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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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the sagacious one wrote:
> I'm always trying to convince my employers that undertaking such
> research would be a great idea: we have 7000 pcs, lots of idle time
> (at lunch etc) and it is the sort of "good" thing to do in
> terms of good publicity.
>
> They always come back with the old "it'd be a security
> risk" and nothing gets done.
Pity that. I can understand that being the response from my employers mind. DC projects have been run by a bunch of big corporations however, including MS, Intel, AMD, Sun, lots of unis, Google and some others.
"Can I install FAD on the nuclear missile launcher server?"
"Yeah, it's idle most of the time"
"Oops, I just clicked send, and it wasn't in the FAD window. Does that matter?"
"Moscow just got wiped out. So no, not really."
> I'm always trying to convince my employers that undertaking such
> research would be a great idea: we have 7000 pcs, lots of idle time
> (at lunch etc) and it is the sort of "good" thing to do in
> terms of good publicity.
>
> They always come back with the old "it'd be a security
> risk" and nothing gets done.
Pity that. I can understand that being the response from my employers mind. DC projects have been run by a bunch of big corporations however, including MS, Intel, AMD, Sun, lots of unis, Google and some others.
"Can I install FAD on the nuclear missile launcher server?"
"Yeah, it's idle most of the time"
"Oops, I just clicked send, and it wasn't in the FAD window. Does that matter?"
"Moscow just got wiped out. So no, not really."
FLCL wrote:
> Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Days 1,115
>
> Just over 3 years isn't too bad, shouldnt take too long to catch up
> with XPC on 511 years. Every little counts
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.
> Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Days 1,115
>
> Just over 3 years isn't too bad, shouldnt take too long to catch up
> with XPC on 511 years. Every little counts
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.
I'm always trying to convince my employers that undertaking such research would be a great idea: we have 7000 pcs, lots of idle time (at lunch etc) and it is the sort of "good" thing to do in terms of good publicity.
They always come back with the old "it'd be a security risk" and nothing gets done.
They always come back with the old "it'd be a security risk" and nothing gets done.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Days 1,115
Just over 3 years isn't too bad, shouldnt take too long to catch up with XPC on 511 years. Every little counts
> Days 1,115
Just over 3 years isn't too bad, shouldnt take too long to catch up with XPC on 511 years. Every little counts
Update time.
First of all version 1.25 of THINK has been in beta. 1.25A gave vast amounts of hits, due to some tweaking. 1.25B got the hit numbers back to a useful level. 1.25C seems to be pretty good indeed. So much so that it is likely it will be released as the normal version to everyone fairly soon. The CPU ratings have been further adjusted as well, as it a constant source of consternation.
Targets wise there is two cancer targets, although one (1T7T-Q1) is only available to those running 1.25B or C at the moment, but this will be open to everyone when version 1.25 leaves the beta test. The other one (1L3E-Q1), which was open to all is nearly finished. 1T7T-Q1 is close to being finished as well, but may have the range of jobs extended to the full half billion or so.
HIV is still plugging away, with 1HYV-Q3 being a fairly long running query. Still lots left to do in it. A new HIV target has also just been released today, 1CZQ-Q2. So far I haven't run any of them and have no idea what it will be like. Again, it is currently beta testers only, because they are the only ones with version 1.25 of THINK.
The Proteome query, 1Q41-Q1, is still running as well. Fairly far through it now. The other Proteome query, 1O86-Q3 has now finished.
As I am a beta tester, I come across things a bit sooner. In the latest 1.25C version of THINK, on the projects tab of the FAD control panel, there is now a box for CJD. This will be an entirely new target, but I'm not sure when it will be released. I'm looking forward to some more variety anyway.
As for the team, we are currently sitting 53rd overall, but are out-producing fourteen of the teams above us per week. Of course, the more people run this, the more work gets done. The team stats are:
Jobs 1,855
Hits 129,656
Molecules 18,294,038
Days 1,115
Lastly in my little update: VenomByte, Ortega and Aoe all have certificates, along with myself.
First of all version 1.25 of THINK has been in beta. 1.25A gave vast amounts of hits, due to some tweaking. 1.25B got the hit numbers back to a useful level. 1.25C seems to be pretty good indeed. So much so that it is likely it will be released as the normal version to everyone fairly soon. The CPU ratings have been further adjusted as well, as it a constant source of consternation.
Targets wise there is two cancer targets, although one (1T7T-Q1) is only available to those running 1.25B or C at the moment, but this will be open to everyone when version 1.25 leaves the beta test. The other one (1L3E-Q1), which was open to all is nearly finished. 1T7T-Q1 is close to being finished as well, but may have the range of jobs extended to the full half billion or so.
HIV is still plugging away, with 1HYV-Q3 being a fairly long running query. Still lots left to do in it. A new HIV target has also just been released today, 1CZQ-Q2. So far I haven't run any of them and have no idea what it will be like. Again, it is currently beta testers only, because they are the only ones with version 1.25 of THINK.
The Proteome query, 1Q41-Q1, is still running as well. Fairly far through it now. The other Proteome query, 1O86-Q3 has now finished.
As I am a beta tester, I come across things a bit sooner. In the latest 1.25C version of THINK, on the projects tab of the FAD control panel, there is now a box for CJD. This will be an entirely new target, but I'm not sure when it will be released. I'm looking forward to some more variety anyway.
As for the team, we are currently sitting 53rd overall, but are out-producing fourteen of the teams above us per week. Of course, the more people run this, the more work gets done. The team stats are:
Jobs 1,855
Hits 129,656
Molecules 18,294,038
Days 1,115
Lastly in my little update: VenomByte, Ortega and Aoe all have certificates, along with myself.
As for the rest of you - go and download the program and help to find a cure for HIV...
D'oh it completely ignored my submission of a May 2004 306 hit job, that finished yesterday (running on and off)...
Damn.
Damn.
Nice to see you have started running FAD again Urkie.
You know, you have two entries in the stats, Urkie and Urkie-UK. Now I may be wrong, but if you change the email address in the current Urkie account to the same one that you used originally with Urkie-UK, then it would combine the accounts. Then after combining them you could change it back to whatever email address.
That would then combine the two accounts and increase your stats. Should work, might not now, but it used to.
You know, you have two entries in the stats, Urkie and Urkie-UK. Now I may be wrong, but if you change the email address in the current Urkie account to the same one that you used originally with Urkie-UK, then it would combine the accounts. Then after combining them you could change it back to whatever email address.
That would then combine the two accounts and increase your stats. Should work, might not now, but it used to.
It's Lovely.
Perhaps this should be made Sticky?
It would get more people interested.
It would get more people interested.
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