Team-fighting is a good way for a project to get extra CPU time. Especially when a project with limited supply of work, it's good if a lot of people crunch for them to get that work done faster. CPDN would run while there are still initial parameters to tweak on the climate model, SETI will have work for as long as there is noise in space (maybe until we find ETI
), but SIMAP has WUs only while they have proteins to compare.
So, if whenever SIMAP has work, everybody goes to crunch for them, they will have their protein similarity database up-to-date again in very few days. I remember when HashClash said they had only two bit-differences to remove, lots of people went to crunch for them (I switched to crunching that project exclusively) and within a day the project had been completed.
Summary. If a project estimates they will only have 1 month of workunits left (Einstein gave such notice a while ago, now they started with a different set of data and new app), if teams go fight for first place, the estimates will end up being wrong and they will be done much faster
Goal: make projects run out of work!
