You are anthropomorphising IBM. They aren't a person, they are merely the sum of their employees. I know many of the employees, including those at the top of the foodchain, believe strongly in the cause of WCG.

Here is the complete schedule from last year's ad campaign:

Another strike heard on the radio today for grid computing recruiting purposes. A country radio morning talk show announcer says, that everyone should turn off their computer when not sitting at the desk or actively using the computer. Their reason is that the computer is wasting a lot of energy and in an age of saving energy every bit counts. They also stated, the myth to leave the computer on to save energy is false.

I recently went to a local State University campus here in Minneapolis, MN. The trend here seems to be to turn off the computers when not at the office or school working and a lot seem to be actively adopting this rule as standard practice. However, a minority few working at the university leave their computers on for remote access to work at home. Also, students at the law school and others are being issued personal laptops in place of using desktop computers.

I'm thinking that were on a mission to recruit people for distributed computing while others are trying to spread to the word to save energy, turn off the desktop computers and use fluorescent bulbs or else your not doing your part.

So, how do we address the issues of Saving Energy Vs Grid Computing? Most people I've run into seem to think turning off a computer is worth far more then running it for grid computing purposes!

A 'Great' example of the WCG partnership program: Front-page mention this week is TACC. They go from nowhere to doing 1.188 million points on a (Holi)day, well over 1% of the Daily WCG production. All those will take the message home and spill the crunching infection to which there is no cure.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=P4TF81RH4S1

It seems the more socially elite individuals with a higher SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS and EDUCATION think we are just some losers and express an indifference!

My latest efforts to recruit a higher socioeconomic class have been in vane and completely unsuccessful. It seems that social class might be another huge barrier to the growth of grid computing.

Has anyone actually did any studies to find out what the barriers are to grid computing? I mean, if everyone was willing to run the grid then the growth would be exponential and it's obviously, not. It seems the 'lower default order', of society in the form of mostly computer geeks are the only ones willing to give it a try in my experience.

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