery
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 8, 2006 Post Count: 1585 Status: Offline |
Bad language is not used in polite society. If scientists go around cussing at each other then I fear for the future of the world. I'm sure this is just something lost in translation but swear words are not allowed on this forum. That is what you were being warned about.
----------------------------------------As for your assertion that projects do not finish, this is flat out wrong. If you have been crunching for one year then you have already seen Nutritious Rice finish and Cure Muscular Dystrophy 2 is wrapping up right now. As others have mentioned Clean Water doesn't have much longer before it's finished as well. I appreciate your passion but please argue the facts not opinion. As others have stated, the more projects on the grid, the more volunteers will contribute. Everyone wins. The staff at WCG takes great care to assure that only worthwhile projects are even considered to be run. I will trust their expertise as they are intimately involved on that side of the coin. The risk at not adding new projects is that the current ones will finish and there will be no replacements. No work means a loss of volunteers. In short everyone loses.  Distributed computing volunteer since September 27, 2000 |
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Former Member
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 Finishing projects . . . This is mostly up to the project scientists. A very few projects have a set number of work units right at the start. Once we run them, the project is over. Dr. David Foran's Help Defeat Cancer was one of those rare projects. It was completed in months. More common are the current 'intermittent' projects which are really complete but which the project scientists want on standby while they spend a few years of scientific analysis to make sure that they really are through. And then there are projects that produce a batch of work units, then wait a month or so and produce another. This is almost the opposite of a fixed number at the start of the project. The true opposite of a limited project is FAAH or HPF2, where we just keep going as long as it seems we can do some good. The WCG staff keep in close contact with the scientists and decide on project weights on the World Community Grid and on boarding new projects. Lawrence |
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Former Member
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@ KWSN - A Shrubbery
I invite you to read CAREFULLY the FACTS that build my opinion in the past messages . I don't ask to share my view, I just ask to be correct and fair with me : WCG is a super computer, like several private laboratories can have..... If a super computer is used for Ten projects, it's computing power will be share between projects, so the computing power will be low for each projects. If a super computer has 5 major projects with a big human impact , these proejcts will be finish quicker, so the period of change for new projects will be shorter.... These finished projects will have a major impacts in real world, so they will be attractive for new volunteers. |
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Former Member
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I just wanted to open a small window into the methods of science, its limits (a true scientist know science is truly limited) and the need to use ressources with common sens.....
But I hurt a huge sensibility , so, I won't continue on this way. |
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