Low key, crunch crunch crunch, we passed the 100,000,000 validated results mark Saturday afternoon, November 28, 2009.

Digging back in the forums on the grid side processing:

- The project launched 4 years ago using the UD agent on November 21, 2005. Single core is all it could do.

- On January 23, 2006 a member cried out BOINC - It's Here which is when we started on init distribution of 4, quorum 3.

- Then, later in 2006 the project got a speed up switching to init distribution 3, quorum 2 (if memory serves me right)

- In August 2007 there was a transition to upgrade AutoDock to the present version

- Same time as the science upgrade, the distribution became just same as quorum flat 2 and only make up jobs were send out to replace late and broken results.

- Finally, Zero Redundancy, single distribution was introduced in 2008 and the efficiency became near 4 fold from what it was 4 years ago... not to speak of the big change of P3/P4 PC's which many upgraded to duo's quads, some starting to run sextuplets, octo's and even reading of 12, 16, and 24 core PC's kindly financed, maintained and run by dedicated members.

And what's on the board... more experiments I'm sure, the current number 31 looking to be hefty, and a studied possibility to upgrade AutoDock in 2010... more atoms(?), simultaneous dockings (?), multithreading (?)... I don't know, but something to look forward to and telling... The HIV monster is out there, much there's to do to muzzle it permanently, so let's continue what we do best from our side:

Crunch like there's no tomorrow.

edit: oh and shame on me not mentioning... It's World AIDS day today. See JP's thread: https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,28066