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I had the UD app running on a few systems for a while including the Anthrax
research period. But after watching it for a while, I decided to take it
off my systems because it appears to be repeating the same work over and
over. They are screening 3 cancer-related proteins for drug interaction
with a few million known molecules. It seems to me that if they could
complete the Anthrax research in 3 weeks, they could certainly complete the
other 3 proteins in roughly 3 times that amount of time which has long
expired. The UD client is also used to turn your client into a webserver
hammer so they can stress test some websites. You have to go onto the UD
website and modify your profile to disable this use which I did.
Kent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Martinez" <DanM@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Kent Rollins" <kentr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "OmegaList" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>; "RealTraders"
<realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: Folding@xxxxx United Devices Cancer Research Program
This is a BIT off topic but I'd like to add something. The markets are
closed
anyway. There are many P2P programs. Intel and United Devices offer 3. On
March 31, 2002, I installed the "United Devices Cancer Research Program". I
removed the ShortCut in the StartUp folder and start UD-Cancer manually
whenever
I wish. The program runs at the lowest priority in Windows so it is not
noticeable at all. The program has a "snooze" mode which allows you to stop
it
for 15 minutes if you need to do something important but it really isn't
necessary. I keep a close eye on what goes over my ISP connection and I
have
never seen anything suspicious. The UD-Cancer installer only installs 3.3
MB's
into its own folder and a small 72 KB screensaver, ud.scr. I do not use any
screensavers. UD-Cancer has strict guidelines concerning privacy and
security:
http://members.ud.com/about/getting_started/privacy.htm
Download Page: http://www.intel.com/cure/download.htm
For this project alone, over 120,000 YEARS of CPU time have been donated by
users.
http://members.ud.com/stats/projects/cancer/
There are over 836,000 members of UD:
http://members.ud.com/stats/members/
I installed SETI@xxxx around May 1999 but I stopped using it in favor of
UD-Cancer. BTW, there are AT LEAST 3,756,882 PC's in SETI. Some users have
more than 1 PC. SETI has so many PC's, they can't provide enough bandwidth
to
supply them all:
http://www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/totals.html
United Devices also had an Anthrax project which was from 1/22/02 to
2/14/02.
The goal was to reduce the number of available molecules to obtain a cure to
Anthrax. On 3/8/02, the results were given to the United States Department
of
Defense and the UK. Dr. Graham Richards, Chairman of the Chemistry
Department
at Oxford University: "Research that was believed to be impossible in my
lifetime is now not only possible, but has been accomplished in a few short
weeks."
http://www.ud.com/company/press/press_releases/03082002.htm
Daniel.
Kent Rollins wrote:
> Some of you may have heard about SETI@xxxx, a program you can run on your
> computer that analyzes radio signals from the Arecebo dish looking for
> signals that may be from extra-terrestrial life. SETI@xxxx has 10's maybe
> 100's of thousands of users. I have been running their software on all of
> my machines since the program went live over 2 years ago and I have
> completed over 5,000 work units.
>
> Recently, I removed the SETI@xxxx software and installed software from a
> Stanford project called Folding@xxxxx The goal of the project is to
> understand how complex proteins fold into their final shapes and
understand
> how mutations in the genes that create the proteins create mutations in
the
> resulting proteins which affects their final shape and causes diseases
like
> Cystic Fibrosis, Alzhiemer's, CJD, etc. Stanford also has a companion
> project called Genome@xxxx which is attempting to create new proteins.
>
> The Folding@xxxx software is easy to install, very unobtrusive, and works
> with clients that are behind proxies. It runs at Idle priority on Windows
> so that your foreground applications are unaffected. I run this software
24
> hours on all my machines, even the machines that I use all day, and I
never
> notice it. There are 2 versions for Windows: one that works as a screen
> saver and one that runs as a console application. I run the console
version
> which is much faster because it doesn't have to waste CPU cycles drawing
the
> molecules on the screen. I have not tried the Genome@xxxx software.
>
> If you have one or more machines that have some spare cycles, I encourage
> you to look at these applications. You can help advance science by
> literally doing nothing.
>
> http://folding.stanford.edu/
> http://genomeathome.stanford.edu/
>
> Kent
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