Rosetta is perfectly capable of contacting WCG if they want to. But they would have to go through the application process, which is a bit if bureaucracy that includes a scientific review panel. That is all very necessary in most cases, no doubt.

But if Rosetta needs more capacity, they will just contact AWS, which they have probably done already. They don't need our advice on the subject anyway.

Calm down.

I guess when one is panicked, all thinking shuts down.
BOINC@TACC offering resources to Rosetta is very thoughtful but they weren't doing anything anyway, at least on the BOINC side. People have been complaining for months about there not being any work. Does Rosetta have to conform to BOINC@TACC or does BOINC@TACC have to change their setup to run Rosetta work as is? How much work is it going to take to adapt but when you aren't doing anything anyway what does it matter? Completely different thing from WCG.
Concerning WCG and Rosetta, who has to adapt and what is the effort? First, since users can't pick COVID work, How is WCG going to pick COVID work? One might say, well, Rosetta will allow it. How? I would postulate that their infrastructure isn't setup to do that. If it was, users would be able to pick COVID exclusively. Once again, what's it going to take to make it happen? Then, let's say Rosetta updated their infrastructure, and work was able to come to WCG. My guess would be that WCG would have to write something to request work from Rosetta (not a trivial undertaking). That's the bOINC way. Servers don't send, clients ask. But then what? Does this work go into the WCG database, work scheduler, assimilator? Where does validation happen? At WCG or Rosetta? If not at WCG, then how does WCG keep their database up to date and clean and accurately reflect what is out in the wild and what has been returned? What about file uploads? WCG doesn't have spare storage. Remember? It could go back to Baker Labs like CEP went directly back to Harvard but WCG was loading and tracking their work. Why would Rosetta want to load work and send it to WCG and then have WCG reload the work into their system so they can send it out and track. What could conceivably go wrong with any of that? Yes, if there is a will, there is a way but at what cost and how long will it take? Still waiting on 2 other climate projects if I remember right. By the time all the gotchas got worked out, the pandemic will be over.

Me asking you to go Rosetta if you choose to run Rosetta work is meaningful. We can debate whether it is civil. You asking WCG and Rosetta to completely redo their processes and systems to adapt to your thinking and possibly messing everything up for others is selfish and unnecessary. It's real easy for you to go to Rosetta and donate to your heart's content, it impacts no one other than you.

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