I don't think it is ethical for a project to ask people to stop crunching other projects and concentrate on theirs. I understand the reason behind it, but it "tastes bad".

I had already upped my R@H quota for the duration of CASP, I refuse to let down my other projects further, and letting them down is how I regard it.

Then don't =- why did you even respond to this thread - Just to start a flame fest - if this is what you want - post over at Seti Cafe.

Ubi Caritas et amor Deus tibi est.

Parents used to get their 5 year old children out there with a pail picking the fruit/vegetables to help get the crops in on time.

I can't get my 19 year old daughter out of bed with a flamethrower, let alone get her to do a dang thing.

See what happens when the law says you can't spank your kids?????

To venture back on topic; I've set all 12 other projects to NNW (since the scheduler will run up their debt for later payback as long as those projects have work available), and in about a day, I'll be all rosetta(on all 4 puters) for a spell.

Throw a big slab of juicy grade A prime on for me. I'm on my way, save a parking spot(upwind from the porta-potty please).

I'll repair to my original commentary. Everybody here is an adult and can make decisions about what to crunch when, where, why. When different BOINC projects compete for our attentions then that's GOOD. In a sense it is similar to different grocery stores or clothing markets clamoring for our 'business'. May the best man win. There's nothing negative about it for God's sake. It's certainly OK, more than OK, for a particular project to ask for more computing power and participations by its members. In a way it is a type of marketplace and if one project can't convince its members that they are more worthy of our VOLUNTEERED efforts then that's the breaks. It's not an 'us vs them' issue. Like someone above here posted, different posters shift priorities according to their wishes.

From the outset this project has stated that it needs about 10x the power it has. They've done proactive 'marketing' efforts to increase their terraflops and host numbers. They can't politely ask its OWN members to crunch a little more during these important CASP7 efforts? Of course they can.
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I've upped mine and will be requesting my fellow team members to do the same. Not to mention the fact that I'll be emailing all 49 of my members that mainly crunch for SETI...I think only 5 of us are here now. See? The miracle of free choice. Works wonders!

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Founder of BOINC GROUP - Objectivists - Philosophically minded rational data crunchers.

How about this to satisfy everyone:
Do what you can..That simple.
When we get new guys who come into the forum at XtremeSystems and join the rosetta team I hear many times:' I only have XXX machine, I know it won't add much"..
I always reply: Whatever you can bring to this is the RIGHT amount"
I don't say that to make them feel better. That is what I think. We all do what we can and whatever that "it" is, is the right amount.
Movieman

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On my P4-2800 HT set R@H at 50%, while the other 15 projects are at 3.33%. In this manner I have R@H always working while the others swap every 2 hours.
Hope this can help.
Bye

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I fired Rosie back up to 100%. I occassionally have to snooze BOINC b/c of heat, but you can have my cpu time for the next 8 days. Then I'm flying back the US and won't have internet access until the second week of August. My poor CPU won't know what to do with itself.

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Rosetta RAC is growing :-)

I cannot do 100% as I still have some 4.19 boxes and some HadCM3 on very slow tasks - but all the others crunch Rosetta.

Have put my 2 machines on 100% R@H for the duration of CASP. BOINC can figure out how to equalize debt when I switch other projects back on ;-)

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!!Stupidity should be PAINFUL!!

... BOINC can figure out how to equalize debt when I switch other projects back on ;-)

I patched my BOINC client so the debits are only a session variable and start with 0 for all projects everytime I restart the client.

It tries to read <xong_term_debt> and <xhort_term_debt> from client_state.xml - with not so much success :-)

My single P4 2.8GHZ's been grillin since CASP 7 began. As far as trying to recruit single PC owners, just tell them that if just 10% of all single machine owners could crunch rosetta close to 24/7 then Rosetta would have all the CPU cycles it needs for the next two weeks.

One of the "predictor of the day" winners was such a single machine owner so it's anyone's game!

Sorry. The dirt track announcer thing just happens.

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A lot of users have responded: teams and non-teams, big crunchers, small crunchers... We may need to bring some extra grills...

Thanks to all that have responded!!!!!!

Damn, I opened this thread hoping to get a bite to eat! Oh well, I've cranked up a bunch of PC's and all are 100% Rosetta; I've got my RAC over 1,100 since starting last month. I was really surprised to see a WU run for 11.5 hours on one PC instead of the usual 2 to 3. It's the slowest computer I could find (It runs a VIA Samuel 2 CPU), and it has not been getting such big WU's since I added it on yesterday.

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I wonder if The Possums are afraid to be part of this BBQ in a way they wouldn't want to.

Where do they crunch mostly now, has anyone seen some Possums lately?


Even if I'm not a Possums member, I am missing their weird and funny recruitment threads, each project should have one :-)

By the end of tomorrow sometime I should be 95% Rosetta (all 54 crunchers)having drained my cache of other projects -

Bring out the steaks, light up the grill -

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SETI.USA

A few days ago I saw the call for some extra help and at that time attached to Rosetta.
I'll give 90% to Rosetta until CASP7 is done and after that I may even stay
attached but at a lower share. Have to lower it later because I have previous commitments to other projects. I don't mind a little diversion once in a while to help out another project in its time of need.
:)

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98SE XP2500+ @ 2.1GHz Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.