The HTMLHelp Folding@Home Team - 51056, Help cure cancer |
The HTMLHelp Folding@Home Team - 51056, Help cure cancer |
John Pozadzides |
Aug 22 2006, 06:08 PM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
One month ago I announced the formation of the new Folding@HTMLHelp team (# 51056), in support of the distributed computing program at Stanford University. Researchers at Stanford have devised a unique program which allows individuals to help by running a small application on their PCs at home that runs unobtrusively in the background. There are nearly 45,000 teams participating in this project with over 1,000,000 PCs processing data. I'm proud to announce that in the past month the Folding@HTMLHelp team has gone from last place to the top 10% of contributing teams. Here are some links to current projects and progress to date:
I believe that the HTMLHelp team can make a greater impact towards finding a cure than any other team! And to help us get started we are going to have some custom team T-shirts created. The first 500 team members to submit 20 Work Units will receive a team T-shirt! The shirts have not yet been designed, but as soon as we have a prototype we'll post photos for all to drool over. (If you want to submit a design for consideration, please do!) In order to claim your shirt you only need to do two things (other than using team #51056 of course):
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John Pozadzides |
Nov 24 2006, 03:53 AM
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WDG Founder Group: Root Admin Posts: 529 Joined: 3-August 06 From: Magnolia, TX Member No.: 2 |
Folks,
Due to the apparant lack of interest from our user community in this program, I'm withdrawing the plan for T-shirts. Without a larger number of participants it simply wouldn't make sense to try to order a bunch of shirts for this project. Having said that, I am pleased to report that the HTMLHelp Folding Team has managed to move into a ranking of 1,689 out of 46,663 teams. That puts us in the top 3.5% of teams contribuing to this worthwhile cause. I would still encourage anyone that would like to participate to join us and donate some spare computing power. I can tell you that I've been running the FAH app on my computer in the background for months and it has never interfered with the performance of anything else I've been doing. John |
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