How about a ribbon? just kidding of course. But, from a beginners point of view, not being able to see individual contribution was rather.... Don't know what to say here, but I would have liked to see how much the top INDIVIDUAL was contributing.

Tell you what tomcast, you make it to first, I'll send you some prize money

but behind every corporation is an individual. Someone, somewhere decided to pitch distributed computing to Sony etc. They then had the perseverance to push to such a point that this corporation put it's resources on the line here. For these corporations, you are talking about a whole lot of money. Infrastructure, buildings, power. This is all money that they don't have to contribute and has come out of their profits.

Personally, I am one guy who has put in nearly 25 years of computing in 18 months. I have 17 cores running on machines that I own and run mainly at home.
However, I have anything from 40 to several hundred cores working at any one time. Probably over 200 as we speak. I have done this through talking to friends who trust me and allowing me to install WCG on their computers at both home and work. I have rescued old computers, refurbed them, added parts and then given them away to people who allow me to run WCG.
Some of my work places allow me to run it on banks of computers from time to time. I have to tread a fine line between getting what I want and keeping them happy.
I have put a metric ***-ton of work into getting WCG out there and although I talk about my successes, the road is littered with failures too.

I know that I will never be able to compete with a corporation, but all I do is focus on trying to improve my contribution.
Would you rate me as a corporation?

*edited to appropriate forum language - ErikaT

and if my meager network ever goes public and I actually start making some money from it then I will be the first to change my status from individual to corporate

Interesting. The discussion has veered towards Corporations VS Individuals. In fact the question was Teams and Individuals.
Another point was the split bewteen corporations and individuals. If we take the first 100 daily contributors yesterday were you find the large corporate contributors and a few "special individuals" posting over 300'000 points per day, you get a total of round 200 million points.

The total number of points yesterday was 650 million points.

Conclusion, the Individuals are the main contributors by a factor of at least of 3.

But we must recognize that the large corporations contribution are paramount, simply because without a large one like IBM, WCG would simply not exist.

Everybody is needed, from the smallest to the largest.

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