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Forum: Help Conquer Cancer
Thread: Excellent article at EurekAlert about WCG |
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RicktheBrick
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Here is the summary.
Canadian researchers will accelerate the war on cancer using a global network of volunteered computer time to tackle some of the world's most complex problems. The team led by Dr. Igor Jurisica, Ontario Cancer Institute, and scientists at Princess Margaret Hospital and University Health Network, are the first Canadians to use the World Community Grid, which has power equivalent to one of the globe’s top five fastest supercomputers to analyze data from scientists at Hauptman-Woodward in Buffalo, N.Y. The article can be viewed by going to http://www.eurekalert.org/bysubject/technology.php |
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Former Member
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Thanks for posting this Rick
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TKH
Former World Community Grid Admin USA Joined: Aug 13, 2005 Post Count: 775 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Hello Rick,
Thank you very much for posting! Have moved thread to the Help Conquer Cancer forum. Tedi |
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crooks_uk
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hello rick. thankyou for the post
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Be a part of the largest UK team:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=L721SPD4BN1 |
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Former Member
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i question the number of active users/computers as stated in the article.
where did this information come from? |
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Sekerob
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/. as in Slashdot also found the syndicated article on the release of Help Conquer Cancer at an Auzzies' ITNEWS site:
----------------------------------------http://www.itnews.com.au/News/64560,cancerbusters-tap-into-grid-computing.aspx It's interesting how the numbers get interpreted, this time 14.5 million experiment, times the 6 brings us back to 86,630,400 (9400 proteins x 1536 'cocktails' x 6 images)
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Former Member
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halfcard, those are cumulative numbers, not "active" figures. They are taken from the main statistics page.
You and I know the weaknesses in translating them to actual contributing members - but as raw numbers, they are what they are. |
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