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I really don't understand how you came to believe Vijay would prefer computers be removed from F@H and put on other projects??
While I respect your opinion, I really don't agree with it.
Actually quite the opposite. It seems to me that F@H has done a very nice job of making options available to take full advantage of any resource a donator would like to apply.
-Sid
I haven't been on those forums in a while, so they may have changed the software since then. The timeless units are definitely an option. I never actually downloaded any, for the short time I was there I only ran about 4-5 units total. To be perfectly honest, my opinion is based on what I considered to be the best arguments at the time(having to do with applying "fuzzy" math to the problems of dealing with linear projects).
Basically, you have a linear problem that requires an unknown number of steps to be solved. If there are 100 computers of various strengths running the projects, you will probably get an end time which is neither really excellent, nor really horrible, let's say 2 years. But what if you take the most important problems and assign them to the top 20 computers? In that case you would get fewer results, but since they came faster, new conclusions(and new experiments) could come faster, maybe meaning more knowledge and more innovation. An end in one year could mean new conclusions and new experiments sooner.
Of course, in that case, it's possible that the experiments "left behind" are actually the important ones, in which case time was wasted.
So my argument could cause harm if it's believed. Basically, it's an unknown where anybody with a brain could kick it wide open or take it down a blind alley, depending on blind luck.
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