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."

Comments

Re:Only 79 /.ers in six weeks. What does that say?

[Anonymous Coward]

anybody tried it with wine?

Has anybody tried the client in Wine?

[tepples]

Does the client work under ABI translation on Linux or *BSD on x86?

Funny

[pertinax18]

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.

Re:Only 79 /.ers in six weeks. What does that say?

[IO ERROR]

The vast majority of Slashdotters use Windows. That's the dirty secret around here. Nobody wants to admit they're all using windows.

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.

Open Grid ?

[djplurvert]

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.

Re:Only 79 /.ers in six weeks. What does that say?

[mahdi13]

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...