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Former Member
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I found out about world community grid today and thought it was a great idea, so i went and posted about it on a forum i use and someone posted back asking "Does these things ever have any quantifiable results? Not bagging them, but just seeing if there's any documented evidence that the billions of donated CPU cycles have actually made a difference."
I thought it was a good question so I had a bit of a look but couldnt really find anything solid, so im wondering what everyone else knows. I was probably looking in the wrong places... |
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Academic research is a slow business. Here's the results so far: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=14467
We should see more papers published every few months from now on. Also, the actual data is available for those who need them. |
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Sekerob
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If you visit the Research Link up top, it leads to websites outside pertaining to the projects and progress as we go along.
----------------------------------------WCG has finished 4 projects, really 5 projects thus far: * Human Proteome Folding (phase 1), consisting of a Yeast study and HPF itself * FightAIDS@Home Phase 1, Phase II nearly finished * Help Defeat Cancer with very short term applicability (cancer imagining library for fast diagnoses) * Genome Comparison from Brazil * Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy (phase 1, with phase 2 early next year), from France. we will be driving forward with * HPF2 lasting till end of next year * FightAIDS@Home Update also known internally as Phase III lasting thru end of 2008 * Dengue (flavivirus study covering multiple but specific diseases), shortly * South African Climate Prediction, much more refined than the BBC Global climate study (2007) * Cancer, a X-ray Crystallography non USA study (2007) * Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy, phase II from France early 2008 That sums it up for, for now Edit: spelling correction
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Hello Foggy,
Our most 'applied' research was the 'Help Defeat Cancer' project. We analysed the digital images of cancer tissue samples (biopsies) to see if a computer could diagnose the different types of cancers. Results were favorable: http://pleiad.umdnj.edu/IBM/ FightAIDS@Home has been successfully using AutoDock to screen prospective drug candidates, eliminating 95% of the possibilities without expensive lab time. See http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/news/vol3.pdf This work has attracted the attention of researchers studying Dengue Fever. In a few months we should start the Dengue Fever project, which will use AutoDock to eliminate drug candidates in Phase 1 and then, in Phase 2, will use a more computationally intensive program to screen the candidates that make it through Phase 1. Then they will study the candidates that make it through Phase 2 in the lab (in vitro). Are these the sort of applied results you are thinking of? Lawrence |
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Thanks everyone
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