(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.

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.

im back up and running again now Opto :-)

thanks for bringing to the top and reminding me, lets hope we can get a few more to join us in the new year

From the GRID.org Forum
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:44 pm Post subject: Grid.org Status
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Dear Members,
Here is the weekly status update.
Member Services - The issue we had over the holidays was due to a problem with a RAID controller on the member services server. Maintenance was performed on the RAID controller and the system has been brought back online. Although having no access to member services was an inconvenience, grid processing itself was not affected so there should be no lost work.
Team stats - Due to the hardware failure, team stats are a bit behind. I will begin manual rollup of the stats, but please be aware that this may take until tomorrow to finish. Stats must be rolled up one day at a time and it takes a couple of hours for each day to complete.
I hope everyone had a safe and happy New Year. As always, thank you for your continued contribution.
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Robby Brewer
Senior Support Engineer
United Devices
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After the GRID support have processed the last [EDIT]22 9 days results we will be able to see how we did for 2006.

skg