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Ultimaximus Since: Location: A Better Place Last seen: 4 years, 11 months and 8 days ago |
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=1S1LDTRDX1
Team Page & Statistics Ever wanted to do something good for the world, but would rather sit on your computer chair all day than go out and volunteer or donate money to charities (who end up taking large percentages anyways)? Well, now you can: With the BOINC Manager and the World Community Grid, you can download and install the program, and (at a low priority) it will utilize unused CPU cycles to perform processing and calculations that assist scientists in doing their work to cure diseases such as muscular dystrophy, cancer, and AIDS. Large distributed network grids such as these are more effective and less costly than using large super computers, by spreading out the processing to be done among thousands, or millions, of computers. I've been using it so far, and it's pretty good. Since it runs at a low priority, it doesn't hamper any of my activities (though if I needed to, I could suspend processing, or change max CPU usage while the computer is in use or idle). More info here and in the menus: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewAboutUs.do Wiki article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Community_Grid The World Community Grid keeps track of how much processing you've done, and allows for "teams". As such, I've created a team for SMWC, and you can join and register here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?teamID=1S1LDTRDX1 Note that registration requires e-mail.
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leictreon Semi-Retired Veteran Ralsei  Life's meaningless, it's up to you to give it any meaning at all.  Since: Location: somewhere over the rainbow Pronouns: ??? Last seen: 2 months and 3 days ago |
I'd like to be a totalitarian ruler a la Big Brother/Stalin/Palpatine/Lotso, but if i had to save the world... Yes, that seems to be a pretty good idea. I guess i'll support this. -------------------- they say... i forgot |
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E-Man Posts: 908/1599 Since: Location: Ontario, Canada Last seen: 6 years, 10 months and 28 days ago |
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LudwigVonKoopa Since: Location: Fremont, California Last seen: 8 years, 4 months and 17 days ago |
I for one like this idea *signs up also*         |
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UmlautBanana Since: Location: Atlanta, Georgia, that's black Sweden Last seen: 2 years, 3 months and 7 days ago |
Yay! *signs up like the above* <form action="http://google.com/search" method="GET"> </form> If you want to support gaming for a good cause, PM me to donate to Sandbox Gaming's 9th bi-annual 80-hour marathon! More information about the event here. uh, i'm too lazy to remove any of the above but the marathon's over. it went pretty well Unexpected end tag (</form>) at 537, expected </div> |
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Nerdtopia Master Since: Last seen: 6 years, 6 months and 6 days ago |
This does seem like a good thing, it would be nice to help fight horrible things like cancer, AIDs, and parcinsons. Yay I finally got a layout! I feel like I am officially a member now, so this being the case, I don't know to much about chocolate hacks, but feel free to let me beta test any vanilla hacks. |
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Ultimaximus Since: Location: A Better Place Last seen: 4 years, 11 months and 8 days ago |
Yeah, it's cool to have your computer do processing and such for the sake of science. As for the SMWC team, statistics can be found here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/team/viewMyTeam.do or alternatively here: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=1S1LDTRDX1 |
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Demonsul Posts: 4420/4715 Since: Location: User Not Found Last seen: 9 years, 6 months and 23 days ago |
Hate to seem negative, but I installed the BOINC download manager on our family computer about a year ago, and it fried it. I can't bring myself to trust it on my own computer.
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Ultimaximus Since: Location: A Better Place Last seen: 4 years, 11 months and 8 days ago |
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Deeke SMW Graphics Moderator  Since: Location: Orlando, Florida Pronouns: He/Him Last seen: 3 hours, 11 minutes and 19 seconds ago |
Yay! Science!
What the hell, I'll sign up. --------------------  Currently working on Æther: The Infinite Library! Other Submissions of mine: SNES Controller Graphics (v2) |
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Fyord Posts: 525/6269 Since: Last seen: 6 hours, 35 minutes and 42 seconds ago |
I'm a little skeptical--not about the motive, but about the product. I might try it on this computer, though, since it's old and is only used for essays and gaming.
I might try this. |
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Lunar Rico Posts: 1422/1801 Since: Location: Sweet Jesus Have Mercy Last seen: 8 years, 8 months and 15 days ago |
It won't work I get an error. I really wanna sign up!
 EDIT: NVM I got it. EDIT2: Im running it on a laptop so it doesn't get much time out of it. Until I can use my home computer I'm dropping out. -------------------- Your layout has been removed. |
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Demonsul Posts: 4426/4715 Since: Location: User Not Found Last seen: 9 years, 6 months and 23 days ago |
Originally posted by Ultimaximus Never had nor heard of such problems. If the processing was too much, you could always lower the max CPU usage, but whatever, it's fine. Not that, it was a brand new PC with significant processor. It just broke down and had to be replaced entirely. But eh, it's just my distrust, it shouldn't stop everyone else. |
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Ultimaximus Since: Location: A Better Place Last seen: 4 years, 11 months and 8 days ago |
Since I explained the whole thing to Leod in greater detail than I did here, I thought it might do good to post the logs here: http://pastebin.com/PPZXw2bz And with that, the team ought to have it's 13th member. 15 days of processing has just been reached, I look forward to more. |
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leod Account Disabled Posts: 604/10953 Since: Location: Germany Last seen: 1 year, 5 months and 6 days ago |
Yea, I had my sleep now :>
Anyways, I guess I'll let it run while I use the PC too, because I don't notice any slowdown etc. right now where it still runs. I've even set it's max CPU usage higher and I still notice nothing. That may be because I don't use any CPU extensive (Right word?) programms, so meh. -------------------- Your layout has been removed. |
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CommieYoshi Since: Last seen: 2 years, 3 months and 24 days ago |
Most fast PCs have loud fans and their CPUs get hot: I wouldn't recommend running it on them.
My PC is loud, and my other PCs are either too old to run this or too slow. -------------------- layouts suck |
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Ultimaximus Since: Location: A Better Place Last seen: 4 years, 11 months and 8 days ago |
I took a closer look at the statistics, and noticed that I have performed a disproportional 12 days of processing out of the total 16 days that SMWC has. Looking further, I see that only 5 members have been counted as having done processing. So this either means that computation is either turned off, either due to a bug, manual selection, not running at start-up, or a laptop on batteries, or the statistics have been failed to be reported, due to long term internet disconnection starting as soon as the client was installed, which I doubt. |
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leod Account Disabled Posts: 612/10953 Since: Location: Germany Last seen: 1 year, 5 months and 6 days ago |
Harhar, 2 days of processing, 2 and a half days after I downloaded it :>
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Ultimaximus Since: Location: A Better Place Last seen: 4 years, 11 months and 8 days ago |
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leod Account Disabled Posts: 700/10953 Since: Location: Germany Last seen: 1 year, 5 months and 6 days ago |
Haha, I totally forgot I had this thing installed but have the highest runtime.
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