Posts by Aron Sebastian

1) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Why 23+ hour work units? (Message 55077) Posted 14 Aug 2008 by Aron Sebastian Post: I also run seti@home & 5 projects on World Community Grid. Why can't Rosetta@home cut the length/time it takes to crunch 23+ hour work units? It makes it difficult to meet deadlines for other projects unless I manually hit "no new tasks" & suspend other projects in order to crunch Rosetta, then suspend Rosetta in order to crunch Seti (which never has tasks longer than 4 hours) & World Community Grid, which never has tasks longer than 7 hours. I'm running Vista Ulltimate on a dual core 3000+ GHz system w/8 Gig of RAM & have no problem crunching the work units, but only if I watch BOINC like a hawk & control what runs when. Rosetta@home needs to even up the playing field. I believe that people with older hardware are scared off Rosetta@home when they see how long an average workunit is. And users who run more that one project may begin to think twice about participating in Rosetta@home with the consistently huge work units. For example, I can run 7 Seti@home work units in the same time it takes to complete 1 Rosetta@home unit. And I can run an average of 5 World Community Grid projects in the same time as it takes to run one Rosetta unit. Since I crunch 2 work units at a time, it comes out to 2 Rosetta units for 14 Seti units or 10 World Community Grid units.