World Community Grid - Macedonia

Welcome to WCG

2010-12-31T23:59:00.000+01:00

Welcome, visitor. This is the official page of the team Macedonia, which participates in the World Community Grid.

World Community Grid's mission is to create the largest public computing grid benefiting humanity. Our work is built on the belief that technological innovation combined with visionary scientific research and large-scale volunteerism can change our world for the better. Our success depends on individuals - like you - collectively contributing their unused computer time to this not-for-profit endeavor.

How you can help
Simply donate the time your computer is turned on, but would normally lie idle, for projects that benefit humanity. Like a screensaver, grid technology is easy to use, safe and free. When you are ready to use your computer, the grid connection will shut itself off until the next time your computer is idle.

Note: Parts of this web site are in Macedonian language, with cyrillic alphabet.

Tags: cancer, computing, cure, health, HIV, AIDS, medicine, processor, science, Macedonia, Македонија, Panta Rei, GoodBytes.

Curing AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger

2010-04-26T23:39:00.002+02:00

For the past four years, Lauren Moran has devoted herself to groundbreaking cancer research, chronicling the fickle interaction between molecules and proteins. Despite having a full-time job -- "stat geek" on the New York Yankees' media relations staff -- Moran screens drug candidates daily. And continuously. She conducts experiments while talking on the phone to her parents, attending games at Yankee Stadium, and watching episodes of The Office in her Bronx apartment. Even in the dead of night.

When she's not trying to cure cancer, she's busy cracking other monumental problems: AIDS. World hunger. Clean energy. It's a breathtaking portfolio for a 24-year-old communications major who didn't take a single chemistry or biology class in college.

Read the rest of the article How IBM's World Community Grid Is Helping Cure AIDs, Cancer, and World Hunger on the Fast Company web site.

I Dedicate, final cut

2008-11-18T19:44:00.002+01:00

FYI: How Grid Computing Works

Grid Computing: The Basics
Grid computing joins together many individual computers, creating a large system with massive computational power that far surpasses the power of a handful of supercomputers. Because the work is split into small pieces that can be processed simultaneously, research time is reduced from years to months. The technology is also more cost-effective, enabling better use of critical funds.

Changing Our World Now
Grid computing is not a futuristic technology. World Community Grid is at work right now applying this technology to exciting research projects that can benefit us all.

Our first project, Human Proteome Folding, is identifying the proteins produced by human genes. With this information, scientists can understand how defects in proteins can cause disease, making it easier to find cures.

In 2003, with grid computing, in less than three months scientists identified 44 potential treatments to fight the deadly smallpox disease. Without the grid, the work would have taken more than one year to complete.

I Dedicate

2008-11-11T22:37:00.001+01:00

World Community Grid is calling on members around the world to upload their personal video dedications for a montage that we're creating. Here's your chance to share your personal stories or motivations with others about why you're part of World Community Grid, and inspire more people to join the grid.

New project: Nutritious Rice for the World

2008-05-16T21:06:00.004+02:00

World Community Grid just launched a new project: Nutritious Rice for the World.

The objective of this project is to predict the structure of proteins of major strains of rice. The intent is to help farmers breed better rice strains with higher crop yields, promote greater disease and pest resistance, and utilize a full range of bio-available nutrients that can benefit people around the world, especially in regions where hunger is a critical concern.

Determining the structure of proteins is an extremely difficult and expensive process. However, it is possible to computationally predict a protein's structure from its corresponding DNA sequence. The Computational Biology Research Group at the University of Washington has developed state of the art software to accomplish this. The difficulty is, there are thousands of distinct proteins found in rice. This presents a computational challenge that a single computer cannot solve within a reasonable time frame. Therefore, volunteers of World Community Grid are invited to assist in this daunting task. Through collaboration with agricultural researchers and farmers, the hope is to eventually improve global rice yields and quality.

Link: Nutritious Rice for the World.

BOINC client for World Community Grid

2007-10-24T10:34:00.001+02:00

This is how the new BOINC client for World Community Grid looks like.

FightAIDS@Home

Discovering Dengue Drugs - Together

Join our network and help the human science and our future.

Tags: World, Community, Grid, BOINC, client, network, crunch, processor, donate, medicine, science, AIDS, desease, drug, cure, Macedonia, Македонија, Panta Rei, GoodBytes.

WCG reached the 100,000 years run time mark

2007-07-09T19:24:00.000+02:00

World Community Grid has reached the 100,000 years of run time mark! THANK YOU to all our volunteers who have enabled us to reach this amazing milestone! Because of your contributions, results on critical health issues have already been achieved, demonstrating World Community Grid's potential to make significant inroads on a great range of future projects that can benefit the world.

World Community Grid also is pleased to announce that the Fiocruz Genome Comparison (FGC) project is finished. The last work units have been sent out and when the final results are returned, the project will come to an end. This project, which launched on November 16, 2006, will have run for just over 8 months by the time the last results are returned. During this time 146,000 members will have donated 3,800 years of computer time on 280,000 different computers. This is a significant contribution to helping scientists better understand human genes, how they play a role in disease processes, and ultimately in understanding how to devise drugs to combat human diseases.

But the end of this project is really only a beginning. Based on the results, the researchers who are working on this project have a plan to not only use this data, but to also make it available to other researchers. World Community Grid's team will keep in close touch with the research team and will post updates on the website in the Research pages. The researchers will also continue to update their FGC website with exciting updates about this project and the inroads it is making to research.

We still need your help with other ongoing projects! World Community Grid continues to run the FightAIDS@Home and Human Proteome Folding - Phase II projects. These critical research projects need your computer time as well.

We also are preparing three new projects that are due to be launched later this summer, including ones focused on flaviviruses, climate modeling, and cancer. We will publish more information about these projects when they launch.

On behalf of the research staff at Fiocruz, in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, World Community Grid's team wish to express our thanks to you for contributing your PC power to this project. With your contribution, this project was completed in a fraction of the time it would otherwise have taken.

Tags: Macedonia, wcg, world, community, grid, computing, processor, genome, project, aids, cancer, research, science, milestone, health, virus, climate.

Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy

2007-06-18T16:36:00.000+02:00

World Community Grid is pleased to announce that Phase 1 of the Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy (HCMD) project is coming to a close. This project, which launched on December 19, 2006, will have run for just over seven months by the time the final results for Phase 1 are returned. During this time 106,000 members will have donated more than 8,000 years of computer time on 154,000 different computers. This is a significant contribution to muscular dystrophy research.

The end of Phase 1 means that the researchers are doing significant work in preparation for Phase 2. To learn more about what is going on between phases, please read the posts by Dr. Alessandra Carbone and Dr. Sophie Sacquin-Mora, two of the researchers on the HCMD project, in World Community Grid's forums. In addition, the research team has prepared a progress site which may be reviewed here. Phase 2 is scheduled to start in early 2008. World Community Grid's team will continue to meet with the HCMD researchers on a regular basis and will provide updates on the forums as information becomes available.

We still need your help with other ongoing projects! World Community Grid continues to run the FightAIDS@Home, Genome Comparison, and Human Proteome Folding - Phase II projects. In a few months, we'll be launching new projects for cancer, dengue fever, and climate prediction. All of these important projects need your computer time.

Tags: computing, cure, health, medicine, science, muscular, dystrophy, project, wcg, world, community, grid, processor, Macedonia, Македонија, Panta Rei, GoodBytes.

Help Defeat Cancer project

2007-04-03T18:50:00.000+02:00

World Community Grid is pleased to announce that the Help Defeat Cancer (HDC) project is finished. The last work units have been sent out and when the final results are returned, the project will come to an end. This project, which launched on July 20, 2006, will have run for just over 9 months by the time the last results are returned. During this time 88,000 members will have donated 2,900 years of computer time on 138,000 different computers. This is a significant contribution to cancer research.

But the end of this project is really only a beginning. Based on the results, the researchers who are working on this project have a very aggressive plan to make Tissue Microarray technology an integral part of early cancer detection. World Community Grid's team will keep in close touch with the research team and will post updates on the website in the Research pages. The researchers will also continue to update their HDC website with exciting updates about this project and the inroads it is making on cancer research.

On behalf of the research staff at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, World Community Grid's team wish to express our thanks to you for contributing your PC power to this project. With your contribution, this project was completed in a fraction of the time it would otherwise have taken.

We also want to inform you that World Community Grid has started work on a new cancer project to discover ways to accelerate the crystallization process used in studying cancer protein structure using X-ray Crystallography, which will help researchers identify proteins involved in cancers and lead to new drug therapies and cures. We plan to launch this new cancer project in the May/June 2007 time frame. You will receive more information on this project prior to the official launch date.

We still need your help with other ongoing projects! World Community Grid continues to run the FightAIDS@Home, Genome Comparison, Help Cure Muscular Dystrophy and Human Proteome Folding - Phase II projects. These critical research projects need your computer time as well.

IMPORTANT: If you have elected to participate only in the Help Defeat Cancer project (which has now been completed), you must take some action to prevent your World Community Grid agent from sitting idle on your PC until the next cancer project launches. Please sign in to World Community Grid, and from the "My Grid" page, select the "My Projects" link from the menu on the left. From the "My Projects" page, select one or more of the other projects in which you choose to participate. If no action is taken within the next 3 weeks, we will set your default to Participate in All Projects. You will then be automatically enrolled to participate in the next cancer research project when it is launched in May or June.

Again, thank you for your contribution to the highly successful completion of the Help Defeat Cancer project!

Tags: cancer, computing, cure, health, medicine, processor, science, Macedonia, Македонија, Panta Rei, GoodBytes.

Muscular dystrophy

2007-02-19T01:53:00.000+01:00

Muscular dystrophy is a new project running on World Community Grid. Muscular dystrophy is a term that describes a genetic group of more than 30 genetic and hereditary muscle diseases; It is characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness, defects in muscle proteins, and the death of muscle cells and tissue. In some forms of muscular dystrophy, cardiac and smooth muscles are affected. Muscular dystrophy is the most well known of hereditary diseases.

Link: Muscular dystrophy on Wikipedia.

Tags: cancer, computing, cure, health, HIV, AIDS, medicine, members, processor, science, Muscular, dystrophy, World, Community, Grid, WCG, Macedonia, Македонија, Panta Rei, GoodBytes.

FightAIDS@Home

2005-11-21T02:11:00.000+01:00

World Community Grid започна со реализацијата на новиот проект, FightAIDS@Home. Проектот треба да помогне во изнаоѓањето лекови кои ќе го спречат растењето на HIV вирусот, и со тоа драматично ќе ги продолжат животите на лицата кои се заразени со оваа страшна болест.

Донирај го слободното време од твојот процесор и помогни да се направи толку очекуваниот прогрес во борбата со вирусот HIV.

Придружи се на тимот Macedonia.

WCG Global Statistics

2005-06-04T03:34:00.000+02:00

WCG Team Macedonia Statistics

2005-06-04T01:40:00.000+02:00

Членови

2005-05-20T00:05:00.000+02:00

Ова е листа од активните членови на тимот Macedonia:

Приклучи се и ти на нашиот тим!

Благодарност

2005-05-19T23:52:00.000+02:00

Благодарност до емисијата ЕНТЕР на А1 телевизија, која медиумски го поддржа WCG:

Човечноста е се' повеќе непознат поим меѓу нас луѓето. Ако помогнеш некому, или си наивен, или останало некоја чудна ронка човечност во тебе, која не знаеш зошто воопшто ја трошиш за други. Можеби оваа емисија нема да не направи почовечни, но можеме да се обидеме, а со тоа верувајте ќе си помогнеме на самите себе. Денес ќе презентираме софтвер кој од неговите корисници ќе побара незначително внимание и ресурси, а ќе и' овозможи на науката да отиде неколку чекори напред – World Community Grid...

(Остатокот од текстот беше на сајтот на Ентер, но откако го преуредија сајтот, таму го нема повеќе, за жал.)

Благодарност и до Опасна Багра, која го објави нашиот апел за приклучување на нови членови кон тимот "Macedonia":

Што треба да се направи?

Од сајтот на World Community Grid треба да се преземе клиент, кој се инсталира на вашиот компјутер. Ако имате повеќе слободни компјутери, клиентот се инсталира на секој компјутер посебно. Исто така, треба да се креира и кориснички акаунт за вас. При креирањето, не заборавајте под држава да изберете „Macedonia“, а исто и за тим „Macedonia“, бидејќи тие влегуваат во статистиката по држави и по тимови, соодветно...

Повеќе...

Тим: Macedonia

2005-05-19T23:31:00.000+02:00

И Македонија се приклучи кон проектот со свој тим, почнувајќи од 17 Ноември 2004 година. Оттогаш, бројот на членовите на тимот полека се зголемува. Тука ќе најдете и листа со активните членови на тимот Macedonia, а линковите ја отвораат нивната статистика.

Линкови:

Страница со информации за тимот
Тимскиот форум, на кој можете и да оставите порака

Членови на тимот Македонија, ве повикувам и тука да ги искажете своите мислења и ставови поврзани со WCG, активниот проект, хуманоста, како и за овој сајт. Со задоволство ќе ги прифатам вашите критики, идеи и сугестии.

Склопување на човечки протеини

2005-05-19T23:16:00.000+02:00

Активен проект: Склопување на човечки протеини

World Community Grid се фокусира на проект кој е клуч за напредок на нашето знаење за човечките болести. Преку идентификувањето на протеините кои го сочинуваат човечкиот протеом, научниците можат да изградат разбирање кое е потребно за понапредно и ефикасно третирање на болести како на пример: рак, HIV/AIDS, SARS, и маларија. Повеќе...

За WCG

2005-05-19T22:57:00.000+02:00

Мисијата на World Community Grid е да ја создаде најголемата јавна калкулативна мрежа од компјутери, која ќе се занимава со проекти од кои човештвото има корист.

Тие развиваат техничка инфраструктура која служи како основа на мрежното научно истражување. Успехот на оваа мрежа зависи од индивидуалци кои колективно го даруваат своето неискористено процесорско време, со цел да го променат светот кон подобро.

World Community Grid ја прави достапна технологијата до јавни и непрофитни организации, со цел да се употребува за хуманитарни истражувања кои не можат на друг начин да се завршат, заради високата цена на компјутерската инфраструктура која би била потребна во отсуство на јавна мрежа. Како дел од нивната посветеност кон подобрувањето на човечката благосостојба, сите истражувања ќе бидат од јавен интерес, а резултатите ќе бидат јавни и достапни за глобалната научна и истражувачка заедница.