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Grid.org no more
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:34 pm
by UBT-mark3346
"On Friday, April 27, 2007, Grid.org announced it has completed its mission to demonstrate the viability and benefits of large-scale Internet-based grid computing, and will be retiring its famous efforts to support critical health research"
Lots of the users have switched to WCG so maintaining a ranking position is going to be harder (unless we can pick up some of the refugees)
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 12:40 pm
by UBT - Halifax-lad
Depends if they use BOINC or the UD client really, I can see them going for UD
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:01 pm
by UBT-mark3346
UBT - Halifax--lad wrote:Depends if they use BOINC or the UD client really, I can see them going for UD
"As of April 2007, Grid.org managed 3,732,696 global devices, with 1,340,913 registered members who contributed 210 years of CPU time daily
Grid.org's top 5 teams have nearly 100,000 members combined"
(thats over twice as many users and devices as Seti has and the daily CPU time of 210 years compares to 92 years for WCG inc UD)
Maybe most will UD client but a small percentage of that number is still a big one...WCG have averaged around 100 new Boinc members a day for the last 60 days, yesterday there were over 300.
(Edit and today almost 600 new members)
Grid mentioned the projects below to its users so it is not just WCG that may have more new users than usual.
World Community Grid,
Distributed.net
Compute Against Cancer,
Folding@Home,
climateprediction.net,
fightAIDS@Home,
LHC@home,
SETI@home,
Distributed Folding,