BOINC is a solution for donating your computers idle time to help with scientific research projects via your screen-saver. At the time of posting there are over 600,000 people world-wide participating in BOINC. The stats pages being heavily visited, and with the top teams attracting attention we just couldn't miss the opportunity to promote WoP around the world in return for some of our wasted cpu cycles. So, we set up some "World of Padman" teams with BOINC projects  (Seti, Rosetta, LHC, QMC)

So, if you can, then please will you help to promote the World of Padman by raising our rankings?

• Help SETI@home Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence.
  
  join SETI@home
  create new SETI@home account
  view our SETI@home stats
  
  
• Help Rosetta@home find cures for major human diseases.
  
  join Rosetta@home
  create new Rosetta@home account
  view our Rosetta@home stats
  
  
  
• Help LHC@home run the simulations that tune the LHC particle accelerator.
  
  join LHC@home
  create new LHC account
  view our LHC@home stats
  
  
• Help QMC@home with their Quantum Monte Carlo Chemistry predictions.
  
  join QMC@home
  create new QMC@home account
  no stats page yet.
  
  
• More stats here: http://boinc.mundayweb.com/stats/
  

Naa me dosen't want to burn out me whinedoze }
*shoves pc in the pond*

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Everybody do the Bot-Dance!

<#***>< pond message relay: you forgot to add concrete boots when ditching your computer  to stop it floating

Your Pond Computer will have idle time during normal use anyway, so there's no need to leave it on and rack up the electricity bill, you can control preferences to suspend activity, always run, or run based on preferences; and you don't even need to keep it connected to the net.

electricity consumption is of course related to CPU usage, so the electricity bill argument speaks against these distributed computing projects.
the differences between idle and busy CPUs are 50 - 100 watt.

Mainly I'm using my laptop for these calculations now. This means even the cpu is busy it's eating approx. 20-40 watt. Well, for me this is ok because of I'm calculating over several hours only approx. 0.75 days a week. 
After I've seen these more or less senseless screensavers I had here I thought it could be more meaningful things to do for my machines. 

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"I have a list of people I've to kill" *Robert Stroud "The Birdman Of Alcatraz", promptly joked after he was asked by an officer what he would do if he was released. At this time he was in jail (segregation) about 50 years.

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he is bending the fabric of reality into a world where online and offline are the same thing =O [doomdragon]

The idea is to bring existing BOINC users together as a team.

Anyone new to BOINC who doesn't pay the electricity bill should seek the permission of the person paying the bill as there may be a small overhead involved.

This overhead shouldn't be noticeable in the scheme of things, unless you deliberately leave your computer on for the sake of running BOINC continuously; which is something I wouldn't recommend. I would however, recommend that you try to offset any perceived increase through energy savings elsewhere, such as ensuring you don't leave the TV on standby.

Is this overhead a bad thing? well, I don't think so, in fact I think it can be harnessed for the good! You see I personally use BOINC as a measure of my forgetfulness toward energy conservation, and as a means to penalise my wastage of electricity. The penalty is in the form of a tip to the electricity company for whatever good cause BOINC was working on, which for me is the price of a few hot cups of tea, because I only do little bits at a time, and then not deliberately.

Confused? Yes, I said not deliberately, because I aim to reduce the amount of screen saver activity that takes place, and when I fail, I take the view that without BOINC I am deliberately wasting electricity, but with BOINC at least I know the wastage is recycled into doing some useful work. Something I consider better than leaving the computer idle for double the time doing absolutely no useful work whatsoever.

As I don't want to tip the electricity company, I either sleep the computer or I switch it off completely between sessions. BOINC kicks in when I forget to do that, and the stats become a measurement of my forgetfulness, or degree of wastage.

So, strange as it may seem, I use BOINC to remind me to conserve electricity

* will someone switch the lights on *

but...in the end, in a philosophical way, it seems to me that it's somehow inconsistent.
During the poles are melting we calculate when this will be. During calculating we produce emissions which are responsible for heating up the atmosphere and for that melting down the poles. So, if you want, it seems a bit perverse.
Personally I'm calculating cause I can't see a solution to this problem up to now. And, for all that, I've asked myself during all my life, what's going on out there?

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"I have a list of people I've to kill" *Robert Stroud "The Birdman Of Alcatraz", promptly joked after he was asked by an officer what he would do if he was released. At this time he was in jail (segregation) about 50 years.

Global Warming is not the only factor, there's also Global dimming.

Bad for me, is leaving your computer consuming some 50 watts at idle achieving nothing.

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he is bending the fabric of reality into a world where online and offline are the same thing =O [doomdragon]

Oh, yes there is you have to extract the ore, transport it, smelt it, build the things, etc, with lots of steps in-between including on-goining maintenance and large wind-farms might be generating electricity which drives things that pollute appart from that, they are an eye-sore

Heh, our tv is left on standby, and computers(two of them) are left on 24/7

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=-Somtin-=
Steer clear of incorrect verb forms that have snuck into the language. Never ever say never. I must have told you a million times to resist hyperbole. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of ten or more words, to their antecedents. A writer must not shift your point of view. Don't use no double negatives. A preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.

*TUTS* You should be shoved through the grinder!.

Im glad we never leave any of our tv's on standbye and when the computer is not in use it always goes off. Or goes on standby if im gonna return to it shortly, but it would never be for too long on standby.
Don't waste energy. }

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heheh. *gos outside for a couple of hours... and leaves computer on* XD XD

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Steer clear of incorrect verb forms that have snuck into the language. Never ever say never. I must have told you a million times to resist hyperbole. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of ten or more words, to their antecedents. A writer must not shift your point of view. Don't use no double negatives. A preposition is a terrible word to end a sentence with. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.

Would this kill my connection while playing WoP? Or make my computer A LOT slower?

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