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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Mentioned this in our team thread yesterday:
----------------------------------------...What would REALLY be nice is if WCG could create and maintain a page on the website here where they could summarize the different projects' progress/accomplishments. With research, you don't typically have the major findings very often. Those tend to be "once in a lifetime" sorts of things. You do tend to learn a few things that direct your research in a more fine-tuned direction or a new direction altogether. We've certainly speeded things up and we've probably allowed a few things to happen that may well not have otherwise. Still, it would be nice to be able to go to one place and read about all the little differences we've made with the projects here so far. Could WCG do something like that? Have one page on the website that summarizes the difference we are making with each project? It could be real handy when some one asks why bother with grid computing. Even if there's not been a major breakthrough, knowing that research has moved in an unexpected direction due to the results from our crunching would be nice. Knowing about some tangible specifics would be a nice motivation to keep it up. Plus it would beat having to go hunt each project's own website. I don't want to duplicate those, just some short bullet points that speak to what has happened that wouldn't have without us. |
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Mentioned this in our team thread yesterday: ...What would REALLY be nice is if WCG could create and maintain a page on the website here where they could summarize the different projects' progress/accomplishments. With research, you don't typically have the major findings very often. Those tend to be "once in a lifetime" sorts of things. You do tend to learn a few things that direct your research in a more fine-tuned direction or a new direction altogether. We've certainly speeded things up and we've probably allowed a few things to happen that may well not have otherwise. Still, it would be nice to be able to go to one place and read about all the little differences we've made with the projects here so far. Could WCG do something like that? Have one page on the website that summarizes the difference we are making with each project? It could be real handy when some one asks why bother with grid computing. Even if there's not been a major breakthrough, knowing that research has moved in an unexpected direction due to the results from our crunching would be nice. Knowing about some tangible specifics would be a nice motivation to keep it up. Plus it would beat having to go hunt each project's own website. I don't want to duplicate those, just some short bullet points that speak to what has happened that wouldn't have without us. You mean like this? http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/09Q2/viewProjects.do |
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keithhenry
Ace Cruncher Senile old farts of the world ....uh.....uh..... nevermind Joined: Nov 18, 2004 Post Count: 18667 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Mentioned this in our team thread yesterday: ...What would REALLY be nice is if WCG could create and maintain a page on the website here where they could summarize the different projects' progress/accomplishments. With research, you don't typically have the major findings very often. Those tend to be "once in a lifetime" sorts of things. You do tend to learn a few things that direct your research in a more fine-tuned direction or a new direction altogether. We've certainly speeded things up and we've probably allowed a few things to happen that may well not have otherwise. Still, it would be nice to be able to go to one place and read about all the little differences we've made with the projects here so far. Could WCG do something like that? Have one page on the website that summarizes the difference we are making with each project? It could be real handy when some one asks why bother with grid computing. Even if there's not been a major breakthrough, knowing that research has moved in an unexpected direction due to the results from our crunching would be nice. Knowing about some tangible specifics would be a nice motivation to keep it up. Plus it would beat having to go hunt each project's own website. I don't want to duplicate those, just some short bullet points that speak to what has happened that wouldn't have without us. You mean like this? http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/09Q2/viewProjects.do Well, yea. That's real close and could probably do if it wasn't quite so "buried". I'm thinking of a page that says "here's all the things that wouldn't have happened if WCG didn't exist". Something cumulative and specific to results that we could get to directly off the home page. When someone says why should I bother crunching at WCG, what difference would it make, we could point them to a single page today, next week, three years from now. There they'd see concise points that answer that. For example, "FAAH has found a particular kind of molecule that has shown unexpected and surprising potential and additional research has started to focus on them. This could potentially result in a new class of drugs that could begin testing in three to four years and could prevent an additional half million deaths each year. Without WCG, it would have taken another decade to accomplish this." |
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