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Former Member
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The last week(s), have been extra high in runtime total for the science, see WCGCPU , and as cleanenergy noted some days ago, probably have been peaking now with a mean of 9.7 hours/result. The lighter stuff is soon to return with a new library and then will build again to that new crescendo over time: See http://bit.ly/WCGART
It was a rare 'slip' of the pen, but 6000 full time computer equivalents is indeed a good interpretation... "spare" time it will hardly be, many of the systems dedicated. The average active hours [per active member], is momentarily 41.91 hours per day, with a curious number of 3.46 active devices per active member. The number crunchers can compute how many hours that per active device is per day. (Doing about 3 every 2 day, only during nighttime, manually suspended when needing to use the computer, with LAIM on to remain loss-less) |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We have a new partner that will be contributing 370 machines to start with -
----------------------------------------Meliá Hotels International (melia.com) has now signed up to the ‘World Community Grid’ and during its initial phase it will be contributing the potential capacity of 370 computers located in the company’s headquarters in Palma de Mallorca and Madrid. A second phase will see the inclusion of the computers located in the hotels at national and international level. The capacities generated by this hardware will be used for two projects selected in accordance with Meliá Hotels International priorities: See link for more information  |
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I just hope C4CW and HFCC (in any form) will be back
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The two projects stated in the article (and mentioned by branjo) are C4CW and HFCC, which are labeled as intermittent (and currently not running). HFCC was last crunched in March 2013 and HFCC in February 2013. Does this mean that C4CW & HFCC will be reactivated soon? (hope, hope, hope...
---------------------------------------- )Also, I didn't see anything in the WCG News section about this new partner, but went to the Partner section and Melia is there (with a date of Nov 12, 2013). CJSL Crunching for a better world... ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by cjslman at Nov 17, 2013 12:25:34 AM] |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for pointing that out folks. I didn't deliberately omit those details, I just don't really pay much attention to what the status of current projects happens to be and I just assumed that they wouldn't be signing up for defunct projects, at least not with that many machines anyway.
----------------------------------------Hopefully they'll take the default configuration which I think is to take other work if the selected projects have none, right? [Edit 1 times, last edit by twilyth at Nov 17, 2013 2:14:07 AM] |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I stopped maintaining this a couple of years ago because of how disenchanted I'd become about the way things work, or often don't work around here. But since I think it's important to keep up morale and let people understand how important the work we do is, I decided to resurrect this thread and thought that this was an especially good story to do that.
----------------------------------------Full story here What do doctors, alien enthusiasts and you and I have in common? We can all play a crucial role in discovering cures for diseases. While some of the above may not have the expertise – or, indeed, brain power – to make scientific discoveries for themselves, all of our computers and mobile phones can help researchers while we sleep. The World Community Grid (WCG) is a virtual supercomputer, created by millions of home computers worldwide. It is tackling problems from childhood brain cancer to Aids, water purification to more efficient solar power. Now, the grid is helping to find a cure for Ebola. And anyone can take part by signing up and creating an account for their PC or mobile phone, choosing projects and downloading the revelant software. Stanley Litow, president of the IBM International Foundation, was part of the team who came up with the WCG concept 10 years ago. Their somewhat unusual inspiration came from those aforementioned extra-terrestrial enthusiasts. "We saw a project asking people to donate power from their PCs to find out more about aliens," Litow says. "In our citizenship project we started asking, 'What is the potential of this technology? Could we do something similar that would have real social impact?'" So they developed the humanitarian grid. |
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