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confused Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

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... sad
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Asus UX303UA
VMware Workstation Virtualization
CPU:i7-6500U
Memory:4096MB Allocated
OS:Debian GNU/Linux 9.6 (stretch)
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Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

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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Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

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 laughing
According to your reply, I guess the only way is to makey platform rare, is it? laughing
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Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

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. cool
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Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

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. cool


Sounds like I would need to adjust it to store less missions... tongue
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Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

According to your reply, I guess the only way is to makey platform rare, is it? laughing

No. First come, first served regardless of platform.
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biggrin Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

Well, Dr. John says ... biggrin
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Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

Well, Dr. John says ... biggrin


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. laughing
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Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

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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Re: Is there any possible ways to make a computer more "attractive" to beta testing programs?

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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