Hello movc1 (Mrs M. Ovcina ) and welcome to the forums


Many of us came here from another grid project and I feel very comfortable here, like at home, as if there were no borders between us

Each one has his own reazons , in my case mainly cause lost many of my family due to cancer


Know very well your Univesity which is Australia's most internationalised one , lived in your Country for many years


Best wishes with your article

JP

Hi J.P. and Harold,

Thank you for your replies and for sharing your stories. It is just incredible to hear that there is so many people affected with cancer in particular. I personally know of a few people myself battling with cancer, the most recent, my boss's husband, who is now in remission at the age of 74, but when diagnosed two years ago was told he only had 12 months to live. Another colleague at work has a 10-year old nephew with leukemia and a sister in law who was just diagnosed and apparently only has 6 months left. I am sure that people had types of cancers decades before, but it seems to be more prominent these days...especially skin cancer in Australia.

I have recently cranked up my machine to use 100% of its CPU to help with the crunching as much as possible. My machine alone is probably very minute in the grand scheme of things, but united with others around the world I hope that it will bring much needed research results for all kinds of illnesses.

Once again, thank you all and I shall keep in touch.

P.S. I am also interested in creative writing....I do that in my 'spare' time (although I work full time and study journalism)...but creative writing let's me escape for a while.

Regards,

Merima

Like JP and haldav I too have been crunching many years... I lost my Wife, mother, a sister and a brother to Cancer, and had it myself 13 years ago... I guess one might say I'm a survivor... I'll continue crunching until the last work unit has been crunched..... or I die, whichever comes first...

While I have also had multiple family, friends, and co-workers afflicted by various forms of cancer, I tend to focusing more on the genetic and "how do proteins work" research. My mother's side of the family has/had various degrees of diabetes, and my son has damage to his chromosome 2 sequences I hope may one day be repairable. All of the research is enabling the scientists to better understand the mechanisms behind the processes, and thus hopefully learn how to control the processes.
As to why WCG, this site was recommended after another volunteer computing site was shut down, and I was welcomed as part of the family. It feels like home here, and I plan to crunch as long as I have machines available and the need exists.

James

What Harold said


JP