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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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Right click the icon in the system tray. Select setup. Go to the general tab, then enter 2072 in the team number box. Then click save. It will then put you in the team stats next update. Which will be around 18:00-19:00.
What Bob said.
So... what do I need to do to join this team?
I already have this FAD thing installed.
I already have this FAD thing installed.
Virtual screening. In other words, you have an evil cancer protein and the program simulates what happens when you bind a difference molecule on to it. Chemistry was never my strong point, but difference elements have difference effects on the evil cancer (or HIV etc) protein. Some will kill it, some will interfere with it and some will do nothing. Many molecules won't even bind to the protein.
This can all be done because there are laws of chemistry. Things like valencies of atoms will determine if things can bind onto other things.
The idea is that one day they will find a molecule that will bind with cancer and either kill it, or inhibit its growth. Then, when they find ones like that on a computer (and every hit you get in the program is one, albeit of differing amounts of worth) they will then test it in a lab at some point. Due to this, they have in fact found real cancer growth inhibitors.
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.co.uk/press6.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.co.uk/press7.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.co.uk/press8.html[/URL]
This can all be done because there are laws of chemistry. Things like valencies of atoms will determine if things can bind onto other things.
The idea is that one day they will find a molecule that will bind with cancer and either kill it, or inhibit its growth. Then, when they find ones like that on a computer (and every hit you get in the program is one, albeit of differing amounts of worth) they will then test it in a lab at some point. Due to this, they have in fact found real cancer growth inhibitors.
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.co.uk/press6.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.co.uk/press7.html[/URL]
[URL]http://www.find-a-drug.co.uk/press8.html[/URL]
So what exactly does this program thingy do / why / how?
Update time.
We've been plugging away through a series of eight cancer targets, all called 1Txx-Q1. 1T79-Q1 and 1T7F-Q1 are currently active. 1T79 however ought to finish within the next 24 hours. 1T7M, 1T7R and 1T7T have all been run and finished already. There is also a new-ish HIV target, 1WMS-Q1, which is running fairly fast. At least in comparison to the 1HYV-Q3 jobs.
Sadly Fooly Cooly decided to quit our team and move to team Phoenix :-(
That moved us down a place in the stats, back to 53rd, with teams 55 and 56 being two long-established-but-only-recently-big-hitters teams from Italy producing over 11 million GFLOPS each in the past week, we'll soon slip down to at least 55th.
In saying that, we are still outproducing a bunch of teams above us, and will in time pass them. The SR team has also passed 30 million GFLOPS in total.
And we have a new member, welcome Chris Leadbetter!
We've been plugging away through a series of eight cancer targets, all called 1Txx-Q1. 1T79-Q1 and 1T7F-Q1 are currently active. 1T79 however ought to finish within the next 24 hours. 1T7M, 1T7R and 1T7T have all been run and finished already. There is also a new-ish HIV target, 1WMS-Q1, which is running fairly fast. At least in comparison to the 1HYV-Q3 jobs.
Sadly Fooly Cooly decided to quit our team and move to team Phoenix :-(
That moved us down a place in the stats, back to 53rd, with teams 55 and 56 being two long-established-but-only-recently-big-hitters teams from Italy producing over 11 million GFLOPS each in the past week, we'll soon slip down to at least 55th.
In saying that, we are still outproducing a bunch of teams above us, and will in time pass them. The SR team has also passed 30 million GFLOPS in total.
And we have a new member, welcome Chris Leadbetter!
too many to remember :)
The 3 jobs took longer than I expected but I got there in the end. Went up 61 places, got us 25,472GFlops and another 52 hits. Not bad, I'm suprised we went up a place, probably wont be long till we go up another another 3 jobs ending soon. 20 members 9 active including VenomByte should he sort his broadband out. That's not bad a lot of the teams above have less, except Team Ninja on 20.
wow Joker had a job with 1361 hits no wonder it took almost 15 days.
Is FAD a registered charity yet? 6 months since the last bit of good news, I think we're overdue some :)
The 3 jobs took longer than I expected but I got there in the end. Went up 61 places, got us 25,472GFlops and another 52 hits. Not bad, I'm suprised we went up a place, probably wont be long till we go up another another 3 jobs ending soon. 20 members 9 active including VenomByte should he sort his broadband out. That's not bad a lot of the teams above have less, except Team Ninja on 20.
wow Joker had a job with 1361 hits no wonder it took almost 15 days.
Is FAD a registered charity yet? 6 months since the last bit of good news, I think we're overdue some :)
Pfft. Never. I have a P2 300 MHz that will run once I fix the power supply.
This is from a sig on the FAD forums:
"15 Recycled PC's running think 24X7: 1 Celeron 733, 1 Dual PPro-200's, 1 k6-2 366, 2 k6-2 333, 1 k6-2 300, 4 P-200's, 2 P-166, 2 p-150, 1 P-133."
400 MHz is fast by those standards!
This is from a sig on the FAD forums:
"15 Recycled PC's running think 24X7: 1 Celeron 733, 1 Dual PPro-200's, 1 k6-2 366, 2 k6-2 333, 1 k6-2 300, 4 P-200's, 2 P-166, 2 p-150, 1 P-133."
400 MHz is fast by those standards!
Notorious Biggles wrote:
> Grandprix wrote:
> I might consider doing this when I get a PC upgrade.
>
> No time outs, so it will run on any Pentium class or above processor.
> Could take a while though if you run it on a Pentium 75...
>
> That's wonderful dante. Ghibli is from Studio Ghibli, a big anime
> studio. Want to know more, search the Movies and music forum. And if
> you don't have anything remotely relevant to say, please don't say it
> in this thread. If you want to spam, use the World's Longest Thread
> in the FOG Prime forum.
Lol nah it wasn't meant to be spam, it's just that wrd ghibli reminded me of alot of stuff, anyway have you lot on seti found any new life forms or unidentified objects?
> Grandprix wrote:
> I might consider doing this when I get a PC upgrade.
>
> No time outs, so it will run on any Pentium class or above processor.
> Could take a while though if you run it on a Pentium 75...
>
> That's wonderful dante. Ghibli is from Studio Ghibli, a big anime
> studio. Want to know more, search the Movies and music forum. And if
> you don't have anything remotely relevant to say, please don't say it
> in this thread. If you want to spam, use the World's Longest Thread
> in the FOG Prime forum.
Lol nah it wasn't meant to be spam, it's just that wrd ghibli reminded me of alot of stuff, anyway have you lot on seti found any new life forms or unidentified objects?
I'm currently using a Pentium 400 and it feels like I'm overworking it already. :)
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