終於，要劃下句點了......

這是昨天grid.org論壇貼出的公告

All Good Things Come To An End…
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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.

We’ll be making a public announcement on the site later this week, but we felt it was important to give you, our loyal member base, an early heads-up out of respect for the years of support you’ve given to Grid.org. This way you’ll have time to gather final statistics, exchange contact info, and prepare for the official shutdown.

What exactly is happening:
At 12:00 noon Central Time on Friday, April 27, Grid.org will retire: Jobs will stop running, forums will be closed, and the website will be updated to reflect the retired status of this resource. We will leave the actual servers up for 1 week, so agent messages about this action can continue to be sent to members around the globe who might not check forums regularly. We will also leave the Stats up for one week so you have plenty of time to gather this data. After that, only the Home and Projects pages will remain, along with the instructions for uninstalling the agent ( http://www.grid.org/help/faq_uninstalling_agent.htm ).

Why?
Grid.org has completed its established mission to prove the benefits and viability of Internet-based grid computing. Grid.org was the largest and most ambitious public interest grid venture ever attempted when it was conceived – and thanks to Grid.org (and more specifically to all of you), today such a grid is no longer a novelty. Many public grids are now available, sponsored by large organizations better positioned to provide support to millions of member volunteers and the scientists who leverage their processing power. So, with the underlying technologies now well established globally in both public and private research programs, Grid.org’s goal of establishing the underlying technology has been achieved.

But what about…
We realize that over the past few months, Grid.org has made several announcements about upgrades coming in anticipation of a couple of new projects that we were working on. While we were fairly optimistic about these projects being launched, they ultimately fell through for a number of reasons. We realize that many of you had looked forward to participating in a beta program ahead of launching these projects, and we’re sorry you won’t have that opportunity.

Moving on: Where to go from here?
It’s clear from your years of loyalty to Grid.org that Internet-based research projects of this kind are important to you… and so we’re sure many of you will take your valuable resources to other projects of this kind that are ready and willing to accept you as new members.

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/

Uninstalling the agent
The agent will no longer be processing work after Friday at noon, so you will want to uninstall it from your home device. Here’s how: http://www.grid.org/help/faq_uninstalling_agent.htm . Some more explicit instructions, including Troubleshooting, will be posted online Friday when Grid.org actually retires.

Last but not least
As we’ve tried to emphasize not only in this announcement but throughout our years of operations, we are fully aware of the debt of gratitude we owe to all of you, our loyal members.

The excellent work Grid.org has done, both in contributing massive research power to critical health research and in establishing this kind of research as viable, would not have been possible without your faith, efforts, and donations of compute power and goodwill. There is no superlative high enough to describe the value we place on your ongoing support for Grid.org, and so we simply say Thank you, and we hope you feel as proud as we do of the work you’ve done.

Sincerely,
The Grid.org Team

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Grid.org 所主導的 UD癌症分析, 歷經了七年五個專案, 已順利的完成目標任務了.
UD將會在 2007年4月27日正式退休.
感謝MyChat UD團隊隊員們這些日子以來的辛勞!

所有隊員皆會加贈 完成目標任務獎勵!

MyChat UD團隊隊員們, 若尚未報到, 還請即刻補簽到, 以利發給獎勵.
數位男女UD團隊隊員簽到處 http://bbs.mychat.to/read.php?tid=84543

而分數已達獎勵之隊員們, 也別忘了快來補登記喔.
UD破萬獎勵提報專用帖 http://bbs.mychat.to/read.php?tid=534623
UD TEAM10萬獎勵提報專用帖 http://bbs.mychat.to/read.php?tid=534623
UD TEAM100萬獎勵提報專用帖 http://bbs.mychat.to/read.php?tid=534630

註: 論壇已著手研議新的電腦公益活動可能性與執行方式, 詳情還請留意論壇公告.

　

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下面是引用here2dl於2007-04-26 12:25發表的 :
Grid.org 所主導的 UD癌症分析, 歷經了七年五個專案, 已順利的完成目標任務了.
UD將會在 2007年4月27日正式退休.
感謝MyChat UD團隊隊員們這些日子以來的辛勞!

所有隊員皆會加贈 完成目標任務獎勵!
.......

除了驚嘆號～我還不知道能打上什麼樣的符號來表示震驚～
印象中的研究，是永無止境的一條路....

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感謝大家熱心參與

小弟在此向所有隊員致上最大的敬意
大家辛苦了

我們團隊加入的時間比較晚

這2年4個月的時間

我們不斷的創造出許多紀錄

終於也到了謝幕的一刻

學術是沒有終點的

我們完成的 只是階段性任務

往後若有相同的活動

希望大家也能再次熱誠參與

再次感謝所有隊員

以及論壇所有工作人員的協力

感謝大家

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震驚

人家還在努力往 300 萬邁進說  

不過

換各角度想，表示重大問題已經有初步解決了

所以 UD 才會走向休息

算是好事一樁

感謝各位的付出與努力

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補充一下
有 100 萬獎勵，那有沒有 200 萬獎勵

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下面是引用bassplayer於2007-04-26 13:39發表的 :


除了驚嘆號～我還不知道能打上什麼樣的符號來表示震驚～
印象中的研究，是永無止境的一條路....

應該是永久研究的吧

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下面是引用wi5046於2007-04-26 15:59發表的 :

應該是永久研究的吧

嗯！目前的消息是，光榮身退！

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小弟才跑到兩萬五千多而已就要劃下句點了...

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這.....
小弟才短短加入一個多月
UD就要畫上句號了
真是有點可惜
難得有一點機會可以對別人有所貢獻

這個月來每天開電腦總是先看看UD跑的如何
偷裝的幾台電腦有沒有正常運作
一點一滴的累積微不足道的分數
卻也感覺"我也是對這個社會有一點貢獻"

這樣突然的結束
實在是百感交集
雖然只有區區幾萬分
但是看著其他大大遙不可及的分數
總是把其他人當作目標並想著說"總有一天我也要這樣"
但是.....一切都結束了

換一個角度想想kevinkuo大講的話
也是沒錯
UD的結束意味著我們的付出有了一些成果

如果以後還有類似的活動
也請各為多多指教
也謝謝各位這段時間的指導

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剛才發現我的ud
還在繼續回傳
與下載任務耶
真的停止了嗎？？
大家今後有什麼打算阿
我的電腦陷入了無窮的空虛～！

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嗯~~這算是一種晴天霹靂的消息~~

不氣餒.........希望ud運算後的結果能為人類帶來一些些的幸福未來~~

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居然會結束...
難道癌症已經可以完全防治了嗎??

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UD運算雖然結束了
但是至少你我都曾經參與過


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嗯..也是要有結束的時候..剛好最近破了百萬的階段目標~也看到這二年多來的努力..在廣大的研究中.是有一點點的貢獻的!! 接下來..視目以待..新的研究的出現~~

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還真還蠻驚訝的!
手頭上的任務還在跑耶
不論如何大家都有近一份心力了!
可以考慮辦個慶功宴!

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今早吳大跟我說明這個消息
就久久無法平緩複雜的心情

喜的是，研究告一段落，表示有一定的成果，對我們來說，算是完成階段性的任務
另一方面，就有點失落
想到這一段時間，所認識的朋友，所投入的心力...
真難以忘懷

感謝工人兄，讓我有機會來到數位
可能，是我任務告一段落的時候了

感謝曾經付出過的朋友
相信，有一天，這樣的努力會回到自己身上

祝福大家

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下面是引用gogo21於2007-04-26 19:57發表的 :
剛才發現我的ud
還在繼續回傳
與下載任務耶
真的停止了嗎？？
大家今後有什麼打算阿
.......

到04/27 2000結束......
不只您啦，一堆人也會感到空虛......

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我希望 UD 不要再開放了
讓大家走向健康的生活環境

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哇
好久不曾關電腦了說

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嗯17樓那位birds大大
希望大家走向健康的生活 <-----??
跑UD 我也生活的很健康啊 不太懂您的意思
Maybe 是這樣我才分數不太積極

雖然我才跑個1X萬多分  
不過研究運算 永無止盡 我個人是不會停止啦 到處算 亂亂算囉
天文 醫藥 物理 數學...等等 有許多的運算項目   期待等待大家參與囉

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拼了許久終告結束
畢竟這也是個任務階段啊！
或許覺得好像失去什麼
但卻也代表著大家努力已經有成果了

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殘念, 自己都快半百, 還是無緣了, 勳章啊勳章, 你要保重囉 XD

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想不到重新再加入不到20天就要劃下句點了..

沒關係, 有盡到力了...

期待下一個吧...

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oh~不
我的潛d艦隊
花了很久才建造完成的艦隊
結束了～一切都結束了

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哇~~要結束了
加入ud兩年多，雖然貢獻不多
感覺有點不捨
但能為全球盡一份心力，心中還是覺得很充實
希望Mychat ud團隊的大家也能再到別的計畫為全球盡一份心

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果然回來這裡看看,也是無限愁悵....
還有很多計劃可以跑的啦!像它提到有個機構網址也是跑癌症的,
看看有沒有人要試試介面.........

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下面是引用Milk於2007-04-27 09:24發表的 :
殘念, 自己都快半百, 還是無緣了, 勳章啊勳章, 你要保重囉 XD

喵，你夠多了啦~XD

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才跑不到一萬就結束了 覺得沒出道什麼力...


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終於到了一個段落了
希望對全人類有所幫助
我會再繼續支持數位男女的類似活動

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大家要不要投票選個新的分散式研究計劃繼續支持阿
我目前推薦folding@home和wcg這兩種
這兩種都是跟醫學相關的
folding@home

優點 ->研發團隊掌握軟體開發   因此支援平台眾多 LINUS和MAC都有支援 軟體patch更新速度很快   連顯示卡 ps3都可以拿來跑(效果比CPU還好上10倍 對有這兩設備的人是一大誘因)   還有現階段參與人數較WCG多(約是60萬人)
             

缺點 ->只有單一任務 畫面不比WCG華麗   還有系統計分方式跟UD不同 需要一小段時間上手

wcg          

優點 ->跟UD一樣的軟體 大家可能比較易上手 上面任務比較多 有蛋白質折疊 還有防治AIDS的 畫面比較炫
             

缺點-> 由於軟體是跟UD一樣系統   都是跟別人買來的 所以開發權不在他們手上   因此有為人所垢病的更新速度慢 跨平台支援性不好等缺點   目前參加人數較F@H少(約是20~25萬人(

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