If people are having a hard time getting work it may be worth looking here to see if they meet the minimum requirements for the project(s) they have chosen.
I would summarise here but this forum doesn't show tabled data very well.
WCG Project - Minimum Hardware Requirements
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Yep, but it may come down after the initial batch is done as they are monsters. ~25-30hrs where as the normals are expected to run 3-4hrs. (If I recall correctly!)I see Phase 2 of Discovering Dengue Drugs is a memory guzzler - 1 Gbyte is double anything else on WCG...