Welcome back BigMcGuire!!

Welcome back to crunching! You'll crank out the points and the results with those two boxen. Good luck on recruiting your friends. Any tips for bringing people in?

Seems to me that the biggest worry that people have is the electricity cost of having their machines at 100% CPU all of the time. My tech friends cite the issue of having their cpu fans running at high as a reason why they don't want to run WCG. Every excuse under the book is pulled out.

Those that say electricity costs are the worry - usually asking them if they have their computer on 24/7 - most say yes. Saying something like: Might as well have it do something useful while it is on - the electricity costs of running at 100% CPU are hardly worth mentioning vs the overall costs of keeping it running at 0% CPU. Especially those that leave their monitor on.

Tech friends have a valid concern - the cpu heat sink fans don't last forever but how many people keep their computer for 10 years? I know I kept my old one for about a year before upgrading. My current computer I don't see myself keeping for more than a year (for a total of 2 years of ownership). Hmmm - that gets them thinking.

In the end, it's hard to get people to contribute their own resources for something that they don't get in return. Several of my co-workers proudly state that they don't care about other people so why would they waste CPU cycles? Can't do anything about them.

In the end, seems to be few people really open to the idea but a lot against it. Hopefully we can get more people into WCG because more and more computers have dozens of cores sitting idle doing absolutely nothing.

Yeah, I have several older machines sitting around (off) too. I think a 1Ghz and a Dual Xeon 2.4Ghz Pentium IV. If you compare the speed of those machines and my Quad 2.4Ghz Q6600.... it almost isn't worth it electricity wise to run those AND my current machine. Amazing how much slower those computers process WCG units too. The Ghz rating may not be that different but the processing power sure is.

Final Top 20 Results in Team Challenge:

Challenge Name: Cancer Run 2
Created By: Tucson Blue Angels
Start Date: 7/12/09
End Date: 7/18/09
Challenge Type: Run Time
Challenge Project: Help Fight Childhood Cancer

1st: Czech National Team with 1 year, 100 days, 4 hours, 51 minutes, 11 seconds
2nd: Christians with 1 year, 15 days, 7 hours, 4 minutes, 58 seconds
3rd: France with 1 year, 13 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes, 44 seconds
4th: Ukraine with 321 days, 1 hour, 10 minutes, 50 seconds
5th: MyOnlineTeam with 219 days, 20 hours, 42 minutes, 22 seconds
6th: ___In2My.Net___ with 144 days, 9 hours, 18 minutes, 50 seconds
7th: UK with 92 days, 20 hours, 16 minutes, 23 seconds
8th: GraffChevrolet with 82 days, 7 hours, 32 minutes, 26 seconds
9th: Vulture Central III with 74 days, 6 hours, 26 minutes, 6 seconds
10th: TU-Braunschweig with 52 days, 19 hours, 1 minute, 52 seconds
11th: Team-CoteauVert with 51 days, 23 hours, 35 minutes, 40 seconds
12th: Team Kamisama with 47 days, 11 hours, 7 minutes, 44 seconds
13th: TeamHedy with 27 days, 19 hours, 28 minutes, 10 seconds
14th: Hjelp andre with 27 days, 2 hours, 12 minutes, 16 seconds
15th: SHKF with 6 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes, 19 seconds
16th: Shebear with 25 days, 5 hours, 30 minutes, 34 seconds
17th: MGEUPS with 22 days, 20 hours, 33 minutes, 27 seconds
18th: The Cornishman with 20 days, 4 hours, 30 minutes, 27 seconds
19th: Delft University of Technology [AEROSPACE] with 19 days, 1 hour, 49 minutes, 35 seconds
20th: Team Himawari with 6 days, 15 hours, 5 seconds

Congrats!!!