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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
"I'd never noticed before, but today hit the [left hand] Help button in BOINC while having selected WCG task and "up" popped the Help front web page which has been recently spiffed up with now 7 linked video thumbnails."
----------------------------------------By the way, I recently needed that HELP button. Funny thing, my tray hides the darn HELP from the WCG manager! Sometimes I just gotta laugh. But I know where it's hiding now, can't throw me anymore!  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 10, 2011 2:24:39 AM] |
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johncmacalister2010@gmail.com
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 16, 2010 Post Count: 799 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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That's the nature of volunteer work. People lose interest, get bored, move on to other things, priorities change, etc. Let's keep crunching as much as we are able.
----------------------------------------  crunching, crunching, crunching. AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro (part time)  |
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OriginalCaruso
Cruncher Joined: Apr 30, 2007 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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My $0.02 worth...
Since discovering WCG I have installed it wherever I am allowed, on client sites and my own PCs and have just upgraded my desktop machine primarily for WCG. It's one small way I can give something back to society. I am considering upgrading more machines to do more crunching In the end it is a mubers game, so long as the number of active installations increases the benefits will stack up |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It's one small way I can give something back to society. *** I Agree*** |
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Chris S
Cruncher UK Joined: May 22, 2007 Post Count: 16 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Just popped in to say hi after a long time!
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hey guys :)
Anyone who helps out at all is awesome and the more people that help the closer and faster we will to be solving some of the worlds problems :) |
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1312 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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While the number of active members may flat-line or even decrease it is of less consequence than it was a year ago. Advances in technology have made a cruncher with an i7 CPU with 4 cores and hyper-threading the equal of 8 crunchers running single core Pentiums. In addition, many crunchers now overclock their CPU to squeeze out more results. I know of one cruncher that has a home built cruncher with multiple i7 over-clocked CPUs. This machine runs 24 tasks at once. Where will it end? I hope it never does because the more results produced the closer we are to a cure. Let's get out there and recruit some new crunchers and not be concerned with member stats.
---------------------------------------- Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. Join the team The survivors  (23 year Kidney Cancer survivor) |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Lets also keep in mind a number of people have mutliple computers crunching since you can have multiple devices in your profile. Six hundred bucks and a OS system you can put on multiple comps means you can get a fairly decent comp to run crunching on.
Even a grand these days you can buy a considerably powerful rig from a custom pc build site that can crunch a lot of tasks in a 24 hour period. Set it for one project a pc and just check it once a week with a lcd monitor you have just to for that purpose along with usb keyboard and mouse. Take for example for about 360 bucks you can get a AMD A4-3300 2.50 GHz Dual-Core APU w/ Integrated Radeon HD 6410D MSI A75MA-G55 Chipset AMD Dual Graphics Support DDR3 Socket FM1 mATX w/ UEFI Bios, OC Genie, Winki 3 & 7.1 HD Audio, GbLAN, HDMI, USB3.0, SATA-III RAID, 2 Gen2 PCIe X16, 1 PCIe X1 & 1 PCI 4GB (2GBx2) DDR3/1600MHz Dual Channel Memory Module 450 Watts - Standard Case Power Supply 500GB SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD. HDD has nothing on it. You have to put the OS on it. Thermaltake Commander Mid-Tower Gaming Case plus some other stuff such as onboard sound, usb and lan ports, and 24x cd/dvd read write drive. Plus a three year warranty and lifetime tech support. So if someone has the cash they can easily get a few comps just for crunching and not break the bank. |
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johncmacalister2010@gmail.com
Veteran Cruncher Canada Joined: Nov 16, 2010 Post Count: 799 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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First of all, I'm not trying to be 'holier than thou', considering having only one machine, but let me share this quote: "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - ) When I first join WCG last month or something, I was placed last, obviously, and I think it's at 350,000 or something. I was happy to find out that so many people contributing to this project. But as my rank grows, I realize something depressing - the moment I hit 14 days on cure cancer, I'm already at rank 220,000 or something. I know your username are not tied to any machines, so to say a dead pc caused you to create new username are obviously not valid. Even in scale of rank in Country, I started at the bottom of 2xxx, and by the time I achived 14 days of work, I'm already way passed 50% of the rank. So it seems that some people joined, generate few result, and then left. Do they left WCG? or BOINC? Or grid computing alltogeher? I know this grid computing is just a donation of computer time, so it's up to people to donate or not. The thing is, if you already registered, installed, why don't just keep it running? Yes- the same applies to all volunteer activities....just be thankful some crunchers stick with it. I hope you will be one! John crunching, crunching, crunching. AMD Ryzen 5 2600 6-core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro. AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core Processor with Windows 11 64 Pro (part time) |
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GeraldRube
Master Cruncher United States Joined: Nov 20, 2004 Post Count: 2153 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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First of all, I'm not trying to be 'holier than thou', considering having only one machine, but let me share this quote: "Eighty percent of success is showing up." - Woody Allen US movie actor, comedian, & director (1935 - ) When I first join WCG last month or something, I was placed last, obviously, and I think it's at 350,000 or something. I was happy to find out that so many people contributing to this project. But as my rank grows, I realize something depressing - the moment I hit 14 days on cure cancer, I'm already at rank 220,000 or something. I know your username are not tied to any machines, so to say a dead pc caused you to create new username are obviously not valid. Even in scale of rank in Country, I started at the bottom of 2xxx, and by the time I achived 14 days of work, I'm already way passed 50% of the rank. So it seems that some people joined, generate few result, and then left. Do they left WCG? or BOINC? Or grid computing alltogeher? I know this grid computing is just a donation of computer time, so it's up to people to donate or not. The thing is, if you already registered, installed, why don't just keep it running? Yes- the same applies to all volunteer activities....just be thankful some crunchers stick with it. I hope you will be one! John Thanks to everyone crunching @ WCG--we are a super computer after all--join a team and make friends  |
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