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"Biggles..."

...what's the website for that SETI@Home-style disease program?

Thanks.

The software has been upgraded since you ran it. Still looks the same, but is more sophisticated. No distributed computing project will ever have stats you can check through the software, it would cause major bandwidth issues.

As it stands, you can check the amount of jobs run from an installation and the amount of molecules crunched by looking at the control panel - it tells you that at the bottom.

Or if you press the history button on the job information window it brings up a browser window showing all the jobs you have run on the current installation, along with the job time and amount of points awarded.

However it only works by the current installation, not your overall stats as it calculated going by a file that is part of the installation. Hence, delete the installation and it deletes that file. But then, most people only install or un-install occasionally, so no big deal.

But yes, the site is ugly. They know that as well since they have been told so many times.

I'm waiting for them to upgrade the software and website then I'll have 6 new computers ready to number crunch.

Maybe a different reward system that you can check in the program and not on their ugly (sorry) site.

Now that I've more RAM and broadband, I might start this again.

You can choose what projects to work on from the project tab of the control panel. Some people of course just want to run cancer, others HIV etc. I run everything just now since there isn't a current Multiple Sclerosis target.

Just to alert you the current HIV jobs are taking several days to complete. It doesn't mean anything is wrong if they take a long time, rather the high hit rate is rather promising and the last time there were really long jobs like that, they found actual HIV inhibitors.

So it's all good.

Thanks, I'll do that after work. My FaD program is working on HIV stuff apparently.

Not true. But I think it fundamentally flawed in its concept.

Besides, Find-A-Drug has already found molecules that showed anti-cancer properties in actual lab testing.

SETI@Home is nothing more that a small green icon that make's your computer frees

If you've downloaded it already, in the control panel for it (right click system tray icon, select setup), under the general tab enter 2072 in the team number. And that's it.

You appear in the stats on the website after you return a job.

Always good to have a new recruit :-D

Biggles - I recall you mentioning an SR team for this thing - how can I join yours?

Thank you Biggles. I mean UrkiE!

:P