Re: Malaria Control in BOINC http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r16085748 en Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:03:48 EDT Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:03:48 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16402492 Xaak : I have an issue with one box where it doesn't come out of screen saver. Turning off the BOINC screensaver cured it, but the client itself has been completely stable.
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We don't need no thought control]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16402492 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:50:33 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16401708 Starfish :
I completely agree! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16401708 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:54:48 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16401328 m00kie : Well so far, I've done a bunch of wus with no problems. Looks like the application is very stable.

I'm looking forward to seeing this project grow. The potential rewards from Malaria research as a whole can benefit such a large group of people.

I'm glad our efforts can help, even if just a bit, to eradicate this disease. :)
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One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them - Stanislaw Jerzey]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16401328 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:58:42 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16380125 Starfish : And we moved further up the list to rank #44! Whoo, way to go team! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16380125 Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:27:56 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16373152 Xaak : I'm in the process of upgrading a couple of machines, and moving some parts around between boxes right now, but once that's done I'll be adding a little bit more firepower to the cause.
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We don't need no thought control]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16373152 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:47:30 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16373017 Starfish :
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! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16373017 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:21:31 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16361983 m00kie : Aye, welcome Paul :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16361983 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:54:57 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16359163 Starfish :
Welcome to the team Paul! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16359163 Fri, 23 Jun 2006 06:01:04 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16356024 Xaak :
said by John Keck See Profile :

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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We don't need no thought control]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16356024 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:48:49 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16355961 paul : I'm there.....]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16355961 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:38:34 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16351504 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.

[edit] LHC has the best screensaver in my opinion. Just wish that project had more support.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16351504 Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:40 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16348629 Xaak : 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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We don't need no thought control]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16348629 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:49:58 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16344637 Starfish :
Yes, indeed!

Welcome to the team John! :)

edit:

Just noticed we went up 15 places on the list of top teams, nice! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16344637 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:30:47 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16344553 m00kie : Looks like John Keck joined us too. Great :D]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16344553 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:06:06 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16344035 Starfish :
Welcome to the team Minvaren, I'm glad you've been able to get an account as well! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16344035 Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:05:29 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16342474 Minvaren : Thanks for the heads-up on account creation. In and joined the team, first ETA 58 minutes per WU each on a 3800x2.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16342474 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 21:47:19 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16342066 m00kie : First wu was 38 mins second was 81 mins.

Check out the screensaver :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16342066 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 20:53:55 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341456 Starfish : WU 1: 34 mins.
WU 2: 56 mins.

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

Edit:

And welcome to the team m00kie! :) :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341456 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:20:12 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341444 m00kie : 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
:D :D
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One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them - Stanislaw Jerzey]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341444 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:18:45 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341421 Xaak : 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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We don't need no thought control]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341421 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:15:58 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341370 Starfish :
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. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341370 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:08:26 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341341 Xaak : cool, I just returned my first result.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16341341 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:05:23 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340888 Starfish :
Not sure if that name is easy to promote ;)

Hmm..

edit: and welcome to the team :D

edit2:

Name of the team I've set up:

Team Mosquito-Net :p

Team page

Create team account page

edit 3: Page might display the initial name, 'Team International' for a while..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340888 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:54:45 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340875 Xaak : How about Team Anopheles Gambiae

That's the malaria mosquito :-).
edit: Just joined]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340875 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:52:46 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340869 Starfish :
said by Xaak See Profile :

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

:)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340869 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:52:01 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340841 Xaak : I'm in. Got it crunching part time on the laptop to give it a looksee.

Anyone create a team yet?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340841 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:45:38 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340637 Starfish :
Account Creation has been ENABLED!

quote:
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!

:)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16340637 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:14:20 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16287191 Starfish : 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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]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16287191 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 11:56:40 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16271295 Starfish :
said by cow116 See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16271295 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:34:34 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16270625 cow116 : 500 million people..... the population of the US]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16270625 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:50:06 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16268277 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. :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16268277 Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:17:25 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16261979 m00kie : I just checked today and account creation is still disabled. If anyone finds it reopened could you please bump this? Thanks]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16261979 Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:23:46 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16098924 Starfish :
said by m00kie See Profile :

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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16098924 Mon, 15 May 2006 06:01:22 EDT Re: Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16085748 m00kie : I've read that malaria kills 2 million people a year. Definitely a project I'd be interested in.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16085748 Fri, 12 May 2006 19:15:11 EDT Malaria Control http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16085325 Minvaren : 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! :)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16085325 Fri, 12 May 2006 18:20:52 EDT