Berserker said:
Shame we can't seem to light a fire under the team now.
The problem, if you could call it that, is the same problem that faces any democratic organization; faction. When SETI Classic went caput in the summer of 2004 there were a great many SETI Classic crunchers who did not want to switch to SETI BOINC. BOINC allows for participation in multiple projects so some of those who used to do exclusively SETI now are branched out to other DC projects.
OcUK is highly ranked in many projects, especially SETI. Heck, we won SETI Classic thanks in no small part to OcUK having the No. 1 and No. 2 crunchers in the entire world. We're currently 10th in SETI BOINC and we're highly ranked in a number of other projects. If we wanted to get to the top of anything we'll have to focus and eliminate the factioned crunching. this is unlikely to happen.
If all OcUK DC participants were on a single project there is no doubt that we would do very well that project. There are just too many projects running to be completely dominant. I don't think that will ever happen nor do i think it should ever happen. People are free to do waht they wish with their electricity and their MIPS.
As far as recruitment goes it could be said that we're very close to having reached critical mass. The trickle of new members is great but of the total OcUK population of possible crunchers it's very small. One could theorize that most of the people who are willing to try DC already have done so. the trick now is getting people to try it, even if just for a bit. We all know how addictive it can be.
I look at the example of FAH Team Engadget. Engadget is Hack-a-Day's sister blog. When Team Hack-a-Day started FAH and got it pimped out to the front page where thousands or millions of people read it a few engadget readers founded a team. About a month later there about a dozen team members. The site editors heard about it and decided to give team hack-a-Day a run for its money. They decided to give something away to a lucky folder every month just to get people interested. In two weeks they were outputting 100kppd and were poised to stomp us.
We could try a similar ploy. I remember a few months back there was talk of setting up a contest where Sculptor was to give away an extra CPU. I don't know what happened to that or if the prize is still abailable. We could spam GD with a contest where one enters by posting their Folding username and a link to their EOC page. We would then feed the entered names into a script that would randomly assign a number to that name. We'd run it a few million times, adding the numbers together at each cycle. After about 10,000,000 cycles whoever's name had the highest number would be the lucky winner. the contest should span a few weeks or even a month. That way the users can have a chance to get addicted.
Ideas? Feel free to shoot me down.
). Is there any way to transfer the core between computers? Id rather it goes on my opty after this 600 pointer is done