The current Human Proteome Folding Project fits comfortably within 50 MB of hard disk space. Any larger sizes that you allocate are simply authorizing the World Community Grid to use more of your disk drive if some future project needs more space. Currently, the results are stored in a temporary (encrypted) file as they are produced. At the end of the Work Unit, this file is read, decrypted, compressed, re-encrypted, and transmitted to the server. You can get an idea of how many results your Work Unit is supposed to produce by watching the Application View with decimal percentage work completed. Each time a result is produced and stored to disk, the work completed total increments. If it goes up 0.2%, then you are supposed to produce about 500 results. If it goes up 0.3%, then you are supposed to produce about 300 results.

Now just what constitutes a result has not been officially defined. My personal idea is that we are creating and scoring various ways of folding up the long string of protein bases created from the DNA template into a single interconnected molecule. There are a vast number of possible permutations, but only a few are likely because of various constraints.

Thanks Dataman for the apology.

Two points of clarification:
1 - Forum = a public meeting place for open discussion
Chatroom = online interactive discussion group

2 - Child = a son or daughter of human parents

Btw, did your parents always refer to you as "it"?
Or do you think you are an android like the star-trek "Data"? Come clean now Data man, come clean.