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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Would that be a blessing or a curse, Captain rcc?
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1326 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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When you stay away that would be a curse miss mermaid!
----------------------------------------When you don't stay away that would be a blessing miss mermaid! (Edited to remove any possible chance that this reply would be ambiguous.)  Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some battle. Please join the team The survivors  [Edit 1 times, last edit by RCC_Survivor at Feb 7, 2012 9:21:29 PM] |
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1326 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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ENIAC
----------------------------------------The ENIAC computer, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator, was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet, used 17,468 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons, and cost $500,000. Every member on WCG has a PC that can run circles around ENIAC. And, how does your PC's specs compare? Isn't technology wonderful? Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some battle. Please join the team The survivors |
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1326 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Dr. Stanley Watowich, of the University of Texas Medical Branch, is using the World Community Grid to research drugs to combat Dengue Fever.
----------------------------------------"Our laboratory can access a dedicated 128-processor computer-cluster for this project," he said. "In contrast, during this project, World Community Grid has provided the equivalent of a dedicated 12,000-processor computer cluster." Watowich said the complex calculations entered into the World Community Grid are typically returned within 1 to 6 months. They then need to be combined with the results from several calculations, so final results for testing take between 18 and 24 months to complete. "Without World Community Grid, these calculations would be extremely difficult -- perhaps impossible -- to complete unless we had one year of 24/7 access to the world's largest supercomputer, which is not possible for academic research," he said. (The source is http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/23/technology/ibm_world_community_grid/index.htm) This is why I crunch: 1. it saves researchers valuable funding, which is always in short supply (Did you know that when a university needs more research dollars they raise tuition?) 2. It reduces the time needed to find a cure. (I don't have forever to wait for a cure.) Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some battle. Please join the team The survivors |
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1326 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Nasher,
----------------------------------------Congratulations on your Sapphire badge in HCMD2. Do you have any others that are close to the threshold? Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some battle. Please join the team The survivors |
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nasher
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 2, 2005 Post Count: 1423 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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thanks... the next closest i have are GFAM and cep2... but CEP2 runs slow since i can only do 1 per computer right now going to try some stuff to see if i can boost it up but... GFAM needs a few days
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
The dashboard is down, with no estimated up time:
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/...ad,25987_offset,80#362822 |
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RCC_Survivor
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 1326 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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While you wait for the dashboard to come up take a look at this http://www.sig.net78.net/
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RCC_Survivor
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CPUID HWMonitor reads the data from my APC-BackUPS XS1500 and displays it with the PC hardware data.
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RCC_Survivor
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sunfolk,
----------------------------------------Thanks for stopping by! How's things in New Zealand? Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some battle. Please join the team The survivors |
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