Today, November 16, 2006, is the two-year anniversary of World Community Grid! In this short time, results on critical health issues have been achieved, demonstrating World Community Grid's potential to make significant inroads on a great range of future projects that can benefit the world.

There are many thanks to go around for getting us to this point in time. Thank you to our outstanding volunteer force -- the nearly 235,000 members who have registered almost 450,000 work stations. These computers have provided more than 60 million years of run time toward important research and have sent back 60 million results, which is an impressive 1 result per second. We are extremely grateful for your contributions. Without you, this compute power would not be available for the very important research work we are helping to accelerate.

The Forum Community Advisors (aka CAs) deserve a special thank you. The CAs work tirelessly on the forums, answering questions and providing useful information, for very few rewards, except the satisfaction that they have helped get and retain more members on World Community Grid.

Thank you to the researchers for running their projects on World Community Grid. This includes the Institute for Systems Biology and the Human Proteome Folding project; the Scripps Research Institute and the FightAIDS@Home project; the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and the Help Defeat Cancer project; and New York University and the Human Proteome Folding II project. We also thank the research organizations that have submitted new proposals to World Community Grid. Many of these projects will be launched in the next twelve months.

World Community Grid also thanks the more than 250 partners who are encouraging their employees, members, students and associates to participate on World Community Grid.

Our sincere thanks to our illustrious Advisory Board for their wisdom and guidance on our research projects, as well as our future direction.

And finally, we thank the IBM Corporation for supplying all the resources and funding that makes World Community Grid such an innovative and important philanthropic initiative.

It is our fondest hope that through the efforts of every World Community Grid participant, some human affliction will be eradicated in the near future.