First Guest D2D Blog Post from the Community

Thu. Jan. 17, 2008

A while back, Jeff (otherwise known as CHSIsupplier) from the Dell Community Forum contacted me to ask if I write a blog post about Stanford University's Folding@Home distributed computing project both to raise awareness and to help them add members to Team_XPS. I thought it was a great idea.

Team_XPS is made up mainly of XPS system owners who have gathered on the forum to rally support the Folding@Home project. After reading some of the background that Jeff shared, and doing some research on what this project was all about, I joined the team as well. My XPS 720 is plugging away from home right now.

As I mentioned in the title of this post, Jeff is the first person from the community to do a guest post on Direct2Dell. I look forward to doing more of this in the future.

Special thanks to Jeff, and to both Aivas47a, and MoneyGuyBK who both contributed to his blog post. You can read Jeff's post here.

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Only published comments... Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:44 AM
by Lionel Menchaca, Chief Blogger
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Pointguard1122 said:

Great Post CHSI.  Thanks to Del and Lionel for the exposure.  I hope to see more members join soon.  If anyone is thinking of joining but has questions or concerns, feels free to visit us either here
http://forums.rampantspeculation.com/viewforum.php?f=29
or here
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=Tech_Talk_XPS&thread.id=7308&page=1

We are the fastest climbing team of all time.  More than that, we have a great group of people that are willing to help with almost anything.  We have even formed a few online games from this group.  I strongly encourage anyone, whether you own a Dell or not, to join this cause.  Who knows, it might save your life one day.

January 17, 2008 12:54 PM
MoneyGuyBK said:

Thanx Lionel / DCF

This is an invitation to all to join, and so is this (VIPs only)

 

Peace

January 17, 2008 1:40 PM
CHSIsupplier said:

I think this community guest blogging is a terrific idea. It's a great way for the Dell community to share ideas to a more widespread audience. I appreciate you letting Team XPS take the honors and have the first crack at this! Thanks Lionel!

 I wonder what the next guest topic will be. 

January 17, 2008 4:57 PM
Dell-Bill B said:

I am really glad to see you post this on D2D. Stanford is doing some incredible work. I am so proud to see guys like Jeff, Money and the rest of the Dell Community Folding @ Home members driving this. It's like Jeff said, "Who knows, it might save your life one day."

January 17, 2008 5:01 PM
MoneyGuyBK said:

Hey Bill....

I wonder if you would like to be next to join Team_XPS or will you let Chris or one of the other DCF Mods beat you to it !!!  hint, hint !!!

 

Peace

 

January 17, 2008 9:31 PM
music said:
What do you mean ?
January 30, 2008 3:00 PM

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