Thanks PMH. I guess I'll adjust my expectations a bit.

Some of those other projects look cool too. DENIS (heart stuff iirc), Milky Way. I'll read up on Sidock.

I'm still familiar with Folding@home as they have a ton of scientific collaborators from different places. Their new 8.x client is weird though and completely web based so it's super weird if you want to manage a farm locally.

My heart is still with WCG, and I can't wait until more improvements are made soon with the hardware upgrades. And some of the re-architecting that savas talked about. Gotta be patient since they're understaffed and underfunded.

Hope we get more ARP1 soon. My machines are thirsty.

I started with Seti at home, and the community was amazing. I felt like I was a part of something special. The WUs took forever and the system went down often, but it was still good. When Seti at home ended, I had a hard time finding a project with community as good as that one.

I ended up at WCG during the covid times, and the community here is pretty good. The tech team and the science team pop in and give us updates pretty regularly for their machines and their own project. I feel like they listen and do pretty well. They even kick the machine on the weekends if the problem is within their control. I wish ARP would give us more updates, but I'm not going to blame the WCG people for ARP issues. I think even IBM had a hard time getting each project to submit regular reports. The MCM reports are colorful and engaging.

I think community is very important to gaining and retaining volunteers willing to work on the project. I try very hard to link to the different bits of useful info from the first post, so people don't have to hunt for it. I really really appreciate everyone here who joins in the conversation and helps me find the latest info. I love that there is a community on the boards to gather and report on the info we can deduce.

We are back ! Thank you to the techs that got us up and running so quickly. Let's hope we have a stable weekend.

I think the machine needs a good kick I don't think MCM or ARP are flowing.

I'm getting the dreaded "Tasks are committed to other platforms" for MCM,
The reference number for both projects are dropping.

edit to add: no sooner did I post this, then the reference numbers started going up. I still haven't gotten any fresh WUs, but I guess both projects are sending them out.

Thanks for the info PMH UK.

I'm running low on. WUs at the moment, but I think both projects are flowing, just not at a high enough rate.