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Former Member
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Enabled "Beta testing" for a month, but hasn't receive any beta testing programs...
I'm beginning to wonder if my computer isn't enough "attractive" to beta testing programs... Here's the parameter: Asus UX303UA VMware Workstation Virtualization CPU:i7-6500U Memory:4096MB Allocated OS:Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch) |
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Former Member
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Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs? No.With limited Beta distributions such as this all workunits are given out in a matter of a few minutes. If your cruncher does not request work at precisely that time then you are not going to get any Beta workunits. The techs do not play favorites when distributing Betas because they want as good a representation of available crunchers as possible. |
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Former Member
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Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs? No.With limited Beta distributions such as this all workunits are given out in a matter of a few minutes. If your cruncher does not request work at precisely that time then you are not going to get any Beta workunits. The techs do not play favorites when distributing Betas because they want as good a representation of available crunchers as possible. That sounds like a real challenge According to your reply, I guess the only way is to makey platform rare, is it? |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs? Yes. You finish all the tasks on time & the server will favor you for BETAs. |
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Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs? Yes. You finish all the tasks on time & the server will favor you for BETAs. Sounds like I would need to adjust it to store less missions... |
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Former Member
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According to your reply, I guess the only way is to makey platform rare, is it? No. First come, first served regardless of platform. |
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BladeD
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Well, Dr. John says ...
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Former Member
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Well, Dr. John says ... Well according to China's Internet regulations I'm not supposed to watch anything on youtube... But whatever, I watched it and saw your point. |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2977 Status: Offline Project Badges: |
Although in the main, it is purely down to chance/luck, there ARE a few things you can do - some of which are;
----------------------------------------1) Watch/monitor the Beta threads - as that'll give you some clues as to if/when a Beta release is due (which platform/science/number of WU's in the test etc.), 2) Ensure that your machine(s) is/are registered for the Beta programme - and also, ensure that your computer is connected to the Internet (both of these are/should be obvious - but sometimes, it's the obvious things that are overlooked), 3) Ensure that your BOINC session doesn't have overly full cache's - and that includes not running WU's that are extremely long (short WU's are better - there's plenty of threads which'll give ideas as to which to run), 4) If there is a project that's got a low supply of WU's (e.g., currently HSTB), switch to this project - but you might have to keep topping up your BOINC cache with another project in order to not fully run out of WU's - for instance, set your cache to 1 day, fill up with a project with plenty of WU's, switch back to HSTB (or similar), and then set your cache back to 2 days). Basically, the more times your BOINC session tries retrieving WU's, the higher the chance it'll strike lucky in landing a few Beta WU's. |
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Former Member
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Although in the main, it is purely down to chance/luck, there ARE a few things you can do - some of which are; 1) Watch/monitor the Beta threads - as that'll give you some clues as to if/when a Beta release is due (which platform/science/number of WU's in the test etc.), 2) Ensure that your machine(s) is/are registered for the Beta programme - and also, ensure that your computer is connected to the Internet (both of these are/should be obvious - but sometimes, it's the obvious things that are overlooked), 3) Ensure that your BOINC session doesn't have overly full cache's - and that includes not running WU's that are extremely long (short WU's are better - there's plenty of threads which'll give ideas as to which to run), 4) If there is a project that's got a low supply of WU's (e.g., currently HSTB), switch to this project - but you might have to keep topping up your BOINC cache with another project in order to not fully run out of WU's - for instance, set your cache to 1 day, fill up with a project with plenty of WU's, switch back to HSTB (or similar), and then set your cache back to 2 days). Basically, the more times your BOINC session tries retrieving WU's, the higher the chance it'll strike lucky in landing a few Beta WU's. You're right... Though, my queue is 0.2 day per request/0.5 day cached... |
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