Posts by William LeGro

1) Message boards : Number crunching : Ready to start - forever... (Message 13362) Posted 28 Feb 2009 by William LeGro Post: Thanks. That's very interesting - much more detailed than what I get on the home site clicking on my account. I bookmarked it. And Milky Way is finally running again, though very slowly compared to yesterday (pre-WCG tasks). Which is more important in how much of these calculations the computer can handle at one time: disk space or memory?
2) Message boards : Number crunching : Ready to start - forever... (Message 13361) Posted 28 Feb 2009 by William LeGro Post: "Not quite sure what's going on here..." You too? Argh! Great cartoon, though. I downloaded BOINC, and the WCG popped up and I selected the default list of six projects. But then a separate window with Milky Way also opened, and I'm totally galaxy-oriented (loved Benford's Galactic Center series), my wife just assumes I'm out there somewhere most of the time...anyway, I signed onto Milky Way also assuming it was all part of the same thing as WCG. Milky Way has finally started running, albeit much slower than it was, probably because I'm also trying to cure cancer at the same time as exploring the galaxy, and really, you need time travel to do all that efficiently. I wonder if my computer would be best used by concentrating just on one task, or using smaller amounts of space on each of several tasks - a cost-benefit analysis is needed, but I'm as capable of that as I am of figuring out "what's going on here." Thanks for the response and the laugh.
3) Message boards : Number crunching : Ready to start - forever... (Message 13353) Posted 28 Feb 2009 by William LeGro Post: I'm new - just started Thursday Feb. 26, and everything was moving right along. Then this morning I added World Community Grid to the projects (I'd thought I'd already had them, but no...just Milky Way). So now WCG is running, but there are four MilkyWay tasks on permanent "ready to start" status but they're not starting - just sitting there. BOINC is confusing to me - even how I got MilkyWay in the first place is confusing, since I thought I was signing up for WCG, and both use BOINC. I set my preferences to give 100GB of HD to BOINC, and I let it run 16 hours a day. But now MilkyWay seems to have put itself on hold and only WCG's Conquer Cancer is running (and much slower than MilkyWay was - in the last 24 hours I'd completed at least a couple dozen MW tasks, none of which show up on my stats). Any suggestions (besides flaming me for ignorance - I admit it, but I'm trying with the limited amount of time I have to get this thing up and running). I find the enormous list of FAQs and threads on both MilkyWay and WCG far too big and arcane to spend much time trying to dig out what may help and what is irrelevant, and tech-speak kind of goes right over my head. I'm not a techie, I'm a poet (sigh!), but my heart's in the right place and I'm trying to do what I can within my limited technoability. Thanks.