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Thread: A book about us "crunchers" and distribute computing - "Competition and Citizen Science: Voluntary Distributed Computing in a Globalized World" by Anne Holohan |
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RaymondFO
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 30, 2004 Post Count: 561 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Anne Holohan wrote a book about us "Crunchers" and distributed computing! Here is the Amazon.com link to the book:
Community, Competition and Citizen Science: V...ing in a Globalized World It is a shame she did not base her insights and research on WCG, but rather focused on SETI@home, ClimatePredicition.net, "GIMPS" (Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search) and Folding@home in her book. IMHO, this should be required reading for all WCG personnel as this discusses motivation of volunteers though science, competition and community. From what little I have read, this is a worthwhile publication about volunteer distributed computing that appears to be a fairly balanced and a well researched publication. |
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Interestingly, her author's page doesn't link to the Kindle edition.
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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And it's already posted here with a link to the book as a free PDF.
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