(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.

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.