Wow...makes for a nice, warm, fuzzy future now that WCG is/is about to be a year old.

Curious, I presume the current points/rankings/etc. will not reset with new projects? May be interesting for teams depending on how they choose amongst projects too. Could be some membership shuffling there. With multiple projects running, will there be some sort of weighting of each project to keep a set amount of computing time equivalent across projects? If you let the server choose, does it stay with the same project once it makes a choice or will it switch among projects as WU are returned?

Points/Rankings will keep growing and will not be reset when we start a new project.

Yes, the Advisory Board met on 9/26. They approved the HIV/Aids project and phase II of the Human Proteome Folding project. We have been asked to hold off on getting out details of the HIV/Aids project until we get closer to the launch date, which we expect to be on October 31, 2005. Phase II of Human Proteome Folding is scheduled to start in December of 2005. Rich Bonneau also provided information about the Human Proteome Folding project. In particular he introduced the start of the results database that will be available to scientists and also mentioned the first papers that he’s writing on the project.

In addition to the above, the Advisory Board received information about the state of the project... number of members, devices, proposals for new research (1 cancer and one disease pandemic modeling). We also asked the Advisory Board for their continued assistance in spreading the word about World Community Grid to research organizations and they agreed to do that.

Being a cancer survivor myself, I would like to see a cancer project right away, but looks like it won't be long. I can't imagine the impact that the HIV/AIDS project will have on world health! Great picks. My contrats to the advisory board!

We have a cancer project in the review process and we have targeted it for launch in the first quarter of 2006.

As far as doing more cancer projects... We have done a lot of work to ensure that the research community is aware of World Community Grid, and continue to do so. We are even spending time with a few researchers to teach them how to design research to run on the grid. But we can’t drag them in the door. We have to wait until researchers submit proposals from https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/projects_showcase/submit_a_proposal.html

If you are reading and responding in this forum, and have a personal interest in helping to eradicate a certain disease, then you can help out.

We would like to invite anyone reading this thread, whether you have been affected by some kind of heinous disease or not, to take it upon yourself to contact one or more research organization that is doing research on that disease. In your message to them, point them to the World Community Grid submit-a-proposal page, and encourage them to take advantage of World Community Grid by submitting a proposal.

Why should a research organization pay tons of money for hardware/software when they can run on World Community Grid? All of our PCs combined now make World Community Grid one of the largest super computers in the world. So we should be able to take on any kind of research.