I thought I read somewhere that MCM sends out a fixed number of batches a day. In which case we'd just speed through those batches faster, and move on with other projects. Either way, more crunching = more progress. Good for all!

Since I have recently learned the following information from WCG there is no calculable end date. However I will still attempt to track the progress as it occurs. A big thanks to the WCG staff for making this available. I have decided to leave the original quote in for the time being as it still addresses the question of additional work. In the recent past an additional estimate of 4000 more batches were added.Last 30 day average results:518,972
Percentage Complete:Currently listed on the Research page:93%.
The average length of a WU is currently running about 4.15 hours, slightly longer than the last time I posted, but continuing to trend steady at just less than the 4.20 hour mark consistently. The average length of a work unit this past week varied between 4.05 and 4.19 hours. This continues to be remarkably steady.
Still have not seen any of the batches from 122278 to 122402. The ovarian units started with 122403 as the lowest number.My latest batch number was 133609 which would give about 192 batches for the week. The batch count for last week was 169.
Production increased this past week going from about 3.38million WU's to 3.7 million WU's completed. During this past week the time devoted to MCM1 was just slightly over an average of 251 years per day, up somewhat from the past week's 228.
Originally we had 17,500 batches plus 9000 more batches, plus 5000 more batches (all approximate) for a total of 31,500 batches. Now we have an estimated 4000 more batches for a total of 35,500 batches. At 10,000 work units per batch, this would be 355,000,000 work units (double redundancy), so total of 710,000,000 work units. As of today(June 11 we have processed 671,440,987. This would be about 94.5% of the known batches.
Based on the 30 day running average the current work units should last to about August 24, 2017. This not an end of project projection, just a projection of a probable end of the currently known work units.

Cheers

Thank you for the update Sgt. Joe!

Just ran the numbers in Excel. Mapping Cancer Markers is already a larger project than all other completed projects combined except Human Proteome Folding Phase 2 and Help Conquer Cancer, and Help Fight Childhood Cancer.

I lost my mother and grandmother to cancer.
That said, are putting all our eggs in one basket?
I understand correctly, this project has only published preliminary data.

As far as I recall, at the beginning of this project there was some talk about a possible GPU version. But 3.5 years later nothing happened. If there's such a possibility, this would make sense due to the large amount of work.