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Former Member
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Hi
Some of us have started our own lil forum.....which is multi project based. Anyway......I have written a WCG intro for the WCG section of our board. Could the WCG admins please have a look at what I have written and let me know of any errors or omissions please? I am pretty new to this project so I may have incorrectly explained here and there or whatever. Anyway...I would appreciate your views......and please feel free to suggest anything I should add. Copy of my post in other forum: The World Community Grid is a project run in association with the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). The initial and current project from this collaboration is the "Human Proteome Project".......the aim of which is to identify the proteins in the human make up and develop a further understanding of them and how they work....which in turn will hopefully lead to effective treatments for many diseases such as cancer,HIV/AIDS,malaria and Sars. In due course there will be other projects added. Presently, the project software is limited to the Windows operating system but a Linux client is said to be almost ready....which could add substantially to the project user base. Any improvements I could make? Of course I have included relevant links too. I am planning to collate a lil FAQ at a later date too. Would appreciate feedback from the experts  |
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Hi Some of us have started our own lil forum.....which is multi project based. Anyway......I have written a WCG intro for the WCG section of our board. Could the WCG admins please have a look at what I have written and let me know of any errors or omissions please? I am pretty new to this project so I may have incorrectly explained here and there or whatever. Anyway...I would appreciate your views......and please feel free to suggest anything I should add. Copy of my post in other forum: The World Community Grid is a project run in association with the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). The initial and current project from this collaboration is the "Human Proteome Project".......the aim of which is to identify the proteins in the human make up and develop a further understanding of them and how they work....which in turn will hopefully lead to effective treatments for many diseases such as cancer,HIV/AIDS,malaria and Sars. In due course there will be other projects added. Presently, the project software is limited to the Windows operating system but a Linux client is said to be almost ready....which could add substantially to the project user base. Any improvements I could make? Of course I have included relevant links too. I am planning to collate a lil FAQ at a later date too. Would appreciate feedback from the experts vaio -- Your first sentence is incorrect. The World Community Grid is an organization created by IBM whose mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity (see the home page). Then, I would change the second paragraph to read: The initial and current project from this is a collaboration with the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB). This is the "Human Proteome Project".......the aim of which is to develop a further understanding of the proteins in the human make up which in turn will hopefully lead to effective treatments for many diseases such as Cancer, HIV/AIDS, malaria and Sars. Others may wish to comment on this as well. Regards, |
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Feedback noted........will see if anyone else wishes to comment before finalising my intro.
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Good question vaio! I have seen quite a few efforts on the forum to structure that information in a comprehensible manner.
----------------------------------------I am no expert, but here are two cents worth - IBM's role is well defined on a web page on the IBM web site. I have never really understood who owns the world community grid,(note: I edited this sentence from "who owns the project" to read world community grid) as the available documentation is not explicit on this, however there seems to be three organizations/bodies involved: Advisory Board that provides expertise to select projects, IBM is the sponsor providing technical expertise and hardware and through collaboration with United Devices, they use UD's technological (s/ware) platform for the protein folding project. The have other Partners as well. These include current members of the Advisory Board. ISB is definately overseeing the protein folding project and is not associated with the development of the grid itself. I guess this statement dots the "i" on the aforementioned: "IBM's values state that we are committed to providing innovation that matters for our company and for the world. There is no better way for us to live those values than to join the World Computing Grid," said Stanley S. Litow, vice president of IBM Corporate Community Relations and president of the IBM International Foundation. This is a quote from the IBM web site.[Edit 3 times, last edit by ErikaT at Oct 15, 2009 12:38:13 PM] |
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Yes I want to get the facts right without unnecessarily plugging IBM.
No disrespect but my aim is to boost the work, not bigblues' profile. |
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Hello RobSab,
I have never really understood who owns the project The project is owned by the research institute / organization. For example, the Human Proteome Folding Project is owned by the ISB. We simply provide computer time. However, the Letter of Agreement that we sign with each owning organization is a contract. In return for our computing effort, the signing organization agrees that our results are public domain, and must be made publicly available in a reasonable length of time. In this way, all the projects run on the World Community Grid are similar. mycrofth |
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Hi mycrofth - nice to see you posting!
----------------------------------------That was an error on my side. What I meant is that I have never really understood who owns the world community grid. I will go and edit my post and make a note that I have changed it. Thanks and have a GREAT day! [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Aug 18, 2005 3:48:31 PM] |
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Former Member
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If one of you experts would care to write up an intro for me I would be grateful and happily use it.
Just the basics.....as people can get more detailed info via the links should they wish to Otherwise I shall just tweak my own lil effort |
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