Hello Bigfoliage,

Welcome to the World Community Grid!

To start answering your question, look at the top of the Forum and select My Grid. This is a very important page. This will let you select the Results Status page on the top left. In Results Status, you will see the results you have recently returned. Clicking on the Result Name for a particular result will pop up a window which tells you the project. This will soon teach you which project uses which type of name for a work unit. Then you can click on the top Research button. This will lead you to a description of each research project.

Please try clicking on all the columns in the Results Status page. Then try the other buttons on the My Grid page, particularly Device Manager - (selected profile) which will show you the BOINC instructions that are selected by default. In particular, you will run BOINC only 60% of the time (3 seconds out of 5) in order to reduce heat in laptops. You can select High Performance if you are running a Desktop with no cooling problems. ([Added] You have to select SAVE after changing a profile, or nothing will happen.)

Another good starting point (besides the Forum Start Here) is the red help on the top right. It brings up a useful menu of topics and FAQs.

Please ask any time you have a question. The forums most used for queries are the 2 Support forums and Chat, although project-specific queries are normally asked in the forum for that project.

There are other possible ways to answer your query. For example, bring up BOINC Manager, switch to Advanced View (which I always use), select Tasks, then select the work unit you want to know about, then look at the commands on the left and select Properties. This will tell you a lot. Switching to Messages will tell you a bit about what is going on, but I normally stick to the Tasks view except for specific information.

Have fun and look over the Research descriptions. Later, ask people how you can use Search to find posts by project scientists so you can follow the project news.


Lawrence

You can also watch the recent Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together project webcast. There you can see a good description of this project, but some of the concepts are valid for the other projects as well.

4+ machines 24/7... that's a great contribution to the grid, but be aware you'll see a bump in your electric bill. I hope that won't discourage you, just an fyi so you're not surprised by it.