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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thats a great news. I hope they'll update the graph on their site and won't abandon this project. By the way I only have done 220 results, I just can't make more. I hope we'll get out the economy downpoint and then i7 will get into general usage, more computing power means more results. :)
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alver
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 30, 2007 Post Count: 245 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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If you want to get the self-centered people involved, here is what you have to do (applicable only to those countries with an income tax): You have to make the crunching contribution tax deductible, or better, be used for tax credits. Like you (and all us us I guess), I crunch for the future of us all - I have two kids, and would love them to see some of these diseases wiped out in their lifetime. But I agree with you about tax credits on both counts - it's never likely to happen, but it *would* bring a lot of people in. My machines all use more power when crunching, than when they're idle - so it's costing me money to run these projects. I'm more than happy with that, and I see it as a charitable donation. But in the UK, most charitable donations are tax-deductible, and it would be great if some standard way of measuring distributed computing contributions could be designed and made allowable for tax, just to offset the electricity costs. Not because I want to save the money, but just for the sheer number of extra crunchers it would bring.  (previously known as 'proxima' on SETI, UD, distributed folding, FaD, and Rosetta) |
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Sekerob
Ace Cruncher Joined: Jul 24, 2005 Post Count: 20043 Status: Offline |
Thats a great news. I hope they'll update the graph on their site and won't abandon this project. By the way I only have done 220 results, I just can't make more. I hope we'll get out the economy downpoint and then i7 will get into general usage, more computing power means more results. :) Can assure you that a project started at WCG is like a marriage without the option of divorce before the children have grown up. WCG will see too it that the science project will finish properly and the results will get public (generally available to the scientific community), no matter how long it takes. The proof stands with the just made public Genome Comparison project related database of the results we crunched together.
WCG
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