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Help Conquer Cancer project announcement:

World Community Grid takes great pleasure in announcing its newest research project: Help Conquer Cancer, sponsored by the Ontario Cancer Institute in Canada. The mission of Help Conquer Cancer is to improve the results of protein X-ray crystallography, which helps researchers not only annotate parts of the human proteome, but importantly improves their understanding of cancer initiation, progression, and treatment. For more information about this research project, click here. For additional announcement information about this project, please click here.

Help Conquer Cancer runs only on the BOINC client. For more information about BOINC see the last article in this newsletter.

Other Research Projects:

The Help Conquer Cancer project is the fifth research project that is currently active on World Community Grid. The other four projects include: Human Proteome Folding - Phase II, FightAIDS@Home, Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together, and AfricanClimate@Home. We hope that you are participating in one or more of these projects. For more information about all five projects, please click here.

Time to Go BOINC!

In the October 2007 newsletter, World Community Grid announced that it was migrating entirely to BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing. The move is being made to provide a better experience for all our members.

This is a reminder to all users of the United Devices client that you must migrate to the BOINC client before it sunsets in 2008 by visiting the website and downloading and installing the BOINC client. The BOINC installer will detect if a computer is running the UD client and if it is found, will help you uninstall it. Details on downloading and installing the BOINC agent for Windows may be found here.

To determine whether you are currently on the BOINC or UD client, double click on the World Community Grid icon in your system tray. If you are running the BOINC client, you will see "BOINC Client" at the top of the information panel. If you are running the United Devices client it will say United Devices in the lower right hand corner.

More details about the migration are available in the member news forum.

Are you active?

As we start this new project, the World Community Grid team wants to make sure that everyone who has signed up is actively contributing. To check out if you are actively contributing, sign in on the website and go to My Grid. In the middle of that page you will see a field for "Last Results Returned". If the last time you returned a result was more than 30 days ago, you are probably not active. The easiest way to become active again is to check that the software is installed and running properly.

To see if the software is installed, check for the World Community Grid logo in your system tray. Here is an example of what the logo looks like in the system tray:

Double-clicking on the logo will bring up the client. If the client does not appear to be running correctly (i.e., the numbers for Task Run Time or Elapsed Time are not increasing, examples below), please use the Contact Us feature on the bottom of most pages of the World Community Grid website, and a World Community Grid team member will help you to figure out how to become active again.

If the World Community Grid logo is not in your system tray, you will need to install the software. For instructions, click here. If you have any questions about this, please ask in the forums or send an email via Contact Us.