Hi, everyone. I have been running Rosetta on 2 machines for several months. Suddenly there is no work for my older machine. It seems that this venerable legacy machine (a 4 year old Compaq 2500) is no longer capable of running the new “HINGE” WUs. Not enough RAM. It runs other WUs just fine, if somewhat slowly.

If anyone out there is in the same situation you might consider running malariacontrol.net until the return of more standard WUs. If you tried to join before, but, ran into a notice saying that they were not creating any new accounts be advised that it has reopened to new accounts. Its graphics may be somewhat strange, but, it is fighting a disease that is every bit as dangerous as AIDS to the people of Africa.

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PUDDIN TAME

Hi, everyone. I have been running Rosetta on 2 machines for several months. Suddenly there is no work for my older machine. It seems that this venerable legacy machine (a 4 year old Compaq 2500) is no longer capable of running the new “HINGE” WUs. Not enough RAM. It runs other WUs just fine, if somewhat slowly.

If anyone out there is in the same situation you might consider running malariacontrol.net until the return of more standard WUs. If you tried to join before, but, ran into a notice saying that they were not creating any new accounts be advised that it has reopened to new accounts. Its graphics may be somewhat strange, but, it is fighting a disease that is every bit as dangerous as AIDS to the people of Africa.

hi

Thanks PUDDIN, that is a good suggestion.

For those wanting to keep Rosetta as your main priority, when suitable work for your machine is on offer, this is what to do.

Join Malaria, and set its Resource share to 1, leaving Rosetta at 100.

How it works

In normal circumstances, when suitable work is available on both projects, these setting mean you will run some Malaria work every so often, but run Rosetta most of the time. The timing of downloading Malaria will be adjected by the client so that you get the 1:100 ratio over a period of months.

However, when Rosetta refuses to send you work at a time when your box is already empty, in order to keep your machine busy the client will download a single Malaria WU. This will only count towards the 1:100 ratio from the time that Rosetta again offers you work (which could be part way through the Malaria work).

It works for me

I use this trick the other way round. My major project is LHC, which only has work rarely. Rosetta is the fill-in project for me, but as you can see from my stats, the 'fill-in' actually runs more than LHC, purely because of availability of work on LHC. I find that when work is available on LHC my boxes are running it again within 4hrs, and I can leave the settings the same whether work is available on LHC or not.

River~~

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