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LanDroid
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 Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:01 am Post subject: Project of the Month August '11 => Malaria Control |
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| Quote: | The malariacontrol.net project is an application that makes use of network computing for stochastic modelling of the clinical epidemiology and natural history of Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
...We use this to inform the target product profiles for novel interventions like vaccines, addressing questions such as minimal efficacy and duration of effects needed for a vaccine to be worthwhile, and also to optimize deployment of established interventions and integrated strategies. Field trials of interventions consider effects over 1-2 years at most, but the dynamics of immunity and human demography also lead to longer term effects. We consider many different outcomes including transmission reduction or interruption, illness, hospitalization, or death, as well as economic aspects.
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Plomos
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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Is this project any more CPU intensive than the average BOINC project is? Also its not one of those GPU only projects is it?
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Plomos
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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Alright well since i've got almost all my WUs from other projects done right now I went ahead and added Malaria to my project list and picked up a couple of what look to be relatively short WUs. Also I joined up with the Ni! team so we'll see how this goes as PotM
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Killerrabbit
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| Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:44 pm Post subject: |
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Time to fight those disease carrying bugs once and for all.
Ni
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| Plomos wrote: | | ... picked up a couple of what look to be relatively short WUs.... |
After I snagged about two dozen, I said "No New Tasks", then Suspended the long-time ones. Finish the shorter ones frrst, and do the rest before I log in the next day... Longer ones may be the 1200s (if you look at the names, I think lower numbers are shorter times...)
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:53 am Post subject: |
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http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2783/2452
| Quote: | Research laboratories and scientific modeling projects often lack
computing power to run complex simulation models solely with in–house
computing resources. One form of volunteer computing uses an
interface called the BOINC software platform that allows hundreds of
thousands of volunteers worldwide to participate in projects such as
SETI@home and MalariaControl.net, searching for extraterrestrial
intelligence or contributing to research linked to malaria control. These
volunteers are effectively acting as cybervolunteers, meaning
volunteers who, in part or entirely, use a computer or the Internet for
their volunteer activity.
We conducted a study on the motivations of MalariaControl.net and
BOINC cybervolunteers. Are volunteers only donating CPU power or are
they making other contributions? Why do they participate in projects
such as MalariaControl.net? The aim of this paper is to present results
obtained, formulate useful conclusions from them, and identify patterns
in the motivations of volunteers that may be useful to other distributed
computing projects, in particular, and the understanding of
cybervolunteerism, in general.
Volunteers living in 67 countries participated in our enquiry. We found
that a majority of them indicated either solidarity and/or a cause as their
main deciding factor for getting involved. This trend was stronger for
MalariaControl.net than for general BOINC volunteers. Volunteers
remained involved if they felt useful. The study clearly suggests that the
recognition of cybervolunteers is important: volunteers invest their time
in a project without financial compensation, but not for free. The paper
also summarizes technical and communication suggestions made by
volunteers with regards to MalariaControl.net and BOINC. |
I feel... so... USED... ROFL!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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LOL
Just winding down my crunching with MilkyWay.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 4:42 pm Post subject: |
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Well at least with this project so far lower times mean crazy low credits as well. The only WU I've had be validated of the 3 that I've turned in now gave me a whopping 1.24 credits o.0 Most of mine have come from the 900s in the names and i have one 1100 that hasn't validated yet so we'll see if it gives more at some point. Happy hunting mosquitoes everyone
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| Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| Plomos wrote: | | ...Happy hunting mosquitoes everyone |
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:56 am Post subject: |
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I'll do a lil Malaria eventually but I'm in the midst of some PG Badge goal working right now...then I have a 64-bit burst of Spinhenge scheduled...so I'll get a wee bit of Malaria done at some point
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| Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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Goooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:22 am Post subject: |
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I'm in!
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 9:02 am Post subject: |
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10000 behind the Czechs.
We can get them
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:54 am Post subject: |
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just hit 1000 credits in 3 days on my one comp so that 10,000 should come pretty quickly for us with everyone else adding considerable speed
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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Joined the team for this one.
Gonna give 40% of my resources taking some away from my 2 favorite projects Climate Prediction and RNAWorld. 
Just wish this year had worked out the way I wanted and had my monster shrubber in place by now. Ho Humm. dum tidley dum maybe it will happen maybe it wont 
Or maybe I should have dumped being a bee keeper and spent the money on a shurbber instead. Lol not an option really. 
My first crop tastes of Elderflower and is really yummy 
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LanDroid
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| Posted: Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Starting stats:
14th Place
11,471,686 Points
26,589 RAC 8th Place
59,572 crunched yesterday
55,221 last 28 days
15th place Formula Boinc, 1,029,491 behind 10th.
Milestones:
efs300 passed 900,000
John Galt 007 passes 70,000
Sir Tiberius passes 10,000
Sir Stooper passes 3,000
Adam Alexander passes 3,000
SpineyNorman passed 3,000
Gemjunkie[TeaM] passes 2,000
Plomos passes 1,000
PhastPhred passed 1,000
Hal9000x86 passed 500
idansh passes 100 |
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Clark
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:05 am Post subject: |
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| Clark wrote: | 10000 behind the Czechs.
We can get them |
Oops. was reading the RAC column.
A few million behind actually.
Off to Castle Anthrax for a spanking
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 3:50 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | 8/2/2011 3:51:17 AM malariacontrol.net Message from server: No work sent
8/2/2011 3:51:17 AM malariacontrol.net Message from server: No work is available for malariacontrol.net
8/2/2011 3:51:17 AM malariacontrol.net Message from server: No work is available for openMalaria test version
8/2/2011 3:51:17 AM malariacontrol.net Message from server: No work is available for Prediction of Malaria Prevalence
8/2/2011 3:51:17 AM malariacontrol.net Message from server: No work is available for Estimation of parameters of infection dynamics (variable duration, max 4h) |
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2011 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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I just got 2 new WUs so its working now, not sure about earlier today as i was afk most of the day and wasn't running anything but it seems to be fixed now
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