MODS and F@H team: Thank You!
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:53 pm
Hi,
New donor here. Last time I did something like this was participating in SETI many many many years ago - before most "gamers" were born.
I want to say thank you to the moderators of this forum here, and to anyone involved directly in the F@H project work is reading, thank you for doing the work you do, enabling the tool you enable, and attempting to leverage the value of the number of new users you are receiving. Thank you to the open source community that has been working on this important research tool silently in the background for years.
I know it has been a busy week/weekend for the teams!
We all know that COVID-19 isn't likely to be short sprint, but a long marathon. Providing resources to this is something small that I *can* do that hopefully may be helpful. I am trusting those responsible for the project to monitor the growth in capacity and the allocation of resources well. When there isn't work on COVID-19 projects, of course you can use my resources for other critically important research. I am certain this team will see rapidly growing capacity and I hope it sticks! I do believe Nvidia's, and other's, social media announcements / requests will get people on-board... for a while. I hope much of the capacity sticks. I also hope cloud providers are going to partner to give you the data storage space you need. (Hey AWS - Microsoft - Google - hellllo)
Really I just want to say I can see you are working hard - you are trying to explain to people that this is part of a MUCH bigger picture, and while you appreciate their willingness to donate, the resources to allocate work are stretched. I hope people avoid the judgement that comes so quickly to some.
If I could buy you a beer, I would. Cheers!
New donor here. Last time I did something like this was participating in SETI many many many years ago - before most "gamers" were born.
I want to say thank you to the moderators of this forum here, and to anyone involved directly in the F@H project work is reading, thank you for doing the work you do, enabling the tool you enable, and attempting to leverage the value of the number of new users you are receiving. Thank you to the open source community that has been working on this important research tool silently in the background for years.
I know it has been a busy week/weekend for the teams!
We all know that COVID-19 isn't likely to be short sprint, but a long marathon. Providing resources to this is something small that I *can* do that hopefully may be helpful. I am trusting those responsible for the project to monitor the growth in capacity and the allocation of resources well. When there isn't work on COVID-19 projects, of course you can use my resources for other critically important research. I am certain this team will see rapidly growing capacity and I hope it sticks! I do believe Nvidia's, and other's, social media announcements / requests will get people on-board... for a while. I hope much of the capacity sticks. I also hope cloud providers are going to partner to give you the data storage space you need. (Hey AWS - Microsoft - Google - hellllo)
Really I just want to say I can see you are working hard - you are trying to explain to people that this is part of a MUCH bigger picture, and while you appreciate their willingness to donate, the resources to allocate work are stretched. I hope people avoid the judgement that comes so quickly to some.
If I could buy you a beer, I would. Cheers!