Our tag line: "Team MacNN - The single most amazing group of Mac users ever assembled for anything. Ever."
Yet...we're ranked 16th overall for BOINC projects.
I think it's time we proved it by being #1 at *something*.
Check out this page for the lay of the land:
BOINCstats | Team stats - Search - Team MacNN
I figured a mac-friendly project would be preferred, but there aren't any reachable, or desirable(1). Since that's out, a medical project would be nice to help draw participation(2).
Based on all this, how about a real push to become #1?! I suggest Malaria Control for the following reasons:
o Closest in RAC to #1
o Good cause
o Popular (Bono/DATA/ONE/RED/etc)
o Achievable! (but not easy)
o Finally: It'll be *fun* to work on this as a team.
Well? What do you think!? I *know* we can do this. Are you in?
All aboard!!
1) Mac friendly projects:
- Docking: 26th: Not open to everyone (yet); Not doing real science (yet)
- Predictor: 4th: No new work (although it's may start again soon)
- Rosetta: 11th: Would need to triple our RAC just to match (not catch) the #1 RAC team...and we need to add 66 *million* to catch the current #1 team assuming they earn 0 credits going forward.
- RALPH: 12th: Work not always available. Also, excluding beta projects when a regular version exists.
- SIMAP: 39th: Work not always available. But stay attached! We're still moving up fast!
- WCG: 142nd: BOINC is only about 10% of their total contributors. Even so, we would need to multiply our RAC by 9 just to match (not catch) the #1 RAC team...and we need to add 29 *million* to catch the current #1 team assuming they earn 0 credits going forward.
- CPDN: 22nd: Only Intel (eventually)...also unreachable.
- Einstein: 18th: We would need to multiply our RAC by 14 just to match (not catch) the #1 RAC team...and we need to add 100 *million* to catch the current #1 team assuming they earn 0 credits going forward.
- SETI: 16th: On one hand, we have the best optimized application from our own alexkan. On the other, the non-macs have a fairly good one too. We would need to multiply our RAC by 6 just to match (not catch) the #1 RAC team...and we need to add 189 *million* to catch the current #1 team assuming they earn 0 credits going forward.
- SETI Beta: 44th: Beta....
- SZTAKI: 89th: Only PPC, and the applications are craptastic. Lucky to get 50% to validate.
- Pirates: 26th: Work not always available.
2) Medical, not already in #1:
- Malaria Control: 72nd: We would need to multiply our RAC by 11 just to match (not catch) the #1 RAC team...and we need to add 3 *million* to catch the current #1 team assuming they earn 0 credits going forward. Also just about to leave Beta. The RAC is mostly just one guy, so it should be fairly easy to really crank this up.
- Proteins: 21st: We would need to multiply our RAC by 16 just to match (not catch) the #1 RAC team...and we need to add 700 thousand to catch the current #1 team assuming they earn 0 credits going forward. Beta. The RAC is mostly just one guy, so it should be fairly easy to really crank this up.
- Tanpaku: 47th: We would need to multiply our RAC by 13 just to match (not catch) the #1 RAC team...and we need to add 2 *million* to catch the current #1 team assuming they earn 0 credits going forward. Beta. The RAC is mostly just three people, so it should be fairly easy to really crank this up.
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