Hi everyone,
This morning I decided to join for the first time the TN-Grid project, where I discovered that the Gridcoin Team is the major contributor of the project (five times more points compared to the second entry in the top).
TN-Grid is a research project in genetics, hosted by the University of Trento, in Italy.
The project is using an application (gene@home) that is building a network of casual relationships between every two gens. The algorithm finds a gene network and studies its causal relationships, in order to estimate if a list of new genes can have a causal relationship with already known genes.
Two applications are currently running on the TN-Grid project: Vitis vinifera (OneGenE), studying the biology of grapevine, and Pseudomonas Aeruginosa (OneGenE), studying the genetics of the multidrug resistant bacterium.
Since morning, I already received 27 work units. Out of those, ten are already completed, while two got also validated. What I can see so far, each work units takes approximately 3.5 hours of CPU time (on a i5-3350P CPU @ 3.10GHz, running Ubuntu), and is giving out 165 credit points.
I'm just curious, is anybody else experimenting, these days, with TN-Grid? If yes, what is your experience?