As this project Phase II project does crunch toward a finish it looks like I will probably end up with ~26 years contributed personally and my small "He's My Son" team ~83 years contributed.

While these contributions "feel" small, it does show the power of the grid to combine all of the contributions to move the research forward.

I contributed to HCMD Phase I and had only just briefly read about the then still pending HCMD Phase II when Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy forcibly entered our lives with the diagnosis of my son Eric.

While it is not clear how this research will play out, there is NO doubt that any and all Muscular Dystrophy research is desperately needed!

With that in mind, I would like to personally thank everybody who has contributed to this project...research team, crunchers, techs, advisors...for every bit of you have put forth towards ending this horrific disease.

Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ha, just downloaded the first two great-grandchildren WUs that I've ever seen. Both are on a 4-day report deadline and immediately ran with high priority.

Workunit Status

Created: 01/01/2012 20:26:02
Name: CMD2_2213-1H3I_A.clustersOccur-2EWY_A.clustersOccur_0_5969_7683_6806_7244_6884_7064

Created: 01/01/2012 20:26:00
Name: CMD2_2205-1IB1_A.clustersOccur-1ZGL_U.clustersOccur_0_4957_6956_5540_5894_5752_5894

I haven't seen a parent WU since yesterday afternoon (batch 2267), the rest have all been children.

Yep, perfectly in line with the Deadlines FAQ

After downloading only children and grandchildren WUs for the past 3 days, I've now downloaded a couple more parent WUs for batch 2268 (which I last saw on 31 Dec). After the recent speedup in the rate at which they were appearing, perhaps this means we're back to just over 4 parent batches per day as a long-term average.

Is it approximately 55 days remaining?