gb009761... thanks for that link... I some how missed reviewing that section... going to have to keep tabs on the News & Update section.

CJSL

Crunching for a better future...

It's in the department of "and now for something entirely different" i.e. not an extension of HCC. Once upon a time uplinger explained that the 1 in the hcc1 was something done out of custom i.e. was not meant to be there. As for the GPU bit, the words in the jhindo post were not totally encrypted "...not at first". From the context, they're looking at the possibility at a later stage. If you ask me, would WCG board a GPU-only project? That's one which could get answered with "If one ever came along". WCG 'hosts' as explained many times, they encourage, they advertise the success, but it's up to the scientists to program the application or use one that already does exactly what they want off the shelf.

Edit: P.S. Like BOINC code is audited, the science apps are too... which is why there's this complicated process of getting the source code, non-disclosure agreements et cetera et cetera. That takes a long time to conclude.

I doubt. Assuming it is the project described in April's update, the goals are very different. HCC had to do with X-ray crystallography while this new project is designed to "search for prognostic and predictive signatures (sets of genes, proteins, microRNAs, etc.) that help predict patient survival and response to treatment".

To confirm, the next cancer project is very different from HCC in terms of research methodology and technique. We don't yet have a name, but safe to say it won't be called HCC2. It's also using a different software application so we can't reuse HCC's GPU code.

HBC - Help Battle Cancer.

We had Help Defeat Cancer then Help Conquer Cancer so this could be :-), but probably native speakers will come with something better.

My guess is that it will have GPU part as far as the researchers are already familiar with it and they seen it's tremendous power. The speedup in HCC was really amazing so they probably would like to take advantage of it again. But it are just my guests. I don't have any usable GPU now but maybe in the future I will get one to arm myself for battle against this terrible disease.