Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Fight Cancer. Fight Back.
Grid.Org
Got a Computer that's on all the time? Just spending its days
uploading and downloading files? Why not install the United Devices
client to help scientists figure out which drugs will be of better use
to us fighting cancer.
I know a lot of people that run SETI@Home, but the one thing
scientists point out is that most civilizations would only be using
radio broadcasts for a short period of time, 100 or 200 years tops.
Then satellites and tight beam transmissions will take over. We won't
find that stuff with SETI in its current form. So there's really
nothing that SETI@Home does that's of any practical use to anyone
right now -- except look cool when its running.
United Devices Grid client, on the other hand, will help scientists
fight cancer.
I wouldn't recommend it for laptops if you're going to leave them on
all day. But if you're only going to leave them on for a short period
of time, it could be run as a screen saver.
I also wouldn't recommend this client for any machine smaller then a gigahertz.
This client is windows/linux only. Sorry my fellow mac friends, but
this is one fight we can't help with -- except for by using the
folding@home client. Same deal, but slower, clunkier, and farther
behind.
Get to it.
Got a Computer that's on all the time? Just spending its days
uploading and downloading files? Why not install the United Devices
client to help scientists figure out which drugs will be of better use
to us fighting cancer.
I know a lot of people that run SETI@Home, but the one thing
scientists point out is that most civilizations would only be using
radio broadcasts for a short period of time, 100 or 200 years tops.
Then satellites and tight beam transmissions will take over. We won't
find that stuff with SETI in its current form. So there's really
nothing that SETI@Home does that's of any practical use to anyone
right now -- except look cool when its running.
United Devices Grid client, on the other hand, will help scientists
fight cancer.
I wouldn't recommend it for laptops if you're going to leave them on
all day. But if you're only going to leave them on for a short period
of time, it could be run as a screen saver.
I also wouldn't recommend this client for any machine smaller then a gigahertz.
This client is windows/linux only. Sorry my fellow mac friends, but
this is one fight we can't help with -- except for by using the
folding@home client. Same deal, but slower, clunkier, and farther
behind.
Get to it.
