What about the other 43 (or 44) Vulture Central Teams?
Vulture Central II had sunk to 5th at the time of closing, and hadn't been third for about a year, since being passed by Dutch Power Cows. One of the earlier users who racked up thousands of year was prosecuted for using corporate computers without permission. In the meantime, we have run nearly 70 legal years worth at Vulture Central III. The cancer project wasn't either started or finished, and there were also other things processed there, like Human Proteome Folding and Smallpox, not just "cancer".
I tried to get the word out to the original cancerbuster article authors in your magazine, but it didn't sink in. Vulture Central II was only one piece of the Vulture effort. A few members from grid.org have moved over to world community grid to keep crunching. Yes, the BOINC effort is quite active. What team did you decide to START, 2.2 you say? That's team #69263. Vulture Central VI has been folding@home team #46400 for a couple of years now. That's one of the few I am not on. Wake up! Join one of these teams yourself and help the effort along, eh? It's been a lonely run so far. Vulture Central III especially would like to have your help, since many grid.org members are coming over and either remaining teamless or joining others.
*** SCAVENGER LEAGUE ***
Vulture Central I - SETI@home
Vulture Central II - grid.org (non-BOINC) Closed April 27, 2007
Vulture Central III - worldcommunitygrid.org
Vulture Central IV - DIMES (non-BOINC)
Vulture Central V - Find-A-Drug (non-BOINC,closed)
Vulture Central VI - Folding@home (non-BOINC, BOINC announced)
Vulture Central 2.2 - Folding@home
Vulture Central VII - D2OL (closed?)
Vulture Central VIII - Einstein@home
Vulture Central IX - SZTAKI
Vulture Central X - LHC@home (Large Hadron Collider)
Vulture Central XI - SIMAP (Similarity Matrix of Proteins)
Vulture Central XII - Predictor@home
Vulture Central XIII - QMC@home (Quantum Monte Carlo)
Vulture Central XIV - BBC Climate Change Experiment
Vulture Central XV - Rosetta@Home
Vulture Central XVI - Seasonal Attribution Project
Vulture Central XVII - Climateprediction.net
Vulture Central XVIII - BURP (Big and Ugly Rendering Project)
Vulture Central XIX - PrimeGrid
Vulture Central XX - uFluids (MicroFluids)
Vulture Central XXI - RALPH@Home (Rosetta@home ALPHa project)
Vulture Central XXII - XtremLab
Vulture Central XXIII - HashClash
Vulture Central XXIV - Rectilinear Crossing
Vulture Central XXV - Chess960@Home
Vulture Central XXVI - Spinhenge@Home
Vulture Central XXVII - Pirates@Home
Vulture Central XXVIII - VTU@Home
Vulture Central XXIX - RenderFarm@Home
Vulture Central XXX - Seti Beta (AstroPulse)
Vulture Central XXXI - Leiden Classical (Dynamics)
Vulture Central XXXII - TANPAKU
Vulture Central XXXIII - NanoHive
Vulture Central XXXIV - Project Neuron
Vulture Central XXXV - Riesel Sieve
Vulture Central XXXVI - Proteins@Home
Vulture Central XXXVII - Malariacontrol.net beta
Vulture Central XXXVIII - ABC@Home
Vulture Central XXXIX - Orbit@home
Vulture Central XL - Mersenneplustwo (WEP-M+2)
Vulture Central XLI - Cunning Plan
Vulture Central XLII - Distributed Rainbow Table Generator (TMRL DRTG)
Vulture Central XLIII - Belgian Beer@home
Vulture Central XLIV - ABC@home beta
The work goes on, even if the sponsor (you) doesn't realize it.
-- retsof, former moderator for grid.org, communitity advisor for worldcommunitygrid.org, team captain for many of these, and active member and statistician of Vulture Central III.