Join Bill Fernie And Other Caithness.org Forum Members To Find Cures
In February 2005 Bill Fernie joined the World community Grid after a
request from Colin Manson. Bill and his wife Maggie like Colin and a
few others from the Caithness.org forum joined the World community Grid
allowing that organisation to use spare time on their computers to run
programmes assisting in the search for understanding and cures for several
diseases. You do not need to know anything about the technicalities of the
research but there are good explanations on the web site for anyone who
wants to understand it.Since joining Bill's computer has
run 1 year and 48 days of time (as at 19 March 2007)
Colin's has run 2years and 30 days of time
(as at 19 March 2007)
Scotland team with about 80 members has run 26 Years 260 days (as
at 19 March 2007)
Bill would like to ask others to join the Scotland team
of World Community Grid. All that happens is that when your
computer is lying idle and switched on it works for World Community Grid
and sends results back. you can see progress on each project
portrayed on your computer when not in use by you.
In the past two years our computers have worked on the
following projects -
Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy Project
Genome Comparison Project
Help Defeat Cancer Project
Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 Project
FightAIDS@Home Project
Bill who is registered as wickwest received this email
from World Community Grid -
Dear wickwest,
Thanks to our outstanding volunteer force, World Community Grid has made
great progress since our last newsletter!
We would like to thank you for your continuing
participation in our mission to create the world's largest public
computing grid. With this grid, we've been able to tackle projects that
benefit humanity. Through this newsletter, we will keep you informed of
the latest accomplishments, updates on active research, and site
enhancements.
Research Update
Since World Community Grid's launch in November 2004, more than 500,000
devices have been registered. The computer power that our volunteer
community has donated equals one PC running nonstop for more than 76,000
years, an average of 1,000 years a week! World Community Grid's sheer
power would rank it among the top five super computers in the world,
allowing researchers to shave years, if not decades, off the time it would
have taken to run their research on available computers.
As a result, World Community is now able to run five
projects simultaneously, making World Community Grid the only public grid
to achieve this milestone. Thank you for the computing resources that you
provide to make this possible.
Read more:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/07Q1/viewOverview.do
Marist College Project
In the Spring 2006, IBM and Marist College, located in Poughkeepsie,
New York, embarked on its second year of a special project. Twenty
students from Professor Mark Van Dyke's communication capping course were
given the task to promote World Community Grid. The students divided into
four teams to formulate quantitative and qualitative goals and objectives
designed to increase awareness of World Community Grid, and in turn,
increase the number of members and devices registered on the Marist
College team.
Read more:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/07Q1/viewMarist.do
Partner Interview: Welcon-Line
World Community Grid's partners play a critical role in building the
volunteer base that fuels humanitarian research. One great example is
Welcon-Line, a small Russian internet service provider that has signed up
almost 700 volunteers wishing to donate their spare computing capacity to
fight aids. The resulting 900 devices that are now part of World Community
Grid have already contributed the equivalent of 205 years of run time.
Welcon-Line has achieved this despite the fact that the company, which
started in 2002, employs only 30 people.
Read more:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/07Q1/viewWelcon.do
Technical Tips - BOINC Agent Simplified
World Community Grid and BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network
Computing), an open-source software platform for distributed computing
using volunteered resources, have worked together to create an exciting
new version of the BOINC agent. World Community Grid has supported the use
of the BOINC software for grid computing since November 2005. World
Community Grid is a major contributor to the open source development
community that supports BOINC and helps to extend the reach of distributed
computing for research. BOINC also allows us to support Linux and Mac
users on World Community Grid. This new version of the agent contains a
number of features to make it easy and fun to use. The BOINC software is
available for Windows, Linux and Mac.
Read more:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/07Q1/viewBoincSimpGui.do
In This Issue
- Research Update:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/07Q1/viewOverview.do
- Marist College Project:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/07Q1/viewMarist.do
- Partner Interview: Welcon-Line:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/07Q1/viewWelcon.do
- Technical Tips - BOINC Agent Simplified:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/newsletter/07Q1/viewBoincSimpGui.do
Quick Links
- Register Now:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/viewJoinNow.do
- Global Statistics:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewGlobal.do
- About Us:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/about_us/viewAboutUs.do
Personal Statistics For Bill Fernie
- Registered: February 24, 2005
- Run Time: 509 days
- Points: 304,386
- Results: 1,034
Join Bill and Maggie Fernie and Colin
Manson In The Scotland Team
Join World
Community Grid
Download the agent and register at
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org. Once you have completed the
download and registration process, ypu can click on the web address below
and join your team.
 http://
www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/viewTeamInfo.do?teamId=925RSMBR9N1
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