Esoteric17 to question me is absurd...I joined the WCG when barely anyone knew of it. I was around when getting 5000 years of run time in one day was a big deal. I might have even joined when there was less then 1000 members. I joined this because I felt like it might make a big contribution in lowering drug costs and might advance science.

The question is why have I and many people that came before you stopped crunching for this project?
And the reason is that we lost interest. We crunched day in and day out(if you read some of those old threads about long work units you might come across mine, one of mine took about 300 hours) but we got nothing for our contribution. Few regular updates to make it feel like we were making a difference. And then it slipped, that HPF was folding more then just human proteins, I found that a little deceptive and crooked and so did a lot of other people.

The trade off for the scientists of taking half an hour ever month to write something up(no graphs, no visuals needed), just a few paragraphs would keep so many more people interested in this. And would have helped WCG and IBM hit their target of like a Million people crunching in a few years.

The problem with WCG and a lot of other non-for-profits is they forget that theres something else that comes after non-for-profit–business/corporation.
They need to treat this as a business and us as customers. If they want us to crunch for them well they better give us something in return. Just like every business wants your money, well they better give you something in return-service/product/experiance.

now I can feel from your die hard backing of these scientists you wont agree with my logic, unfortunately until you do. People are going to pass through WCG like water passes through an open faucet

thanks for the info about the new contracts. it will have a very positive effect

Thanks for the link to the update

Very good article.
Being an IT man and not a biologist, this is exactly the level of information I need.

Thanks. Jean.