World Community Grid - View Thread - FARMCASH reward for processing at WCG?????

Coleslaw

Farmville is a horrible ap to have alongside WCG. You may have 82 million eyes take a glance this way, but you would see a majority of them ignore it or try it for 10 seconds and realize that their already slow running system on farmville just got even slower. I don't know how familiar you are with that ap, but I take tech calls all the time with people complaining their computer is too slow to find out it is just when playing that game. I'm talking multi-core systems running various OS's with 2+GB's of ram. This ap also causes system crashes from time to time and I'm not just talking web browser. I have seen it bring down entire systems because of bad programming causing it to overheat the system or not play nice with the OS. I'm sure WCG would appreciate a flood of WU's coming back as Error because of this great idea.

Answer to Coleslaw
First point - I've test it on my computers and other computers for the past month. no crash whatsoever. It is slowing your computer only when you play it (30 minutes - 1 hour a day) in the rest the computer is free to do WCG and if you calculate the amount of free WCG hours that will add to our 300+ years per day you will see that it is exponential win at 82+ million people on WCG.
Second Point - I am not asking WCG members to play Farmville. This method will bring Farmville players to WCG.

By the way..you might find more luck adding WCG to your page and telling everyone periodically on your list to join. http://apps.facebook.com/worldcommunitygrid/

Done that.

bbover3

Please go ahead and contact Farmville and tell them about World Community Grid and find out if they are willing to have the worlds best volunteer computing project featured on their site.

Answer to bbover3
Do I look like I'm working for WCG (any authority I have in discussing any contract with Zynga?)?????

You (IBM) should really consider professional people working on increasing WCG pool ... or is this Grid just some in-house experiment like we had with UD company, only to get dumped once the true objective is reached aka cloud computing (UD used GRID.ORG just to test cloud computing with the UD software).
So, is it?

color=red]First point - I've test it on my computers and other computers for the past month. no crash whatsoever. It is slowing your computer only when you play it (30 minutes - 1 hour a day) in the rest the computer is free to do WCG and if you calculate the amount of free WCG hours that will add to our 300+ years per day you will see that it is exponential win at 82+ million people on WCG.
Second Point - I am not asking WCG members to play Farmville. This method will bring Farmville players to WCG.

1: where do you get your stat 82+ million
how amny are the same peopole or famelly member with one computer
also didnt farmville do a promotion seed for haiti where you give farmville cash and they do a donation.Won't peopole say 'i am alerady giving to haiti so why should i give more'

2:you state ... it is slowing your computer only when you play it (30 minutes - 1 hour a day) in the rest the computer is free to do WCG ...
during those 30 minute are inactive ok but alot of peopole i know only do the 2 hours crop.
So they play 30 minute every 2 hours.It would take 2-3 day to do a wu of 10 hours and 3-4 to do a wu of 20.
they are going to get discouraged