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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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My one is very slow but its better then nothing
Is it alright if i tell my mate about this and give him the sr team number you might know him he posted hear once! his name was G-Con Daniel. He has a fast computer but it is fast to me anyway.
Is it alright if i tell my mate about this and give him the sr team number you might know him he posted hear once! his name was G-Con Daniel. He has a fast computer but it is fast to me anyway.
Good to know. I'll warn you now though, the current cancer jobs frequently run for a loooong time. Most others projects are less than a day, obviously depending on the speed of the machine.
unknown kernel wrote:
> Buck1, did you join the SR team?
Yes i did, and proud of it!
> Buck1, did you join the SR team?
Yes i did, and proud of it!
Sort of.
Did you ever do chemistry at school? If you did you'll know about atoms binding together to make molecules and such. This just does it virtually, to find combinations that would have an effect.
Did you ever do chemistry at school? If you did you'll know about atoms binding together to make molecules and such. This just does it virtually, to find combinations that would have an effect.
Ah, so your computer comes up with a series of possible 'patterns' (of which there are an infinate number of) and these patterns are analysed?
It's not a scam Paradox. The raw data already exists (so your keyboard doesn't need to absorb any molecules) but it takes a huge amount of CPU time to analyse it, hence distributed computing. Try it, there's no spyware.
Buck1, did you join the SR team?
Buck1, did you join the SR team?
It is all legit. What happens is someone, a biochemist or whatever, makes up a 3D model of a protein. These would be the proteins found in cancers, or in the HIV virus or whatever. Then what happens is the computers all try and come up with molecules that can fit onto that protein.
Of course it gets infinitely more technical than that, but that is sort of the bottom line. It isn't spyware. A year or two back Intel kindly went through all the source code and optimised the algorithms so that it would run faster, not something likely to be done for a piece of spyware. They even used to have it on their site.
There is loads more information on the website. [URL]http://www.find-a-drug.co.uk[/URL]
On the main page is a bit that proclaims more cancer growth inhibitors found. Click it to see some of the success so far.
Of course it gets infinitely more technical than that, but that is sort of the bottom line. It isn't spyware. A year or two back Intel kindly went through all the source code and optimised the algorithms so that it would run faster, not something likely to be done for a piece of spyware. They even used to have it on their site.
There is loads more information on the website. [URL]http://www.find-a-drug.co.uk[/URL]
On the main page is a bit that proclaims more cancer growth inhibitors found. Click it to see some of the success so far.
Im doing it. Even though my pc is sloooooooow.
it might do a couple of jobs a day but its better then nothing.
433mhz pentium 3, 8gb and 40gb hard drive and suffers from 16mb graphics
it might do a couple of jobs a day but its better then nothing.
433mhz pentium 3, 8gb and 40gb hard drive and suffers from 16mb graphics
I don't beleive it can actually do that - does it absorb the molecules from your keyboard...? There's no external hardware that would be required for analysing stuff.
Either I read what you wrote wrongly or it's some rubbishy spyware scam.
nice idea though, and if I thought it was legitimate then I'd do it for sure.
Either I read what you wrote wrongly or it's some rubbishy spyware scam.
nice idea though, and if I thought it was legitimate then I'd do it for sure.
Nope. I think you can play it with that scummvm thing [URL]http://www.scummvm.org/[/URL] I might get it and have a go.
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