Actually, when we launched World Community Grid, we had no idea that teams would become so popular. Before we knew it, there were in excess of 100 IBM teams and now there are more than 400 team with the word "IBM" in the team name: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewSe...=name&searchValue=IBM

We're not going to try to consolidate all of the IBM teams. The main team is the one named "IBM Corporation" but there are IBMers from all over the world who wish to be identified with their countries particular work group and thus have created their own team.

We have no problem with that and the World Community Grid support team is delighted to see that many of the top team are non-IBM.

I work for IBM. There was 1 announcement on the IBM Portal (w3) in November of last year. That has been the only communicaiton. There is no communication from Team captains that I know of. There is no team web sites for the Grid for any IBM team. I never see IBMers participate in the Forums that id themselves as IBM personnel. It is all word of mouth. There is no central voice, like we have at MOT.

Hi David

A Man after my own heart. I was going to do the same tomorrow to find out how much of the WCG was being powered through IBM's direct contribution. I was thinking at work today (a dangerous pastime) why the grid had stagnated at ~11,000,000 points a day while I could see around me vast numbers of fundementally idle PC's in a major corporation. This grid needs more big businesses like IBM to see that they can contribute directly for the good of Mankind through the WCG project. Each day I check those team points generated yesterday expecting to see a behemoth corporation storming it's way up the ranks making it's name felt on the WCG.

Sadly they don't seem to be joining the party. After the first half year it might be time for some reflection on why this might be. I had a look on the IBM website for press releases and the only reference still on there regarding the WCG was from the 16th November - the day of launch. I was sure there would be a press release when we had completed 10,000 years of processing - so sure I hadn't checked before today.

This project is now fully debugged on the windows client it's time for some more publicity


We need to get more crunching done for rbonneau's team at the ISB and to get ready for future number crunching challenges.

Keep 'em crunching
Dave

I worked for a very large corporation for many years. I would love to get them to participate in this effort but I understand their biases. They, with good reason, are concerned about any openings to the outside. They are concerned that if proficient hackers were to learn of the necessary hole in the firewalls, there could be attempts, perhaps even successful attempts to hack in.

There is certainly sufficient motivation for that hacking. If for no other reason to hang the mighty corporate scalp on their virtual belt; But more likely for monetary gain. No, I don't think it is the failure of IBM marketing but rather the rather healthy paranoia that surrounds the current corporate computing environments.

It is truly sad that we live in such a world wherein the phrase "healthy paranoia" makes sense; but we do.