Well now, I can't believe I over looked this thread. Most of you know who I am by now and what my goals are for concerning Distributed Computing. But I will explain it all again just because I like talking about it. Just ask my friends and family. I honestly think they groan when I walk into a room during a family get together since DC is one of my favorite subjects.
First off why am I involved with doing DC projects? Simple, call it self interest if you will. My fathers side of the family are prone to Alzheimer's and heart conditions. My mothers side is prone to Cancer and heart conditions mainly blood flow disorders. As a young child I watched my maternal Grandfather and Grandmother suffer through years of cancer. In my teenage years I watch my paternal Grandfather decline with Alzheimer's and my Grandmother fight through several heart attacks. It left a big impression on me. Now my Father is fighting Alzheimer's in a battle he can't ever win. I personally am dealing with Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). In short my hearts built in pace maker is not working right. I have rapid changes of blood pressure resulting in dizziness, severe headaches, numbness, and fainting in extreme cases. POTS is often misdiagnosed as MS because the symptoms are just about the same.
As you can imagine I am focused on any DC project that involves heath issues. Right now I am doing tasks for POEM@Home and GPU Grid. Once I reach my goal of getting into the top ten for the team in Poem I am looking at branching out into other medical projects. Rosetta is probably going to be my next focus. Sooner or later I would like to have done tasks and moved up the ranks to the top twenty for our team for all the projects that involve medical research.
I am currently running Boinc on my i5-3570k GTX 680 gaming system and a i7 2670QM laptop. I also have a older Core Duo system with a GTX 550 in it I keep hoping to revive for crunching. It has CPU cooling issues and I am of the mind its not worth spending money to fix. I keep thinking I am just going to give up and pull the GPU out of it and toss it in my gaming system to do GPU Grid tasks.
With all that being said about my personal goals, I am more than willing to stop what I am doing and jump into other projects when the team needs me for contests or some other kind of goal. Just give me a heads up and I will be there.