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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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Ok i've got it running, no idea how to join your group though, found the page easy enough.
That would be two FADs running at the same time, because of the hyper-threading.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> eye'Aoe wrote:
> Pentium IV 3GHz... And a crap one at that :D
>
> Out of curiosity, do you run two instances of FAD at the same time or
> just one? With it being a hyper-threaded processor I'm interested in
> whether you get two instances with a total CPU rating of more than
> just one instance. Try it sometime please.
Two instances?
Sorry for being moronic (I can't help it :P), but what are these?
> eye'Aoe wrote:
> Pentium IV 3GHz... And a crap one at that :D
>
> Out of curiosity, do you run two instances of FAD at the same time or
> just one? With it being a hyper-threaded processor I'm interested in
> whether you get two instances with a total CPU rating of more than
> just one instance. Try it sometime please.
Two instances?
Sorry for being moronic (I can't help it :P), but what are these?
Grandprix wrote:
> I don't really pay much attention to it. I think it tries to run the
> programme in DOS and it asks me if I wish to continue. When
> everything has started up, I get an error message saying it's already
> open or something. Then I get the occasional error. I think that had
> the word 'cache' in it but it all works so I don't care.
Hmm. FAD only runs on Windows or Linux, so I don't see why there would be anything to do with DOS there. Make a note of it next time and I might be able to tell you how to stop it.
eye'Aoe wrote:
> Pentium IV 3GHz... And a crap one at that :D
Out of curiosity, do you run two instances of FAD at the same time or just one? With it being a hyoer-threaded processor I'm interested in whether you get two instances with a total CPU rating of more than just one instance. Try it sometime please.
> I don't really pay much attention to it. I think it tries to run the
> programme in DOS and it asks me if I wish to continue. When
> everything has started up, I get an error message saying it's already
> open or something. Then I get the occasional error. I think that had
> the word 'cache' in it but it all works so I don't care.
Hmm. FAD only runs on Windows or Linux, so I don't see why there would be anything to do with DOS there. Make a note of it next time and I might be able to tell you how to stop it.
eye'Aoe wrote:
> Pentium IV 3GHz... And a crap one at that :D
Out of curiosity, do you run two instances of FAD at the same time or just one? With it being a hyoer-threaded processor I'm interested in whether you get two instances with a total CPU rating of more than just one instance. Try it sometime please.
Welcome back ortega, and Fooly Cooly/Vashu/Nausicaa/poke/bRAINdEAD/kittworld.
Finally fixed up my own PC properly, back running properly as opposed to just enough to stay green. I'm at least 600,000 GFLOPS down on the week. Better get a move on then I suppose...
Finally fixed up my own PC properly, back running properly as opposed to just enough to stay green. I'm at least 600,000 GFLOPS down on the week. Better get a move on then I suppose...
THINK is back online on mine. Although still running my CPU at 1Ghz as still some problems to sort out. CPU rating is high 90's which is quite a lot lower as i was getting around 150 before.
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> GP: what sort of error message are you getting?
I don't really pay much attention to it. I think it tries to run the programme in DOS and it asks me if I wish to continue. When everything has started up, I get an error message saying it's already open or something. Then I get the occasional error. I think that had the word 'cache' in it but it all works so I don't care.
> GP: what sort of error message are you getting?
I don't really pay much attention to it. I think it tries to run the programme in DOS and it asks me if I wish to continue. When everything has started up, I get an error message saying it's already open or something. Then I get the occasional error. I think that had the word 'cache' in it but it all works so I don't care.
Mav wrote:
> It doesn't appear to be working for me...
Your in the stats now, so it must have worked in the end. Welcome to the team Mav. And to you to GP.
GP: what sort of error message are you getting?
> It doesn't appear to be working for me...
Your in the stats now, so it must have worked in the end. Welcome to the team Mav. And to you to GP.
GP: what sort of error message are you getting?
Nausicaä wrote:
> Biggles, if you have a slower CPU rating does THINK give you quicker
> jobs because this computer with the 2 slower CPU ratings seems to get
> a lot of short jobs while the other computer on a much higher CPU
> rating gets longer ones. Quickest one being 6 hours on that one this
> one I've had many under the hour as quick as 30 minutes.
Nope. Just a fluke. Either you click receive in the job queue window and pick the type you want yourself, or it just downloads a bunch at random.
> Also my contribution for 1 day (checking at midnight) is 59,520Gflops
> worth yet for the entire Special Reserve team it says the daily
> output is 23,432Gflops that can't be right. =S
I've been off-line most of the past week. I've only put in 117,832 GFLOPS this week, as opposed to my normal 700,000. I'll be back on track soon. I'm aiming on top 300 by the end of the year.
> Is LeanneH a new member to SR Team or did someone change their name?
> 12 out of 22 still going that's great hopefully the other 2 at the
> top will sort out their problems with their connection.
I don't know who she is exactly. But, a member is a member, I'm not going to complain.
> Also I was shocked to notice that although Aoe has done far less jobs
> than you he has almost found as many hits 58,902, checking over his
> last big update I saw why, lots of big ones, 1886 being the highest,
> your highest was only 1399.
There were a few targets in the past that had very low hit rates. I ran a bunch of jobs that never got any. At the end of the day though, whilst getting lots of hits is exciting, finding molecules that aren't worth looking twice at is just as important. We have to rule them out somehow.
> Shame he doesnt know how rare it is to
> find that many hits in one job, looking at all those club threads. My
> highest is only 837 so far. By the way I'm sure you noticed this ages
> ago sorry I'm slow to notice and yes I know it's all luck but still
> good to have jobs with lots of hits :) Although it's a bit odd that
> Joker! got 84,985Gflops 10 times more than the others. Hangon did
> they do the same job? How come they all got different numbers of
> hits? Joker! with over a 1000 less as well. Hmm I wonder if I've
> missed any hits.
Not all hits are created equal. What you don't see is that each hit has a value, or score, attached to it. Now since the CPU rating determines how long the computer works on a particular molecule, if you have a high CPU rating then you work for less time on a molecule. Joker! I believe has a lot of Linux systems, which when coupled with Intel processors give higher-than-they-should-be CPU ratings. Which artificially lowers the amount of time that is spent working on a particular molecule.
It isn't really that big a deal though, because the hits that crop up toward the end of a molecule tend to have a lower score. So yes, some get missed, but they are probably not worth worrying about anyway.
> Biggles, if you have a slower CPU rating does THINK give you quicker
> jobs because this computer with the 2 slower CPU ratings seems to get
> a lot of short jobs while the other computer on a much higher CPU
> rating gets longer ones. Quickest one being 6 hours on that one this
> one I've had many under the hour as quick as 30 minutes.
Nope. Just a fluke. Either you click receive in the job queue window and pick the type you want yourself, or it just downloads a bunch at random.
> Also my contribution for 1 day (checking at midnight) is 59,520Gflops
> worth yet for the entire Special Reserve team it says the daily
> output is 23,432Gflops that can't be right. =S
I've been off-line most of the past week. I've only put in 117,832 GFLOPS this week, as opposed to my normal 700,000. I'll be back on track soon. I'm aiming on top 300 by the end of the year.
> Is LeanneH a new member to SR Team or did someone change their name?
> 12 out of 22 still going that's great hopefully the other 2 at the
> top will sort out their problems with their connection.
I don't know who she is exactly. But, a member is a member, I'm not going to complain.
> Also I was shocked to notice that although Aoe has done far less jobs
> than you he has almost found as many hits 58,902, checking over his
> last big update I saw why, lots of big ones, 1886 being the highest,
> your highest was only 1399.
There were a few targets in the past that had very low hit rates. I ran a bunch of jobs that never got any. At the end of the day though, whilst getting lots of hits is exciting, finding molecules that aren't worth looking twice at is just as important. We have to rule them out somehow.
> Shame he doesnt know how rare it is to
> find that many hits in one job, looking at all those club threads. My
> highest is only 837 so far. By the way I'm sure you noticed this ages
> ago sorry I'm slow to notice and yes I know it's all luck but still
> good to have jobs with lots of hits :) Although it's a bit odd that
> Joker! got 84,985Gflops 10 times more than the others. Hangon did
> they do the same job? How come they all got different numbers of
> hits? Joker! with over a 1000 less as well. Hmm I wonder if I've
> missed any hits.
Not all hits are created equal. What you don't see is that each hit has a value, or score, attached to it. Now since the CPU rating determines how long the computer works on a particular molecule, if you have a high CPU rating then you work for less time on a molecule. Joker! I believe has a lot of Linux systems, which when coupled with Intel processors give higher-than-they-should-be CPU ratings. Which artificially lowers the amount of time that is spent working on a particular molecule.
It isn't really that big a deal though, because the hits that crop up toward the end of a molecule tend to have a lower score. So yes, some get missed, but they are probably not worth worrying about anyway.
Nausicaä wrote:
> Ah Grandprix you joined the FAD team :) excellent. Biggles (wherever
> he is) must be very pleased to see so many active members :D
Yeah, I've been leaving my computer doing nothing quite a lot recently so I thought I might as well. I do get a lot of error messages when I start up my computer and for some reason it keeps trying to run in DOS when I start it up too. It doesn't really bother me though. My computer takes an age to start up anyway so what's clicking a load of error messages?
> Ah Grandprix you joined the FAD team :) excellent. Biggles (wherever
> he is) must be very pleased to see so many active members :D
Yeah, I've been leaving my computer doing nothing quite a lot recently so I thought I might as well. I do get a lot of error messages when I start up my computer and for some reason it keeps trying to run in DOS when I start it up too. It doesn't really bother me though. My computer takes an age to start up anyway so what's clicking a load of error messages?
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