United Devices Cancer Research Project
 

I was wondering if anybody on these boards ran the above program on their computers. I have just set up a team on their system called The Loafers and thought it could be nice to have a team of us working towards a good cause. I started running the program in June 2002 and my computer has done 202 days worth of work well letting me continue using it as if it wasn't there. If you are interested in joining the team please do. Anyone who wants to find out more their website is www.grid.org and the information is under projects - Cancer Research.

We started running the program after my Mother-in-law died from cancer. This is something that costs us nothing in time or money but may in time help a lot of people.

Stickied for a while.

I'm on the team!!

Does everyone have to run the same project?

Count me in. . .what do I have to do?

Welcome to the team Chris. I don't see why we have to run the same project as there are a few there. I choose not to do the smallpox project because it seemed to run to the computer so much more than the cancer one and we run the program because of my mother-in-law who died of cancer.

Rob if you go to the website www.grid.org you will need to download a small program which runs in the background on your computer. Your computer will then tell you when it needs to connect to the internet to send the results of the work it has done.

ya what does one have to do?

Once you have set up the program you can then join the team

im in black dog and have already done 3% for the smallpox

can i change it to the cancer one??? instead of the smallpow??

If you login with your password and go to my member profile at the bottom of the screen there are the two programs they are running at the moment. If you uncheck the box for the patriot grid running smallpox your computer will just run the cancer project.

If you then click on teams you can join The Loafers and be part of our new team please Click here

Thanks for running this program

I would like to sign up for this, but how do I know it is safe? Is there anyway that they could access other things in my computer? I'm not such a computer wizz as to know what can and can't be done. Can someone please reassure me that it is safe? :!:

Thank you for your interest plukie. I understand in this day and age we have to be careful about what we download from the internet. I have found some information about security on their website if you use this link it will take you straight to it http://www.grid.org/help/faq_security.htm

I can not guarantee the safety because I do not have enough knowledge of computers to do this but I have been running this program for 18 months and my computer has now donated 206 days of time. If you go the team you can check my details to see that this is true. My UD name is shelley_845211 you will automatically view my information since I joined the team but if you click on my name it should give you my history. My parents have been running the program for even longer. It was through them that I learnt of this site.

Any queries you can always PM me.

Thank you again for your interest.

Shells

Just joined the team. Radio_Badger.

Welcome to the team draconia and radio_badger.

thank you and i am also TRYING to get someone else to join but he is worried about his firewall
do you know anything that will help him????

I've just checked the site draconia and found this in the question and answer section.


I hope this will help you.

Shells

WEEK 1

Team members - 4
Total CPU Time - 6 days 5 hours 32 minutes
Results returned - 22

Thank you for your help.

I can't believe it. We returned 8 results yesterday. Thats a record for us so far.

Well done

Shells

WOO HOO :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

1785 points and over 2 days of CPU time :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
my poor comp over heats all the time now but its worth it

Congratulations draconia :D :D

Just been on the site and see you are now up to 3 days CPU time. That is great work.

WEEK 2


Team members - 4
CPU time this week - 9 days 17 hours 18 minutes
Total CPU time - 15 days 22 hours 50 minutes
Results returned this week - 34
Total results returned - 56

Great work. Congratulations everyone

Hi there, just joined!

Welcome to the team Cabbie212.

WEEK 3


Team members - 5
CPU time this week - 8 days 2 hours 8 minutes
Total CPU time - 24 days 0 hours 58 minutes
Results returned this week - 21
Total results returned - 77

Great work. Congratulations everyone. Welcome on board Cabbie212.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed but the units seem to be taking longer to process at the moment. Some of mine have been 10+ hours where they were about 6 hours. Just as well the program saves the information after each Ligand.

yes i had noticed that also black dog :twisted:
but i havent had my comp on for a while so i didnt realise it as a problem :evil: :evil:
hehe i thought that it was just me :oops: :oops:

The only reason it has come to my attention is that our computer is turned on every evening when we come in from work and left running. I started leaving it on over night so that it could do extra work and used to come down to find that it had always finished in the morning ready for me to download when I got up. Lately it hasn't finished when I get up which is why I have noticed.

Having looked at the forum the information says that the smallpox units are taking about 24 hours but because they have 200 ligands to work on. Because of this they obviously save the information more often than the cancer work units which only have 20 ligands.

Mind you it doesn't help when my son plays games on the computer because he uses so much of the computers resources that the program doesn't really go anywhere.

Anyway whatever usage my computer gives is all something that I am giving for nothing really.