Hello Maurice Theriot,
Getting your school to participate as a Partner ( http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewBecomePartner.do ) would help even more than the added computers would. We are trying to convince society to contribute spare computer capacity for charitable purposes. Schools are the key to this goal. Eventually we hope that the rising generation will consider computer time donation as a standard charity, like school bake sales or donating blood to the Red Cross.

The best way is to install BOINC as a service (running at lowest priority) and constrain it to run just 1 thread, so it will not take up computer memory trying to take advantage of the Pentium IV hyper-threading.

You can use this URL to see how many computer hours are donated each day (expressed as the equivalent number of 24-hour computers): http://vspx27.stanford.edu/DCcomparison.html

Here is a site that will let your school administrators see all the public distributed computer projects that are currently running: http://distributedcomputing.info/projects.html

Lawrence

http://www.wcgwiki.org/en/

Really, the only requirement for a partner is that they feature WCG prominently on their website (internal or external) and create a permanent page somewhere. In return, WCG will list you on the partner page, and give you all the help you need setting up 150 computers.

UserFriendly.Org is a partner. We maybe do a little more than most partners - in addition to the original announcement and the required page, UF frequently posts WCG news items right on the front page where half a million people see it every day, a small banner ad on most pages, and a whole dedicated team website with original UF artwork, hosted on the userfriendly.org domain.

If you, too, want to make something like that happen, you are going to have to work closely with WCG and your own school administration. Sometimes it's like pushing water uphill, but the rewards are great.

Good luck!

You'll get a response from a human, so it may take a day or two.

Thanks for the compliments. I could never have done it without the amazing support from UF and my teammates.