HCC - Time to fight against cancer again

[Martijn]

Help Conquer Cancer... I noticed the new project in my list over at the device profiles. There isn't any official page with system recommendations yet as far as I know, but they're close to firing up the new project me thinks

Yes I still have internet

[sierra_bound]

Thanks for the heads-up

[brot]

thanks, will put a V in that checkbox asap..

edit: looks like the wcg website is down.

[Sparky]

thanks, will put a V in that checkbox asap..

edit: looks like the wcg website is down.

It is working for me, but slowly.

I checked the box, hopefully they don't need more than 256MB of RAM

[sierra_bound]

Official notice

Launch of the Help Conquer Cancer Project

World Community Grid is pleased to launch the Help Conquer Cancer project by the Ontario Cancer Institute (OCI), Princess Margaret Hospital and University Health Network of Toronto, Canada. The mission of Help Conquer Cancer is to improve the results of protein X-ray crystallography, which helps researchers not only annotate unknown parts of the human proteome, but importantly improves their understanding of cancer initiation, progression and treatment. For additional information on this project, please press the Research button in the upper navigation bar or click here.

Forums
In addition to providing information about this project, we have created a forum for discussions about the Help Conquer Cancer project. To participate in this forum, please press the Forums button in the upper navigation bar or click here. Only forum authors with the title "Help Conquer Cancer Scientist" are authorized to comment as representatives of the research organization: University Health Network (Toronto, Canada).

Project Participation
Help Conquer Cancer is the ninth research project to be launched on World Community Grid and one of five projects currently active. The other four active research projects are: AfricanClimate@Home, (launched August, 2007), Discover Dengue Drugs – Together (launched August, 2007), Human Proteome Folding - Phase 2 (launched July, 2006) and FightAIDS@Home, (launched November, 2005). For more detailed information and FAQs about each of these projects, please click on the Research button in the upper navigation bar or click here. We thank all of our members for all of their valuable contributions to the projects to date and hope you will continue to help us process those, as well as this latest project.

Because there are five research projects running on World Community Grid, your grid agent could receive work units from any of the projects. You may elect to focus your computer's time on only particular projects, if you have a preference. To do so, press the My Grid button in the upper navigation bar and select My Projects or click here. Please note, that members were not automatically opted in to the AfricanClimate@Home project due to the computationally intensive code. To read more specifics on the system requirements for Help Conquer Cancer and the other projects, click here.

If you are already a member of World Community Grid, running the BOINC version of our software, there's nothing that you have to do to prepare for the Help Cure Cancer project. The next time your grid agent communicates with the servers, it will send you a work unit from one of the projects at random for which your machine meets the minimum requirements and according to your project participation election preference. To know which project you are running, please double-click on World Community Grid icon in the system tray, and you will see the title of the project in the display. To contribute to the Help Conquer Cancer project, you will need to be using the BOINC software rather than the United Devices software. If you are running the United Devices version of our software, you should use this occasion to migrate to the BOINC software so that you may participate in all current and future research projects. You may migrate to BOINC by following the instructions here. Migrating is easy and takes less than 5 minutes. The install process even uninstalls the UD software for you automatically.

Questions?
If you have any questions, World Community Grid provides you with four methods of obtaining assistance: (1) Review the FAQs found in the Help section of the website; (2) Review the forums to see if anyone has asked/answered the question that you have; (3) Ask the question in an appropriate World Community Grid forum found here, and a Community Advisor or a more experienced member will provide an answer; and (4) Send an email to the support desk from the Contact Us link found at the bottom of every page of the website (except in the forums).

Thank you!

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.or...d?thread=16924

[Jaco]

I'm in

But i'm doing the other projects as well , to leave some work for my teammates

[sierra_bound]

More information

Welcome to the Help Conquer Cancer Project, and thank you for participating in this important research. The mission of our project is to improve the results of protein X-Ray crystallography, which helps researchers not only annotate unknown parts of the human proteome, but importantly, improves their understanding of cancer initiation, progression and treatment. Although our focus is cancer, results from this project will help other diseases as well.
Analyzing the results from this experiment will also lead to better understanding the underlying principles of protein crystallography. For the first time, a comprehensive crystallography image analysis will be done, which was impossible before due to computational complexity. In turn, CrystalVision will be improved to provide faster and more accurate image classification. This will lead to more protein structures being determined. In addition, determining more 3D structures of proteins will also lead to improved in silico structure prediction.
Thank you again for making vital contribution to the project. It is highly appreciated, as it would take us over 162 years on the largest computer available to us to finish this computation. Although, we expect to finish the project in about 1-2 years on the World Community Grid, we will start analyzing the data incrementally. We will keep you informed about our results at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/WCG/wcg-hcc.html.
Thank you
Help Conquer Cancer Project Team

https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.or...d?thread=16925

[Movieman]

just got my first 2 cancer WU..but site is down as mentioned above..

Although, we expect to finish the project in about 1-2 years on the World Community Grid, we will start analyzing the data incrementally. We will keep you informed about our results at http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~juris/WCG/wcg-hcc.html.
Thank you
Help Conquer Cancer Project Team
I got a feeling that Xs is going to shorten the living crap out of that timeline!

[Martijn]

LMK how it does. I don't really know whether I should run this on the less powerful systems here. I'm particularly interested in memory usage

[[XC] 4X4N]

I have it checked on all of my rigs. I will see when I get home from work if I have any cancer wu's and how much memory they use.

[123bob]

Thanks for the heads-up Martjin!

Everything from the "123" clan is on it....

My two "prize" quads will also be on it when they return from Ohio......Unless Sparky wants to make a profile for it... (Although, lets wait a couple of days before we switch them. New projects usually have start-up pains. I want you to get the max points we can from the two... )

I may have to build some more machines now..... ...

Bob

[[XC] Adywebb]

Great news

They sure are big boys though - Boinc is estimating completion time at 7 hours on a quad

[[XC] junglemaster]

I have clicked on it now will see how it runs.

[Martijn]

Great news

They sure are big boys though - Boinc is estimating completion time at 7 hours on a quad

Not as bad as 36 hours on my 1Ghz P3

EDIT: 3.27% done after 1 hour... Damn that's bad. Not exactly 36 hours though.

[SiGfever]

Thanks for the heads-up Martjin!

Everything from the "123" clan is on it....

My two "prize" quads will also be on it when they return from Ohio......Unless Sparky wants to make a profile for it... (Although, lets wait a couple of days before we switch them. New projects usually have start-up pains. I want you to get the max points we can from the two... )

I may have to build some more machines now..... ...

Bob

I see the counseling sessions have been going well.

[v0dka]

Switched the good machines over to the cancer project. IMO this is the most important research.

[[XC] Adywebb]

Not as bad as 36 hours on my 1Ghz P3

EDIT: 3.27% done after 1 hour... Damn that's bad. Not exactly 36 hours though.

Boinc always seems to overestimate at the beginning - hopefully you can get it down to something like 24 hours

[SiGfever]

Cancer research is what got me into crunching in 2001 and I am glad that I can put my rigs back on it.

[mike047]

This project is being automatically added to accounts, you must "opt out" if you choose not to run it.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/fo...d?thread=16927

Second post, by sekerob.

[[XC] Adywebb]

Seems pretty light on System requirements:

For Help Conquer Cancer, the minimum requirements are:

1. At least 250 MB RAM (with virtual memory enabled)
2. 200 MB Hard Disk Drive with at least 50 MB available for use
3. The ability to display 8-bit graphics at 800x600 resolution
4. An Internet connection with minimum 40kpbs speed
5. Operating System: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, or Vista

[Martijn]

Seems pretty light on System requirements:

That makes me happy . It's a pity they take so long to finish...

[Sparky]

1. At least 250 MB RAM (with virtual memory enabled)

haha so I just barely squeak by with my 256MB

[[XC] 4X4N]

Just got home and see that I have some cancer units queued up on all of my rigs Looks like in a few hours they will be running. Estimates 7 hrs on my quad, but only 6 hrs on the e6600. They are near the same clock too. 3.5 on the e6600, and 3.42 on the q6600.

[123bob]

I see the counseling sessions have been going well.

Yup, it has been going well..... ...with only slight fallbacks here and there..

[David_L6]

This project is being automatically added to accounts, you must "opt out" if you choose not to run it.

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/fo...d?thread=16927

Second post, by sekerob.

Yep, it's automatic. No matter here though as I run 'em all anyway.