You can read most of our publications for free (the ones saying pdf) from our group webpage here: http://multiscalelab.org/gianni/publications?action=show&redirect=Publications

And yes currently we have multiple papers nearly out :)

I actually don't know why we don't link them on the GPUGRID page.

Within the Science section, each of the previous/present research areas (Cancer, HIV, Neural disorders, Methodologies) has a Publications section. However, while this lists the full paper names, there are no links.

While you should obviously expand the research areas, you should also fill out what you have already done. To cater for the full variety of cruncher (researcher, IT Pro, enthusiast, layperson) these sections should be augmented with links to papers, and more importantly your cruncher friendly result interpretations. As well as the existing molecular videos, seminar videos and presentations could be added, as could some background references and links. While you may not like to discuss what you are presently working on, to the people doing the crunching this is most important!
While I enjoy discussions on crunching apps and hardware I would prefer to discuss the science.
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Yes, it's still a bit too difficult to discern the active research being performed at GPUGrid. Completed work is however largely available in the form of research write ups, publication drafts and videos.

GPUGrid is a small research team. The numbers are mostly made up of PhD students, who really should add some material to their multiscalelab profiles!

By contrast, WCG has full time IT staff, large financial support from IBM, 460 partners to date, and facilitates several research groups. Just yesterday WCG hoisted their long needed site overhaul - and yes, it's much better now.
Note it was the IT staff who improved the web site, not the researchers.

GPUGrid largely uses a Boinc web template. IMO it's this template that needs an overhaul and it really does need to be more Science orientated, and from the point of view of the cruncher. The template does not facilitate the flow of research and development to publication and is not very modularized, so components cant easily be included/removed and added as needed. Unfortunately this leaves all the research projects to do this for themselves, and inherently leads to dissimilarity between projects (a gripe for some). Scientists have to spend far too much time developing and maintaining their sites. This is on top of learning how to use Boinc (everything you see, the apps, research, a server, site and maintenance).

WCG on the other hand don't use a Boinc template. It's origins stem form a non-Boinc project. The researchers can rely on the WCG IT team to facilitate most of the above and help with development and troubleshooting.

Some minor work has recently been performed on the GPUGrid site but the last major overhaul was around 20months ago and largely by different researchers. I believe some plans exist to make GPUGrid site improvements, but developing the app and performing research tends to take priority.

Perhaps some of the WCG changes will make their way into the Boinc template?
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Hey Dagorath,
I understand your concern. It is true that the webpage is not updated nearly at all and could be much better. The problem is that this last year has been a transitioning year, lets say, as the scientific staff in the group changed totally. Therefore we had to prioritize research and publications as new people joined the group and had to find and start new projects from scratch.

The way it looks now is that we probably need to have a meeting by the end of the year to discuss and work a bit on the public side. But as skgiven said we are a small group of scientists which mostly have no idea on web design so it's always a bit of work to change things. So although I hope we update it soon I doubt we will ever have frequent updates.

On the data side, I mentioned somewhere else that there are plans already on sharing the simulation data. AFAIK we already share it if another group asks for it. The challenge is that right now we are using 200 Terrabytes of disk. So sharing this amount of data will be a bit tricky.

It's scientific etiquette to share data/results/findings/theories with associate research groups. Many Journals require and sometimes even facilitate such commitment.
In some research environments data can be used by many different groups and in different research areas. However, molecular dynamics is a very focused type of research and the data wouldn't normally be of use for anything else.
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Ah yes sorry, I was actually replying to idimitro. Got you two confused :)