Décidement l'actualité du projet WCG est chargée ces derniers jours.
Help Defeat Cancer qui est un sous projet de WCG est quasiment fini. Les dernières unités devraient etre envoyées sous une semaine et dans trois semaines toutes les unités seront revenues sur les serveurs du projet.
Un mail sera envoyé et fournira plus d'informations concernant la recherche sur le cancer sur la plateforme WCG.
Vous pouvez toujours contribuer aux autres projets de la plateforme qui se poursuivent (Help Cure Muscular Distrophy-HCMD, Genome Comparaison, Fight Aids@home et Human Proteome Folding). Tout en sachant que les phases 1 des projets Help Cure Muscular Distrophy et Genome Comparaison seront bientot finies (la phase 2 de Genome comparaison devrait suivre rapidement et celle de HCMD en été ou en automne). De plus il faut savoir que WCG avait annoncé 3 voire 4 nouveaux projets en 2007. On pourrait donc voir apparaitre, outre HCMD, d'autres projets dans les semaines ou les mois à venir.
Le texte original sur le forum WCG :
We would like to thank our members for their generous contribution to the Help Defeat Cancer project which is very near completion. In fact, sometime this week, we expect to see the steady outflow of work units on this project go down to a trickle as we finish the last remaining batches of work. Within about 3 weeks, all of the final results should be in and returned to the researchers and at that time no further work units will need to be sent for this project.
We will soon be sending a news email about the project's completion and will provide more information about future cancer related work on World Community Grid.
Some of you who have set your preferences to only contribute to this project will find that your agent may go into a paused state. If that is the case, we encourage you to change your settings to contribute to the other projects. At some point we may reset the preferences for users contributing only to the Help Defeat Cancer project back to the default of contributing to all projects, so that their agents do not become totally idle.
We will soon be hearing exciting information about the results and next steps from the researchers. Thank you again for your spare computer cycles which have made this project possible!