Ten tijde van de stampede op Rosetta@home, heb ik mij eens op het forum van XS (XtremeSystems) ingeschreven. Vandaag mocht ik opeens deze e-mail vinden in mijn mailbox:
Dit is een team zoals DPC, waar we in het verleden al veel mee "geconcureerd" hebben (o.a. op TSC, FaD, DPAD, Rosetta@home, ...). Wat ledenaantal-per-project betreft zijn ze iets minder groot dan DPC, maar de mensen die eraan meedoen, hebben gewoonlijk wel een vrij grote stal aan PC/Servers.
Het lijkt er dus op dat XS wat power gaat overzetten naar WCG, en nieuwe/inactieve leden probeert aan te trekken.
Op het eerste zicht dacht ik "hey leuk, een nieuwe challenge na de Christians". Ik ben echter naar de stats van vandaag gaan kijken en dan zag ik:
Daily
#2 - 3236230 XtremeSystems
#6 - 1065127 Dutch Power Cows
Overall
#3 - 589,992,117 XtremeSystems
#24 - 97,985,916 Dutch Power Cows
Met andere woorden:
De challenge tegen de Christians was een hapje, maar om te meten met XS zullen we toch wel een heel aardig extraatje moeten doen om zelfs maar in de buurt te komen van hun huidige output...
Iemand een idee?
Voor de mensen die XS niet kennen:Dear friends of XtremeSystems,
We're mailing you this year as we did last year to ask for your help doing some medical research. We've moved to another project. This time it's the World Community Grid or WCG for short. They do AIDS Research, Human Genome Project and have just added work on a project doing research on Discovering Dengue Drugs such as Hepatitis, West Nile and Yellow fever. One of the benefits of WCG is that you can pick which you choose to work on.
Here's a link to their site for more info: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
Last year we mailed people in May I believe. It was the start of the summer and really a bad time of year to ask people. Between vacations and the heat factor of summer we shouldn't have asked at that time. Like everyone, we learned from experience and that's why we've waited till what is hopefully near the end of the hottest months.
WCG runs on the BOINC platform with you can download here: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php
That is the direct link to the windows version but there is also a Linux version here:
http://boinc.berkeley.edu...x&version=5.8.16&type=sea
Now for my sales pitch. C'mon, you know I had to have one but unlike other letters you receive mine won't have any baloney in it. When people ask me why I at age 55 do this I explain to them that in 1966 at age 14 I watched my grandmother die of cancer. She was a wonderful old Irish lady who worked hard all her life only to die at age 67 from a disease that she fought for two years as hard as she could. My last memory of her was watching my father hold her head over a bucket while she was sick from the chemo they had tried. Chemo was fairly new then and even worse in it's effects than it is today. Add to this that I have two daughters, ages 18 and 31..The two best days of my life were the days they were born. What I don't want to see happen is for them to be told at age 60 is that they have one of these nasty diseases and there is nothing to be done.
Our children are the most precious things in our lives and I believe we owe them the best we can give. I'm a pretty tough guy mentally but have always had a soft spot for children. I hate to see them sick of hurt. The images one sees of children in cancer wards with their heads bald from chemotherapy tear at my heart. The pain hidden behind the innocent smiles is enough to bring tears to even the toughest of us. It is for these children,yours and mine, that I do this work and I ask you to come and help us in our quest against these diseases.
If you decide that this is something you wish to help with, download BOINC and install then come and post here at the WCG
section of the forum and say hello.
You will be met with a smile and a thanks for helping from all of us: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=207
We have a stickied section with the answers to most questions here: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=147919
If there is something that you need more info on please post and ask. There are usually people online more than willing to help.
We welcome all. We make no demands that people have monster machines or 20 machines on an account.
When this subject comes up what I usually say to people is this:
'Bring what you can and what ever it is, it is the right amount."
Even though the work is the reason we do this we believe in having fun at the same time. Life is too short not to smile.
We have our little competitions and there is always friendly banter going on and some friendly teasing.
We have one unposted rule and that is Leave your ego at the door and deal with all as friends.
I hope to see you there and helping in this quest to end these nasty diseases.
I believe with all my heart that the computational power now exists to do this.
My thanks to you for taking the time to read this.
Sincerely,
David Hunt (Movieman)
Eric Hansson (njkid32)
Dit is een team zoals DPC, waar we in het verleden al veel mee "geconcureerd" hebben (o.a. op TSC, FaD, DPAD, Rosetta@home, ...). Wat ledenaantal-per-project betreft zijn ze iets minder groot dan DPC, maar de mensen die eraan meedoen, hebben gewoonlijk wel een vrij grote stal aan PC/Servers.
Het lijkt er dus op dat XS wat power gaat overzetten naar WCG, en nieuwe/inactieve leden probeert aan te trekken.
Op het eerste zicht dacht ik "hey leuk, een nieuwe challenge na de Christians". Ik ben echter naar de stats van vandaag gaan kijken en dan zag ik:
Daily
#2 - 3236230 XtremeSystems
#6 - 1065127 Dutch Power Cows
Overall
#3 - 589,992,117 XtremeSystems
#24 - 97,985,916 Dutch Power Cows
Met andere woorden:
De challenge tegen de Christians was een hapje, maar om te meten met XS zullen we toch wel een heel aardig extraatje moeten doen om zelfs maar in de buurt te komen van hun huidige output...
Iemand een idee?
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." - Al Capone