While WCG has been lacking a GPU project I have been using mine at Collatz and Milky Way. Having joined this team I attempted to join UK at both of those projects......guess what?..........no such team.

I have therefore created a UK team at both of those projects so anyone who tries out their GPU's there can join the team. It all adds to the overall BOINC score for UK!

Folks, we're getting closer to releasing the new cancer project into beta testing, but we're not quite there yet. We had come across a pretty big issue during testing but we've finally been able to resolve it. We have a handful of bugs remaining and we're working through those aggressively before we go into beta testing. So hang in there, hopefully not long to go now!

There's been a lot of discussion here about the new cancer project and why beta hasn't started. I'd like to confirm that we are in (hopefully) in the final stages of alpha testing. We had encountered a non-trivial issue earlier during alpha testing, which has now been resolved. With that issue fixed, we can focus on the remaining handful of issues. So while we're not there yet, we're getting much closer.

I also want to take this opportunity to explain a little about this process and why it's hard to estimate accurately (thus the lack of specificity about a launch date). Each research team specifies what software application is best suited to their scientific calculations. Sometimes, the researchers will pick a software that we have already integrated into the Grid (e.g. the Vina docking software is used by several of our projects), which makes the process on onboarding that project significantly easier. For this new cancer project however, the research team has developed their own custom-built application. This does mean incorporating brand a new software tool into World Community Grid. This involves an extensive process of conducting a security review of the code, ensuring compliance with any relevant open source constraints and licenses, adding checkpointing capabilities, developing the graphics for the screensaver, testing out the mechanism for work unit generation and packaging, ensuring the validity of the results generated, etc. We often come up against all kinds of surprises and unexpected issues during that process which we have to resolve before releasing the app into beta testing. I hope this helps explain why with so many variables, it becomes hard to communicate accurate timescales.

Glad to say the bulk of that work for the new cancer project is behind us as we wrap up what are hopefully the last few issues. So hang in there, not long to go now before we're ready for beta!

Morning Team, Fosking & Scribe.. Wow your both up early