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Former Member
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How can we bring more people here?
bring more universities, more companies, more freelancers, more cyber coffees, more ... |
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Former Member
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i'm tempted to tell you that old joke where the punchline is, "with a crow bar!"
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Former Member
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That's the goal!
IBM have run a couple of ad campaigns for WCG (print and online) focussing on business publications - raising the profile of humanitarian computing. But it's not enough. Most people need a real push to donate anything. And that's where we come in. We can spread the word - we can offer help - we can explain the benefits. So, start with the companies, universities and cyber coffees (I like that term - they are called Internet cafés round here) that you know. WCG are happy to offer extended, personal support to anyone with a major network to add to the grid. |
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KLiK
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what kind of offer are we talking about, for example for a big university?!
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Former Member
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Hi KLiK,
Read up on the Partnership Program. The WCG staff are willing to assist the university system people on developing a mass install for their system. We have a thread on one way to do it. Lawrence |
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KLiK
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Hi KLiK, Read up on the Partnership Program. The WCG staff are willing to assist the university system people on developing a mass install for their system. We have a thread on one way to do it. Lawrence they are interested in making a deal like with the UD grid.org! that they run some local server of yours, on which they can upload some data for computing...like the aeronautical simulations or some other stuff? but mostly the servers will run the WCG grid computing... |
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Sekerob
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Hi KLiK,
----------------------------------------I've not heard of WCG actually allowing a project to run on a sub project server taking care of file distribution to in-house clients. That would have to be discussed when a partner agreement is prepared. My recommendation would be to go for BOINC and set the client to connect 2.0 days and a networking block outside of work hours.... i.e. from 19:00 to 20:00. This way, whenever your employers computers are idle they could crunch and any upload/download would not impair regular communications during business hours. Didactylos mentioned elsewhere, that the upcoming BOINC client allows a daily varying schedule, e.g. to not do any networking during the weekend. With a 3.0 day buffer it's thus possible to get the last work on Friday, crunch all weekend and upload completed work on Monday. This is how the alpha sample scheduling looks with 5.10, NOTING that local prefs override the preferences specified in the (4 pre-named) website device profiles!!!!! 
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Yet another good point about BOINC is that a number of projects running on BOINC are university projects prepared by professors and graduate students. Their own science and engineering faculty might be interested in taking advantage of the computing power available through BOINC. Look at Rosetta@home ( http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ ) and the University of Washington, which has rolled out BOINC on its administrative PCs. BOINC is not locked-in to the WCG.
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plummer76
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I think we should make it easier to send invites to others. I'm a member of LinkedIn.com and for example you can take an e-mail you've received and copy and paste all of the addresses into the website and invite them to be a part of your network.
I would spend some time looking at sites liken www.linkedin.com and copy what they do. |
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