(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.

dun it!!!

got in and logged on and joined the team - yippeee!!!!!!
my name in the team is now catamaran.... supermum had gone :-(

now what do i do?

SM

You should have a dark blue oval shaped icon in the system tray. Double click it and you will probably find that it is already busy. Go through all the pages to double check.

yup it sure is - its got this little 3d icon being built... much better than any screen saver... will try to get a few more people to join up.. i think I can read all the instructions now ! and do ALL the trouble-shooting to get it going - LOL
SM

Some new 'Human Proteome' units are just being distributed in this software, sounds like they take up a lot of computer memory, if so you can opt to just do the cancer units. Havn't had one yet myself yet so I don't know what they're like.

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.

Alan - I have got another 2 people - its amazing how the time adds up - I have done 32 days already and I forget its on - the screen saver is
interesting though!! I get about 50% of the Human Proteome -very pretty!

SM

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 twenty-two of us to help you out with any problems you may encounter....

G.

Seems to have spent the last couple of days "backing off" is it just me?

Have the same problems here M !!! this usually means they are doing routine updates to the site...

Mega...

Cheers mega

No problems :-)

They've got major computer problems...

Same here. No contact for two days now... :-(

mine seems to be ticking along nicely....

SM

supermum - mine was also ticking along nicely, until it tried to call home today, and didn't get an answer.

So it could be that yours is still in the middle of a long job?

91% through a lignfit.. has taken 41 hours so far... so hopefully computer will be sorted when I am ready for contact..

SM

Sounds like they've just finished repairs - but still backing off.
Message on boards reads -

Dear Members,

"Grid.org is online. The hardware failure on our core DB machine has been repaired.

Because of the downtime, agents will have "backed-off", and we expect that there will be a flood of initial activity as agents reconnect. Therefore, please be patient during this initial flood of activity. Normal agent connectivity should resume soon.

Thank you very much for your patience and continued participation,
Jonathon"

I have now joined the "backing off" club... :-(

Hopefully soon means soon
SM

The whole site is down now...

Got my result away this morning and a new set of data downloaded....