Yesterday I registered for this project and attached to it. But I get no application program(s) and no work units. Is this normal, have I configured something incorrectly, or what?

I have entries in my log saying (I wish I could copy from the boincmgr window and paste in here, but I cannot, so I hope there are no typos):

Sending scheduler request to https://boinc.bakerlab.org...
Reason: Requested by user
Note: not requesting new work or reporting results

Well why not?

Sometimes it says:

... to fetch work
Requesting 692100 seconds of new work
No work from project

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Check your preferences, the disk space items in particular.
You should allow Rosetta at least 200 MB of disk space. The client will probably not even use that amount, but it wont download wu's when allowed disk space is below 200MB.

Check your preferences, the disk space items in particular.
You should allow Rosetta at least 200 MB of disk space. The client will probably not even use that amount, but it wont download wu's when allowed disk space is below 200MB.

Disk space is not the problem (I allocated 8GBytes to the boinc partition). There were two problems, one with the server being intermittantly down (turns our not to have been the major problem), and that my machine, even with two 3.06 GHz hyperthreaded Xeon processors and 4 GBytes RAM was overcommitted (with four climate prediction work units). Suspending the climate prediction stuff allowed me to download from Rosetta@home. Once that was done, I allowed climate prediction to run again (which it didn't, of course, since the deadline for the Rosetta stuff was December 1 or 2, and the deadline for the deadline for the climate prediction was January 24. I let the Rosetta work units run and they took only a brief time each (less than an hour, IIRC). So things are back to normal.

So being patient would not have helped unless I were extremely patient. I assume I would not have gotten any work units from Rosetta until sometime in late January 2006 when the climate-prediction stuff cleared out.

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