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wcgridmember
Advanced Cruncher Joined: Mar 30, 2005 Post Count: 112 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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In other words, are there estimates of:
the number of computers running WCGrid / estimated number of computers that could potentially run WCGrid? |
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yoerik
Senior Cruncher Canada Joined: Mar 24, 2020 Post Count: 413 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Below 1%. I know that much.
----------------------------------------If you factor in mobile phones, far less than 0.1%.  |
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Former Member
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In other words, are there estimates of: the number of computers running WCGrid / estimated number of computers that could potentially run WCGrid? There a no estimates, there are accurate [internal] statistics of hosts returning and having validated results daily. As with 'predictor of the day', if hosts are hidden, or more precisely, if a volunteer chooses not to show her/his contribution, like me, then those are not included to the public stats such as these https://www.boincstats.com/stats/15/project/detail |
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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The opn1 run time is 300 years per day, so, say, 100,000 threads running opn1. The total run time of all projects is 600 years per day (200,000 threads)
----------------------------------------Most Western nations would probably have 10s of millions of devices, so, say, 100 million threads. Multiply that by, say, 50 to get the total threads worldwide. That would be 5 billion threads available. The result would be one in 50,000 threads on the opn1, full time equivalent. (1 in 25,000 on WCG) I have ignored business computers and supercomputers. I could be out substantially, but I think you get the drift. Any other estimates? Mike [Edit 1 times, last edit by Mike.Gibson at Jul 18, 2020 3:45:30 PM] |
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Aurum
Master Cruncher The Great Basin Joined: Dec 24, 2017 Post Count: 2391 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Another way to look at it is that we can return more WUs each day than they create.
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Mike.Gibson
Ace Cruncher England Joined: Aug 23, 2007 Post Count: 12594 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Yet another is that WCG is funded by IBM and I am sure that their good intentions have a finite limit.
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