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just joined and dl'd and i have joined the team, i had 2 prestage cancerous moles on my back so im up for anything to fight cancer

My Father Suffers from brain cancer

i hope everyones problems sort themselves out one way or the other, it may sound saddistic but i was glad my mother died because she wasn't in as much pain anymore. and didn't have to put up with the struggle of everything and no one had to continue to see her deteriate slowly.

I've been running my World community Grid client for 120 days now - and that's the actual time it's been working. So I thought I'd go ahead and caculate a price on this stuff just for fun...

I'm going to share these numbers in case any of you other folks would be interested in knowing how much these CPU donations actully cost on your electric bill.

Note that the end-result is bound to be very individual based on your CPU's power consumption, the number of hours a day your PC is running and the price of electricity in your area.

My scenario:
Computer using a Pentium 4 HT-enabled 3,0 GHz processor
$0.294 USD per kWh with our power company
Computer usually runs about 8 hours a day.
Using a power consumption meter I've established that my entire PC system eats 188 watts when the CPU is idle and 220 with the CPU at 100% - of course this is always the case when running the grid.

So that's an extra 32 watts for 8 hours a day I'm donating to the grid. About the same amount used by 2-3 televisions on standby.

How much money does this translate to?
32 watts / 1000 = 0,032 kW
$0.294 per kWh * 0,032 kW = $0,00941 per hour
8 hours * $0,00941 per hour = $0,07526 a day

Since my computer runs for about 8 hours a day I'll be paying an extra 7.5 cents on my electric bill every day compared to having my computer on but not running the grid. That's roughly $27.50 a year if I'm not mistaken. An amount I certainly don't mind contributing with every year.


Note that I'm not quite donating this amount to the WCG since my computer's CPU wouldn't always be totally idle even if the WCG wasn't running - especially applies to heavy-duty gamers..

ha interesting, i think electricity must be bloody cheap in whereever you are!

by joining the messenger plus team, does that automatically defer my cpu resources to the cancer project only?, also won't this inevitably involve double processing?

no. basically the program runs in the background and if you are using the computer for other purposes say, surfing the net and messenger, then it will only use a small amount. When the computer is idling, then more resources will be used until you come to use it again

...and joining will do nothing; you actually need to install and run the program. I mean: it is not like if you join the team on that website that all of a sudden your PC is going to do stuff, you actually need to run the program too. Joining the team is just good for the team points which are gathered when you run the program (thus you can join whatever team you like; of course, if you do, we would be forced to come after you and kick your behind )

thanx for replying but im just wondering if joining the messenger plus team does the client only work on the cancer project or all the projects occuring

it depends what you choose to participate in, i thank you for your support and this joint research has lead to some improvments in treating cancer, i read the other day that they can now pin point an exact point to sevre to eliminate pain from (and 'feeding') the cancer (depending on where it is) thanks to joint CPU research