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| 1) Message boards : The Lounge : Analogy of Distributed Computing
Message 16836 Posted 24 Apr 2008 by JordanWeber |
Does anyone know if there is an (obviously incorrect, but close to) analogy of how much you are contributing by running your computer for a day? Like: say for instance, "running your computer with <insert bio/folding project here> for 1 day is equal to finding a cure for <a certain or well known disease> 1 second faster" "Thus, if only 1000 people participated, in 1 year, we could find this cure 4.2 days faster, or 33.6 days faster with an "average" computer." Obviously this is incorrect, but it helps to show what an impact a person could have for a project, and helps them convince their friends/family to get involved as well. Some results should be stated like: "assumes 1 cpu at 500mhz with 75% idle usage" and it would take factors like redundancy checks. |
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