(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 MoneyAM Users Team - JOIN NOW
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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.

Graeme
You can rename the old duplicate devices.
e.g. I renamed the two old duplicate devices skgpc_1 to skgpc_1z and skgpc_1y
You can then set the connection type for your current device

skg

I have downloaded the latest version of UD Monitor. I am testing it out to see how useful it is managing multiple work units on multiple PC's.

skg

Hi skg,
any update on how you are getting on with the latest version (post 101).
I am back to having problems conecting, downloading and displaying stats. one machine hasn't been able to conect for weeks. Graeme.

I am using the latest version of UD Monitor. You can create "Slots" which are complete copies of UD with an associated work unit and require a new device identifier. I have not tried it yet but you could copy the folder containing a "Slot" to another machine. The reason I haven't tried it yet is UD Monitor has "lost" the link to the Slots that I've created. It doesn't seem to be having a negative impact in my current set up, i.e. continuing to process the work units but I lost control of the additional WU's. I see this as teething probs and will sort it out and report when I return home at the end of the week. This is definitely the way to keep a supply of WU's to fill in time between site outages.

Graeme email me if you want a more detailed discussion.

skg

ttt.

An update on running UD Monitor
UD Monitor is a complementary program to manage multiple work units.
It allows a user to download multiple work units and work on them in order.
This is done by UD Monitor by creating "Slots" to form a cache of work units. Each of these Slots needs to be registered as a different device. This is inconvenient but it is how United Devices keeps track of the work units it has distributed.
Each of the Slots is a complete copy of the United Devices folder including a single work unit.
UD Monitor works by monitoring the files in the United Devices folder and when a work unit has been completed, the results uploaded and a new work unit downloaded, it stops UD.exe and copies all the files in the United Devices folder to the current Slot (a numbered sub-folder in the UD Monitor Cache folder). UD Monitor then copies all the files from the next Slot folder (in date order) to the United Devices folder. UD.exe is then restarted and processing of the next work unit commences.
There is a little configuration allowed in UD Monitor, particularly there is no choice as to the location of the cache. This means that local distribution of the work units would require additional steps. (you can execute files on completion of a work unit so you could create a batch file to copy a local slot to a central cache)
As the main reason for exploring the use of UD Monitor was to cover periods when communication with the UD server was not possible I think that running UD Monitor on one machine to hold a central cache. Work units have to be completed within 450hrs (18 and a bit days) so you could store the maximum number of cached work units on your fastest PC but the more slots and work units you have the more devices you need to register.
In the event of a loss of communication with the UD server you can store a completed work unit from a PC without UD Monitor to a new slot in the central cache and copy a new work unit back, marking the slot inactive to stop it being processed twice.
I will continue to experiment to see how easy or not it is to automatically distribute work units locally.
Please comment if this is too long and complex or feel free to ask questions.

skg

skg.
Thanks for the update above. I have spent some time over the last week trying to get my head around this. I have now downloaded it but it was only tonight I finally got my head around "the slots bit, I didn't right click in the cache window". Mission tomorrow to set up the slots on my laptop the see how it runs for a few days. If all seems ok I think the easyiest way for me will be to put the monitor on all four machines and treat each one as stand alone.

I finally managed last week to get them all working again last week after the last lot of problems so really hope I don't end up in a mess again.

I think in the near future we may experience quite a lot of downtime / non-connection as they are going to install new harware and then new software.

Thanks for your posts and help. Graeme.

Have now created 6 slots / caches on the laptop and all seems ok. fingers crossed for the next few days as I monitor how long it takes to work through them. Graeme.

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

G.

This is due to the teams contribution of 22 years 7 months cpu time to the cancer research project.
Anyone interested can join the MoneyAM BBers team, just download and install the UD software and then go to MoneyAM BBers team page to join.
skg

any one else having problems conecting the last few days.
I can't even get to the message boards. Graeme.

Yes i am,but i guess they must be doing some work to there servers,when they have finished it usually uploads its self !!!!

Mega...

Thanks Mega, as long as its not just me.
I was only getting worried as I couldn't get through to the message boards either.
Hopefully they might be installing the new equipment that we are waiting for.

Also if anyone is just passing through the threads and spots this.........Why not read a bit more and sign up. We haven't had any new members for a while now and research needs you........or your spare computer time at least.
Graeme.

Not on your own, mine is not working today (and yesterday)
You are right about the new members, we do need more.
Anyone looking in that are not joined, do note...........it is painless :-)

All seems to be back up and running again.
They were doing maintanence over the w/e and it looks like it over ran.
G

G A,your still leading the points!!!

Rick...

Mega Bucks
Its the only time I will ever be a Millionare..........and all with no effort,worry or pain........
For those who haven't joined yet. Come on........if you have not tried it yet give it a go. If you do not like it or it interferes with anything you can always ditch it. Works on dial up or broadband. I have it running on four machines (with ud monitor) and do not notice any difference in speed or memory and as far as I know there is no security risk. Graeme.

Members of this project will need to see this:

http://www.grid.org/home.htm

Is there any benefit in going ahead as a team with one of the other projects listed, or should we go it alone?

I guess if we are going to go ahead as a team it might be appropriate to choose
a project with some UK input, such as climate prediction.

Happy to continue doing either as part of team (preferable) or alone. Compute against cancer would be my preference