Our group has had the grid computing program running on two different computers. This has allowed us to do more work on the grid. We started off with "Help Fight Childhood Cancer" as our main grid, but about a month into the project it went from having an active status to having a status of intermitent meaning that it had very few items being sent to computers. Once it went to intermitent status Courtney changed her main grid to "Help Conquer Cancer" so that we would still be working on a cancer grid.
Here are the stats from Linda's computer:
11 results returned with a ranking of 502,029
8,271 points with a ranking of 483,423
Here are the stats from Courtney's computer:
206 restults returned with a ranking of 255,068
123,352 points with a ranking of 216,631
We know that these stats may not mean much other than just numbers to some people, but they do show that there is work being done on trying to combat cancer as well as other world problems. Being that the grid computing program sometimes sends work from other grids not all of the data that is gathered is for cancer. There are grids doing research Malaria, Leishmaniasis, Schistosoma, AIDS, clean enercy, and human proteome folding.
This project has allowed us to learn about evolution and how it can affect cancer. The project has also made us think about evolution in new ways.
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