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Shinobi Gaiden
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Sep 27, 2005 Post Count: 92 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am hesitant to contribute to climate models similar to how I am hesitant to contribute to calculating the next prime number, seti at home, the next decimal of Pi etc. I feel this way mostly because the other issues seem more urgently pressing; and more deterministic in eventual outcome.
But I also I am trying to keep an open mind about fairness in participation to all worthy projects. could someone bullet-point the meaningful pro's of this project for me. We can generate heat, and we can make ice on demand, so I'm sure we can participate in the weather to some degree, but I'm just not sold on what the tangible outcome is going to be in the near future. Id love some education on this. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, as I understand the premise behind this project, the goal is to improve accuracy of the timing and and amount of rainfall over a significant portion of Africa. If there is better idea of the rainfall patterns, the food production capacity of those areas could be enhanced in several different areas, such as type of crop, differing seed varieties for those crops, timing of planting, mitigation of flooding, water conservation methods to mitigate drought, and probably other areas of which I am unaware.
----------------------------------------Hope this helps. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Former Member
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I feel this way mostly because the other issues seem more urgently pressing and more deterministic in eventual outcome.
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Macroman
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It's up to each contributor how they would like to prioritize their participation.
Africa still has meaningful food shortages. This project will help researchers aid the locals in enhancing their food supply. It's hard to imagine a more noble goal. I can certainly argue that COVID has a more immediate personal impact on most individuals now but we have vaccines. I think that it is now a matter of time for COVID to be brought under control. Whatever project you choose to support, happy crunching! |
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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could someone bullet-point the meaningful pro's of this project for me. I think this page does a good job of that. |
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numya241
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i would be happy to contribute to this project if they gave the work more time to finish.
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adriverhoef
Master Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Apr 3, 2009 Post Count: 2346 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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i would be happy to contribute to this project if they gave the work more time to finish. How much time do you need? |
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Brummig
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I second numya241's comment. A minimum of 100% more? Even with a reasonably fast processor I'm running over the time limit on the most recent WUs. I recently aborted a WU that had no chance of completing on time, one that my wingman let run and failed to complete by the deadline. Another I let run, but was well over the deadline; it got resent and the person who picked it up also failed to complete within the deadline.
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I second numya241's comment. A minimum of 100% more? Even with a reasonably fast processor I'm running over the time limit on the most recent WUs. I recently aborted a WU that had no chance of completing on time, one that my wingman let run and failed to complete by the deadline. Another I let run, but was well over the deadline; it got resent and the person who picked it up also failed to complete within the deadline. Do you have too many WUs in yours queue? I'm running 4 WUs that should all finish in the next 8 hours with a deadline of 4/15-4/16. |
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Mamajuanauk
Master Cruncher United Kingdom Joined: Dec 15, 2012 Post Count: 1900 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Some projects don't work well if the PC is not running 24/7. As they can lose time processed back to the last checkpoint, when the PC is switched off and restarted.
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