(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.

Welcome to our newest member, 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.

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 your 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.

"Today I will spend sometime looking for a cure to cancer"
This is a great oppertunity to contribute.
skg.

skg - Thanks. You will be very welcome. It is hard to think of a better cause.

More than happy to join the team - although my mouse went all peculiar when I went to the Team page - changed the batteries and now fine ;)

Thanks guys. 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.

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

G.

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.

I would like to join but I run only on a laptop - I see someone has posted that it is not a good idea to run it on a laptop - is this right??

I run an IBMThinkpad R40e with 512mb ram and I am on a dialup!! would this be tooooooo painful?

SM

supermum - I am running on a Tosh laptop with similar spec and dial-up. Slows a bit when sending results and receiving data but otherwise no problem.

If I'm real busy, I just send it into "snooze" mode or shut it down for a while.

Give it a try. If you find it is "toooooo painful", the uninstall works very cleanly. :-)

G.

SM

Also running on a tosh laptop (though with broadband) - dont even notice it is there!

You only need the internet conection for about 1 % of the time. It is only used to upload the result and to get the next task.
Graeme.

ok guys - you convinced me! hard wasn't it? LOL I had problems with it before on my old PC and it NEVER worked - this time I will be more determined.... as this laptop is kept just for trading - I have 62% unused space - and would rather it did something useful..

SM

sm well done,it all helps !!!

Mega...

Mega- I am having problems logging in - this was what happened to me before :-(
SM

great idea-I'm in.

sm,just seen the reply!!!!

Mega...

I am still having big problems .. to save a further explanation this is a copy of the email i sent the company and it reply is underneath... not the most helpful of people...
I registered with you some time ago and was unable to log in, I could not remember my details and could not find out how to get a reminder..... I have a new PC now and have tried once again to login in and be part of this programme - without success. I have downloaded the latest programme and I still cannot remember my user name, password or PC name. When i tried to logon I get still receive no assistance as to the information - no reminder invitation and feel very frustrated. So I still cannot participate. I have an email from you to say that you have to approve my application and have had nothing else. So I tried to reregister to get a new set of information only to be told that you already have a member with that email address... Please can you let me know what to do?

the reply.....

Thank you for reporting your problem to our automated support system. At this time we only offer automated support and if the problem you reported is new, we will investigate it further and add it to the FAQ's.

Thank you for your patience and participation,

United Devices Support Team


Anyone got any ideas?

deleted - I now see your problem :-(

You could simply use a hotmail address, there is no need to check the emails after registering, they certainly haven't sent anything out in the past couple of months.