All work done on HPF1 is real and will go into the database for biologist.

that said I can see why you might wonder if we are killing time, So I'll explain briefly.

we set out to do 100 genomes (human and other organisms that humans interact with like pathogens)

while we spent a year calculating this they found new human genes
(see this guys lab to get a flavour of why new genes are being found:
http://genes.cs.wustl.edu/BrentLab/MB-Lab-index.html
http://genes.cs.wustl.edu/BrentLab/MB-Lab-research.htm
)

So this guy gave us a bunch more genes and possible genes to run.

Also other scientists from around the world came up to us and said "what about this virus, what about rice, people eat rice and people are starving, what about this new relative of malaria, what about armadillo, which is the only other animal that gets this disease ..."

So in the end we've finished our initial goal, but IBM has been nice enough to let me widen the focus to include more genes that are either new-human-genes OR new genes from high interest organisms.

All work done on HPF1 is real and will go into the database for biologist.
No work currently on the grid is benchmark OR code testing OR in anyway funny.

Thanks for crunching.

For results, here's the plan as we understand it: Dr. Bonneau has submitted his first paper which is currently in peer review. As soon as that paper is accepted for publication, then the results database will go public.