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IBM Grid Near 50,000 machines - Slashdot Users #13
another similar writes "IBM's World Community Grid is off to a roaring start. Since kicking off six weeks ago (original Slashdot story), the grid has grown to almost 36,000 users with almost 50,000 machines. Growth continues as more media coverage hits.
There is a team of Slashdot users - currently ranked 13th in points with only 79 members. If you have spare cycles, download the software, join us and crank for medicine. For those of you with dual processor systems, you'll have to use a homebrewed tool - beyond two is not supported yet. Alas, you also have to be running Redmond's finest. According to their FAQ, a Linux client is slated for development in 2005."
anybody tried it with wine?
Slashdot should have a team developing a client.
SETI@HOME 4 LIFE
Does the client work under ABI translation on Linux or *BSD on x86?
It's funny that the article makes a big deal about having only 79 members and being ranked 13th in total points. Well, as of now, they are also ranked 15th in total members, so when you combine the two facts it isn't nearly as impressive.
I use both. Windows is fine for games, but I reboot to Linux when I want to do some real work.
Not a sentence!
Can anyone find any info on the network bandwidth this thing will use up? I may not use the PC for anything else, but I don't want my wee little cable modem fed network swamped when I'm on the Apple boxen.
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While I doubt CmdrTaco is about to post the server logs, I dare say this is un-hilariously wrong.
When I pull my logs and segment out everyone who was referred here from /. (and shame on you people who have your referer disabled, you know who you are and so do I) I show 85% using Linux, nearly all of whom are using Firefox, and about 1/3 of whom are using a pre-1.0 version.
I also show the Windows users who come to my site stick around longer and spend more time on the Linux articles than do the Linux users. So I plan more Linux articles.
And reading the User-Agent strings is fun.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
At the risk of sounding naive, is anybody aware of a group of amateurs running a grid on a smaller scale.
I'm not thinking of your typical "let's all save the world with cpu cycles" kind of project. Rather, somthing on a smaller scale that allows you to join the grid with the intent of using it for your own projects.
I did some work last year that made use of apple's grid software on some lab computers at school but it would have been nice to have access to 1000 or 2000 machines for a day or so.
I can imagine there are sharing issues that might make it impractical but I can also imagine that it might just work considering, at least for me, the sporadic nature of the need for such a grid.
By the time I'm writing this it's probably well over 500 hundred but that's still a puny number considering there are more than 1,000,000 registered Slashdot users. Since I'm at home for the holidays I'll be installing this on the 'rent's computer before I go back to my tabletop penguin.
Direct away from face when opening.
They're working on support for Microsoft Installer. Until then, have you tried installing it on a winbox and then copying it over, or is it anal about registry entries, or are you boycotting Windows entirely?
When my adblocker was put on the slashdot front page I ran analog and saw something like 70% using windows. Possibly more. I wish I still had the logs. I also remember taco claiming that a huge number (60 or 80 percent) were Windows users.
Of course some were people at work using windows so give em 5 percent or so, but the problem here isnt the lack of a linux client its the lack of promotion on IBMs part. First I've heard of it.
Sorry, but this isnt the linux haven you think it is. Windows first, UNIX, and then Macs. Oh and I'm sure there are at least eight guys surfing from a commodore 64.
I'm on XP right now and shifting to OSX next year. All my UNIX work is done on the server side. The linux desktop revolution hasnt happened and may never happen. There needs to be a whole lot more commercialization of linux to even compete with MS and Apple's offerings.
No, it counts CPU time, not physical wall time. So, it runs 300+ hours on the slow cpu, then a few hours on the fast CPU, and it sees 300+ hours on the fast cpu when it turns them in. They award more points to fast machines because they figure if it took the fast machine a while to do, it must've been a hard one. This isn't like RC-?? cracking. Each work unit is variable in difficulty.
Why use wine?
I've been working with Stanford on Protein Folding for a while...plus they support Windows, Linux AND MacOSX
Let us know when IBM decides to let the 'rest of us' in on their fun and maybe we'll join up...
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
why are you WTFing, you are both right. 2000 was suppose to be for consumers, but it wasn't going to be ready in time, but they had consumer side new stuff worked out with what was ME, thus why its a bit of a mutant between 98 and XP. I suspect MS knew 2000 probably wasn't going to be ready in time, thus they probably kept what was ME going along just incase, and they used it. Also the reason they had to give it the dumb name. Can't have two windows 00's can we. And the 2000 for the NT was probably planned from day one to continue the year system for the 9x series.
When they finally finished what 2000 was to be, that was XP/5.1, the couldn't call it 6.0 cause it was just the finished job over 5.0, and giving it a year name would be bad cause 2000 hadn't been around very long.
I'd love to see longhorn just called Windows 6.0 But that probably won't happen. Windows 200x will be ok. Their current numbering implies that will be the case. Windows 6.0 in 2006 will work out nicely. To bad they can't go back to version numbers, they can't cause it would confuse the snot out of consumers.
To think they would have been saved if they just hadn't called both their OS's windows. 9x series became years cause they used 4.0 for NT. Should have just had Windows, and Windows Pro from the start, even if they had separate bases. Then the XP merge could have happened and everything would be fine. And we could have Windows 6.0 and 6.0 Pro. Alas, it never will be.
This might sound like a stupid question, but I've had my World Community Grid client running since the first time /. covered the subject. But I'm not part of some /. group of WCG users as far as I know... I'm just another individual client app. How is this /. group identified and grouped by the WCG?
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shame on you people who have your referer disabled
It's no-one's business which site I browsed before coming to your site. In fact, there is no RFC which states that the referer header is mandatory. The fact that certain sites discriminate against visitors coming from certain other cites has influenced me to disable referer logging in my browser.
To disable the referer header in Firefox/Mozilla, just go to about:config and filter by 'referer'. Set this value to '0'. You're welcome.
We now have 2,230 members ranking no1 in the groups, hopefully this will help us catch up in "points" generated.
I have one question about this type of project, what is to stop users from returning spurious results? Are there any safeguards in place to insure that the results returned are accurate?
My sentiment exactly. The results of this type of research must be worth a lot of money, and the way things work, someone is bound to make a bundle. Maybe I can just sue them for my piece of the pie.
That doesn't surprise me. Scientists seem to think there's nothing you can't learn about comptuer science as you go along. I would bet money that speed gains could be had simply by properly structuring that mess, profiling, and optimizing the inner loops.
I've seen science/old-school engineering types argue for fortran for speed when the real speed issue is how the code is written.