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I'm willing to give them whatever time they need. I don't activate UD-Cancer
everyday anyway. I don't believe they are repeating exactly the same
molecules. To be sure, you would have to write down the molecule numbers on the
left. They do appear to change. You can't go just by the graphics on the right
side. That's just a simplification of the underlying number crunching which is
occurring. I went to my UD profile and I did notice their "Web performance
testing" project: http://members.ud.com/projects/web_test/
I don't remember ever unchecking it but it was unchecked. They should really
stick to CPU intensive projects and not use a member's bandwidth. Not everyone
is going to know how to go to their profile to examine their status.
Nevertheless, I still think it is the most worthwhile project on the 'Net.
Daniel.
Kent Rollins wrote:
> 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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