[UD-Grid] hitparade van 5 september

Pskutte schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 10:49:
Er werd in de dpch van 3 september al gespeculeerd dat er mensen van DF misschien zouden overstappen op UD-Grid... En idd, ik ben zo iemand die het einde van df aan zag komen en d8: kom, laten wij eens wat anders opzoeken

ff een vraagje, ik las in een van de laatste dpch's iets van nog 78 dagen (ofzoiets). Is dit project ook al op zijn einde ofzo?

Naja, tot slot nog ff vermelden dat ook ik hoop dat er nog meer mensen deze kant op komen

mAdRaZ0r schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 14:13:
En toen.... toen de vraag: Waar halen die Tivo Users de laatste tijd al die CPU kracht vandaan? Ze staan nu al 2 dagen boven IBM....en als die zo door blijven groeien gaan zelfs onze koeien het moeilijk krijgen!

Verwijderd schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 14:16:
De 5M paal is af te halen bij Blue_man. (let wel even op de gouden bovenkant)

mAdRaZ0r schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 14:13:

Bogoh vandaag ietsie onder hun normale score..... misschien omdat er morgen iets meer geflusht gaat worden?

Verwijderd schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 16:50:
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Van het weekend een switch overleden waar 24 desktops op aangesloten zitten
Maar die 30M morgen moet nog wel lukken...

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InSPiRE schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 19:15:
Feli avbers, nu snel Team Health-care inhalen he

Verwijderd schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 16:54:
Morgen hier de 100K...

Als het lukt, trakteer ik op een schoteltje melk heren...

@[Goose] : Zie het positief, het kon ook een 48 poorts switch zijn

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Verwijderd schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 16:54:
Morgen hier de 100K...

Als het lukt, trakteer ik op een schoteltje melk heren...

mAdRaZ0r schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 14:13:En toen.... toen de vraag: Waar halen die Tivo Users de laatste tijd al die CPU kracht vandaan? Ze staan nu al 2 dagen boven IBM....en als die zo door blijven groeien gaan zelfs onze koeien het moeilijk krijgen!

schrik schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 19:46:
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Dan pak de melk maar vast, want kan je vertellen dat we in ieder geval al boven de 100700 zitten

Mist schreef op 06 september 2004 @ 21:57:
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De hoge scores van TiVo Users komen bij één lid vandaan:<<knip... heel verhaal>>>.

quote: UD - Jeff Lawson

I just thought I'd point out a few things that may be clear to some of you but not others. None of this is intended to be an official statement from United Devices, but all of this should be self-evident from the information that is publically available on the websites:

Company background: United Devices is a software development company focused primarily on selling Grid MP enterprise grid management software and MP Insight software to mostly corporations and universities so that they can harness their own computers and run their own internal private grids. UD sells several editions of its Grid MP and MP Insight products based on the needs of its customers. The community grid.org project is just one of the several non-dominant things that UD does.

On the topic of non-profit arrangements: grid.org is indeed run by United Devices, at a non-trivial financial cost to the company to purchase and maintain the hardware, bandwidth, and staff time needed to support it. To the best of my knowledge, grid.org is not an independent legal entity as any type of self-sufficient non-profit organization (it is merely a website and community-based project operated by UD). I don't know whether there are any tax-deductions being taken on behalf of the expenses incurred by grid.org (I suspect not) or whether it would even be legal to do so--we do actively donate outdated, unused, or excess hardware and supplies to our local Goodwill agency though.

The community projects are run on a separate domain (grid.org) from the corporate (ud.com) website, but NOT for the purposes of attempting to hide the fact that grid.org is run by United Devices. There is actually quite a large number of cross-site links between the two, if you were a casual webuser and really wanted to get to the other website. The separation between the two websites was done to make it easier for two groups of users: 1) our corporate/university customers that are looking to buy our commercial software do not want to be overwhelmed with information not relating to our software. 2) our community project members do not want to have to wade through a confusing business website that does not relate to the community project. The grid.org domain was also just a lucky domain acquisition that we managed to arrange, and not using such a cool domain name for a community project would have been a waste.

On the topic of profiting: Although UD receives some money from sponsors (such as IBM, Intel, or Microsoft) as a part of each of the grid.org projects, that amount alone is insufficient to fund the company and its grid.org community projects. Therefore the sponsorship money is used in combination with income that UD receives from its corporate and university customers from selling the Grid MP enterprise grid management software and MP Insight software to collectively pay for the expenses.

On the topic of IP of results and profiting: UD has no interest in becoming a genomic intellectual property holding company for the molecular results produced by the community projects at grid.org. After all, UD is just a software development company focused primarily on designing and selling generic enterprise grid computing software. The results from each of the grid.org projects are generally the property of whoever initiated the project with UD (and not the property of UD), and UD sends the results over to that entity at the conclusion of the project (and sometimes at periodic intervals). Here is an example of the press release of the transfer of the results of a prior project. If you are interested in gaining access to a copy of results, you would need to make arrangements with them and not UD.

On the topic of the altruistic motivations: You may wonder the purposes that United Devices has by running grid.org since it alone does not seem to be a profiting aspect of the business. It actually serves several important business purposes:

• One of the software products that UD also sells is the custom software and expertise for Grid MP Global, which permits corporations to set up their own community project similar to grid.org but hosted on their own servers. The Japanese telecom company NTT already did this and successfully ran several projects on their own Japanese-language grid: png, png, png, png. The availability of our own grid.org helps act as a live demonstration of the Grid MP Global product to such potential customers.
• Although our corporate Grid MP Enterprise product no longer entirely shares all of the same code-base as our Grid MP Global product, the availability of grid.org has helped to serve as a beta testing community and load/stress-test facility for our software. That was invaluable to the company since many problems and suggestions that were discovered with grid.org also were relevant to our Grid MP Enterprise product. This may again become important in the future as we try to reunite our code-bases and merge functionality in the coming months.
• Even though the UD Agent or member web aspects of grid.org are not very similar to our Grid MP Enterprise product, grid.org does function as a very effective advertising and sales tool to spread knowledge and awareness of the possibilities of distributed computing. Just as many grocery stores advertise "loss leaders" to attract customers to come in purchase other items, grid.org helps to encourage interest in our other products. It is without a doubt that at least some of our current corporate/university customers first became aware of UD because some individual had participated in the grid.org projects.
• Running Internet based projects is fun for all! I and others started distributed.net because I enjoyed the large-scale aspect Internet based projects. Continuing the tradition of running Internet-based projects is an important appeal of my work at UD.
• Serving humanity is good for your karma.