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Thread: How do I get my company to allow staff to sign up for Community Grid on their work computer? |
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Former Member
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I have met with my company HR rep and presented the World Community Grid story and asked if we could make it available to all staff who wish to download it to their work computer. The HR rep is afraid to set a precedent allowing this to happen as she feels that would leave the company open to having to allow other special interest requests the same opportunity.
Has anyone else run into this type of roadblock? Does anyone have any ideas on how to get around this issue? Any comments or suggestions are welcome. Thanks.... |
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gomeyer
Senior Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 11, 2008 Post Count: 161 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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First of all, GOOD for you to ask first. People have been fired for running BOINC projects on unauthorized computers. Besides, it is BOINC policy to not do that and asking first is just the right thing to do.
----------------------------------------There isn't much that can be done if your company has made up their minds. If you had asked the IT department instead of HR they may have given you other reasons for not allowing it, like security concerns. (There should really be NO security concern but "When in doubt . . ." often seems to be the answer to the uninformed.) Having said that, on the WCG homepage, under "About Us", are two links that may be of interest to you. One lists the companies that are partnering with WCG to help humanity, and the other link offers a .pdf presentation that might sell the idea to your company. Placing the company's logo in the framework of civic minded humanitarianism might offer a carrot. Best of luck!  |
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On a related note, has anyone figured out a way from businesses to handle the additional electric cost?
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Hardnews
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Oct 11, 2008 Post Count: 151 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It's often the case that 'No' is the first response from HR and IT departments. Put the proposals to the head of the company in a detailed document with a cost/benefits analysis. It's vital humanitarian research, not a hunt for little green men. ;-)
----------------------------------------Regarding the additional electricity costs, these are quite minimal for a desktop computer running WCG at say 10 per cent over background, and can be easily compared and quantified using a cheap power meter . An i7-2600K SandyBridge running 8 tasks at 10 per cent only pulls an additional instantaneous 10 watts or so (on my rig) over background according to the graphing on the UPS monitor, less than leaving a 25W+ LED monitor on all day. It's often possible to save this (and more) in corporate environments just by sending a memo round asking users to set Power options to blank screens after 15 minutes or so, where possible, so that monitors auto-power down. Etc. I've got some actual WCG/power figures somewhere I'll dig out. Check and put the figures/savings in the proposal document. [Edit 2 times, last edit by Hardnews at Aug 16, 2013 7:52:14 AM] |
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+1 on getting IT signoff. I'm a little biased, but they are ultimately responsible for the equipment and network and they're the ones who can ultimately shut the whole thing down. They'd probably be happy if you just gave them control. Ideally, I'd say have the company run one account where IT has control over the configuration.. ie: the CEP bandwidth requirements can potentially have a very real impact on business ops. The rest is politics:)
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Hardnews
Senior Cruncher England Joined: Oct 11, 2008 Post Count: 151 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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On power figures: there's a comparative thread somewhere on here but here's an update:
I7-2600K, Intel H61 chipset, 16 Gig ram, and Windows 7 64 bit, with a cheap graphix card: 'OFF' = 2.1 watts Sleep = 3.9 watts Booted into W7, quiescent (no BOINC) = 49 watts BOINC WGC at 10 % = 60 watts. BOINC WGC at 50% = 75 watts BOINC WGC at 100% = 159 watts UK power supply is nominally 230 volts, it was at 235VAC when measured, power factor 0.3. All checked with my 'lab quality' LIDL supermarket 9 Euros energy meter. The difference between tickover and 10% WCG is about 11 watts on this machine with all 8 cores crunching. A KwH costs around £0.13 or so in the UK, so the additional power costs of a 10% crunch are quite minimal, unless there are fleets of CPUs in use. That 11 watts could probably be reclaimed from turning off monitors, or, as in the case of the last oil company I worked for, turning off 100 or so laser printers left switched on all weekend when the offices were empty. :-) I always become riled when I see US movies featuring the 'FBI Offices' where computer screens display an FBI logo instead of a WCG logo. If you work for the FBI please fix this ASAP. |
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