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ErstwhileIII
Cruncher Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 6 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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With only three active projects, is this great volunteer mechanism in a "slowly dying" phase?
Who knows why we do not attract more projects (and, with those, more members)? We are only a little short of contributing 1 million years of computation ... would be a shame for this resource to go dark. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7223 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The techs and administrators are very circumspect when it comes to revealing details about what is in the pipeline. Supposedly there is at least one new project on which they are working. There was also just an update on the Childhood Cancer project which hints at more work to come there. Be patient. There is at least a years worth of work left on the MCM1 project and the the other two active projects are open ended at the moment. Plenty of work to do at the moment.
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yoro42
Ace Cruncher United States Joined: Feb 19, 2011 Post Count: 8976 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Looking forward to the Beta project(s) that will proceed the new one(s).
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18665 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Looking back over the full history of WCG, the present is more of the norm than the recent past. Having more than 3-4 projects at the same time has been unusual.
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 2955 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Indeed, all of the above points are very valid and true.
----------------------------------------What makes it seem as though we don't have as many projects as we've had in the past, was a number of projects being completed off quicker than it was estimated last year for a number of reasons; HPF2 (an open-ended project that was expected to run for years), had it's funding cut, and therefore came to a sudden end. DDDT2 (a project that had a stop-start progress), was pulled as it wasn't generating the results that were hoped for. HCC (currently our one and only GPU project), finished a lot sooner than anticipated - due to the speed of the GPU processing. GFAM having it's funding halted. C4SW & DSFL both finished a little quicker than was expected last year - no doubt, due to the increased focus they received once other projects were completed. So, in total, 6 projects came to their conclusion last year - and as it normally takes quite a bit of hard work and effort to launch a new project on WCG (there's a lot of work that goes on in the background, even before we see a Beta test), the techs simply can't replace that number of projects that quickly. Listed below, is a full list of projects that have been started/completed by year; Year No. Started No. Completed  |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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With only three active projects, is this great volunteer mechanism in a "slowly dying" phase? No, it's not dying... far from it. It has 3 active projects (plus another intermittent, excluding the Beta project)... and more on the way.Who knows why we do not attract more projects (and, with those, more members)? It' been hinted several times that there is at least one project in alpha testing. Also, as stated above, 3-4 projects seems to be the norm. On top of that, these projects are not like, "here, crunch this". They are very complicated and need a lot of planning from everybody involved (so it takes time). As for more members, I think we do have more members (thanks to the Ripplers that stayed on).... would be a shame for this resource to go dark. I totally agree. Rest assured, there is plenty of WCG for a long time.I would also suggest being more active in the forums so you can be aware for what is happening and avoid posting things with dooms day titles  .CJSL Crunching for a better world... |
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Barnsley_Tatts
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 3, 2005 Post Count: 278 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Personally I feel that having too many projects dilutes the sheer crunching power of the WCG members.
----------------------------------------Is it not better to throw all resources at 3 projects, generating some meaningful and rapid results than having lots of projects that members slowly chip away at. As long as there's a cancer orientated project to work on, then I'm happy plugging away.  |
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Former Member
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Personally I feel that having too many projects dilutes the sheer crunching power of the WCG members. Agree 100% Is it not better to throw all resources at 3 projects, generating some meaningful and rapid results than having lots of projects that members slowly chip away at. As long as there's a cancer orientated project to work on, then I'm happy plugging away. |
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Former Member
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Personally I feel that having too many projects dilutes the sheer crunching power of the WCG members.
Is it not better to throw all resources at 3 projects, generating some meaningful and rapid results than having lots of projects that members slowly chip away at. As long as there's a cancer orientated project to work on, then I'm happy plugging away. Agree, also glad that there is a AIDS project in progress.  |
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yoro42
Ace Cruncher United States Joined: Feb 19, 2011 Post Count: 8976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Personally I feel that having too many projects dilutes the sheer crunching power of the WCG members. Is it not better to throw all resources at 3 projects, generating some meaningful and rapid results than having lots of projects that members slowly chip away at. As long as there's a cancer orientated project to work on, then I'm happy plugging away. Agree, also glad that there is a AIDS project in progress. Agree as well, also looking forward to a Multiple Sclerosis project some day. |
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