Help Medical Research with your CPU's spare processor cycles

mcscajun

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:41 PM
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Help Medical Research with your CPU's spare processor cycles

Every PC has 'em -- There's no security risk to your PC, and no impact on your ability to surf, post and otherwise use your PC.

Research into folding proteins could help in finding cures for many chronic killers and disabling disorders.

Join the DU Folding@Home Team, team #48157 in the Folding@Home project.

Read more about it in these threads:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=753&mesg_id=753

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=38723&mesg_id=38723

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Mabus

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Mon Jan-09-06 01:52 PM
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1. Join the other 64 DU participants

The Democratic Underground team has moved up to 3059 out of 42122 teams participating.

For current team stats: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=48157

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mcscajun

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Tue Jan-10-06 10:58 PM
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2. Kick! n/t

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Vox_Reason

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Fri Feb-17-06 06:46 PM
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3. Team DU now in the top 600!

DU is climbing in the standings faster than any other team in the top several hundred, but that can't continue without your help! Every processor counts. This is safe, easy, and for a really good cause.

Won't you consider joining the rest of us on the DU Folding@Home team?

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IDemo

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Fri Feb-17-06 10:03 PM
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4. Got two work units completed,,,,I think

I completed the first work unit fairly quickly. The second was substantially larger and required much greater time to complete (20,000 is the number I recall, as to how that relates to file-size/megabytes, I couldn't say.) After apparently completing this second 20K work unit, F@H seemed to upload my results and download the next unit, except that all I got afterwards was "attempting to send results to server", or somesuch.

I suspect they have a few issues yet to work out with their client program, but the concept is great.

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