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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Being the curious creature that I am, here's a slew of questions that popped in to my mind:
----------------------------------------- How many active crunchers are there currently? (stats is currently showing 587,614 members)* - Is there a way (easy) to look this piece of info up? - After how long of no activity is a cruncher considered as "inactive"? On a side note, I know that WCG occasionally sends emails to members reminding them to participate (although I don't know after how much inactive participation this note is sent). *I checked the BOINC page and it shows WCG with 375,288 users. Thanks, CJSL ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by cjslman at Mar 3, 2012 4:11:23 PM] |
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petehardy
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: May 4, 2007 Post Count: 318 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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----------------------------------------  "Patience is a virtue", I can't wait to learn it! |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Active member retention at WCG 24.6% **, active retention across BOINC world 12.1%... something must be more right up this alley.
------------------------------------------//-- ** Of those ever starting to crunch on BOINC at WCG, not considering the old UD agent participants that did not port to BOINC. [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 3, 2012 4:31:00 PM] |
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jonnieb-uk
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Nov 30, 2011 Post Count: 6105 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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... something must be more right up this alley. Knowledgeable and helpful Community Advisors (backed up by helpful forum contributors in general) is definitely a plus.  Other than the reminder emails mentioned in the original post does WGC undertake any other work in the area of member retention? mitrichr mentioned in another post There have been a number of conferences on the subject of volunteer computing. At most of them, the motivations are discussed. Does anyone have a link to any posts on this subject? |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Pete & SekeRob... thanks for the info. Now, according to BOINC:
----------------------------------------WCG users = 375,288 (active = 92,262) Which means that 24.58% stay to crunch at WCG (exactly what Sekerob reported). It does seem low, but is better than the 12.1% BOINC world active retention that SekeRob reported. Next question: Why does WCG report 587,614 members and BOINC reports 375,288 users ? Different concepts? Thanks, CJSL |
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Former Member
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Plz reread my previous reply. There were some 200,000 that never made it to BOINC world.
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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SekeRob... ah, sorry, I didn't catch that part of your note... that explains the difference between WCG vs BOINC.
----------------------------------------Thanks for clearing that up. CJSL |
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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mitrichr mentioned in another post There have been a number of conferences on the subject of volunteer computing. At most of them, the motivations are discussed. Does anyone have a link to any posts on this subject? Hey, it's nice to be remembered. I do not remember any links at WCG, but at the BOINC project for the LHC at CERN, affectionately known as "T4T" , Daniel Lambrano let us know about the 2nd Citizen Cyberscience Summit , from which you can get to videos , wherein one of the topics is why do people do this crunching. It si quite an interesting phenomenon, with more motivations than I can count. Earlier, there had been held Brazil@home , also a Citizen Cyberscience Summit. I do not know what or how much of that is still available. Again, it's nice to be remembered. |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks all for participating in this thread... but I still have a question that doesn't have an answer:
----------------------------------------- After how long of no activity is a cruncher considered as "inactive"? and I'll add to that: - How/Who/What determines that "inactivity"? Thanks, CJSL |
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Former Member
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BOINCstats looks at 30 days for host and member. i.e. if you returned a result 29 days ago, you're considered active.
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