Allow me to take a crack at it, too...
Without the strikethroughs, since it's getting cluttered :-)

"WCG members are currently crunching through the Help Conquer Cancer CPU+GPU work units at a pace that should complete that task within a few months."

Being that WorldCommunityGrid is itself the "Project" with HCC one of the Tasks we can select from here at the WCG Project.



I've previously cited some of WCG's own contributions (as in that link's '.do' filename) to the Project/Task/Work Unit nomenclature (vernacular/jargon) confusion.

Your are welcome and we appreciate your support to try to identify potential chemical compounds that can kill Leishmania parasites without side effect, cheaper, and preferably of oral administration.

Thanks also for your opinion about the update. I think that including graph may help chrunchers to understand the real status of the proyect in terms of proteins already docked. I have to think about the way of presenting the quality of the results.

Best wishes and thanks again for your comments and help.

Dear Yojimbo 197.

Yes your are right, and thanks. We will evaluate the chance of using GPU in the project in order to speed it up. In fact the WCG team warned us about the chance of using GPU.

Best wishes and thanks for your support

Hi carmusk:

Many thanks for the update report. This just reinforces for me the importance of our WCG crunching, without which, IMHO, the probability of finding drugs/treatment for many diseases would tend to zero. The numbers are staggering.

OK, I am going to take another stab at it. As of 10-31-2012 I counted 253 blue plus green boxes and the statistics showed 27,391,535 WU's completed. This would give about 108,267 WU's per protein structure (I had earlier assumed, evidently erroneously, 600,000 WU's per protein structure. Evidently some WU's must attempt to dock more than one ZINC compound per WU - given 600,000 chemical compounds in the ZINC library. Or, maybe some of the ZINC library items are skipped if the scientists think they should be skipped.) If the average number of WU's per protein structure should remain constant then with about 330 structures left to process at a daily average of about 90000 WU's this would give about 397 days of work left or around 13 months. If that is true then the total length of the project would be about 26 months or 2 years and 2 months. I am thinking the scientists like this number better than the 9 year figure.
Cheers