I would respectfully disagree with some caveats. Granted, there have been some projects with limited WU availability, namely the African Climate project and the Dengue Fever project. The former was due to hardware limitations and was ultimately discontinued for reasons I don't remember. The Dengue Fever project had hard to get units, but it turns out the researchers did not get the results they needed from the docking software even after numerous tweaks so they ended the project. (I think a hurricane also severely negatively impacted their campus labs). It has already been explained how this project will progress with later units being built and designed based on the results from the beginning units. The go slow approach is merely the learning phase of the project. Without actively pursuing the WU's, but merely leaving it as an option on a couple of my machines I have gotten a few here and there. The people who have had it as an exclusive option have certainly gotten the bulk of the units as well as those who have actively pursued the units by various strategems. I don't feel I have been treated any differently than any others. Should I wish to actively get the units, I could use some of the options described elsewhere to do so.
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*edited to appropriate forum language - ErikaT

The only way is to limit the WU's per user in a small batch. So every one will have a chance to get some.. now the "big boys" absorb all of them...

So far, I have yet to receive any of these Help Stop TB work units, and my machine is a 4-core Intel Xeon box with 64-bit cores. I have no trouble getting other WCG project work units, and I could get the Seti@home ones until I set no new work units for them. Likewise, I have set no new work units for Rosetta@home and malaria.net. I have none of those running anymore.

"Lately it seems..." you may count your blessings. There's never been more than 10K validations in a day. At one point uplinger wrote 100 per half hour, and another 50 per half hour, which is kind of a reflection of a median of 6-7K a day. Still getting an average of 1-2 a day on my octo as sideloaders for the OET/UGM/HST project selection. Now have 2 T000 and 1 T400, batch 1070, an _1 at that, an original. A lone 8 core, but running 24/7 churning out 40-45 results a day, and thus asking an equal number of random times for a back-fill.

I agree that this is an important part of the project. If what is returned is what is expected and needed by the scientists (to keep them satisfied), then we're on the right path. Luck to all the crunchers.

CJSL

Crunching for a better world...