RunUO World Community Grid Update

[Ryan]

I wanted to give all of you a status update on the project we are participating in called the World Community Grid. As of today the "RunUO" Team has accumulated over 21 years of computing time for the World Community Grid.

The World Community Grid is a distributed computing system that is used to help tackle problems to benefit humanity. I have been participating since the idea was launched here on the forums a while ago and would like to remind you all that we are doing some amazing work.

Here are the team statistics:

Totals: Current Members352 (#33) Retired Members3 All-Time Members355 Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank)21:235:03:00:06 (#308) Points Generated (Rank)5,721,895 (#306) Results Returned (Rank)21,115 (#306)

If you are interested in helping with the project it's very simple to do. Just go to World Community Grid - Home and create an account, download the 'agent' software and install it on your computer. Be sure that you put your team name as "RunUO" to contribute to the team stats.

Today I received the following email:

Dear Ryan McAdams, World Community Grid is pleased to announce that the Help Defeat Cancer (HDC) project is finished. The last work units have been sent out and when the final results are returned, the project will come to an end. This project, which launched on July 20, 2006, will have run for just over 9 months by the time the last results are returned. During this time 88,000 members will have donated 2,900 years of computer time on 138,000 different computers. This is a significant contribution to cancer research.

But the end of this project is really only a beginning. Based on the results, the researchers who are working on this project have a very aggressive plan to make Tissue Microarray technology an integral part of early cancer detection. World Community Grid's team will keep in close touch with the research team and will post updates on the website in the Research pages. The researchers will also continue to update their HDC website with exciting updates about this project and the inroads it is making on cancer research.

On behalf of the research staff at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, World Community Grid's team wish to express our thanks to you for contributing your PC power to this project. With your contribution, this project was completed in a fraction of the time it would otherwise have taken.

We also want to inform you that World Community Grid has started work on a new cancer project to discover ways to accelerate the crystallization process used in studying cancer protein structure using X-ray Crystallography, which will help researchers identify proteins involved in cancers and lead to new drug therapies and cures. We plan to launch this new cancer project in the May/June 2007 time frame. You will receive more information on this project prior to the official launch date.

We still need your help with other ongoing projects! World Community Grid continues to run the FightAIDS@Home, Genome Comparison, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy and Human Proteome Folding - Phase II projects. These critical research projects need your computer time as well.

IMPORTANT: If you have elected to participate only in the Help Defeat Cancer project (which has now been completed), you must take some action to prevent your World Community Grid agent from sitting idle on your PC until the next cancer project launches. Please sign in to World Community Grid, and from the "My Grid" page, select the "My Projects" link from the menu on the left. From the "My Projects" page, select one or more of the other projects in which you choose to participate. If no action is taken within the next 3 weeks, we will set your default to Participate in All Projects. You will then be automatically enrolled to participate in the next cancer research project when it is launched in May or June.

Again, thank you for your contribution to the highly successful completion of the Help Defeat Cancer project!

This is amazing news and I look forward to many more announcements like this.

-Ryan

[Ryan]

These are my personal stats...

My Accumulated Points: 1,030,858
My Current Ranking: 1,961
My Team: RunUO

[Banshee]

Thats just awesome Ryan, I'd say we're kicking cancers butt!

[shar'thok]

Grat's ^^ -although this is the first time ive read anything about this O_o...

[Uniq]

Account created.

[BeneathTheStars]

i'm back n' action.

[Tru]

Doin my part!

Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s) (Rank) 1:345:19:49:08 (#6,004) 
Points Generated (Rank) 393,907 (#8,704) 
Results Returned (Rank) 1,274 (#11,110)

[Uniq]

My stats

My Accumulated Points:341
My Current Ranking:261,625
My Team:RunUO

Owned

[Manu]

Manu_RunUO
My Team: RunUO
My Accumulated Points: 408,603
My Current Ranking: 8,389

Overall 4th place in Team RunUO

[Vapor-hybrid]

Wow .. This is neat. I am at school atm, when I get home I will have to look further into this.

RunUO > All

[Aulus]

My Accumulated Points: 167,314
My Current Ranking: 30,138
My Team: RunUO

And still going.