We’re very happy to announce that the first scientific article based on results from malariacontrol.net has now been published:

Modelling the Epidemiological Impact of Intermittent Preventive Treatment against Malaria in Infants (http://www.plosone.org/journals/plosone/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002661)
We would like to once again thank you all for your support since the start of malariacontrol.net!

Earlier this year we decided to convert the whole code-base of the core epidemiological model from FORTRAN 90 to C/C++. Maintainability has increasingly become a problem with the development of new and alternative model components.
The conversion process started in June, and is now close to completion. Most of this work was done by Tiago Antao, who is working with Ian Hastings at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Tiago and Ian are interested in questions related to the resistance of malaria parasites to drug treatment, and have been collaborating with the group at the Swiss Tropical Institute since 2006.
We are currently working on the final steps of validating the new implementation.

We expect that our need for computing power to slightly decrease towards the end of the year. This is because many of the large number of models that are currently fitted to data are getting closer to convergence, and at this moment we don’t have more models in the pipeline waiting to be fitted. For that reason, we will close account creation later this month.
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Alain Studer
Swiss Tropical Institute

We’re very happy to announce that the first scientific article based on results from malariacontrol.net has now been published:

Modelling the Epidemiological Impact of Intermittent Preventive Treatment against Malaria in Infants (http://www.plosone.org/journals/plosone/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002661)
We would like to once again thank you all for your support since the start of malariacontrol.net!

We expect that our need for computing power to slightly decrease towards the end of the year. This is because many of the large number of models that are currently fitted to data are getting closer to convergence, and at this moment we don’t have more models in the pipeline waiting to be fitted. For that reason, we will close account creation later this month.

WOW, it's great to hear about the paper! It sounds really good (having read the abstract)

Now that the app is almost entirely ported to C++, is there a possibility that you could release an SSE optimized app side by side with the regular app as for instance Enigma@Home or Einstein@Home does?

Thanks and I wish this project even more success for the future than it had so far.
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We’re very happy to announce that the first scientific article based on results from malariacontrol.net has now been published:

Modelling the Epidemiological Impact of Intermittent Preventive Treatment against Malaria in Infants (http://www.plosone.org/journals/plosone/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002661)
We would like to once again thank you all for your support since the start of malariacontrol.net!

major congratulations!!!!!!!!

We expect that our need for computing power to slightly decrease towards the end of the year. This is because many of the large number of models that are currently fitted to data are getting closer to convergence, and at this moment we don’t have more models in the pipeline waiting to be fitted. For that reason, we will close account creation later this month.

Would you like some of us to spread out some of our crunchers to other Projects to kind of slow down the workunits completed here?

Thanks for the information.

I was pleased to see a result, and have started reading the article. I was troubled by the lack of understandable detail about precise aims of some of the models, or what timeline was defined for them. Can I please make the suggestion that the website definition of the applications and projects provides an overview of the intent, approach, and timeline which is understood by the common man, and include updates on when publications or field trials are being performed.

I am sure this would help many of the supporters feel more involvement and completion to any computing resources they have provided.
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Is Malaria control going out of business? I'm a member on the Teddies team here and been having sharing work with Docking@Home. Some of my teammates have expressed an interest in crunching here, but cannot connect through BOINC... I see where you have stopped allowing new members I was wondering why this policy applies to current teams?

Thanks

Nite Owl

Hello? Anybody home?

Hello? Anybody home?

Is Malaria control going out of business? I'm a member on the Teddies team here and been having sharing work with Docking@Home. Some of my teammates have expressed an interest in crunching here, but cannot connect through BOINC... I see where you have stopped allowing new members I was wondering why this policy applies to current teams?
Thanks
Nite Owl