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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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UD used to use THINK, didn't it?
Forgot all about this when i formatted my HD a few months back.
Is reinstalled now though. Should be getting a new laptop with at least a 3Ghz processor in the next few months so should push the SR team up a bit hopefully!
By the way, i'm networked with my brothers PC so could his run think as well under my name?
Is reinstalled now though. Should be getting a new laptop with at least a 3Ghz processor in the next few months so should push the SR team up a bit hopefully!
By the way, i'm networked with my brothers PC so could his run think as well under my name?
phi11ip wrote:
> All of this stuff is crap.
>
> That's my view.
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.org/press7.html[/URL] to change your mind.
The website is a bit on the poor side, but then there are far fewer members and there are less people behind the project.
I was a bit cautious about FAD at first. But I did some research and discovered that THINK was actually used by many of the biotech companies and figured it couldn't be all that bad. It also got a considerable tweaking by none other than Intel, which makes THINK run 40 times faster apparently.
The main thing with FAD, for me anyway, was the MS project. My grandfather has it and it has to be one of the most horrible things I have seen. He's paralysed now and his diaphragm is so wasted away that he can barely talk.
> All of this stuff is crap.
>
> That's my view.
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.org/press7.html[/URL] to change your mind.
The website is a bit on the poor side, but then there are far fewer members and there are less people behind the project.
I was a bit cautious about FAD at first. But I did some research and discovered that THINK was actually used by many of the biotech companies and figured it couldn't be all that bad. It also got a considerable tweaking by none other than Intel, which makes THINK run 40 times faster apparently.
The main thing with FAD, for me anyway, was the MS project. My grandfather has it and it has to be one of the most horrible things I have seen. He's paralysed now and his diaphragm is so wasted away that he can barely talk.
There
Forgot all about the UD program. It was ages ago the SR team was formed for that wasn't it?
I seem to remember I stopped over the holidays when I was no longer online... never started up again.
Ah well, Find-a-drug's been running on my CPU almost solidly for quite some time now, so I'll stick with that anyway.
I seem to remember I stopped over the holidays when I was no longer online... never started up again.
Ah well, Find-a-drug's been running on my CPU almost solidly for quite some time now, so I'll stick with that anyway.
Why is it crap?
All of this stuff is crap.
That's my view.
That's my view.
I have to agree about the FAD website: it is monumentally craptacular.
Geek.
:)
:)
I know I might be making myself unpopular, but for years now I've always run the SETI home client (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), which is the same type of screensaver program.
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