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Lets get the welcome thread updated

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Welcome to the Team AnandTech Distributed Computing Forum! Here you will find plenty of great folks who would be glad to help you with the technical side of setting up and running distributed computing applications. You will find people who are more passionate about numbers than some mathematicians. You will find a great community who enjoy having [slightly] off topic discussions and helping each other immensely in real life.

So what is this ?distributed computing? thing anyway? Distributed computing describes a system in which client systems receive work involving calculation of some sort from a server, perform the computation, and then send the results back to the server. Thus, it is possible to employ thousands or millions of personal computers, surpassing the power of many supercomputers.

You might ask, why would I want to donate my spare CPU time and electricity to something like this? A quick overview of the variety of projects listed below may well convince you that the very small cost of electricity required to run a computer 24/7 (hint: turn off the monitor to save power) is well worth the difference you can make in your project?s area of scientific research.

Some projects look outward into space, to look for extraterrestrial life, pulsars, and other things. Others look around, to chart the development of life on the planet, or predict future weather patterns. Yet others look inward, to analyze the structure of atoms, molecules, or proteins. Each project can have a great impact on the development of science in its area, and you can help!

The following is a quick, ready reference to each project's home page where you can read all about them.

If you would be interested in running one of our TeAm Projects, please visit our TeAm AnandTech Websites:

The Reddeye Xpress hosted by "Wolfsraider"

TeAm AnandTech DC Projects hosted by "amdxborg"

Look over the various projects. Most are very easy to set up and run, don't require 24 hour/day operation (but once addicted, you may just do that), and have almost no effect on your everyday PC(s) operations.

If you have a question, please jump right in and ask ... or just say hello! You'll be glad you did, and we will, too! 🙂
 
Ok, I've conjured up a few very minor suggestions, mostly concerning readability. In the forum's Dark theme, the titles and links look exactly the same until one mouses over them (I'm on a computer lab PC without my custom userContent.css, so the links are very hard to see at first glance). Perhaps the titles could be set in bold & italics to make them stand out a bit more.

Also, I'd like to suggest replacing this line with something else:
The following is a quick, ready reference to each project's home page where you can read all about them.
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Potential replacement:
Project website quick reference, by category:
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Sorry, I don't intend to nitpick, I'm just a fan of short, consice, non-repetitive, and brief statements that avoid redundancy. 😉

Also, are the category headings going to be sorted alphabetically, as the projects underneath them are? If there's a reason for the current order, I'm fine with it as it is, of course.

Other than those (very small) things, it's looking great to me. Even with what I've said, I still wouldn't complain if you posted it as is.
 
Welcome to the Team AnandTech Distributed Computing Forum! Here you will find plenty of great folks who would be glad to help you with the technical side of setting up and running distributed computing applications. You will find people who are more passionate about numbers than some mathematicians. You will find a great community who enjoy having [slightly] off topic discussions and helping each other immensely in real life.

So what is this ?distributed computing? thing anyway? Distributed computing describes a system in which client systems receive work involving calculation of some sort from a server, perform the computation, and then send the results back to the server. Thus, it is possible to employ thousands or millions of personal computers, surpassing the power of many supercomputers.

You might ask, why would I want to donate my spare CPU time and electricity to something like this? A quick overview of the variety of projects listed below may well convince you that the very small cost of electricity required to run a computer 24/7 (hint: turn off the monitor to save power) is well worth the difference you can make in your project?s area of scientific research.

Some projects look outward into space, to look for extraterrestrial life, pulsars, and other things. Others look around, to chart the development of life on the planet, or predict future weather patterns. Yet others look inward, to analyze the structure of atoms, molecules, or proteins. Each project can have a great impact on the development of science in its area, and you can help!

Project website quick reference, by category:

If you would be interested in running one of our TeAm Projects, please visit our TeAm AnandTech Websites:

The Reddeye Xpress hosted by "Wolfsraider"

TeAm AnandTech DC Projects hosted by "amdxborg"

Look over the various projects. Most are very easy to set up and run, don't require 24 hour/day operation (but once addicted, you may just do that), and have almost no effect on your everyday PC(s) operations.

If you have a question, please jump right in and ask ... or just say hello! You'll be glad you did, and we will, too! 🙂
 
It has been submitted ... waiting on the AT MOD to give it a go or nogo.
 
Wahoo that's great news

Thank You greg for everything you have done and are doing to make this a great TeAm.

:beer::beer:😛:beer::beer:

Mike
 
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