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Maxxina
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Yes :) Nice. But are they big enough? Or you already told them : think bigger. Like 1000 times bigger ;-) |
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Sgt.Joe
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If they are climate projects, the scientists probably need to scale back how much work they want to get accomplished rather than make the project bigger. The reason for this is the number of variables available for study. As you increase the number of variables, I believe the project, what ever it is, will not scale arithmetically, but in some other fashion, such as geometrically or logarithmically.
----------------------------------------Hopefully they scale it to last several years, but not overdo it. Cheers
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Maxxina
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Yea. I run climateprediction. I dont have top notch pc. But its more then ok. And even with that one task was usually done in 4 days
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jhindo
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Nice. But are they big enough? Or you already told them : think bigger. Like 1000 times bigger ;-) We are only beginning to assess the feasibility of the proposed projects, and since the deadline for the first round of applications is 15 September, we won't have projects selected until the fall. But yes, one of the several items we discuss with potential research partners is how much computational power World Community Grid volunteers make available, to ensure the project scope is sized accordingly. |
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SekeRob
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The add would do nicely in the 'News' section that David Anderson maintains at the BOINC Berkeley forums. That's a place many BOINCers visit and project developers when the homy place does not give an answer.
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Maxxina
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Nice. But are they big enough? Or you already told them : think bigger. Like 1000 times bigger ;-) We are only beginning to assess the feasibility of the proposed projects, and since the deadline for the first round of applications is 15 September, we won't have projects selected until the fall. But yes, one of the several items we discuss with potential research partners is how much computational power World Community Grid volunteers make available, to ensure the project scope is sized accordingly. And one question is how many new projects we want to start soon enough. There is a lot of project running already and more fragmentation. Uh oh. Would be nice to get in touch with some known people. So they would tweet about it when some project start. I can only imagine what would happen if elon musk tweeted about it :-) |
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Seoulpowergrid
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Current projects will all finish sometime so it is good to have more projects in the pipeline. Of the current projects there are some with limited available WUs so adding another project wouldn't be bad.
----------------------------------------As climate change is becoming a more pertinent topic this is perfect timing for WCG to make a push for it and see what develops. As some work gets started/finishes/published it will help to push out the WCG name as an option to researchers of a different field.  |
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jhindo
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The add would do nicely in the 'News' section that David Anderson maintains at the BOINC Berkeley forums. That's a place many BOINCers visit and project developers when the homy place does not give an answer. Good idea, SekeRob. Done . |
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QuantumEthos
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Thank you, Erika. A most interesting development. I wonder if there is any chance of working with the scientists at the UK-based Climateprediction.net ? It has been around for a number of years but suffers from chronic infrastructure issues. I would think there is quite a lot of synergy here. this is an excellent example of synergy .... ibm cloud covering the server needs of the climate predict project a mere 14 terabytes of data to absorb and utilise ! in addition the http://denis.usj.es project and a number of university projects would find server interconnect (tm) Dr Watson and the ibm cloud tempting to further improve security, storage and data utilisation ! the boinc project itself would love to have IBM cloud sponsored data and security ! http://bit.ly/HPC-Dev yours kindly RS |
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Former Member
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Jhindo,
The agreement says: "Scientists can receive free, 24/7 access to up to 150,000 years of computing power though World Community Grid, an award-winning IBM Citizenship initiative that enables anyone with a computer or Android device to support scientific research by carrying out computational research tasks on their devices." What happens if they go over? |
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