(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.

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