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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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More cancer growth inhibitors found. That is a good thing.
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.org/press7.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.org/press7.html[/URL]
I got a bit of a fright when it started doing this yesterday - it doesn't take much to scare me obviously. The new system tray icon is quite garish and looks a bit like Soulseek. Not sure my puny mind can live with all this change.
OK folks. There was a newer version of Think released yesterday.
It seemed to start automatically when I was online. It goes fine, does it all itself. But it throws up a box saying something along the lines of wait 20 minutes before restarting Think. Don't click Quit Upgrade, just leave the box there on its own.
Sometimes Windows won't let one of the files be updated and you'll get a message saying install failed try rebooting.
Funnily enough, when you restart, that fixes it. Ta da.
Anyway, it seems to be faster in operation, especially the Job Queue which took an age to appear. A few other tweaks here and there.
It seemed to start automatically when I was online. It goes fine, does it all itself. But it throws up a box saying something along the lines of wait 20 minutes before restarting Think. Don't click Quit Upgrade, just leave the box there on its own.
Sometimes Windows won't let one of the files be updated and you'll get a message saying install failed try rebooting
Funnily enough, when you restart, that fixes it. Ta da.
Anyway, it seems to be faster in operation, especially the Job Queue which took an age to appear. A few other tweaks here and there.
You need to have submitted some jobs first.
Current job: j1-1ycr-q3
hits: 2
Time(seconds): 7546
progress: 37.93%
Why doesnt it show me on the special reserve team when i have put it in on setup?
hits: 2
Time(seconds): 7546
progress: 37.93%
Why doesnt it show me on the special reserve team when i have put it in on setup?
Well, click view then job info. If the current job is 1-EFY-Q1, then it will take days probably. What percentage is done and what time in seconds has it taken? What is the current job?
Not all jobs have hits either. A hit means it might do something in the lab, but obviously not all molecules will. And that's the point, to find out which will, and which won't.
Mind you, some jobs end up with hundreds of hits.
Not all jobs have hits either. A hit means it might do something in the lab, but obviously not all molecules will. And that's the point, to find out which will, and which won't.
Mind you, some jobs end up with hundreds of hits.
sorry about the spelling.
How long does this uasally take?
Ive oonly done one hit i think im doing cancer
Ive oonly done one hit i think im doing cancer
Just make sure you join team 2072!
Interesting program! Think I'll leave this running for a while now ;)
Thanks for the link. :)
Thanks for the link. :)
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