Dear Clean Energy Project Crunchers,

As you have probably seen on the forums, the last of the work units for CEP1 have been run, returned, and validated! We have been so fortunate to work with IBM on this project and to have the help of the many many WCGrid users worldwide who have contributed their computer time.

Phase 1 was run to establish a method to determine how molecules stack together in a crystalline form. With 2000+ years of computational time donated to this project, we now have a huge number of molecular structures to use for statistical studies of how solar cell materials are affected by packing structure (density and contacts with neighboring molecules) and temperature. We still have a long way to go to analyze the results of all the work units, but we have already seen promising results in both model development and the diversity of packing arrangements that are represented in the almost 2 million results that WCGrid users returned.

As you may have heard from the forums, the second phase of the Clean Energy Project is currently in preparation and will hopefully be deployed by the end of the year =) In this upcoming project, we will be calculating the electronic properties of tens of thousands of molecules and screening them for characteristics that might be good for solar cell applications. We have asked IBM to keep CEP1 in the "intermittent" stage so that we can use the packing simulation method we developed in CEP1 on these promising new materials.

Thank you again for all your help on this project. This is way more computer time than we would have access to on a standard supercomputer and we are very excited about the impact of grid computing on the scientific community. We truly couldn't have done it without you!

Sincerely,

Leslie, Roberto, Roel & Alan
The CEP Team