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     6 years ago  

    WCG has 650 000 users. Plenty of people care.

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     6 years ago  

    I have a question now...
    I am running a witness for steemit; And I have some additional computational power that I could use to support this beacon of hope for science, which is what I will do for sure!
    My question is - would donating CPU power impact my parallely witnessing actions?

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       6 years ago (edited) 

      All WCG tasks are executed at Low CPU priority so they should not impact the OS and other applications. Witnessing is memory intensive though (or so I heard) and WCG usually needs 200-300 MB per task so if you run lots of them (not uncommon on modern multicore, multithreaded CPUs) you might want to keep an eye on that.

      BTW, what is the name of your witness, I would be happy to vote for it.

      EDIT: I got it. It's @crowdwitness, right?

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       6 years ago  

      Yes! Thank you for voting.
      I will definitely try it! If it makes some problems, I will use nice machines from one datacenter I have access to.

      Thanks for your vote, I appreciate that.

      Let's make computational stuff great again!

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       6 years ago  

      650.000 for science, while FB counts 4.000.000.000 users. A bit hard discrepancy :(

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         6 years ago (edited) 

        4.62 million is a total number of registered BOINC users, with 100+ past and present scientific projects. Approximately 650k of them are participating in WCG (or have done so in the past).