QuoteBREAKING NEWS: GRID.ORG MISSION COMPLETE
On Friday, April 27, 2007, Grid.org announced it has completed its mission to demonstrate the viability and benefits of large-scale Internet-based grid computing, and will be retiring its famous efforts to support critical health research.

http://www.grid.org/home.htm
Crunching Cancer on & off since 2001/2002 for tekheads, and my final CPU time is 1 year, 53 days with 121825 points.

So did they really finish, or run out of money? :?:

In all liklihood theyve probably just achieved their aim, like they say they have.  Looking into it as an outsider, Id imagine it was more of a proof-of-concept of a distributed computing model rather than anything directly urgent or beneficial.  I would be interested to see just what was done with the results from the processing, as information on that seems to be pretty sparse.

Seems something of a shame to turn it off even if they have achieved their original aim.

Surely it would be possible to utilise the exisitng user base which must have taken a fair amount of time to develop to do some more useful for processing for the good of mankind?

http://www.tekforums.co.uk/posts/list/7683.page

It is probably the fact that actual government and Direct medical areas are using the same approaches and for more direct studies. Sony has done a deal where the ps3 (you wont even notice apparently) will be number crunching for a study for example.

Does anyone know what position team tekheads finished in? Im curious, but it seem like theyve shut down all the stats too. :?