All Good Things Come To An End…

[dfwny]

Grid.org is retiring. They will be sending out messages soon.

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.

There are options for those who'd like to continue volunteering on other projects with other organizations.

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

Edit: Their forums are now being redirected to the official notice, which is here:

http://www.grid.org/home.htm

Read more about it at their forums.

http://forum.grid.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=22375

[Golden Dragoon]

Despite me not posting here in a long time, I have come back to say that I suported the Guru3D UD teram to the end, and am proud to say that I am one of the top 15 crunchers

Glad to have helped out all these years, will have to stop by sometime in the future to see if there will be a Guru team for one of the other distributed computing projects.

[Hilbert Hagedoorn]

Hey everyone .. correct. The team has done a tremendous job over the past few years.

Suffice to say that over the weekend we'll announce a new Project. Stay tuned !

[nm+]

Sad. And I only ended up with 344998 points

[dfwny]

Still, I think we did pretty darn good with our 98th ranking in points. Look at the top 250 and see who we went up aginst. I think we beat some pretty impressive teams.

Rank Member Name
1 Team 2ch
2 Easynews
3 DSL Reports Team Discovery
4 Dutch Power Cows against cancer
5 Vulture Central II
6 PCDVD
7 Intel Against Cancer
8 AMDZone.com
9 IBM Internal
10 [H]ardOCP
11 TiVo Users
12 Hungary
13 TECHSIDE.NET
14 Yen-e JAPAN
15 FatWallet
16 A UK PC against Cancer
17 Christians
18 Russia
19 saposapo
20 Poland
21 Ars Technica Team Crab Cake
22 Team Anandtech
23 Microsoft
24 Czech Republic
25 Team USA
26 Canadians (et Québécois) unite against Cancer
27 PC911
28 Athlonoc Taiwan
29 University of Hertfordshire
30 BitBenderTech
31 ukky
32 MyChat BBS
33 Zoo Taiwan Bad Cow
34 IBM
35 Lockergnome
36 WinTricks.it Italian Team
37 Team Germany
38 Muropaketti team
39 Portugal
40 Team UBBDev
41 Ex Mad Cows
42 Sheffield Hallam University
43 Sluggy Freelance
44 Order of the Blabbermouths
45 Sweden vs Cancer
46 NCTU Taiwan
47 The Exodus Crew
48 Finland
49 Team WinDrivers
50 Australia
51 France
52 AVSIM Online!
53 Team DORCOM
54 FrazPc.pl Team
55 Hewlett Packard
56 University of Oxford
57 Overclocking.cz
58 Online-Sweepstakes.com
59 Fark
60 Team CamaroZ28.Com
61 Belgium
62 Libertarians
63 Impreza WWW Owners Club
64 Israel
65 Brazos County
66 trillian
67 ISONEWS
68 Ukraine RC5
69 The Possums
70 Canada Against Cancer
71 #benchmark3d team
72 TwojePC.pl
73 Brasil
74 David Rocastle Remembered
75 TekHeads
76 HWSW
77 Demonoid
78 S2000 Owners
79 STORAGEREVIEW.COM
80 Compaq
81 Bulgaria
82 PC Format Forum
83 University of Louisville
84 Lithuania
85 National Rifle Associati
86 SAD - Search And Destroy Cancer
87 Noticias3D.com
88 IST - Instituto Superior Tecnico
89 Europe United
90 Wanderlust
91 AVSFORUM.COM MEMBERS
92 Masons Fighting Cancer
93 Norway fight team
94 Team mo-ita@2ch
95 ixbt
96 Mena Public Schools
97 The Gowenna Site (EDonkey2000)
98 The Guru's of 3D
99 Prof. James Challis' Most Excellent UK Team
100 TKU Taiwan
101 MegaTokyo
102 Computeractive
103 Scotland against cancer
104 nForcersHQ.com
105 Alice
106 Romania
107 Pocket PC
108 EspGymHF
109 CALIFORNIA USA
110 1st Veterans Battalion
111 Motley Fool
112 Dark Age of Camelot Fans
113 Tweak.pl
114 Christians Against Cancer
115 Liberty
116 TweakPC
117 Latvia
118 Tom's Hardware Guide
119 UD Germany
120 CHINA
121 alt.smokers.pipes
122 DVD Reviewers
123 Slashdot
124 HKPCUG
125 Digital Photography Review
126 Shield
127 Estonia
128 - (Anyone Can Join) Open Team against Cancer
129 Vision Quest
130 Northern IL University
131 Maximum Penetration Industries
132 Dexxa
133 AOL Beta UD Team
134 Mack Multiples
135 Hard Tecs 4U United Devices Team
136 NSYSU Taiwan
137 España contra el cancer.
138 Team_TOHOHO
139 Investigacion Ludica
140 University of Phoenix Students for a Cure
141 Andrax.Net
142 Rechenkraft.de
143 HardwareBG Team
144 Desktop Solutions
145 Black & White
146 Earth Alliances
147 Slovakia
148 Georgia Tech
149 New Zealand
150 [CoFR]
151 Floss n Fly
152 Box of Gods
153 PCadvisors
154 NAPS
155 Oracle Corporation
156 Distributed Amiga
157 hackers against cancer
158 Rocky Mountain Cancer Crusaders
159 AutoKacik.PL
160 Novell
161 Net Web Consulting
162 costellokids
163 CCU Taiwan
164 Seagate Technology
165 Joint Science Dept
166 Saint Ignatius College Preparatory - SF
167 englands fight to beat cancer
168 Multiplay UK
169 OUT Everywhere
170 Team GB The Great British Team
171 ADVFN
172 Team Evernight
173 Austria
174 CYCU Taiwan
175 Abdul the Great
176 Temple University
177 Esoteric
178 US Air Force
179 spc computer club
180 University of Texas Longhorns
181 Cancer Killers
182 --TAIWAN--
183 NTHU Taiwan
184 Croatia
185 isbu
186 Be Happy with PC Religious group
187 mad hats
188 Insulin Pumpers
189 France against Cancer
190 Mike's Technology Group
191 Wales
192 Digital Times
193 AC Alliance for Life
194 Neowin.net
195 HVUS
196 Unisys
197 Everquest Players
198 gay guys
199 Team Amasoba
200 Team Fortress Cancer Research
201 The Optimists
202 Michigan State University
203 HardWareInfo.net
204 Italia
205 straight dope
206 Chile
207 TheMartinAgency
208 TeamATC
209 Team.HEXUS.net
210 Maximum PC Commport
211 Switzerland
212 ManOfKnight
213 Team "ICEBOX and KELO"
214 pouët.net
215 nekoneko
216 Cybertec Argentina
217 UK-LRO
218 CIsco Employees
219 FJU Taiwan
220 Avid Montreal
221 GDD & Friends
222 ********
223 Accenture USA
224 Purdue University
225 Greece Against Cancer
226 US Marines
227 W-30
228 Gone Gold
229 Shoestring Consulting
230 Arauco Technologies
231 EDS Global
232 The Edwardians
233 King James Bible Believers
234 VERITAS Software
235 Howard County, IN, USA
236 Sigma5
237 Danish Fighters Against Cancer!
238 SHODAN
239 Computer Games Magazine
240 OcUK - Overclockers UK
241 EASTERN MULTIMEDIA GROUP
242 Auburn-MIS
243 jacaba
244 Team WTAworld
245 Oracle
246 Intel Arizona
247 EUO
248 NetApp
249 La Salle University
250 Belarus

[AlecRyben]

When we consider all the jigawatts of power that were donated through the grid project it proves beyond doubt that most of the people on this world are extremely generous.
So, I say kudos to all donators! You make me proud to be a member of the human race.

[loop29]

Yes, were exciting times as long as we had more wu´s coming up to crunch....but like it has been said allready all good things will come to an end too.
I want to shout out a big THANK YOU to all that contributed through the years with their free computer ressources to make the 98th place a reality.
And I have to agree, that´s a very very impressive ranking in comparison to the teams listed.
Now it happens all day to me that I leave my computer on when leaving for work. When I get back home I look at the screen and indeed there is nothing going on.... oh feck right... no more wu´s so I don´t have to leave my PC on all day

Thanks for contributing