UBB.Developers Forums Announcements Announcements Team UBBDev All Good Things Must Come to an End

"With seven years and five projects under its belt, Grid.org has successfully completed its mission: To evangelize the benefits (and demonstrate the viability and security) of large-scale Internet-based grid computing. Therefore, it is with great pride for all the accomplishments of this pioneering resource, and above all with the utmost gratitude to each of our members around the globe, that we announce Grid.org will be retiring on Friday, April 27, 2007."

http://forum.grid.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=599007

I don't think 2 days is that much of a warning...

"Below are just a few of the projects we encourage you to investigate:
> World Community Grid ( http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ ), operated by IBM
> Distributed.net ( http://www.distributed.net/ ), operated by distributed.net
> Compute Against Cancer ( http://www.computeagainstcancer.org/ ), operated by National Cancer Institute
> Folding@Home ( http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/ ), operated by Stanford University
> fightAIDS@Home ( http://fightaidsathome.scripps.edu/ ), operated by Olson Lab at Scripps Research Institute
> LHC@home ( http://athome.web.cern.ch/athome/ ), operated by CERN
> Distributed Folding ( http://www.distributedfolding.org/ ), operated by a group of partners including Hogue Bioinformatics Research Lab, Mount Sinai Hospital, and University of Toronto
> SETI@home ( http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ ), operated by University of California at Berkeley

Also, here are a few great sites to visit to learn more about these and other projects:

> http://enterthegrid.com/
> http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/gridprojects/fora.html
> http://www.ogf.org/
> http://www.grid.org.il/ "

Our current stats after 7 years of chugging:

Team UBBDev has 91,584,829 points (#40 ), with 434,033 results (#45 ) thanks to 652 members and counting!

late april fools?

hmmm.. not quite 7 years, we started June 6, 2001 - I guess that's nearly 6 years.

I wish, I think they decided they don't need to waste the bandwidth anymore - they've been working on much bigger projects (better paying) for a while now. They never bothered to update the app in years, surely it could have been written to work more efficiently after all this time to perform better.

I've put 5-7 new computers on it in recent months trying to reach 3 million points, ain't gonna happen.

I guess we need to look throught the others and see what may be worthwhile to invest the time and energy in.

Here's what appears to be final team points. We beat many many more prestigious teams - lots to be proud of

Rank Member Name Points Generated
1 Team 2ch 6,964,352,415
2 Easynews 4,701,298,797
3 DSL Reports Team Discovery 635,846,635
4 Dutch Power Cows against cancer 531,000,666
5 Vulture Central II 479,522,341
6 PCDVD 465,444,867
7 Intel Against Cancer 425,098,091
8 AMDZone.com 407,807,823
9 IBM Internal 381,728,223
10 [H]ardOCP 323,221,766
11 TiVo Users 319,416,652
12 Hungary 284,560,138
13 TECHSIDE.NET 231,762,672
14 Yen-e JAPAN 217,511,487
15 FatWallet 214,195,923
16 A UK PC against Cancer 207,677,173
17 Christians 201,461,711
18 Russia 198,977,307
19 saposapo 190,821,376
20 Poland 188,885,817
21 Ars Technica Team Crab Cake 182,299,139
22 Team Anandtech 175,752,250
23 Microsoft 170,401,040
24 Czech Republic 165,322,269
25 Team USA 156,806,409
26 Canadians (et Québécois) unite against Cancer 148,757,853
27 PC911 148,714,088
28 Athlonoc Taiwan 147,381,212
29 University of Hertfordshire 133,374,254
30 BitBenderTech 133,349,795
31 ukky 132,479,113
32 MyChat BBS 123,816,074
33 Zoo Taiwan Bad Cow 118,164,950
34 IBM 115,370,691
35 Lockergnome 108,673,421
36 WinTricks.it Italian Team 107,715,941
37 Team Germany 94,626,771
38 Muropaketti team 92,879,420
39 Portugal 92,512,487
40 Team UBBDev 91,584,829
41 Ex Mad Cows 88,414,960
42 Sheffield Hallam University 84,434,626
43 Sluggy Freelance 83,934,963
44 Order of the Blabbermouths 80,953,407
45 Sweden vs Cancer 76,813,104
46 NCTU Taiwan 75,665,274
47 The Exodus Crew 74,826,444
48 Finland 72,044,330
49 Team WinDrivers 71,222,778
50 Australia 70,538,836

My recommendation towards the next project is one of the @HOME projects, either Folding, FightingAids, LHC, or SETI (<3 to seti)

Actually, the more that I think of it, I like Folding@HOME... Mainly because you can run the client on gaming systems as well as computers (see here)

interesting, what does it do?

Folding@HOME - (description on WikiPedia) Folding@home (also known as FAH or F@H) is a distributed computing project designed to perform computationally intensive simulations of protein folding and other molecular dynamics simulations. It was launched on October 1, 2000, and is currently managed by the Pande Group, within Stanford University's Chemistry department, under the supervision of Professor Vijay S. Pande. F@H is one of the largest distributed computing projects.[1] The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases."[2]

Accurate simulations of protein folding and misfolding enable the scientific community to better understand the development of many diseases, including Alzheimer's disease, BSE (mad cow disease), Cancer, Huntington's Disease, Cystic Fibrosis and other aggregation related diseases. [2] More fundamentally, understanding the process of protein folding — how biological molecules assemble themselves into a functional state — is one of the outstanding problems of molecular biology. So far, the F@H project has successfully simulated folding in the 5-10 microsecond range — a time scale thousands of times longer than was previously thought possible.[3]

As of March 30, 2007, forty-nine scientific research papers have been published using the project's work.[4] A University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign report dated October 22, 2002 states that F@H distributed simulations of protein folding are demonstrably accurate.[5]

I'm planning to do some work on a php script for our organization for our SETI team, I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to make one for folding assuming they lay out their data in a logical fassion; I use a lot of preg_match and preg_split to read in data and split it into an array.

ok, sounds cool... we can move to that if possible

I want something that has a windows and a mac client.

Oh, I was looking last night before bed. My machines were about 900 points short of my 3rd million. It was a milestone I was looking forward to.

Folding@Home has clients for:
Windows (2000, XP, Vista, 98, ME), Linux, MacOSX (PPC and Intel), and the Playstation 3 (though not officially supported AFAIK).

Their clients list is available here

Folding I would do. SETI doesn't interest me at all.

My thoughts too



ouch, I was about 70k short of 3mill.

Well, I run a seti team, so I woudln't participate in the UBBDev one should one occour, but I don't belong to a folding team, so i'm all yours :x...

And in either case, I could care less about finding life (well, through seti) it more interests me is the scanning of transmissions...

No wonder mine refuses to update

I reached 6.7 million

Well done to everyone for what they did - shame they didn't even bothering to email people about this.

We now need a new challenge.....

:points to the above Folding@HOME project mentionings:

Congrats Ian

I am for the folding one too, can we form a team?

I'm pretty sure; they do have a teams page afterall ...
Folding Stats Page

So long, grid.org, it's been fun Just over 2 million points and 10 years of CPU time.

edit: since I'll never be running the agent again and member services has been shut down, I'm leaving this here in case I want it in future: 2,064,626 points, 10y 55d 9h 39m 9s.

What is folding?

They do work that leads to research work for Aids, Cancer, other diseases. It's another protein examination study.

great rundown ... I chose it because it's basically what TeamUBBDev has been doing forever anyway ...

Though I'd kill to get ahold of the php script that you use to generate stats here...

I need to post my final points here for posterity. It was only one update shy of 3 million.

Again, guys, I'm willing to do folding if we want to make a team. I couldn't care less about what SETI is doing, but folding has a chance to make an impact on my life or the lives of people around me.

Allen's ultimately already said yes to Folding; hell I even gave him the link to their stats page where you can setup a team; so I think we're just waiting?

June 1st

I'm proud of the fact that our little band of haxxors beat the pants off of the entire countries of sweden, finland and australia and likely hundred of other former soviet rupublics

thousands