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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I wrote a long post about my life away since 2010 and finding about this site randomly through wiki....and asking how to help you recruit but I pressed the post reset button! haha give up! ;)
Question remains...an IBM project, that can help the world? Where is everyone? |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, some of us are here.
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*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3010 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Yes, admittedly, it's not as 'active/busy' on the forum as it once was - but, yes, some of us are here
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
I would think people go chatting on Facebook and such.
----------------------------------------If you have technical questions, however, people jump out from everywhere to help. So what was your story again? Tip: Write off line using some text editor for instance Notepad, copy and paste, because Reset happens. Welcome back  [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 17, 2017 8:21:14 AM] |
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Futumpsh
Cruncher ENGLAND Joined: Jul 3, 2008 Post Count: 1 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I've been here for years.... but not very talkative, infact this is my 1st post
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gb009761
Master Cruncher Scotland Joined: Apr 6, 2005 Post Count: 3010 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Welcome Futumpsh and congratulations on taking that bold step announcing yourself
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Glen David Short
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 6, 2008 Post Count: 192 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Maybe because WCG is operating so smoothly now, fewer people need tech support
----------------------------------------According to WCGs own stats page, today there were over 740,000 contributors. Maybe the majority of them are just happy to let the program run in the background without the need to chat on tbe forums.  |
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JimWork
Cruncher Canada Joined: Oct 11, 2005 Post Count: 35 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi David, like many of us we are happy as clams and slogging away quietly. But I do wonder about how many really active contributors they're - certainly not 740K. Wouldn't it be nice if there would be stats showing that? Also, to have a search option to find out where one actually places among active contributors.
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wolfman1360
Senior Cruncher Canada Joined: Jan 17, 2016 Post Count: 176 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hi,
----------------------------------------I'm actually really curious about that myself. These projects are pretty important - and what I love is the variety. I've actually been a world community grid member since 2016. Being blind, the WCG software is quite a mess with screen readers (no offense meant ;) ). I did not know about boinc at that time and so now, with no actual work completed until Febuary of 2017 which is when I stopped folding I have pretty low daily averages. Combine folding at home and its limited access with screen readers and my lack of a GPU on most machines unless it was Intel HD Graphics that I started shortly after finding WCG inaccessible. I was folding for quite some time, however my 60 cores of computing power are simply no match for a single modern desktop GPU. I felt like I was riding everyone's dust so I came over to boinc. I feel more at home here at the moment. All my machines are doing nothing but WCG - apart from one, at any rate, which is chugging along with climate prediction. I should add that right now, boinc is 100% accessible. I love it. On 32 bit systems with one screen reader nothing is read which I have never seen before. The WCG standalone client still has bugs that need to be worked out labeling wise and accessibility wise - for instance reading the checkboxes and edit fields in preferences, etc. But boinc client itself works so I'm not particularly worried. I find the story behind the history of distributed computing fascinating. I wish I would have been here when a 3.4 GHZ Pentium 4 was all the rage in folding/WCG/etc, if not earlier. Sorry for the huge post, wasn't expecting that! ;)
Crunching for the betterment of human kind and the canines who will always be our best friends.
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Not huge at all. Nice to hear from you Wolfman1360.
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