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You see this is an appeal for you to join www.find-a-drug.co.uk You might have heard about SETI@home, you know the thing where a program runs in the background using your unused processing power to scan data from a satellite dish.
Well FAD is similar in operation, except that instead of looking for aliens it looks for molecules and proteins that can be targeted for further research and stuff in finding a cure for cancer.
I have been running distributed computing projects for over a year now.
It doesn't require much effort, you download a small program and a work unit (WU). Then the program runs in the background just processing. When it finishes that WU it moves on to the next in the queue of 2 or 3 that you download every so often from the net. When it is finished it gets sent back to FAD.
The program doesn't cause slowdown, it only uses unused power, as whenever you do anything else like type a letter it lets you do that and then starts processing again. After all other than in video editing or really high powered games you only ever use an average of 10% or so of your computers capacity. So why don't you donate it to a good cause?
FAD has several ongoing projects. Currently these are cancer, HIV, malaria, multiple sclerosis, SARS and bio terrorism antidotes.
If you do decide to join, I have now created a Special Reserve team. The team number for entering on the setup screen is 2072. So come on join up. So far there is 13 of us in the team. Out of 147 teams, Special Reserve is ranked 54. There is even a linux version now.
One day our efforts could make a difference. Imagine the lives that could be saved. In Britain, 1 in 3 people get cancer. Over a million people a year die in developing countries from Malaria, 3 times as many as AIDS kills. Even so, HIV is at epidemic levels and kills 100,000s a year all around the world. 40 million people in Africa have HIV, and in time it will kill them all.
This project doesn't require anything much of you, all you have to do run the program in the background. You can help to make a difference. It all builds up, just from lots of people running this. So far nearly 4,000 years worth of computer time has been spent scanning 27.62 billion moleculules.
There have been successes in finding growth inhibitors on several occasions in several areas. So come on, join us and help save the world.
Well FAD is similar in operation, except that instead of looking for aliens it looks for molecules and proteins that can be targeted for further research and stuff in finding a cure for cancer.
I have been running distributed computing projects for over a year now.
It doesn't require much effort, you download a small program and a work unit (WU). Then the program runs in the background just processing. When it finishes that WU it moves on to the next in the queue of 2 or 3 that you download every so often from the net. When it is finished it gets sent back to FAD.
The program doesn't cause slowdown, it only uses unused power, as whenever you do anything else like type a letter it lets you do that and then starts processing again. After all other than in video editing or really high powered games you only ever use an average of 10% or so of your computers capacity. So why don't you donate it to a good cause?
FAD has several ongoing projects. Currently these are cancer, HIV, malaria, multiple sclerosis, SARS and bio terrorism antidotes.
If you do decide to join, I have now created a Special Reserve team. The team number for entering on the setup screen is 2072. So come on join up. So far there is 13 of us in the team. Out of 147 teams, Special Reserve is ranked 54. There is even a linux version now.
One day our efforts could make a difference. Imagine the lives that could be saved. In Britain, 1 in 3 people get cancer. Over a million people a year die in developing countries from Malaria, 3 times as many as AIDS kills. Even so, HIV is at epidemic levels and kills 100,000s a year all around the world. 40 million people in Africa have HIV, and in time it will kill them all.
This project doesn't require anything much of you, all you have to do run the program in the background. You can help to make a difference. It all builds up, just from lots of people running this. So far nearly 4,000 years worth of computer time has been spent scanning 27.62 billion moleculules.
There have been successes in finding growth inhibitors on several occasions in several areas. So come on, join us and help save the world.
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Grandprix wrote:
> I might consider doing this when I get a PC upgrade.
No time outs, so it will run on any Pentium class or above processor. Could take a while though if you run it on a Pentium 75...
That's wonderful dante. Ghibli is from Studio Ghibli, a big anime studio. Want to know more, search the Movies and music forum. And if you don't have anything remotely relevant to say, please don't say it in this thread. If you want to spam, use the World's Longest Thread in the FOG Prime forum.
> I might consider doing this when I get a PC upgrade.
No time outs, so it will run on any Pentium class or above processor. Could take a while though if you run it on a Pentium 75...
That's wonderful dante. Ghibli is from Studio Ghibli, a big anime studio. Want to know more, search the Movies and music forum. And if you don't have anything remotely relevant to say, please don't say it in this thread. If you want to spam, use the World's Longest Thread in the FOG Prime forum.
ghibli?
My dad has a saying lol, it is gibbly giblets lol.
He calls his mate gibbs and his mate calls him ginz, they change so much that you never know who is who lol. Strange names.
And his meaning of pointed means that you are dumb and for some reason an iron means you are gay and my dad has seti, it seems alright, not my type of thing though, I like hanging about at graveyards.
My dad has a saying lol, it is gibbly giblets lol.
He calls his mate gibbs and his mate calls him ginz, they change so much that you never know who is who lol. Strange names.
And his meaning of pointed means that you are dumb and for some reason an iron means you are gay and my dad has seti, it seems alright, not my type of thing though, I like hanging about at graveyards.
I might consider doing this when I get a PC upgrade.
And having just seen the stats update in the past few minutes, I can also say welcome NImco and welcome back Fooly Cooly/poke/kittworld/osaka/ghibli/what else have you been called?
And, we made it up a place in the team rankings. w00t!
And, we made it up a place in the team rankings. w00t!
As expected, version 1.25C of THINK was released to all members today. Installations will automatically upgrade when jobs are next downloaded.
And a warm welcome to Idlewild whoever that may be. One of my favourite bands actually, so you clearly have taste.
You should try clicking the receive button on the server window. That would download jobs. If it doesn't download any then, make sure there are projects selected in the control panel (right click the icon in the system tray, select setup).
I need help with setting it up, its stuck saying "waiting for next job" and nothing is in the queue.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Lastly in my little update: VenomByte, Ortega and Aoe all have
> certificates, along with myself.
Whoo!
I'll go find out what they mean in a bit.
I'm completely out of action on FAD for the time being. This is because I'm finished at uni now, and until I get a router set up at home and my PC hooked up to broadband, I can't download/upload jobs.
> Lastly in my little update: VenomByte, Ortega and Aoe all have
> certificates, along with myself.
Whoo!
I'll go find out what they mean in a bit.
I'm completely out of action on FAD for the time being. This is because I'm finished at uni now, and until I get a router set up at home and my PC hooked up to broadband, I can't download/upload jobs.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> I take it you're being sarcastic. Difference is, they have
> considerably more active members than we do, and with several
> hardcore DCers. If we all had 50 GHz online then we would be further
> up the rankings. However, those 3 years worth add up. Lots of small
> teams remember.
Good sarcasm with a smile, not bad sarcasm with a ¬_¬ "yeah good luck you're gonna need it" and yes I'm aware of all that :). I have 3 HIV jobs about to finish in the next hour or so.
> I take it you're being sarcastic. Difference is, they have
> considerably more active members than we do, and with several
> hardcore DCers. If we all had 50 GHz online then we would be further
> up the rankings. However, those 3 years worth add up. Lots of small
> teams remember.
Good sarcasm with a smile, not bad sarcasm with a ¬_¬ "yeah good luck you're gonna need it" and yes I'm aware of all that :). I have 3 HIV jobs about to finish in the next hour or so.
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