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uplinger
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: May 23, 2005 Post Count: 3952 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yes, it is Keith Uplinger, just usually close with -Uplinger as I'm one of very few in the world :)
Also, beta is very limited, we usually only put out a few thousand at a time and they get sucked up relatively quickly, usually within 15-20 minutes. Beta's are not really planned from the sense we give members a heads up on them. They happen when we have an application that is ready to be tested openly by a wider variety of machines. Thanks, -Uplinger |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yes... thanks very much for the detailed info. Luck with the beta testing.
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Keith and I'm assuming AKA -Uplinger Yes, Uplinger is Keith (the guy with the party hat  ). The rest of the WCG team can be found here .CJSL Crunching for a better tomorrow... |
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rgrimmer
Cruncher Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 7 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt, this has been the most disappointing project launch to date: lots of hype, miniscule quantity of work units gobbled up immediately by badge hunters who are complaining about not being able to get more than two days work in queue. This lust for a badge leaves everybody else high and dry - haven't even process a wu in days.
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Former Member
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Eventually we all need to appreciate that the PR mill was underway when the 'Long run flex, no checkpoint came to surface as a big off-guard surprise'. That is 99% of the work in the project. Now that the Beta is underway, think it's time we stop repeating the repeating of the repeated. We're all disappointed, but now it's time to move on from this and work with the techs to get through this beta and help move it to production.
Thank you for your consideration. |
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Bearcat
Master Cruncher USA Joined: Jan 6, 2007 Post Count: 2803 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well said Sek!
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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... but now it's time to move on from this and work with the techs to get through this beta and help move it to production. Said like a excellent CA .CJSL Crunching like mad (where mad is good !) |
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keputnam
Cruncher Joined: Aug 25, 2014 Post Count: 19 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Beyond a shadow of a doubt, this has been the most disappointing project launch to date: lots of hype, miniscule quantity of work units gobbled up immediately by badge hunters who are complaining about not being able to get more than two days work in queue. This lust for a badge leaves everybody else high and dry - haven't even process a wu in days. At least you've seen a few I've been attached for almost a month and haven't even had s sniff of one Anyone new to Distributed Computing, who caught the PR announcement and joined, will probably say FTS, and leave not just this project the the whole philosophy for ever! |
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Former Member
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I'm one of the users who joined up on Dec 3, 2014 when the Ebola press releases went out. Frankly my experience with the environment has been pretty positive. Granted I have a couple of degrees, 30 years working in IT, and understand the nature of the beast.
As for new users leaving in droves because they can't get Ebola work units, frankly I don't think that is the case. Looking at the numbers on FREE-DC it appears that quite a few of us who joined on December 3 are sticking with the project. I'm sitting down at about #22 for the day and having a tough time moving up through the list of December 3 alumni. And that is with 6 cores running 24/7. http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=userd...bwcg&startdate=16407# 314 new users joined on December 3. Sure looks like the top 30 are pretty solid. And sure looks like the December 3 clan are hitting December 2 out of the park. http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=userd...bwcg&startdate=16406# As for the late comers on December 4. The top 100 of that group are are hot, I'm not going to get on their bad side. http://stats.free-dc.org/stats.php?page=userd...bwcg&startdate=16408# |
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[CSF] Thomas Dupont
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... but now it's time to move on from this and work with the techs to get through this beta and help move it to production. Said like a excellent CA +100 Well said Rob ! |
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