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   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:11p

I finally found something I can feel good about running on my PC's when I am away. (Nothing against SETI, just feel this one can hit "closer to home")

Put your unused PC cycles to work, helping find a cure for cancer.

Download and install the application here:
http://www.grid.org/download/gold/download.htm

And then join Team FatWallet (We save money, now we save lives (hopefully!))
http://www.grid.org/services/teams/team.htm?id=26DDC55D-B3D2-4CD4-81B5-945DE1976087

I've got the software running on my three "always on" PC's and haven't found a problem yet (Windows 2000, and Windows 98 SE)

Go! Fight! Win! Team!

Edit: "Cure for Cancer Thread" bump policy:

The "Once-a-day bump limit" still applies to individuals.
The "Once-an-hour bump limit" applies to all of the participants in this thread.

Thanks again for all of the effort put into keeping this in the "FW conscience" while still observing forum etiquette.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:11p

POSTED by trifler

" So it turns out that the results from the UD Grid for protein folding analysis are used solely by the University of Oxford's Department of Chemistry (duh--the little picture says that). Unfortunately, in the long-run, it seems that the university/researchers (they) are using the results for, ultimately, MONETARY gain. For more information you can check it the site:
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/cancer/ipstatement.html [link]

Even worse, it seems that they do not make the results publicly available for the scientific community so this is shady... (I may be late here)

I suggest switching over to the non-profit Folding@Home project run by Stanford University which DOES make the research publicly available. You can get more information about the project here:
Folding@Home
Available for PC, Mac and Linux (download)

Just my $0.02. "

ADD-ON by KChengCL
For those of you who are on Folding@Home (I just switched!), the FW team ID is 31473

Update 04/25/07
The grid.org is over as of noon central time on Friday April 27. See here for the announcement. Please join me in joining KChengCL Folding@Home.

Message edited by: tryingtosavemoney on 2007-04-25 19:37:56 CDT
   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:17p

sounds good to me, i'm in!

and for those of you who don't think finding a cure for cancer is good enough, you can also win prizes...


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:28p

Just joined!


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:31p

if nothing else... the screen saver is pretty and attracts attention from coworkers (well... If I had any here)


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:39p

The screen saver is nice, but keep in mind it bogs down the computer. You'll process much more if you shut off the screen saver.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:45p

Just joined up, this sounds really worthwile


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:52p

I haven't noticed any drawback on speed... it doesn't operate unless the cpu is being under utilized.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 1:53p

All signed up and part of the Fatwallet team (try to guess which member I am! ) They should do this with all diseases, its a lot easier for me to donate computer time than money.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:03p

they need to design a multi threaded enabled program so it can use all four of my processors at once.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:05p

Well I hope I can help

Spjegues


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:08p

If you look at the speed in runs at while regularly running compared to the speed it runs at when in screen saver mode you will notice a dramatic difference. At one time I had about 20 computers running the UD program. When the screen savers were on the # of results returned was rather low. When I disabled the screen savers on them the # of results returned sky rocketed. I asked others to try and they had the same results.

At first I thought it was just me but others have come to me and told me the same thing. Anyway, it's up to everyone. The screen saver is cool however.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:12p

This is EXCELLENT!
If you click the I on the bottom left of the control panel, you can watch what it's doing. I have NO clue what the screensaver looks like, so if that's it, don't shoot me.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:14p

Scween saver looks like the thingy your are looking at right now Hawpster


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:23p

no linux


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:29p

i'm curious about the different ratings for your computer that it shows in the program.. my linksys 100BT network card is rated only at 32 whilst the intel 100BT is rated at 100.... could there really be that much of a difference between the two?


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:29p

Thanks MrFP.

Redol - Send them an email asking about the possibility for Linux! They might have not thought there would be any interest in it.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:48p

<< i'm curious about the different ratings for your computer that it shows in the program.. my linksys 100BT network card is rated only at 32 whilst the intel 100BT is rated at 100.... could there really be that much of a difference between the two? >>


I noticed that too with my Netgear card.

If you havent noticed Intel is a major sponsor for this project and I suspect that is why you are seeing the bias

My P3 933 processor is only rated a 63/100. I suppose its another marketing tool from Intel, I mean it cant be that much slower than a P4.

I'm curious as to how it rates an AMD chip... anyone care to post


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:52p

11 members so far! look forward to seeing tommorows stats when the results start to show up.


   posted: May. 23, 2001 @ 2:54p

celeron 500 = 34
celeron 600 = 40


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