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1.0 Introduction·Welcome to Team Discovery!
·What Is Project Hope?
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Welcome to the Team Discovery mini-FAQ.
This FAQ is meant as a brief introduction to the project. Once you download and join, please head on over to the forum at /forum/disco
THE FORUM IS CO-HOSTED BY
OUR FORMER TEAM LEADERS
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by lilhurricane 
last modified: 2007-05-11 06:35:23 |
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Current as of 5/22/07
Current as of 10/26/06
Start here for A Brief History of Project Hope - compilation by Dersgniw
•Project Hope status: Twenty Six blades are currently crunching under five hosts and plans are continually in the works for expansion. Please follow developments in the Team Discovery forum and the Project Hope forum.
•Project Hope is a Team Discovery project pioneered by slava ryklin to create a farm of TSC and UD crunchers that will be hosted at various locations.
•Project Hope is run by the members of Team Discovery and without donations, the project will fall apart. If you would like to donate to Project Hope (no donation is too large or too small), you can donate via PayPal online or you can contact JMartin (our treasurer) for information about other forms of donations.
•Project Hope is run by Team Discovery members and is full swing. Team Discovery members have nominated and voted for other members to serve on the Project Hope board and serve as overseers for the operation. Team involvement is crucial in Project Hope being a success.
•Project Hope and the parts involved will be either donated or money will be donated to fund the purchase of parts.
•Project Hope has a dedicated website and forums which can be found at http://www.tdprojecthope.com/.
The board of directors for Project Hope has been established via nominations and subsequent elections where all could voice their opinions. The list of the board is found below in alphabetical order with roles noted.
Grobinette - Chairman
JMartin - Treasurer
lilhurricane - Secretary
Arelay - Host
babacher - Host
Dersgniw - Host & Co-Webmaster
jlhugh - Host
Dolphin - Host
lilhurricane - Host
rescue85 - Host
Digibits - Member
Ascent - Member
Coldincbus - Member & Webmaster
This faq will be updated as necessary
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First register & choose our team...BroadbandReports.com Team Discovery
Then follow the instructions here to download and install the client of your choice.
It's IMPORTANT that you do this:
Simply go to: Join Team Discovery and click the picture that looks like this
If you are logged on, you will now be a member of Team Discovery. If you haven't logged on, you will have to log on and then you will be a member.
Encourage your friends and colleagues to help us!
If they already participate in the World Community Grid, then copy and paste the web address below and send it to them in an email. All they need to do to join your team is click on the web address and then click on the join now button on the page that appears.
If they have not yet joined World Community Grid, then let them know that they will first need to download the agent and register with the World Community Grid by going to »www.worldcommunitygrid.org.
Once they have completed the download and registration process, they can click on the web address below and join the team.
»www.worldcommunitygrid.org/team/···XMSGSVR1
If you choose the BOINC client, simply "attach" to the project & choose BroadbandReports.com Team Discovery
Welcome! This is a very friendly group, so if you have any questions, please feel free to ask in the forum.
You'll get lots of help!
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1.3 General Info·HPF2, Help Conquer Cancer? Which one Should I Choose?
·WCG? TSC? I'm Confused...
·Posturing & Recruiting
·Where Can I find information on the BBR Honor Guard in Memoriam?
·Is Team Discovery Represented On The WCG Forum?
·Cross Posting
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It's personal preference, really.
Both projects can be checked, or just one of your own determination is fine.
Read up on the sciences of what they are trying to accomplish..and make your own decisions.
They are both cancer related in their own way :)
Help Conquer Cancer:
»www.worldcommunitygrid.org/proje···1Main.do
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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.
Human Proteome Folding - Phase II:
»www.worldcommunitygrid.org/proje···earch.do
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This project dovetails with efforts at NYU and ISB to support predictive, preventative and personalized medicine (under the assumption that these secreted proteins will be key elements of this medicine of the future). It is too early to say which proteins will end up being biomarkers (substances sometimes found in an increased amount in the blood, other body fluids, or tissues and which can be used to indicate the presence of some types of cancer). However, it is clear that many will end up being secreted proteins. As in the first phase of the project, the power of World Community Grid will be critical in getting results quickly to researchers in the biological and biomedical communities.
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Team Discovery runs two projects, and you can choose which one you wish to run, or run both if you have dual core systems.
We are one team..with one dream..
To eradicate cancer & childhood diseases..in our lifetimes
This FAQ is about WCG, a cancer-fighting project. The TSC (Juvenile Diseases) FAQ is here.
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From time to time this issue comes up in discussion, and it should be made clear for everyone here in the FAQ:
Recruiting for other projects should never be seen outside or inside of the Team Discovery forum. It is in very poor taste to even give the appearance of recruiting in other forums, team's forums or websites and will not be condoned for any TD or DC member of Broadbandreports.
Members who have posting tags or sigs should also be cautious about the way they may be perceived outside of the forum. If in doubt, please use your common sense and alter your tags and sigs to avoid offending those from other teams. This will go a long way toward preserving the sense of community among the many DC teams and forum families.
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We host a page here...for our teammates that have gone on.
The DC teams here at BBR will always remember them 
Their legacy lives on
This is why we crunch.
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Team Discovery can be found at »www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum···ad=13443
Some notes:
Please remember our collective goal.
You have joined in order to donate the idle cycle time from your computer to accelerate the cancer research projects running on World Community Grid and in that way, help to improve human conditions We encourage your participation on the forums and provide information on team development and progress to make it easier for individuals to participate, to recruit new members and generally increase the amount of computer run time available for the humanitarian research projects we run. This web site is not a place to promote any other cause or issue.
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»Site FAQ »BEFORE you post ...
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The answer can be found here:
World Community Grid currently supports Linux (on x86 processors), Microsoft Windows, and (Apple) Mac (on Intel and PowerPC processors) on the BOINC software platform.
»www.worldcommunitygrid.org/help/···=bnc#200
NOTE: the UD agent has been phased out and is no longer supported
»www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum···ad=15715
»[WCG-UD] Switching to BOINC - Timeline Draws Closer for UD
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2.1 WCG Projects·What is HPF2 and how is it related to cancer research?
·What if my selected project is not sending tasks?
·Where can I get an status of how the projects are progressing
·What are our site supported projects for Team Discovery?
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Here are some links regarding the Human Proteome Folding 2 project:
HPF2 Home page at the Bonneua lab at NYU
HPF2 Status Report
WCG Information Page
In depth PDF about the project
In terms of cancer research much information can be found here - why HPF2 is important: disease relevance
A snippet:
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Protein Set #2: human cancer biomarkers of unknown structure and function.
Collaborator: Leroy Hood, Nathan Price, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, »www.systemsbiology.org/
Multiple groups involved at the Institute for Systems Biology are currently involved in a coordinated effort to characterize biomarkers that can be used for early diagnosis and sub-classification of Human cancers. In particular specific efforts are underway in the Laboratory of Leroy Hood to find prostrate, bladder and ovarian cancer biomarkers. This effort coordinates proteomic, microarray, pathology, and bioinformatics efforts into a overall effort to determine reliable and readily assayable predictors that can be used as markers for diagnosis and selection between alternate therapeutic/intervention regimes. The Bonneau and the worldcommunity grid lab are involved in the functional annotation of putative proteins and proteins of unknown function found in these studies. To date several hundred putative biomarkers of unknown function have been prioritized, and are being processed along with the other sets of proteins described above, on the world community grid. Along with Nathan Price, at the ISB in Seattle, the Bonneau lab has been applying structure based annotaiton to elucidate the structure/function of putative biomarkers discovered using these genome-wide screens.
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This is taken from the device profile page:
"Some projects may occasionally have periods where no work is available. If you choose to receive work for only one project, the project may, at times, not have work units available for download."
For this reason, running BOINC, you may choose to select the box that states: "If there is no work available for my computer for the projects I have selected above, please send me work from another project (this option only applies to BOINC agents)."
If you run BOINC and would like to select the box above
Go to your profiles - »www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ms/de···files.do and select the BOINC profile you want to modify.
Then click the checkbox at the bottom of this screen:
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There are updates for HPF2 from the Bonneau lab here.
There are updates for HCC here.
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Thru BOINC & WCG - our projects are cancer related
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2.2 Running The Program·How long do I have to complete a work unit?
·How To Save a WU In Progress in Case of Reformat / Reinstall
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The amount of time allowed to complete a work unit will vary depending on the project and is changed somewhat regularly.
You can always see how much time you have to turn in a WU by opening the BOINC manager, going into the "Advanced" view and selecting the "tasks" tab. View the "Report Deadline" column.
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WCG BOINC
Save a WU in progress so you can reinstall the OS.
1. Shut down BOINC
1. Copy the complete BOINC folder from C:\Program Files\BOINC (assuming that you have WCG/BOINC installed in this location) to a thumb drive. (Be sure to copy other important data files on your computer.)
2. Reinstall the OS.
3. Copy the BOINC folder back to C:\Program Files
4. Install the BOINC program. Make sure the BOINC version is the same one that you had on the computer before you "nuked" it.
Note (from this thread): »[WCG-BOINC] Save WU in progress; reinstall OS; put WU "back"??
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The Short Answer:
World Community Grid points and statistics are updated twice a day. This occurs at 00:00 and 12:00 UTC*. This includes all statistics on World Community Grid except for Team Statistics.
Team Statistics are updated once a day at 00:00 UTC.
Our stats at »www.team-discovery.net are updated from the WCG servers at around 3am.
The long answer can be found here -
»www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum···ead=2024
*UTC is Universal Time. For the Eastern time zone, subtract 5 from UTC to get your time except during daylight savings time when you subtract 4. For Pacific, subtract 8, except during DST, subtract 7.
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2.4 Points - Results - Credits·Will I lose points if work finishes slower than usual?
·What are points?
·[BOINC] Why have I not received credit for I have completed a result?
·[BOINC] How are points calculated for the BOINC agent?
·[BOINC] Why does my BOINC agent show different points than the web site?
·[BOINC] What is Validation and what is a Result Status
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No. Points are not tied to number of work units, but amount of computational effort exerted. Therefore, if your computer worked for three days on one work unit, or in those same three days completed five work units, you would get the same amount of points if the machine worked at the same level of effort.
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Your PC contribution is shown in three measures-points, total run time and results returned. The term points is simply used as a way of measuring the amount of computation your PC has contributed. If your PC works for three days on one work unit, or in those same three days completes 5 work units, you will accumulate the same number of points assuming that your PC worked at about the same level of effort in each scenario.
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BOINC does not award credit to users until the work they have performed has been successfully validated. This means that users may experience a delay in being granted credit while BOINC waits for enough results to be returned in order to perform validation.
See this for info about Validation »Team Discovery WCG BOINC FAQ »[BOINC] What is Validation and what is a Result Status
Thanks to Ascent and Digibits
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BOINC points are calculated in a two-step process. First, the points (also called credit) claimed by a host are determined. BOINC points are calculated based on a benchmark that is run periodically by the BOINC client. This benchmark is then run through a calculation that determines how much credit per second of run time that device should earn. More information about that formula is available at the following sites: »boinc.berkeley.edu/credit.php and »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOINC_Cred···lestones
Second, once validation has been completed, BOINC gives the same credit for a result to every device that worked on the same work unit. BOINC calculates how much credit this should be by taking the claimed credit for each result that was determined to be valid, eliminating the low and high values and then averaging the rest.
This process eliminates the ability for malicious users to artificially claim higher points for their work.
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The BOINC agent and the UD agent compute points differently. In particular, BOINC points are much lower than UD points. As a result, World Community Grid multiplies the points granted to a user for a result by 7 when the statistics are imported into World Community Grid's web site. The BOINC client is not aware of this multiplication, and it thus reports the points that were granted by BOINC.
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Validation
World Community Grid is a public distributed computing project. This means that work is being sent to computers that are outside the control of World Community Grid. Most computers that perform this work are reliable. However, there are a few computers that are not reliable due to things such as users over-clocking their machines, memory errors, disk errors, CPU errors or viruses being present on the machine. This means that the results returned need to be validated to make sure that they represent the correct answer. We have configured BOINC so that the results from at least four computers calculate the same result before it is accepted as the correct result. This ensures the integrity of the data returned to the scientists.
If you go to your Result Status Page you can see the status of validation. Here are the definitions of the statuses:
* Work In Progress - This means that one of your computers is currently working on it
* Error - Some event occurred to keep the result from finishing properly. This could be due to the user canceling the result, a BOINC error or a science application error.
* No Reply - The result was not returned to the server by the time it was due.
* Pending Validation - The result was returned to the server but there have not been enough results for that workunit returned to the server yet for validation to be attempted
* Valid - The result was returned to the server and was equal to the majority of results returned for the workunit.
* Invalid - The result was returned to the server and was not found to be equal to the majority of results returned for the workunit.
* Inconclusive - The result was returned to the server and validation was attempted but the system could not determine which results it should consider to be the valid ones. New results were sent out for this workunit and validation will be attempted again when those results are returned.
* Too Late - The result was returned to the server a long time after it was due and so no credit was granted.
* Other - The most common reason for this status is that the BOINC server decided that the workunit should be sent out to another computer but prior to the workunit actually being sent again, the workunit was validated.
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3.0 Maintenance·How Do I Manually Update Completed Tasks?
·How Do I Increase My Cache?
·How Do I Opt-Out Of Newly Launched Projects?
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First open the Advanced view of the client
Click the top Projects tab
Highlight the Project in the box on the right
On the left command bar - click [Update]
Then go to the Transfers tab
Left click and hold control to highlight all the wu wu's awaiting upload (if any are there)
Then click "Retry Now"
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Maximum for the BOINC client is 10 days
(Fine for quads/ not great for others as they may face completion deadlines)
Dualies fare well on 5 days
All others 2-3 days set is average
To increase your cache
Open the client in Advanced View
At the top toolbar - by File /View /Tools /Activity/ Advanced - click Advanced
Go to Preferences
Under the Network Usage tab in the new box - you can set "additional work buffer".
Click "ok".
That's it!
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Yes you can
said by »www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum···ad=20394 :
Since the launch of the Rice project, there has been a great deal of debate about the merits of our policy of automatically opting members into new research projects when they are released.
After consideration, we have decided that prior to the next research project being launched, we will provide members the ability to choose whether they will automatically be opted into new projects or not. This option will be available from the My Grid -> My Projects page (which is then applied to each BOINC profile when it is saved) as well as on each BOINC profile (for those who want to customize the behavior for each profile individually).
This means that on the My Projects page and for each BOINC profile, members will be able select the following:
* Which projects you want to contribute to
* If no work is available from your selected project, then whether you want us to send you work from a different project
* If you want to be automatically signed up for new research projects
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This way of running BOINC requires 3 things: A CD burner, a USB flash drive (recommend 512MB), and a little knowledge of Linux and/or the patience to learn basic manipulation of files in Linux. The greatest thing about this is that it leaves the hard drive/OS on any computer completely untouched!
SLAX is a 'mini' version of Linux that gives you the capability to boot a computer using only a CD-ROM and a USB flash drive. This means that you can boot up and use a computer that doesn't even have a hard drive! There are many other 'mini' live boot options out there, but SLAX takes care of all the hard stuff for you. The version of SLAX that was current at the time of this FAQ was 5.1.8.
Here's the steps to put this into action...
A) You will need to burn 2 CDs-- (the .iso images for these are available here)
A.1) SLAX Boot CD v 5.1.8 (lets you boot from a 'live' USB flash drive even without BIOS USB boot option!)
A.2) SLAX Popcorn Edition v 5.1.8 (very minimal Linux GUI front end)
B) Next, prep the USB flash drive and boot up...
B.1) Copy -all- (you may need to show hidden files) files from CD (A.2) to the USB flash drive.
B.2) Insert CD (A.1) and USB flash drive into PC
B.3) boot the computer
B.3.a) login (default user is root, default password is toor)
B.3.b) run xconf to get graphics right (only needed if xstart gives you nothing but a black screen)
B.3.c) run xstart to startup GUI
C) Next, you -may- need to tell it how to talk over your network/router: (note that if the computer is on a DHCP network, this entire step is unnecessary)
C.1) open a shell and type in the following, line for line: (x's used to protect the intercent =)
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 192.168.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gateway 192.168.xxx.xxx
echo "nameserver x.x.x.x" >> /etc/resolv.conf
D) Use Firefox as usual for the rest of the online part...
D.1) (download distributed computing program to USB flash drive)
E) Open a shell, navigate to correct directory, and run the distributed computing program!
All in all, very simple, and you can theoretically use the (CD A.1/USB flash drive combo) to run distributed computing on any computer with access to the internet!!
And a final note: do NOT set up a swap/VM partition/file on a USB flash drive! It's a very bad idea!
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5.0 Misc·Signatures & How To Help Spread the Word
·How Good Is Grobinette?
·Why Dersgniw Posts
·LSOJ?
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Want to help spread the TD word?
Good ways to start
Post to our recruitment threads:
World Community Grid Team Discovery Recruitment Thread
~and~
The Rothberg Institute's TSC Team Discovery Recruitment Thread
It's a great way to show those outside of BBR why Team Discovery here is an awesome family to be part of!
PS: Your login is separate for the forums than from your devices at TSC and the same login at WCG, so if it's your 1st time, you'll need to register :)
•Do we have Team Discovery in our "sigs" here onsite?
•Do we tell folks about what we do?
•Did you Digg Us?
•Did we find us on a search engine?
• Did we see the store on CafePress?
•Did we join/contribute to TDPH & have a voice regarding our teams Hope Machine?
•Do you link back to us from your blog or other websites?
•Did the "spinner" appeal to us?
•Did we find us from a DC forum like Grid or Rothenberg?
•Have we fed the monkey lately? ;)
Knowing where our potential new user base is coming from helps us target our goals more on seeking new recruits
Of course we can't posture outside of this forum @ BBR, but we can link in our sigs, etc.
To link Project Hope in your sigs, go here:
»/prof/forums
And cut & paste (in the Posting .sig area):
or for Team Discovery:
Linking back to us is a good thing..
Even in other forums outside of BBR you may frequent
More examples: »Re: Signatures & the like
»Re: Signatures & the like
*also a good reminder for those that may already have signatures (or bookmarks) that go to the old URL
(BroadbandReports.com)
»Site FAQ »Broadbandreports.com vs dslreports.com
Now click your heels together 3x and repeat:
There's no place like Team Discovery
There's no place like Team Discovery
There's no place like Team Discovery
Signatures work, people..get one today!! 
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Find out the whole story here :)
»Re: [OT] How Good Are You ??
Grobinette is 20% Good
Well, you're not necessarily evil - but you're pretty darn bad.
Morals are something you don't concern yourself with. You're amoral... not immoral.
So what motivates you instead of ethics? Greed, lust, laziness, anger. The usual bad stuff.
Bottom line, you're not trying to be a good person. In fact, it probably never crosses your mind.
You are also probably: Not too terribly concerned about what anyone thinks of you
Right now you are on track to being: An evil dictator
To be a better person: Start small. Pet a puppy.
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A: Dersgniw types several letters together to form words, sometimes sentences to communicate thoughts, milestones, jokes and other various comments.
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