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Minvaren
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Malaria Control

Malaria Control is a BOINC application in beta testing right now. A recent forum post on their site indicates that new account creation should be opened up in early June for the next phase of beta testing.

Crunch on!

m00kie
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I've read that malaria kills 2 million people a year. Definitely a project I'd be interested in.

Starfish
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said by m00kie:

I've read that malaria kills 2 million people a year. Definitely a project I'd be interested in.
Ditto here.

Maleria has an enormous impact. Looking at some of the the facts, it's even bigger than I initially thought:

"At least 500 million people are infected each year in the world, resulting in more than a million deaths [...]"

500 million people.. that's about 6-7% of the total world population... every year! Next to of course all the tragic deaths, it also is an heavy economical burden on many countries :

"Malaria has been estimated to cost Africa more than $US 12 billion every year in lost GDP."

Using BOINC, the number of computers below working on research could easily be increased by a great amount:

"The Swiss Tropical Institute has developed a computer model for malaria epidemiology and harnessed its in-house PC capacity, about 40 machines, to do preliminary studies. "

I'm certainly going to attach this project to my BOINC client when new accounts can be created.

m00kie
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I just checked today and account creation is still disabled. If anyone finds it reopened could you please bump this? Thanks

Starfish
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Starfish

Thank you for also keeping an eye on it!

A few days ago, I've added it to the list of websites/tabs that I open every single day, with the idea that I could quickly spread the word. So I too am keeping an eye on it.

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500 million people..... the population of the US

Starfish
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said by cow116:

500 million people..... the population of the US
It's even almost 1.7 times the current US population (~299mln)... but indeed, still an enormous number of people.

Before reading this on the project's website, I would never have expected so find a number that high!

I really hope that this project can make a useful contribution and I'm looking forward to the moment when account creation will be enabled again.
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Some news:
quote:
We ran into a problem here with the new wu types, which required another adaptation of the science app. We'll need version 531 before we can add the new wu types.
If all goes well, we can open early next week. We will anounce this in the project news.
Nick
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Nicolas Maire
Swiss Tropical Institute

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Account Creation has been ENABLED!
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2006-06-20
We have enabled account creation again. This time we will disable account creation at approx. 2000 users. We invite new users to Read this first.

If you're interested, get them while they're still available by visiting this registration form!


Xaak
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I'm in. Got it crunching part time on the laptop to give it a looksee.

Anyone create a team yet?

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Anyone create a team yet?
edit: please see post down below


Xaak
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How about Team Anopheles Gambiae

That's the malaria mosquito .
edit: Just joined

Starfish
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Not sure if that name is easy to promote

Hmm..

edit: and welcome to the team

edit2:

Name of the team I've set up:

Team Mosquito-Net

Team page

Create team account page

edit 3: Page might display the initial name, 'Team International' for a while..

Xaak
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cool, I just returned my first result.

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Ditto here.

Not sure if this is the average time/WU, but such the amount of time/WU I'm seeing is not bad at all.

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Mine was 52 minutes on a Pentium M 2.0ghz laptop. Maybe I'll throw it on one of the Pentium D's and see how fast that burns thru a wu .

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Ok, thanks to Starfish and Xaak for the heads up on account creation. I've joined the team and am crunching with a P4 3.0

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WU 1: 34 mins.
WU 2: 56 mins.

(On AthlonXP 2800+, 512MB RAM, Ubuntu 5.04)

Edit:

And welcome to the team m00kie!

m00kie
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First wu was 38 mins second was 81 mins.

Check out the screensaver

Minvaren
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Thanks for the heads-up on account creation. In and joined the team, first ETA 58 minutes per WU each on a 3800x2.

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Welcome to the team Minvaren, I'm glad you've been able to get an account as well!

m00kie
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Looks like John Keck joined us too. Great

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Yes, indeed!

Welcome to the team John!

edit:

Just noticed we went up 15 places on the list of top teams, nice!

Xaak
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I finally got a chance to look at the screen saver. I can't say I can tell what the program is doing by watching it but it is pretty cool.

Einstein is still my favorite.
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All I am waiting for is BBR teams on the various projects. Until they turn up I join BOINCstats since I use them for my stat sig on the projects.

[edit] LHC has the best screensaver in my opinion. Just wish that project had more support.

paul
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I'm there.....

Xaak
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said by John Keck:

All I am waiting for is BBR teams on the various projects. Until they turn up I join BOINCstats since I use them for my stat sig on the projects.

Well, if you're crunching projects that you want to see here, create a team and post something here and try to drum up some interest. That's what this forum is for. If it gains interest, you can always request official approval .

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Welcome to the team Paul!

m00kie
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Aye, welcome Paul

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We're doing great team!

Already moved from rank #96 to #52 of the top team list over just the last 5 days!

Edit:

Looking at 'recent average credit', we're ranked #22 out of 172 teams! Not bad considering that we're a very small team..

Edit 2:

And we've broken the first 5K milestone. Congratulations team!