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Thread: What motivates you to participate and who have you recruited? |
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tiaem
Cruncher Joined: Sep 14, 2011 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am motivated by my love of science teaming up with my computer hobby to solve issues that hit very close to home. I have 1 netbook, one gaming laptop, a nexus 7, HTC one, and one tower running. So far I have been able to recruit my mother, 2 teachers, and I am currently trying to recruit my school district.
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Sabrina Tarson
Advanced Cruncher United States Joined: Jun 27, 2012 Post Count: 149 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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What motivated me to really participate was the fact that I never turned my computer off during the night time anyway, and during the day unless I was gaming, the computer still wasn't doing anything anyway. So, it made sense to me to have it do some research for the benefit of humanity while I wasn't using it to its fullest potential.
----------------------------------------Reason I went for World Community Grid, is because it covers so many different fields of research in one project, so I can contribute to all of those without even needing to set up different projects. |
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Hot Mess
Cruncher Joined: Jul 1, 2013 Post Count: 28 Status: Offline |
First of pure idealism, in the hope that humanity and nature can benefit.
----------------------------------------And why specifically WCG?All results will be published, not sold.   |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7844 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Help to make a better, safer, more healthful world. And the results will be in the public domain, free to be used by all.
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Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Honestly? I have no idea! When I started with SETI in Sept 2004, SETI was getting a lot of publicity (in some areas) and I joined with a group of mates to assist with the 'Search for ET'
Through the years I've supported Climate research, Milkyway and Asteroids as well as SETI. Now I stick mainly to the medical research type of projects, thus I support WCG, Poem, MalariaControl and others like them Why do I stay? Well, I enjoy the challenge of building bigger and better Crunchers, the likes of the 'New Toy, 2 x MegaCrunchers (both well documented on here) and others. I also get the opportunity to reuse some reduntant hardware from several sources, that helps keep the green side of things going... Ultimately, I hope we will help provide a breakthrough in the fight against the many deseases that have blighted humanity for too long... As they say 'Every little helps'! |
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cjslman
Master Cruncher Mexico Joined: Nov 23, 2004 Post Count: 2082 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I've been with WCG from the beginning, but unfortunately not as consistently as I had wished for. Why participate? I think it's a great way to help science find solutions for the world's pains, either being sickness, ecology, water, etc. It's one of my way of helping mother nature. I don't give a hoot about the points, but I am interested in the number of WUs that I return to WCG. So... let's crunch on for a better future !!!
----------------------------------------CJSL Gotta keep crunching, there's a world to save !!! |
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vlado101
Senior Cruncher Joined: Jul 23, 2013 Post Count: 226 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I am relatively a recent member of WCG. I wish I have heard of this sooner so that I would have been able to start donating much earlier. The reason I joined WCG is that this is a way I can contribute something to help people, and as others have mentioned all the results are public so that they can be improved further.
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tiaem
Cruncher Joined: Sep 14, 2011 Post Count: 9 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Having trouble recruiting people, but I'll be adding a fx-6300 cpu next month. 6 cores @ 3.5 Ghz, and a gtx-780 will be used for gpugrid until wcg adds a new gpu project.
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Seoulpowergrid
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Apr 12, 2013 Post Count: 823 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I heard about the concept of distributed computing around a decade ago but didn't do any real research into it. About a year ago I remembered it again and took a look. I've always had powerful machines but since I've stopped video editing / gaming they really haven't been put to their real potential and that depressed me.
----------------------------------------Seeing the Gates Foundation supporting Malaria Control and IBM supporting WCG + the number of research papers published by both was enough reason to have me contribute.  |
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yoro42
Ace Cruncher United States Joined: Feb 19, 2011 Post Count: 8979 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Watson.
----------------------------------------IBM's donation of $500,000 to The World Community Grid peaked my interest. After visiting the WCG site I became a member and joined Team Multiple Sclerosis. Elementary!  |
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