Hi snoekie,

Although my personal experiences only reflect a sample size of 1, I have not encountered the problem that you described. When I created my WCG account a couple months ago, I only selected the FightAIDSatHome option. Although I do think that the other projects on the WCG should be supported, I chose to only run FAAH calculations, because it helps me keep track of the progress of the experiments I am performing on FAAH.

After creating my initial account and modifying that checklist of different projects, no changes have ever been made to my preferences. A few months ago I chose to only run FAAH calculations on my home computer, and all of the work units on my Mac have been from FightAIDS@Home.

My $0.02,
Dr. Alex Perryman

Hi zanderqin,

Your belief is completely correct. It will take the WCG a few years to complete the experiments I am currently planning for FA@H. In fact, I have to trim down some of my plans in order for those projects to be feasible, even with the tremendous resources that you all provide us.

If/when we are eventually able to completely defeat HIV protease (that is, to design enough flavors of the different classes of HIV protease inhibitors, such that HIV is no longer able to mutate the protease enzyme into a form that can evade all of the different drugs while still being able to efficiently perform its biological function for the virus), then we will start to focus our efforts on the other drug targets from HIV. I expect it to take several (to many) years before we figure out how to completely defeat HIV protease. But I'm working on it, and I do have hope that we can eventually figure out how to corner HIV protease in sequence space.

snoekie,

Can you confirm that after following Didactylos instructions from above that new workunits sent to you are only from projects you have selected?

Also - please don't read anything into a bug like this. We get no profit from any of the projects and if you continue to have problems removing a project from your profile, it is only do to a bug accidentally added by us (us being the WCG techs - not the project researchers). It is not an attempt to remove your ability to choose which projects you run.

thanks,
Kevin

Unfortunatly this is a problem most distributed computing projects that run multiple sub projects... its there choice of auto op-in vs auto op-out

personaly i would love if they had a selection to be able to select op-in or opt out on new projects...

actualy right now i am runnin on Boinc and i have many other projects... but i am also up-in my share of my computers to WCG cause i think they curently have alot of good projects that i am intrested in

personaly i would prefer op-in but i know and understand the reason people would prefer op-out.

also remember yes there will probably be a long time before any of the projects truly run out of work units.. but sometimes there will be delays in one project or another do to them trying to get all the results in from wave 1 before starting the next wave of work units ... or they may be trying to get the results so they can sharpen the focus of the project and become a much better program for the next step.

personaly i hope that they find a cure for Aids and many of the cancers so we can then refocu the serch power to more diseases

lets hope we can cure the disease you are trying to get a cure for and then you all decide to stay on for more projects afterwords


Nasher