That's too bad.

With energy costs climbing along with general living expenses, I was trying to find a way to keep going with this project. The money I could have saved in taxes could have paid the way for my computers to keep on trucking.

And if I'm feeling the pinch, so must everyone else, except for those that have money to burn.

The grid should start to see a significant drop in my activity over the next couple of weeks. Unless something interesting happens to differ the cost, I'll be forced to shut down more and more of my computers to conserve energy.

Since the grid is a not for profit organization, perhaps it may be wise to register as a charity. Certainly most of what is discovered in these projects will be to the benefit of all of all mankind. What better of a charity description can you have?

Interesting.

I saw that the project was powered by IBM, but I thought that IBM was donating infrastructure to the project. I had no idea the project was actually owned by IBM. I suspect this is a non for profit corporate structure that has IBM holding most if not all of the governing shares of stock.

If IBM is footing the bill for the infrastructure, does IBM deduct the expense of this project from it's gross profit, or is this strictly a goodwill event?

It would certainly be unfair if IBM was able to deduct it's cost to run this project and it's participants, the individuals that are contributing the lion share of the processing time were not able to offset theirs.

True I was not forced into participating in this project, but it appears to be one of the few games in town. The same could also be said for IBM.

I have five computer in my house. One for each of the bedrooms and two in the general living area. Each provides communications and entertainment from a central core. They are used for homework, games, research, accounting and communications. My children have grown up and moved out on their own so I was looking for a reason to keep their computers up since the projects the computers are working on seemed important. I guess you're telling me these projects are not that important.

I appreciate you looking into this matter. I would like to find a way to keep the project moving.

Many of my friends also contribute to the project and we use the project as a away of doing computer drag racing between each of our machines in a friendly competition. I'm certain that aspect will continue regardless of the final outcome of your determination as to the value of the contributions made.

DigitalOZ - also at IBM.