(Participation in this project is FREE. It makes use of unallocated resources within your PC and causes no detectable degradation of performance.)

One in four of us will at some time suffer from cancer. The high mortality rate, the suffering experienced by patients from the side effects of existing treatments, and the high costs of treatment all contribute to making cancer a priority for drug research.

By joining the United Devices network, you can have a direct benefit to cancer research. The UD software sits in the background on your PC and utilises any spare capacity to analyse data for cancer research projects. (It can also be set just to run when your computer is idle if you are concerned about your PC performance being compromised, but, in reality, there is very little overhaead and even running live you should see no degradation.)

Each individual computer analyzes a few molecules and then sends the results back over the Internet for further research. This project is anticipated to be the largest computational chemistry project ever undertaken and represents a genuine hope to find a better way to fight cancer. (You can also choose to work on anthrax or smallpox.)

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The link to the site is http://www.grid.org/projects/cancer/

Downloading the agent takes only a few minutes and once it is done it will function quite happily on its own. You can make adjustments to how and when it runs very easily. There is a very comprehensive FAQ section to help.

I have set up a MoneyAM BBers team so that we can pool our work and statistics. Why not join in and see how much of a difference MoneyAM can make?

The link to our team is http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=41C08346-475C-4210-83CB-937643445D8C
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Join us today and make a difference while you make money. One day you might be grateful to take advantage of the developments this research achieves.

Don't just make a donation, make a difference!

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PS Thanks to MegaBucks who suggested the idea of starting here.

Thanks to fundamentalist the MoneyAM Team has doubled in size. :-)

Between us we have already racked up over 600 points and submitted 11 results.

Why not join us? It is all very painless.

Let's see if we can grow from 2 to 200 and make a real difference.

G.

A lot of us are already in a team Greystone and it seems pointless changing.

Just joined, and very painless it was too!

You were already on a team weren't you ?

As it happens I wasn't, Dil, but I understand your point.

Well you should have been welcome aboard :-)

Dil - I appreciate what you say. I lost all of my info when my system crashed the other weekend so I had to start again anyway. As long as it does some good, it doesn't matter what flavour it is. :-)

Yep , main thing now is to get more signed up , here or there :-)

The Team has now grown to eleven members and is really gunning it.

Thanks to everyone for their support.

If I was to defect to this team from another team would my points accumulated thus far also come across with me or would I have to start collecting again from scratch?

touche - I think you need to start again. That is probably the best thing anyway. After all, its the grand scheme of things that is important.

Hope to see you aboard soon.

We are now up to 13 members and counting.

G.

touche,

you would still keep your overall total points going and you can keep track of them,but would start from zero over here if that makes sense:-)


Mega...


it worked OK for me,so have a go :-))))

Thanks MB. Didn't realise.

yes, you keep your existing points, but the new team gets only the new ones.

so best stick to the old one :-)

Thanks all for the info.

I have taken the plunge and joined. You are absolutely right about keeping all of your existing points and starting from zero again from the new team perspective.

I guess that it doesn't really make any difference which team I am a member of but it just feels like I should join here as this is the BB that I read.

Welcome aboard touche.

We are now up to 15 members with GRAEME.ALEXANDER and RICK FRANCIS the best performers so far. They obviously have better 'puters than most of us. ;-)

G.

mine are all from ALDI......Bargins......GRAEME.

mine are home builds even better bargains :-)))

Mine is steam-driven. Still a Brunel fan. ;-)

Our 15 stalwart members have now donated 297 CPU days to the cause. We have submitted 955 results between us and generated over 146,000 points.

Why not join us this weekend and put you unused PC resources to good use?

Everyone is welcome!

G.

Thanks and welcome to mostrader, the latest addition to our merry band! Now we have sixteen members.

We have now donated well over a CPU year in processing time and amassed almost 200,000 points from the 1,289 results we have returned.

Great going!

Come and join us. It only takes a few minutes to set up and is quite painless. You will find the instructions in the opening post here.

If you have any problems getting signed up, I'm sure a question posted to this thread will find the answer for you.

G.

Our Team is now 18 strong - soon to be 19 - and has now contributed over one and a half CPU years to the cause. We have sent in 1,847 results and accumulated almost 300,000 points.

Why not come and join us if you haven't already.....

I hit a personal target today by sending my 100th result. :-)

G.

Greystone - just checked my progess and see i also returned my 100th result today :-)))

Well done Fundamentalist. Not sure what it means in real terms, but it makes me feel that I'm doing something worthwhile with what would otherwise be wasted resources.

Next target 1,000. :-)

G.

Greystone

I think all of us who participate have the same sentiments - its just a shame a few more dont take it up. It is a concept close to my heart having lost my mum to cancer when i was 23.

As for the 1000 reults - 100 took 20 days so just another 180 days till the 1000 - i make that roughly Easter time and the 2000 should be up by next xmas!!!!!

I would like to join this project but am having problem logging in. Do I use my real name or optomistic?

Do I download the agent before trying to log in?

Now sorted (I think)

optimistic - Sorry, I missed your posting. You need to dwonload the agent first and then you join the Team as a second stage.

Hope you are OK now.

You will find it works most efficiently is you do not run a screensaver.

G.

Hi Greystone, it is up and running, will you just check and see I have found my way into the team please.

Hi optimistic - You are in and running! Welcome aboard and thank you very much for joining us. I'm sure you will soon overtake my old steam-driven PC. :-)

G.

ramper :-)

A quick look at the stats shows our Team is now 19 strong and has generated over 2 CPU years of processing for the cause.

We have now accumulated almost 380,000 points and returned 2,341 results.

Great going!

Why not join us? It only takes a few minutes to get set up and working and it costs you nothing at all. You won't even notice it is running.

I saw this week that, during a power cut when my PC switch to battery power, the UD system suspended itself to conserve my battery. Smart stuff!

G.

Been on this for a week now and absolutly no problems, I feel I am doing some good to put the unused capacity of my PC to such worthwhile projects. I am sure there is plenty of room on board for anyone else who would care to do the same.
opto

Bring this to the top as at this time of the year folks may have more time available to link up to this worthwhile project.
opto

Opto

Good call to bring this to the top - made me have a look at the stats.

Moneyamm BBers:

21 Members - IS THAT ALL
CPU Time - 4yrs, 12 days
Results 3,677
Avge results per day 40 (2 per user)

So of all the users on this bulletin board only 21 have signed up for this most worthy cause (i know some have already signed up with other teams)

From my own experience, joining this takes approx 10 mins and once done you do not notice the difference to your pc but on a daily basis you are contributing to cancer research - what reason do people have not to sign up?????

Fund , there are quite a few already signed up elsewhere and there is little point in them changing teams but your right that those who haven't signed up should do so asap.

Thanks to our 21 member Team for contributing almost 5 CPU years of processing time to this excellent cause and for sending in nearly 4,000 results.

I hope over the New Year break maybe a few more will join. It is really great to be able to do something worthwhile every day without even noticing it happen....

G.

It is very remiss of me not to have refreshed the thread for such a long time. My apologies Team!

Thanks to skg83239, I have been prompted to check our progress and am pleased to announce that we have just passed a major milestone - we have now donated over 10 CPU years to the cause.

My thanks to you all for doing it!

If YOU would like to join our little band of brothers and sisters by signing up for the MoneyAM BBers Team, the instructions are set out in the opening post of this thread. There are also now twenty-two of us to help you out with any problems you may encounter....

G.

All sorted G. I am now back on the project. Thanks for the email.

Saturday afternoon, why not have a look at the site and see what it's about.
22 of us in from am, could easily be a lot more.
Do you know if my name was Tony I feel sure I would be able to persuade many more to join.
opto

Opto

i agree - it is amazing that only 22 have joined up - i know a lot of those in the traders room are already doing it with other teams but surely we should be able to get a few hundred from the amount that access

Fundy, thanks for your comment. I really do think that we could do a lot better on here in the investors room. Only last week when I had my friend, a computer expert came to sort out a problem. When 'looking around' found the UD site and asked what it was. When I explained what it was he became quietly very interested and took the site details and hopefully he will log on to help the research. His PC is on line 24/7 don't like this phrase but in his case it is most appropriate.

Whilst it is disappointing to have so few on the Team here, I must say that the input is really good. A heck of a lot of returns from such a small (but dedicated!) bunch. If member averages were recorded, we would be well up the league.

I hope a few more will check out the site and sign up soon... :-)

Alan

"Backing Off" again my end

likewise here martini

cheers Fundamentalist
M

Back on stream again after a database rebuild...

That could explain why I was stuck on 84% for ages, moving nicely now.
Have we gained any team more members recently?

optomistic - Still on 24 members. Last to join was Elias Erkamo on 12th June (I think).

Great that we've clocked up almost 13 CPU years of input in our time.

Thanks to all who contribute and to those who don't, why not join us? - it is perfectly painless..... :-)

(Edited to show CPU years)

13 CPU hours G ? thought it would have been 13 years :-)
Yes more should join, no problems and to the benefit of all.

Sorry! 13 CPU years, I meant. :-(

Morning G, Just had a look at the site and I see we have returned 9170 results. Not bad for the few of us!

And....thanks to sealed, we now have 25 members! Good news!

and welcome sealed

Had real trouble getting back on.

have been unable to connect for about a week. conectted tonight and picked up new tasks but now can not get through again.
Any one else having same problems????????
Graeme

They've been sorting some stuff out on the site apparently, it wasn't just you.

Thanks Kayak.......

From the Grid.org forum 5Aug05:
Dear members,

Thanks for being so patient. Below is a current update on grid.org:

A new LigandFit Pancreatic Cancer job is still pending new data from our European partner. In the meantime, the grid.org team will be performing some LigandFit post-processing script improvements on our LigandFit grid infrastructure in order to prepare for the new Cancer project data soon to arrive from our European partner. As a result, the old LigandFit Cancer job that is currently running will be suspended briefly in order for our team to make the necessary preparations offline.

The Rosetta Human Proteome Folding batches of jobs on grid.org continue to run well, and results are being post-processed nicely. Thanks for contributing your compute time.

Kindest Regards,
grid.org team
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Jonathon

GREAME
Processing of LigandFit Cancer job started again last night just after you posted. One machine started by itself, two more had to be persuaded by restarting UD twice. The forum goes onto say the the team stats table has been corrupted and is being rebuilt. Individual data has not been lost. I also gather that if you delete the duplicate devices, created after re-logging on after the last problem, the associated history will also be deleted. This will not affect the actual processed results.

skg

Thanks for the info skg.
I was starting to think it was something wrong at my end as I have changed all my computers o/s and installed norton on my home network. I am now showing 9 devices instead of four but as they are now busy helping I think its best left alone. Graeme.

Haven't been able to make ocntact for two days now. I assume it is a general problem.... :(

Same here G.

See http://forum.grid.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=17834.

I wondered why I hadn't noticed a problem, and then discovered that my pc is currently working on a project (Rosetta Human Proteome Folding Project) that has so far taken over 85 hours, and is only 39% complete. So with a bit of luck UD will be back up by the time it's finished:-)

I have stuck with the Cancer Research Project as it didn't seem clear to me whether the Rosetta Human Proteome Folding Project was only going to benefit US institutions and corporations. If it does make it clear somewhere could you please post a link.
skg

Sorry skg, I wasn't aware you could pick and choose projects. Mine works on a variety of projects, but I don't know how they're selected.

The folding project appears to be run by a non-profit making research institute, see http://www.systemsbiology.org/About_ISB/FAQ, although that doesn't fully answer the question.

To select the projects run on your machine you need to go to https://www.grid.org/services/devices/devices.htm and edit the profile for each device (or the default one in most cases).

Thanks Kayak,
You beet me to the devices link.
When the Rosetta Human Proteome Folding Project started on UD I searched in vane for a definitive answer and may have already read the ISB FAQ.
I am still happy to think that every day (except for today) I have contributed in a small way to the search for a cancer cure.
Yesterday as a result of the current problems I turned off all my machines for the first time in months, I had not realised how loud the constant background hum was.

skg

Gone a bit haywire I think, not only not credited points for a 100 hour program but has now deducted about 750 points from the last shown total.

Got my last result away now and started a new task.

i have the same problem... cannot connect at all

SM

skg just reminded me that it is the first anniversary for our UD Team.

During this first year we have contributed over fifteen-and-a-half CPU years to the cause. A great achievement for such a small Team!!

In the year, RICK FRANCIS has donated the most time (getting on for 3 CPU years) and GRAEME.ALEXANDER has racked up the most results (3,025) and points (361,622) but the whole Team has shown great dedication and I thank them all for their efforts.

Why not join us and doing your bit to support Cancer Research?

It is free , painless, very easy to set up, and has little or no impact on your PC performance.

To The Team - Thank you very much! To those about to join, thanks in advance!

G.

In terms of points generated, our little Team, with 4,075,988 is now in 875th position worldwide... Quite a performance!

G.

Such a long time in between posts.
However this seems a good time of the year to bring this thread TTT, with a reminder that the work goes on, it costs nothing and does not degrade the performance of your PC.
Easy to sign up and let your PC be used for vital research whenever you are online.
Perhaps G you will give us an upgrade on our achievments this year.
regards and good wishes for the new year to all.
opto

opto, thanks for bringing this to the top, just realised that since the hard drive was replaced on my laptop i havent been connected - will rectify right away :-)

for anyone reading who doesnt already take part, please do. you will not even notice this running in the background and will be contributing to a very deserving cause

TTT............... In case this was missed by the holiday makers :-)
A lot a reseach being done with the help of your PC. This must be worth a large annual donation in cash to cancer research.
Not signed up? Look into it now, you never know who this is going to benefit.

im back up and running again now Opto :-)

thanks for bringing to the top and reminding me, lets hope we can get a few more to join us in the new year

From the GRID.org Forum
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: Grid.org Status
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Dear Members,
Here is the weekly status update.
Member Services - The issue we had over the holidays was due to a problem with a RAID controller on the member services server. Maintenance was performed on the RAID controller and the system has been brought back online. Although having no access to member services was an inconvenience, grid processing itself was not affected so there should be no lost work.
Team stats - Due to the hardware failure, team stats are a bit behind. I will begin manual rollup of the stats, but please be aware that this may take until tomorrow to finish. Stats must be rolled up one day at a time and it takes a couple of hours for each day to complete.
I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year. As always, thank you for your continued contribution.
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Robby Brewer
Senior Support Engineer
United Devices
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After the GRID support have processed the last [EDIT]22 9 days results we will be able to see how we did for 2006.

skg