Name Members CPU Time Points Results P/H ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Global... 1,104,911(+294) 282,095:328:04:55:17 33,343,693,499(+43,578,010) 228,603,018(+225,681) . 13.49
As we prepare to celebrate the holiday season here in the US, I want to take this opportunity to say 'thank you' for your ongoing participation with United Devices and Grid.org. Along with over 1.3 million people in every country on earth, you've chosen to be part of scientific history -- this generosity never ceases to amaze us.
I am also writing you on a personal note. Over the past eight years, I wrote a novel called Leapfrog, a corporate thriller that takes place in the cutting-edge world of drug discovery. Dr. Graham Richards from Oxford University, a key scientific visionary for Grid.org, has penned the foreword. The novel not only covers some of the science that is carried out on your machines every day but I also mention your work as Grid.org volunteers in several pivotal chapters. You're in the book!
But there's a more important reason you might be interested in this novel:
All the profits from its sale will go to the National Foundation for Cancer Research.
You see, at the time I began writing my father was suffering from a rare and aggressive form of prostate cancer. Eight months later he was gone. Part of my recovery was losing myself in a business career at Dell and eventually my own software start-up. Of course, weeks would come and go fist fighting for efficiency and taking at the expense of others as a way of life. At times I wondered if I could ever selflessly give anything to this world.