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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/27/grid_cancer_research_results/

This article notes 3,238 years of grid processing for "cancer" as grid.org closes.

The implication is that grid.org is closing and the work is done. In a following comment, I note that "cancer" was not the only project done at grid.org and Vulture Central II was not the only team out there. What about those OTHER 43 Vulture Central teams that we set up for various projects? I listed them, as another commenter said "What about BOINC"? The Register started Vulture Central 2.2 in folding@home, but hadn't notice that Vulture Central VI had already been there for a couple of years. Duh!

A commenter noted that grid.org was merely "evangelism" for grid computing. Perhaps it was, since it closed with only 2 days notice on an arbitrary date. I followed that up with this:

World Community Grid research results

Re: Is grid computing useful

Yes, grid.org closed at an arbitrary date (due to corporate influences) and some of the Rosetta phase 1 data was not used.

Grid computing is a fairly new technology, and the scientists are just now finding out about it. In the meantime, other projects are getting results. World Community Grid research project areas note the publication of scientific papers from phase 1 of Human Proteome Folding. Since grid computing is the FIRST phase of the timeline of these kinds of projects, it can take many years to synthesize physical chemicals indicated by the computing (for medical related projects) and figure out what it all means. We have taken years of work off of the BEGINNING of these projects, not the END of the projects. The parameters can also be changed, and new hypotheses investigated quickly.

The mathematical projects are discovering new numbers in the series that they are investigating.