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rbm73
Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 1, 2011 Post Count: 28 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
How are the tasks sent to a participant's computer selected?
I have been trying to get to one year on the Fighting Aids at Home project. When the Uncovering Genome Mysteries project was started, I added it to my project list, thinking I could support these 2 projects on a 50-50 basis. That is not the case - in fact my FAAH work has slowed to a trickle as I am receiving UGM work at a rate 5 to 6 times as fast as FAAH! Not only is this disappointing, it has made me think that I should withdraw my support altogether. A while ago I received a questionnaire that sought to improve WCG. One of the items I supported was a way to specify the percentage of work a contributor would receive for each subscribed project. What ever happened to that questionnaire? If you can't support that idea can you at least send tasks on an equitable basis? |
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
How are the tasks sent to a participant's computer selected? Projects are assigned a priority at the server. Refer to the SekeRob dashboard The line Feeder Priority gives the current weight which can, and does, vary from time to time. Currently FAAH has a Normal priority and UGM1 Low so your observation that you are currently receiving tasks 6:1 UGM1:FAAH is strange and I've seen no other posts that feeder priority is currently an issue. What ever happened to that questionnaire? The Report on the 2013 Member Survey was published here in August 2013. Implementation of changes is being staged over a period of time. No timetable nor details of impending changes has been released. |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Not only is this disappointing, it has made me think that I should withdraw my support altogether. Another threat. I am sick and tired of seeing these threats "Either do what I say or I leave!" |
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Precisely. I can't describe in the "forum appropriate language" how I agree with you Alan
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Not only is this disappointing, it has made me think that I should withdraw my support altogether. This is not the way to get help. I assume you are crunching for the benefit of mankind. If you "withdraw your support", the only people you will be punishing will be current and future patients with cancer and HIV. I suggest that the next time you have a question or issue, you do it in a civil and nice manner. I'm sure somebody will try to give you an appropriate answer. I, as Jonnieb-uk, find the behavior you describe odd due to the priorities already described. It should be the other way around. I'm currently crunching MCM and UGM and I get a little more of MCM (but not much).CJSL Crunching for a better future... |
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noderaser
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 297 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
If you're badge hunting, I would concentrate your efforts on MCM and UGM since they are relatively short-term projects, AIDS is an "ongoing" project that will keep adding new targets to work on until something big happens, or the researchers run out of funding. So, if the situation is as you describe (AIDS taking low priority) then you'll probably be set.
----------------------------------------Although the WCG admins don't have a reputation for responding or implementing to user concerns very often, the frequency at which people threaten to leave doesn't put much credibility in our hands. It doesn't help the situation for those of us who have been/are in it for the long haul. I think you will find that the majority of issues with participating in WCG and/or BOINC can be handled by the extremely knowledgeable and capable community members. For the others, we have a few cards to play through channels but need to save them for the really important things, that hamper progress on the research goals. |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
The thing is that when you select another projects it sees your previous involvement to FightAIDS@home...so you have done in last 30d/90d 90% work for FA@h...
----------------------------------------And to remedy that projects sends you a wast amount of UGM to compensate that... It will work out to 50:50...just give it some TIME! ;) |
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asdavid
Veteran Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 521 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Alan Branjo +1
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
KLiK, I'm dubious about your idea that project prioritisation has any client history involved. As jonnieb said earlier, there's a priority assigned to each project's filling of the feeder on the servers. That will affect all clients in the same way. However, it doesn't mean that every request for new tasks will match that priority, nor even that the priority will be matched exactly in the short term. There can also be temporary aberrations when a problem causes a project's filling to go wrong. Only over a longer period, maybe several days, should a normally-functioning feeder priority system be matched in a client's workload.
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noderaser
Senior Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 6, 2006 Post Count: 297 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
You can always compensate by selecting/deselecting projects as appropriate, to obtain the total run time you desire. Not the most elegant solution, but it's the best we have given the current system.
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