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rgrimmer
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Hundreds of years of computing resources donated to completed projects - no feedback on the results of our contributions - no closure - for myself, I'm getting frustrated with the energy expense, maintenance costs for my hardware, and never seeing any feedback from completed projects. Smallpox, Ebola, Zika, Influenza Antiviral, AIDS - where are the updates from the scientific community??
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7546 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Smallpox ????
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Falconet
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I fully understand the feeling. With some projects we know what resulted:
----------------------------------------Influenza made their data public but never followed through as the Influenza pandemic ended and they focused on the Dengue project, which ultimately after some encouraging data on one compound, ended up not working. DSFL also published their data and ended up concluding none of the best ranked compounds worked in vitro. CFSW (Computing for Sustainable Water) ran and made their data and conclusions available to the White House initiative they were inserted on (something like that). FightAIDS@home continues to this day. Ebola, don't know about it honestly. Haven't seen anything. Zika - This is their most recent paper https://europepmc.org/article/med/31776405 (I asked WCG to publish this on the News Section, they'll look into it) HFCC/SCC - Still running as SCC but I wish they posted a progress update... Other projects released their data and published papers. GFAM, for example. Some haven't really published papers, data or kept us updated. One such example if the Uncovering Genome Mysteries, which hasn't produced anything AFAIK since it ended. I absolutely wish we had more frequent updates from the projects. A few lines every 3 or 4 months would be perfect. I *strongly* suggest you wait a few more months for another project to publish. AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF 6C/12T 3.2 GHz - 85W AMD Ryzen 5 2500U 4C/8T 2.0 GHz - 28W AMD Ryzen 7 7730U 8C/16T 3.0 GHz [Edit 6 times, last edit by Falconet at Apr 11, 2020 7:11:18 PM] |
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rgrimmer
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Smallpox ???? Shortly after 9/11 there was a project to research protection from a weaponized variant of smallpox - ran only a few weeks. |
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7546 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Smallpox ???? Shortly after 9/11 there was a project to research protection from a weaponized variant of smallpox - ran only a few weeks. It must not have run here, unless it was top secret. I can find no mention of it here at all. Cheers
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rgrimmer
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Clarification - smallpox did not run on World Community Grid - it ran on United Devices (grid.org) which preceded WCG and was a seed for WCG's creation in 2004 by UD and IBM.
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hchc
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Aug 15, 2006 Post Count: 746 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I think I remember running smallpox on United Devices ud.com/grid.org. There was an Anthrax project too. In hindsight, I wish all the years of runtime for Human Proteome Folding Phase 1 had gone to WCG instead of UD just for the WCG badge haha. I didn't know UD was going away.
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