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LanDroid
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 Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 4:39 pm Post subject: Project Of The Month - Feb. '10 => World Community Grid |
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| Quote: | World Community Grid's mission is to create the world's largest public computing grid to tackle projects that benefit humanity. Our work has developed the technical infrastructure that serves as the grid's foundation for scientific research. Our success depends upon individuals collectively contributing their unused computer time to change the world for the better.
World Community Grid is making technology available only to public and not-for-profit organizations to use in humanitarian research that might otherwise not be completed due to the high cost of the computer infrastructure required in the absence of a public grid. As part of our commitment to advancing human welfare, all results will be in the public domain and made public to the global research community.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewAboutUs.do
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WCG could generate more excitement for POTM for several reasons. First is the fascinating projects that it covers...
Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy - Phase 2
We are investigating protein-protein interactions for more than 2000 human proteins whose structures are known, with particular focus on those proteins that play a role in neuromuscular diseases. The database of information that will be produced will help researchers design molecules to inhibit or enhance binding of particular macromolecules, hopefully leading to better treatments for muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular diseases. Phase 1 of Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy has ended in June 2007 and Phase 2 has been launched in May 2009.
http://www.ihes.fr/~carbone/HCMDproject.htm
Help Cure Childhood Cancer
The mission of the Help Fight Childhood Cancer project is to find drugs that can disable three particular proteins associated with neuroblastoma, one of the most frequently occurring solid tumors in children. Identifying these drugs could potentially make the disease much more curable when combined with chemotherapy treatment.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hfcc/overview.do
Nutritious Rice for the World
The objective of this project is to predict the structure of proteins of major strains of rice. The intent is to help farmers breed better rice strains with higher crop yields, promote greater disease and pest resistance, and utilize a full range of bioavailable nutrients that can benefit people around the world, especially in regions where hunger is a critical concern.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/rice/overview.do
Help Conquer Cancer
The mission of Help Conquer Cancer is to improve the results of protein X-ray crystallography, which helps researchers not only annotate unknown parts of the human proteome, but importantly improves their understanding of cancer initiation, progression and treatment.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hcc1/overview.do
Human Proteome Folding Phase 2
The two main objectives of the project are to: 1) obtain higher resolution structures for specific human proteins and pathogen proteins and 2) further explore the limits of protein structure prediction by further developing Rosetta software structure prediction. Thus, the project will address two very important parallel imperatives, one biological and one biophysical.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/hpf2/overview.do
Fight AIDS @ Home
Prof. Arthur J. Olson's laboratory at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) is studying computational ways to design new anti-HIV drugs based on molecular structure. It has been demonstrated repeatedly that the function of a molecule — a substance made up of many atoms — is related to its three-dimensional shape. Olson's target is HIV protease ("pro-tee-ace"), a key molecular machine of the virus that when blocked stops the virus from maturing. These blockers, known as "protease inhibitors", are thus a way of avoiding the onset of AIDS and prolonging life. The Olson Laboratory is using computational methods to identify new candidate drugs that have the right shape and chemical characteristics to block HIV protease.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/research/faah/overview.do
Another reason for excitement is...... drum roll .....
BADGES!
Yes WCG has badges for each of the projects above, each available in several shiny distracting colors!
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewProjects.do
There are 6 levels of badges for run time donated to each research project and each is denoted by a different color background:
Bronze - 14 days
Silver - 45 days
Gold - 90 days
Ruby - 180 days
Emerald - 1 year
Sapphire - 2 years
Dual Stat Systems?
I find WCG statistics rather confusing, there appear to be two separate systems of numbers. According to statistics on the WCG web site, KWSN has 132,594,795 points total and has us in 119th place. However according to BOINC stats, KWSN has 18,632,561 total points at 111th place. (According to WCG, I personally have over 1 million points, but according to BOINC, only 145K.) I don't know what to make of these huge differences, so I guess I'll list both for our starting point:
WCG starting point.
132,594,795 total points
119 place
BOINC starting point
18,632,561 total points
111 place
16,256 RAC
9,897 points yesterday. |
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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WCG is a pre-BOINC project; when they added the BOINC client, they used the "standard" BOINC scoring (10 points per gigglyflop per hour), and multiplied this by 7 to convert it to their original method. BOINC points (x7) are added to the original scores, but not vikki-verki, hence the disparity between the team points in the two systems; KWSN has 2.1 million pre-BOINC, so there's 300K not showing in the BOINC total. (There are still a few people using the original client.)
DC-Vault uses the original total, as this includes all WCG crunching. Most stats sites use the BOINC version, although Free-DC shows both.
There, clear as unto mud.
I've just had a poke around the WCG site (the first for a verrrry long time), and noticed that I'm the Team Captain. 
Just what I've done to deserve this singular honour I've no idea; I certainly didn't found the team, and I didn't request a transfer.
I also seem to have earned 4 badges. 
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Onwards and sideways! 
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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Yup, closing in on 10mil points there I'll offer a complete herd of celebratory alpacas to any knight who can surpass me in our monthly challenge.
As for why you ended up as captain, I think it has something to do with the retirees. See, WCG keeps track of people who are no longer active. I suspect you were the "last man standing". Congrats! 
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| Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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Sir Al Dente mud is clearer. I thought someone else was team captain. I thought at one point there were two KWSN teams though that might be in the past.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:19 am Post subject: |
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| A Shrubbery wrote: | | I suspect you were the "last man standing". |
Well, that must be a first!!  
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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Just showing off my steekeenk badges...
Looks like two bronze, one silver, one gold, and two rubies... See color code in first post...
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A Shrubbery
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| Posted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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I'll see your bronze and raise you two sapphires.
Plus, I have the coveted Beta bronze
You'll just have to trust me, I'm not posting links - hehe
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:59 am Post subject: |
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Considering I've never seen it go down or run out of work, I think it must be something we did.
Really, no clue.
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:09 am Post subject: |
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Rule #3+1 is coming back to haunt us!
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It's working now, check out the following thread, it took 'em a few tries. Backlog may be large, but I got a work unit about 1/2 ago at 5:35 a.m EST.
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,28395_offset,0
Why oh friggin why does this happen every month? Oh yeah, rule # 1+1+1+1+1+1-2. Thanks Yank!
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A Shrubbery
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 9:40 am Post subject: |
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It's complicated but it's not a typical quorum.
The simplest way I can describe it is some projects do that. It's really a quorum of 1 on that one with 10 different results.
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We are bringing the dreaded diseases, and servers, to their knees.
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:55 am Post subject: |
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Waaaaaah!
I was extremely busy in the last couple o' weeks and only now trying to catch up, I'm glad we decided going with WCG, it's a great project we can do great work at... onwards kaniggits! lets gain some places 
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| Killerrabbit wrote: | Sir Al Dente mud is clearer. I thought someone else was team captain. I thought at one point there were two KWSN teams though that might be in the past.
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There are two. I accidentally joined the wrong one for my first 30k or so shrubs. Teach me to sign up at night 
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