I'm afraid this lack of variety on the projects is getting tedious... With about 50 SN2S tasks every day for the next two weeks, I'm overrun with work for this project. I've had a few Fight Aids tasks (about 20 waiting to run) and every week I get one Clean Energy task.

I say tedious, but when there were about 8 or so live projects it was interesting to see what my systems were doing. Now I can guess without even looking, a few more snails...

Considering that WCG did that big survey and we as participants try to promote it to the world, I think it's about time we saw a big increase in projects of a global benefit to mankind.

It is probably a good time for extensive maintenance activities ! ...
Yves

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You are to a degree misreading my post. I'm afraid I take issue with your approach, just as you have to mine. I do this because I cannot give millions to charity or fix the problems of the world with a magic wand. It's my electric bill, my hardware that is being burnt out (and yes, it does happen) and I view it as a serious failing of this whole organisation that they cannot get new projects out for me to work on. As it is, I also crunch for SETI and have done for years.

I have read on a number of threads that the WUs for SN2S are intermittent and in shortish supply...yeah right. I've got hundreds of them here and I'd really like to be doing something else for a while. I'm not saying that SN2S isn't important, but this is very poor management by the WCG (or IBM who I believe employ them). It's also very bad timing for WCG, having recently been in the news all over the world.

Why can't we get an official response on this "new project" ? It's been talked about for ages now. But it's singular: we need 10 new projects, not one.

sjcsystems... The process of getting a project on board is probably very complex and definitely doesn't depend solely on IBM (I'll try to comment on this a little more later).
ah, this has been explained over and over and over... but basically breaks done to this: these projects are complex and many times (if not most of the time) contains issues (technical, logical, etc) that were not foreseen that may delay the launch date of the project. Therefore, so not to get everybody's hopes dashed all over the place when the "date" comes and goes and nothing shows up, the WCG prefer to keep quiet until the project's out the door. ... and I'm sure that the WCG has been burned a couple of times by announcing a launch date and not being able to keep it.
IBM is a supporter of the WCG, which provides servers and resources to maintain those servers. The scientists are from research centers and universities from all over the world. IBM doesn't employ the WCG.

Now, what would be useful for ALL of us, would be to understand how a project starts at WCG: who starts it, who approaches who, etc. That would be interesting to know and would answer a lot of the forum's questions.

CJSL

Crunching for a better world...