(Also posted in the Scoobyaid forum.)

You may have seen on local news reports of a cancer research program which gives computer owners the opportunity to use their personal computing resources to perform scientific research, such as searching for improved treatments and potential cures for cancer and other diseases, by downloading a computer program to their PCs from the Internet. The program has been developed specifically to search for new drugs to treat leukemia. As the program runs, it uses your computer to begin processing a small packet of data. Once processing is complete (about a day later), the program sends the results back to a server and requests a new packet of data. If you aren't online when the processing is done, your computer will wait to send and receive data packets until the next time you're connected to the Internet.

The research program operates in the background, so you shouldn't notice it's running during computer use. It's designed to run only when computing resources are unused. As soon as you run an application that needs computing power, the research program will back down, and your computing performance will not be noticeably impacted. You do not need to leave your PC running either. Just use your PC as normal, turning it on and off as you would. Obviously though, if you do leave your PC on, it will process more data.

So how can you join up?

1. Visit the Intel sponsored LIFE page and download the program today.

 

Just bounce this back to the top - think it is worthy of our attention.

Chris

 

Just finished setting mine up on 24/7 server at home. Definetly worth considering folks when you look at the stats for cancer.
joined your team too

Nick

Come on folks, it beats that SETI at home lark!



[This message has been edited by Mr Footlong (edited 10 April 2001).]

 

Sorry boys, I was registered no #30 in the Vulture Central II team, so I can't throw my servers in with you lot.

At least I am contributing to the 'cause'.

SteveM

 

I'll try it tomorrow and see if I can get some of our servers to play ball, Hewlett Packard should have enough computing power to help.

Wurzel

 

I'm registered now - also joined the team

Chris

 

Make that 3 of my home machines in the mix now.....

Wonder just how charitable HP are feeling Wurzel

Nick

P.S might speak to a few clients and talk them into joining the cause!

Cancer is bad hmmmkay.

 

hi all

signed up one of our machines that is on 24/7

Greg

 

Been solving since the start, so I will join the team, with a rather large Workstation to not on 24/7 but v.fast

Dunk

 

I've just transferred my stats from another group

I have dedicated 2 machines here at the office that are on 24/7

Cheers,

Rob

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by rob barron:
<B>I have dedicated 2 machines here at the office that are on 24/7[/quote]

Ditto - just signed up both...

Matt

 

Yep, I am also signed up....bit of a poor PC to run it on, but I suppose it all counts!

Jamie

 

The "son of iwoc" mailing list, i-chat..we have all joined up.

Should be interesting, we have some decent horsepower in our ranks

we are at

 

It great to see the support from Scoobynet and IWOC on this. We are now upto 27 members in the team, but we need more!

So far (as of midnight Tuesday) we had processed over 26 days worth of data between us.

 

You just gained one more, and about 1000 full-time Mips

Andy.

 

Quit the UK PC team to join the scooby team last night
UK PC team got to keep my first 4 results...but it all goes into the same pot at the end of the day

Work that silicon baby

Pete

 

Just signed up the laptop also....

Come on guys, I just *know* there are loads of bods out there who can add some heavyweight processing power to the team....

Matt

 

I'm in the same boat as Mr Footlong - results are showing belonging to me but aren't being reflected within the team.

Anyone know why?

Nick.

 

It does say that the website can be slow to get updated....

Matt

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by rob barron:
<B>I've just transferred my stats from another group
Rob[/quote]

Yeah, moving from i-chat to iwoc. Bloody traitor!

 

There must be a delay. I have points etc registered now to me, but they are not showing up yet

Nick

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Yeah, moving from i-chat to iwoc. Bloody traitor! <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I thought that might spark a response from you Mark!

Rob

 

The team points are not updated properly until midnight GMT.

Steve

 

Ahaaaaaa, that explains it - cheers Steve. I felt distinctly uncomfortable being in the same boat as Mr Footlong...

 

Cheers mate!

Nick

 

TOP, so that others may be able to chip in for this good cause....


Nick

 

can't get it at the

 

sorry, found it at

 

Well done to everyone who has joined so far.

To date we have 50 members in the team, and as of midnight last night we had logged over 124 days worth of CPU time and returned 173 result packets!

Frustratingly the team have hovered in/out of the top fifty page over the last couple of days and we need a load more members to get us firmly placed on the front page.

So if you haven't signed up yet for this worthy cause then DO IT NOW!

Regards

Steve

 

All signed up, but jas anyone else noticed that the webiste is intermittent at best.

Not only does the site not load 9 times out of 10, but it actually hangs IE5.

Please tell me that I am not the only person that this is happening to ?

Andrew.
Who though he had a decent computer until I saw my comparitive rating of 51