Similar to most I think... I started with SETI@home in the late 90s but soon realising that there was nothing in the way of results from that and spurred on by the same colleague who had originally set up a team on the SETI application, I moved to Grid.org, which naturally moved to WCG and the BOINC platform. This seemed like a far more exciting project, decoding the human genome and untangling our DNA. The idea of a combined effort to sure Cancer (and subsequently AIDS) felt like a very worthy cause.

I lost both my Grandparents on my dad's side to cancer and since starting crunching, I have lost 3 aunts and uncles to the same. Late last year a friend from college, who had previously had skin cancer and was in remission, suddenly found a new cancer development and didn't survive more that a few months after finding out. She was only in her mid-thirties and leaves a husband and an 18-month old daughter who won't remember her.

Morning Team.

Gordoma: "She was only in her mid-thirties and leaves a husband and an 18-month old daughter who won't remember her".

I am so sorry to hear that , they are in my thoughts.

I priced a node-system up a while ago, and I reckon I could do it on around £250 per slave-node., with the master-node being £300-350. The slave-nodes don't need to be super-high spec, as the performance is all amalgamated together to create a master-node. Additionally, the slave-nodes don't need any storage, only the master-node needs a hard-drive, which brings the overall cost down considerably.

Plus, if the information I was reading at the time was correct, it's modular in that you can add nodes to it as and when you build them. So you could start with a master and two slaves, and add a slave-node a month from then onwards, to slowly increase the performance. It would likely need some tweaking of the master-node, but nothing major...

Congratulations to the following UK team members on achieving a personal milestone in yesterday's crunching:

wealthysoup 1 years RunTime for the UK team

fosking moves above 75,000 in the RunTime Rankings to #74,189

MissMelisande passes 3,000,000 Points for the UK team
Clockwork passes 500,000 Points for the UK team

dweymes1994 moves above 100,000 in the Points Rankings to #99,595

Wicksman moves into the UK top 10 Results Rankings at #9

fosking 10,000 Results
dweymes1994 750 Results

fosking passes 10,000 Results for the UK team
Clockwork passes 750 Results for the UK team

Congratulations also to the following UK team members on setting new PBs

	Ian_UK           	Runtime	18:20:22:45	Points	 133,591	Results		
	fosking          	Runtime	18:13:33:24	Points	        	Results		
	Wicksman         	Runtime	        	Points	 222,714	Results		

UK team Comparison of Daily RunTime

						                          	Hours			
	Yesterday's Production				1:009:21:55:11		8,997			
	Average RT per cd  		February		 371.4		8,904			
	                       		January  		 328.2		7,872			
	7day Avg per cd	           	Current 		 374.9		8,976			

Milestone Targets for the UK team

	       	Target   		Current  	To Do    	7day Avg.	  Estimate		
	RunTime	  900 years		    307,164	     21,336	    374.9	   57 days Apr-22		
	RunTime	1,000 years		    307,164	     57,836	    374.9	  154 days Jul-28		
	Points 	900,000,000 		862,084,317	 37,915,683	3,226,908 	   12 days Mar-08		
	Results	  2,000,000		  1,836,091	    163,909	    6,652	   25 days Mar-21		

No. Of Members Active Yesterday

       				Total	        66	out of	93	
				Group 1    	36 	,,  ,,	36	
				Group 2    	13 	,,  ,,	13	
				Group 3    	13 	,,  ,,	24	
				Groups 4 & 5 	 4	,,  ,,	20	

Hi everyone,
Just a post to say that a couple of comments in the last two weeks were spot on:
a) winter holiday, though winter in Cuba is a teeny bit warmer than winter in the Dales;
b) power cut in the Yorkshire Dales, which was a scheduled outage whilst I was away, but one I could do nothing about since my UPS does not have anywhere near the capacity to keep my machines running for the eight hours scheduled. I was pleased to see that I managed to get through enough CFCW to attain a Sapphire badge before it all went off though :-)

Congratulations to everyone on numerous milestones whilst I've been off-line!

On the 'why do you crunch' question: my answer is rather like Soong's in that I have lots of hardware which would otherwise be sitting idle - that seems to me an inefficient use of [global/limited] resources. I started off with SETI a very long time ago, and then WCG came along before I left IBM for another job, so I joined. Simple as that.

All my machines are now running so normal service should be resumed from now on :-)

EDIT: I just fixed my signature link and the globe's gone Emerald while I was away - very pleasing :-)