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Et al, anyone claiming to know why the client count dropped without a 4 page explanation of all the variables just doesn't have a leg to stand on. You characterize my observations incorrectly. I never claimed to "know absolutely" why participation goes up or down. Point of fact, I dispute...

Great post regarding cancer research background. :!: http://folding.stanford.edu/home/introducing-egfr/ Putting my money where my mouth is regarding spending energy recruiting donors instead of culling them : How could this information be leveraged directly to increase participation? Many donors hav...

Transparent as glass to me. :wink: just as the %1 to 5% standard has been for the last 3 years. :lol: Before now? As in "just now" in the same time frame as this thread? No, over the course of the last year. but you knew that is what I meant. look, if they want to continue in the same man...

Now, moving on from the logic and intended consequences of the announcement. Why do I think this attention to detail, this internal logic and consistency is so important? Am I just crazy to want things to make sense in what is after-all just a point system in a DC project? Why don't I just say "...

OK, one last example: Did the end of ps3 increase the participation in smp? You could argue that "re-balancing" donors away from the ps3 (not the decision of PG I know) should have caused donors to move to a different class of donation. You have to assume that most people who own a ps3 als...

You are both cherry picking data again, and not considering all possibilities. Nope, not excluding other variables you mentioned. Just pointing out that the case for linkage/correlation is extremely poor. Reducing BA has not appeared in the past to have had any positive correlation with increasing ...

Why hasn't rebalancing worked in the past? because the processing power never made the transition. They were indeed dropped from BA, but didn't increase the number of machines running smp... people retired machines, people quit, they moved to different projects...sure some stayed...but not enough. ...

Well, I think I follow your line of thought...but it just reinforces my argument...that it doesn't make sense to force(or re-balance)BA machines to regular smp. But, I might just be missing your point. In my mind, the time and energy spent on this "re-balancing" (which hasn't worked in the...

PS For those who haven't seen our previous blog posts on BA, these posts might be interesting, especially to put all of this in context at least in terms of how PG has been thinking about this in the past: http://folding.typepad.com/news/2012/02 ... llout.html http://folding.typepad.com/news/2011/1...

BA has always been intended to be used for a few calculations/Projects in FAH that requires the most processing power; larger RAM, more cores, and more bandwidth than typical FAH calculations. However, as time goes on, the BA requirements are met by more and more donor machines due to technological...

BIGADV WU have indeed been the ppd/ppw leaders for the last few years. however, to someone new reading this thread: be warned that there is no assurance these WU will continue indefinitely. or even for the long term. :wink: I would investigate the number of remaining WU before investing the time/ef...

I doubt that is actually necessary but is more of an insurance policy if a sudden need arises. I agree. I'm not getting into the why or rationale for predetermining what percentage BA should be of total SMP... Just that it isn't difficult to provide feedback to donors on how well(or how excessive) ...

If after the deadlines are adjusted, if the desired result is achieved and it's a stable number - GREAT. If it is not, or it drifts too much, how often should those deadlines be readjusted in search of the desired goal? Would that degree of unpredictable be acceptable to the Donor community? It is ...

Regarding the increasing of core count from 24 to 32 over a two months gap, this was done to ensure a smoother transition (we felt that the jump from 16 cores to 32 cores was too drastic) and to reach our goal of limiting BA to only the top 5% of donor systems. Given the increase of BA system which...

No, of course not. You have not backed up any of your arguments. You make demands that are unjustified. You have posted dozens of negative posts in this thread. I can't find anything positive in your posts. You mistake your audience. You don't need to argue or convince me of anything(I understand t...