Thank you to those helping the World Community Grid!

Jahntassa · Post by **Jahntassa** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 8:56 am

I just want to thank everyone that got involved in Genvibe's team on the World Community Grid!The stats are down right now, but should be back in a few minutes. Since I started up the team about two years ago, we have consistently placed below 280 in rank (as a team).That's 280 through all the teams in the world!Honestly, I think that's pretty darn good. I think as a team we've contributed about 10 years of computing power to the project. For those of you who don't know, the World Community Grid is similar to SETI@Home. It's 'distributed processing'.Basically, a research group (most recently, AIDS research and Genome classification) find computations that can be packed up and done in small bits across thousands of computers. If you leave your machine running with just a screensaver up or the monitor off, you can contribute! All you need to do is go to http://www.worldcommunitygrid.com and find our team (genvibe.com) and sign up! You download a small application that will then run as your screensaver, and all that unused processor time will go to solving problems, such as 'Help Defeat Cancer', 'FightAIDS@Home', and others!You don't win prizes, you don't get anything out of it other than knowing that you're helping very good causes get closer to answers. You can take pride that you've helped in some small way by just letting them use processor time that would be otherwise wasted.For anyone worried about privacy, this does not open a back door on your system. The program contacts the server, gets its data to process, then processes. Once it's done, it uploads the finished results and gets more to chew on!C'mon, join the grid! It won't hurt, I promise!

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:06 am

I'm on the team. I have my PC crunching on the AIDS project.

zionzr2 · Post by **zionzr2** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:08 am

I too crunch away for the good of all mankind!!

Jahntassa · Post by **Jahntassa** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:53 am

Since the stats are back up, it looks like as far as run-time goes, we've contributed 20 years, 238 days, 12 hours, 51 minutes and 31 seconds of computing time! That puts us right behind the 'GREECE' team and just before IBM Japan!We're ranked #258 in the world for runtime.240 in the world for Points Generated (5,398,759)239 in the world for Results Returned (20,885)Combined, our team contributes 10 days for every day of real time! Congrats!

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:13 am

I'll admit I haven't been letting my idle CPU cycles go for the good as often as I should. Often times I just forget about it! I'll make up for it tonight, I'll run this on two machines. For our Mac and Linux friends: You too can of course chip in! Go to http://boinc.berkeley.edu/ and download the BOINC client. The one for the Mac is pretty nice, the one for the Linux works just as good but doesn't look as pretty of course... The Mac version is easy to install, the Linux version just needs to be untarred and ran if I remember correctly. When setting it up, it asks for the project URL (that always confused me so I didn't know what to put so I wanted to share just in case) just use http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org and then it should ask if you have an account, then log in or create one.

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coldmm803 · Post by **coldmm803** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:10 am

hey, i just joined

Thank you to those helping the World Community Grid!

Thank you to those helping the World Community Grid!

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