Hello mitrichr,
Start here toward the bottom of the FAQs: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_sh...RiceFaq.do?shortName=rice

Then tell us what we need to add to make the explanation more useful.

Lawrence

Added: You are just the second person to ask. We need feedback!

Lawrence-

You asked for feedback. You said I was the second person to ask.

The answer was right in the FAQ.

So, here is how I see it. Maybe the two of us who asked represent the small number of people who never actually visited the project's web site, or at least who never read the FAQ.

Probably the best that I can do is describe myself as a cruncher. I am not a scientist or and I/T person. I am a very bad driller on web sites. I miss things that are right in front of me.

I pick projects on WCG or BOINC because I know, certainly at WCG, the projects have been vetted and I am aiding a good cause. So, with the FAQ on the projects web site and not a part of the forum, I never even knew it was there. This is poor behavior on my part, but, that is the way it is.

I do not crunch for points or credit, I am not in a race. I crunch to try and give something back to a society from which I have received a great deal.
I pick projects where I think the subject has merit, or more merit than others. I even do a couple of betas. I have four computers, two Core 2 Duo, and two PIII. The PIII's only get projects where it can complet WU's by their deadline. So, for example, they get Rice, but not HCC. The Core 2 Duo machines get both HCC and Rice. So, I cannot do all I want. Rosetta may be the most important project out there, because it is not only doing protein work, it is developing software that other projects, including one at WCG, will use. So, Rosetta runs on all four computers.

The only project to which I am attached that I have spent a lot of time on is LHC@home, a BOINC project. This is because in 1985 I saw Timothy Ferris' "Creation of the Universe" on Public Television. I taped it, I still watch it over and over. The documentary visited C.E.R.N., and it was love at first sight.

So, I have crawled all over that web site, I have visited C.E.R.N.'s own web site, I have watched every YouTube video on C.R.E.N., the LHC, Dr. Higgs.

So, I have told you that I am a willing, pretty well equipped cruncher who is not very deep. So, here is my suggestion:

In the case of Rice, what might have caught my eye, would have been a post on the *forum*, something like "READ THIS FAQ, IT WILL PROBABLY TELL YOU EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THE RICE PROJECT. IF YOU THEN HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE PROJECT, PLEASE POST IT WITH US AND WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO ANSWER YOUR QUERY". Something like that, with the FAQ on the forum, would probably have awakened me. boincstats.com, the mother of all BOINC statistic sites, has exactly the same problem, in terms of getting us to look first and ask only when the answer is not there.

Pretty long answer, I hope that i have helped.

>>RSM

I`m happy with the graph, but it would be nice to see the highest and lowest points attained during each WU, as with Human Proteome Folding 2.