I think you should just be patient my friend

That tells us many things. There are still researchers there working on the situation. That WCG staff are in the loop. That the project is NOT inactive. All of which is valuable and informative. Thanks.

Quote from Sekerob in Re: The Clean Energy project: Welcome all! thread (speaking of the 1st phase of the CEP Project): What does he mean "was"? Has UTMB decided to convert the DDDT researchers' lab into a resort hotel? Will DDDT continue? Did Hurricane Ike blow and wash away Wall St as well as Galveston, or did Wall St crash all over the wreckage of UTMB in the wake of Ike?
The silence re. progress on getting DDDT running again is becoming ominous.
I'm sure that more frequent news updates here would be appreciated by other WCG crunchers, as well as myself. It would be OK to tell us something like "UTMB is undergoing major re-organisation. We don't know what's happening to our department", and "we still don't know".

I do hope that the project does not die. Going on the words of the researchers, of all the WCG projects, DDDT seems to have the greatest chance of making a breakthrough that could lead to a therapy for a disease in the fairly short term. Protein folding and HCC seem to have longer-term goals. The CEP looks like it's a long way from developing actual solar cells, though I hope I'll be surprised. Most people in my country feel that they are not at risk from HIV, but while most don't realise it, dengue is already in northern Australia. It may spread as far south as the Tropic of Capricorn, and will put many more people at risk. There is currently no therapy available. So DDDT is/was probably the WCG project that is easiest to sell to the general public here.
If it cannot continue from UTMB Galveston, perhaps DDDT can be hosted elsewhere at UT or at (an)other institution(s).
Best wishes and we hope to hear from you very soon.

I appreciate that some veteran crunchers may have horror stories from other distributed computing projects, where things went disastrously wrong, or fizzled out altogether.

That doesn't happen here.

World Community Grid stay in frequent, regular contact with each project, and track each project through every stage, before, during and after the time spent with the project active on the grid.

These updates are often completely uninteresting to the WCG membership. That's why news only comes out when something interesting happens.

If there were a real problem, then WCG would (a) provide the resources to solve the problem, so far as they were able, and (b) keep us in the loop.

So, no problem means no news. This one is just going to take a little time while people in Galveston put their lives back together.

You have not searched correctly. From the third thread (news from galveston) of the DDDT forum section, Stan Watowich's post is giving infos from the source (Nov 6, 2008).

Cheers. Jean.