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 Post subject: Calling all canucks! Canadian BOINC project needs your help
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Hello,

Canada has a new distributed computing project!

I'd like to invite all of you to participate in a Canadian-German distributed computing project. We are trying to design a new class of antibiotic to combat E. coli, Salmonella, dysentery, the plague, and other pathogens. We are hoping to take on a class of bacterial pathogens that collectively account for hundreds of millions of infections every year, primarily in young children from developing nations.

We are using brand new computer algorithms to model the interaction between proteins in bacteria in order to understand how we can disrupt the interaction and stop bacteria from infecting people. This computer modeling requires teraflop-level processing power and so we are asking the public to donate their unused CPU time.

The science is being conducted at the University of British Columbia in association with collaborators in Germany. Our collaborators are the developers of the POEM@HOME BOINC project.

Please consider using your computer(s) to help Canadian science and global health. It only takes a couple of minutes to get it started, and once you get it going, your data could really help us come up with new ways to combat these diseases.

Project information:
http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/index.php?section=projectpage

How to get involved:
http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/index.php?section=about

Please tell your friends and fellow Oh Canada members!

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Hi there Prometheus!

The team and I will be investigating this new project and I'm sure we can lend our support.

Also, WELCOME to our forums! Hope you stop by again!

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Thank you!


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I didn't get it... It's a part of POEM@home or a new project ?

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dudumomo wrote:
I didn't get it... It's a part of POEM@home or a new project ?


I've just looked & it seems to me to be a part of Poem.

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dudumomo wrote:
I didn't get it... It's a part of POEM@home or a new project ?


This project involves a new theory/model/idea that is being tested using the POEM@HOME algorithm and client. Therefore, this is a new project that is currently running full-time on the existing POEM@HOME architecture.

I hope you can help!


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.........so do we just run Poem@Home or join up as a new Project & Account?

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Sirius B wrote:
.........so do we just run Poem@Home or join up as a new Project & Account?


You just run POEM@HOME. All your stats from the past will carry forward.

Sorry for the confusion.


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Okay ! Thank you ! That's clear now !

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Is that project the only one on the POEM architecture?

I mean, is there WUs for another project as well actually being crunched on POEM? What are my chances I crunch really the canadian project while running POEM?

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LePandaRoux wrote:
Is that project the only one on the POEM architecture?

I mean, is there WUs for another project as well actually being crunched on POEM? What are my chances I crunch really the canadian project while running POEM?



100% of the POEM@HOME work units are being used on the Canadian project. Every spare cycle you have will be in support of Canadian science!


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Okay ! Thank you ! That's clear now !


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