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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Anyone notice the huge numbers of new users on Nov. 16 (from 300 -> 700 users)?
Well... I did... and I think the reason is that CNN posted a news article about this, so alot of people read that and decided to join (that's how I joined too). Just goes to show you that those kind of things actually make a difference.... |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
This web site also posted an article and they see over 1 million hits a day...
www.tomshardware.com |
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Former Member
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I saw it on the british tech website www.theinquirer.net (a pretty good read, not many pretty pictures, however)
JM |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Yeah, I read it off the CNN site, figured i just made a hot new computer, so why not make it useful? I'm also pushing it to as many of my friends as I can, my university requires everyone to have fairly high-end systems so there's a lot of unused CPU power out there.
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joatmon
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 185 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I heard about it when someone in another forum (genvibe.com, a forum for Pontiac Vibe) posted about starting up a WCG team.
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Former Member
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I joined after reading an article on it on IBM's intranet news site. IBM has donated the hardware, software, technical services and expertise to build the infrastructure for World Community Grid and provides free hosting, maintenance and support.
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Well, Computerworld.dk posted an article about using grid computing to cure cancer and here I am...
Guess we r all slaves to links  |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
www.tweakers.net also posted a message (dutch)
I think the big publicity began the 16th |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
November 16, 2004: The Slashdot Effect
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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FYI - The member count that you see on the website only counts members who have returned at least one result. You can expect to see this number grow faster once everyone starts completing their first work unit.
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