Active Research On World Community Grid

Statistics By Project

Statistics Last Updated: 11/29/14 12:06:02 (UTC)

Project	Points Generated	Results Returned	Total Run Time (y:d:h:m:s)	Badges Earned
Active Research
Uncovering Genome Mysteries expects to examine close to 200 million genes from a wide variety of life forms, such as seaweeds from Australian coastlines and  found in Amazon river samples. Begun Oct 2014 Learn More	3,393	3	0:001:01:32:23
The scale of the task is staggering. It is only feasible thanks to the massive computational power of World Community Grid. While sequences from all forms of life will be processed, microorganisms will receive a special focus. Learn More. Copyright IBM Corporation2014.  All Rights Reserved.
Mapping Cancer Markers aims to identify chemical markers associated with various types of cancer. This will help researchers detect cancer earlier and design more personalized cancer care by determining an individual's susceptibility to developing a specific form of cancer, and may also predict the progression of the disease, helping to suggest the best treatment for a given individual. Begun Nov 2013      Learn More	41,067	56	0:020:11:24:08	Bronze Badge
The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 The mission of The CEP is to find new materials for the next generation of solar cells and later, energy storage devices. By harnessing the immense power of World Community Grid, researchers can calculate the electronic properties of tens of thousands of organic materials. Begun Jun 2010       Learn More	10,450	10	0:005:14:49:20
FightAIDS@Home is the first World Community Grid project to run on Android smartphones and tablets. With the launch of the BOINC for Android app in July 2013, volunteer computing took a leap forward, starting with this project. Volunteers can now accelerate this critical research with their mobile devices.  Learn more or start contributing now. It is a project focused on using computation methods to identify candidate drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease. This approach is called "Structure-Based Drug Design", and according to the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences, it has already had a dramatic effect on the lives of people living with AIDS. Begun Nov 2005       Learn More	36,124	72	0:032:04:31:27	Bronze Badge
Beta Testing (ongoing)	338	1	0:000:07:57:09

It has been too long since I've been active on-line. I hope to change that within the next few months.

Happy Thanksgiving and a future Happy Holidays to you and yours this coming holiday season. Many, many thanks to those that persevered and continued to contribute to our F@H team.

The Charlies Web forums disappeared sometime over the last six months as I was not available to update the software for the forums. For this, I apologize. I hope to rebuild a forum within the coming year.

In the meanwhile... I have a special favor to ask of my friends and family.

Our World Community Grid team over in B.O.I.N.C. has this posted on my stats page:

Get 1 more volunteers to join World Community Grid to earn a Bronze Badge for Recruitment

Spread the word! Ask your friends and family to join World Community Grid using the link below, and you'll be recognized for introducing them:

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/reg/viewRegister.do?recruiterId=450293

Shortly, I'll post more about the work WCG is doing and has done.

Thanks so much,
Charles

Guest Book for Timothy Charles CARTER – Online Guest Book by Buffalo News and Legacy.com.

Guest Book for Timothy Charles CARTER – Online Guest Book by Buffalo News and Legacy.com.

Timothy Charles CARTER

CARTER - Timothy Charles Of Buffalo, entered into rest May 2, 2010, devoted father of Kristen and Lindsey Carter; cherished grandfather of four grandchildren; loving son of Robert J. and Florence E. (nee McElwee) Carter; dear brother of Robert, Susan and Karen Carter; also survived by relatives and friends. Relatives and friends may visit the LOMBARDO FUENRAL HOME, (Northtownsn Chapel), 885 Niagara Falls Blvd., near Eggert/Sheridan Dr., on Thursday 3-7 PM. Funeral service will immediately follow. Online condolences may be made at www.lombardofuneralhome.com.

Nutritious Rice for the World project (WCG) finished on April 6, 2010

World Community Grid is pleased to announce that as a result of the generous contribution of computing power from our members, the Nutritious Rice for the World project finished on April 6, 2010.

The project was launched on May 12, 2008. While it was active, World Community Grid members processed over 29 million results which required nearly 26,000 years of computing power. This work would have taken about 200 years of time using the computing resources available to the researchers at the University of Washington. Using World Community Grid, this research was completed in less than two years.

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Charlies Web totals:
Nutritious Rice for the World, 10,821 Points, 33 Results, 010D:06H:27M:03S Runtime

Folding@home: New award for Folding@home team

Folding@home researcher Greg Bowman was awarded the 2010 Kuhn Paradigm Shift Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) for his talk on two paradigm shifts resulting from Folding@home:
1) the new methods that Folding@home uses to simulate protein folding, misfolding, etc, and
2) the results themselves, which suggest a significant change in protein folding theory.

Folding@home: New award for Folding@home team

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2 Security Update ~ Security Garden

Firefox update:

Mozilla released Firefox version 3.6.2 which fixes the following critical issue found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:

Fixed a critical security issue that could potentially allow remote code execution (see bug 552216).

Mozilla Firefox 3.6.2 Security Update ~ Security Garden

The power of sharing

Earlier this month, IBM and the Scripps Research Institute announced a major breakthrough in the fight against HIV/AIDS. World Community Grid — which supplied researchers with more than 109,000 YEARS of computation time over a five year period — was a major factor in this groundbreaking success. Now, there is hope for a new class of drugs to help the more than 33 million people who are infected worldwide.

Technorati Tags: AIDS, HIV, IBM, scripps, world community grid

Source: The power of sharing | A Smarter Planet Blog

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