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Thread: WCG's Facebook post on the new sign-up page |
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I saw the WCG post on the new sign-up page. I picked it up for a post on my sciencesprings blog. I even picked up several of the window shade pull down pages, using Printscreen/Picasa to get the images.
----------------------------------------Take a look- https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2016/01/...ase-in-registration-rate/ |
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[CSF] Thomas Dupont
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Aug 25, 2013 Post Count: 685 Status: Offline |
Well done Richard !
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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it's not a registration that's the problem!
----------------------------------------it's that people fall of WCG...they don't keep on crunching here... even with old page, I've recruited 15+ people...most of them didn't keep here!  |
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[CSF] Thomas Dupont
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Aug 25, 2013 Post Count: 685 Status: Offline |
it's not a registration that's the problem! it's that people fall of WCG...they don't keep on crunching here... even with old page, I've recruited 15+ people...most of them didn't keep here! IMHO, turnover is part of distributed computing, my dear KLiK. Each volunteer brings a small contribution at a given moment in History, and others, like us (like YOU ) , support it actively. |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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it's not a registration that's the problem! it's that people fall of WCG...they don't keep on crunching here... even with old page, I've recruited 15+ people...most of them didn't keep here! IMHO, turnover is part of distributed computing, my dear KLiK. Each volunteer brings a small contribution at a given moment in History, and others, like us (like YOU ) , support it actively.maybe WCG should ask themselves, what is more viable?! having someone join-in for a quick tour of duty?! or having someone like us, with 5+y here...which upgrade our grids from 1 computer to several! & making it from around 4d/d to 25+d/d (my example)... |
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[CSF] Thomas Dupont
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Aug 25, 2013 Post Count: 685 Status: Offline |
Any contribution to a scientific project of distributed computing, however small it may be, is important.
----------------------------------------But I also prefer professionals crunchers like those of my team (and like YOU). |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Any contribution to a scientific project of distributed computing, however small it may be, is important. But I also prefer professionals crunchers like those of my team (and like YOU).hopefully management of WCG is reading this...& can see a good suggestion, when it's put...about asking questions like: "How do we keep crunchers on WCG?" Most of big companies do want to keep their donors or customers...why isn't WCG thinking the same way?! EDIT: I'd also like to see the numbers about new registrations & returning results for those new registrations...someone signing up, doesn't mean they'll donate anything to WCG...they also have to install a program (BOINC) & login to WCG on BOINC, do the job & return results! ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by KLiK at Jan 20, 2016 10:31:27 AM] |
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[CSF] Thomas Dupont
Veteran Cruncher Joined: Aug 25, 2013 Post Count: 685 Status: Offline |
Same question for a team founder/captain like me !
---------------------------------------- "How do we keep crunchers on WCG?" Agree with you KLiK, these questions are legitimate. |
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Richard Mitnick
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Feb 28, 2007 Post Count: 583 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Thanks for everyone who responded here, and also to those who looked at the blog. I hope that they found other things I did as interesting as the WCG post.
----------------------------------------As you can see, I kept all of my registrations so that I can post here and at those BOINC projects where I have credits. The biggest problem for me, why I am no longer crunching for WCG and a bunch of BOINC projects was CPU and GPU heat. Crunching killed three computers for me, one a Maingear Shift Superstock with twin GPUS, a super gaming machine, $5000.00 that I purchased specifically for crunching. I did nothing else on that machine. It was rebuilt by Manigear five times. After a trying year, they finally gave in and took it back. I got back $4000.00. The other two machines were main line Dell computers. I had the CPU's re-pasted three times on each, but I finally gave in. I did manage to run up 37,000,000 BOINC credits, a feat about which I am very proud. Modern CPU's just run so hot. I appealed for help here and at the BOINC forums, but there were no solutions. I must say, crunching resulted in me having OCD, so my wife was delighted when I quit. Thanks again, I post on the blog any time I see any WCG project in social media. So, I hope that I am getting a few recruits. |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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well, yes modern CPUs do heat up...they can even run to 100°C Tjunc!
----------------------------------------sorry for your loss! but you can regulate temp. with program like TThrottle... & about OCD...it's better to have something like this, than: http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/8/9871732/drone-flamethrower-austin-haughwout |
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