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Dataman
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LOL Tim Needham ... many have also noticed too that the "Member News" has not been updated since launch date. See my comment in the New Members Forum on the "Did all the admins die" thread <LOL>. But it is new ... hopefully there will be some communications improvements. One can only hope <dataman>
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I imagine they have some type of rough estimate. It was nice to know as a group we cut 9 years off their research time. It would also be nice to have some indicator as to what this GRID is saving in time or contributing to the effort. Some suggestions along these lines: - A monthly global goal or progress report. "In November, we processed 2,345 work units. In December, let's do 3,000!" This would make a pretty line graph as people join and WU per month goes up. - If there's no way to estimate time to completion or percentage complete, maybe we could talk about how much the scientists are using our data. "This month, 5 new studies used our data for research. Ten more are still waiting." We could probably talk about how much money we're saving, too. How much would the computer power the grid is providing cost? If time is money, money is time. - And I hope there are plans to let us know when the data the grid processes lead to a new medication or discovery, even if it's not as big as a cure for cancer. I should get 0.00000001% of the credit for it.  And it would help with PR and recruitment. |
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we will do more than 5000 in december ...I am shure of it :-)
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we seemalready to ahve 130 000 calculations who returned :-)
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http://www.systemsbiology.org/Default.aspx?pagename=humanproteome with a link to a news release at http://www.systemsbiology.org/extra/PressRelease_111604.html which says:
" The Human Proteome project running on World Community Grid will split the problem of folding the Human proteome into millions of smaller problems called "work units". . . . . . . Utilizing unused CPU, these computers running the grid client will attempt to fold a single protein from the set of human proteins with no known shape; it will take several "work units" to fold a single protein and there are many proteins being folded. Each computer will try millions of shapes and return to the central server the best shapes found throughout the simulation. As the computers try to fold the protein chains in different ways, they will attempt to find the particular folding/shape that is closest to how the proteins really fold in our bodies. " So we still have millions of Work Units to go. I expect that the Institute for Systems Biology researchers are the people creating our Work Units who will have to tell us how we are progressing. After reading the following article, I have no doubt that the World Community Grid will soon have many other projects. http://scienceblog.com/community/article4753.html |
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