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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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A pity we fell down a space, I finally got my 2million Gflops with these two poor computers still running. They're doing jobs lasting several days so I imagine I'll be falling down the ranks.
When they update THINK and fix the bugs I'll install and give it a try on this computer again.
When they update THINK and fix the bugs I'll install and give it a try on this computer again.
My computer has been working on a big job, so I'm hoping it'll be finished at the weekend. It's almost 700 hits which, for my computer rating, is quite a lot. It's why it looks like I've haven't added anything over the last week or so. It started on the 4th and is almost 92% complete.
Heh, I'll be able to give you a hand on Monday.
Or Tuesday or so.
Once my Pentium 4 3.2 arrives. Then I'll be happy.
Happy.
Or Tuesday or so.
Once my Pentium 4 3.2 arrives. Then I'll be happy.
Happy.
Time for a pop.
There was an auto-update to version 1.25G a week after the last post. Mostly just tweaks to the CPU rating code.
Currently there are two cancer targets, one HIV target and one proteome target active. The Proteome target has been identified in playing a part in neuroligical disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease.
The team has been doing quite well lately. We've managed to keep the weekly output above 1 million GFLOPS. In fact, we seem to manage around 1.3 million GFLOPS per week.
In total the team has scanned 26,480,026 molecules; found 235,018 hits; spent 1,517 CPU days; and run a total of 2,689 jobs. That's quite a lot folks. Keep up the good work.
And if you haven't joined yet, why not join now?
There was an auto-update to version 1.25G a week after the last post. Mostly just tweaks to the CPU rating code.
Currently there are two cancer targets, one HIV target and one proteome target active. The Proteome target has been identified in playing a part in neuroligical disorders such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease.
The team has been doing quite well lately. We've managed to keep the weekly output above 1 million GFLOPS. In fact, we seem to manage around 1.3 million GFLOPS per week.
In total the team has scanned 26,480,026 molecules; found 235,018 hits; spent 1,517 CPU days; and run a total of 2,689 jobs. That's quite a lot folks. Keep up the good work.
And if you haven't joined yet, why not join now?
So you installed it. No icon in the system tray? That's all there should be. You won't appear in the stats until A) you finish a work uni and send it back and B) the stats next update after that.
Yes, I installed it now.
I entered the details but nowt still...
This thing is getting on my nerves.
I entered the details but nowt still...
This thing is getting on my nerves.
Try installing it then :-)
Erm...
OK, you downloaded FAD. Did you click on the file to install it?
I downloaded the thing, but no nickname or email address came up.
Huh?
Huh?
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