IBM Grid Near 50,000 machines - Slashdot Users #13

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 30, 2004 @03:50PM from the lucky-number dept.

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."

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Re:Only 79 /.ers in six weeks. What does that say? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-12-30 15:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

anybody tried it with wine?
Has anybody tried the client in Wine? by tepples · 2004-12-30 15:59 · Score: 4, Interesting

Does the client work under ABI translation on Linux or *BSD on x86?
Re:Only 79 /.ers in six weeks. What does that say? by mahdi13 · 2004-12-30 17:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

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...

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