Unfortunately in this time and age we have terrible life destroying illness's affecting friends, family and ourselves

I myself lost my mother to breast cancer in 2001, she was 39 (40 the next month) I was 11.

My Grandad has now also unfortunately been diagnosed with cancer and is receiving treatment (Thankfully it seems to be going well)

And now I have severe back problems, including but not limited to Scoliosis, Sciatica, 3/4 lower disc degenerations, collapsed discs and 2 disc protrusions.

What I am Trying to say is that I am sure many of you have experienced these life changing disease in one way or another and would love to help put an end to them.

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You know I am with you Cheers! I am getting into the web page after sending this reply.....

Edit: I am registered now.

I'll register BUT what is the software?

it's basically number crunching for the researchers on mass scale, the SONY PS3's have this technology built into them now too so when your console is idle it's CPU can be being used to the researchers gather data about whatever project is currently running.

they can easily compare the results then and see various stats; poor example: how many chromosomes are there in a strand of human DNA

Earlier projects were measuring what the content/genetic makeup of the various chromosomes for the human genome project were I think.

It does not demand anything from your computer and only uses idle resources, so if you for instance started up a modern game, it would only use whatever percentage of free CPU 'bandwidth' there was available, rather than a constant 33% CPU usage you know?

more info on all current projects can be found on the world community grid site, where you can also choose which projects to support

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Originally posted by aNILEator
it's basically number crunching for the researchers on mass scale, the SONY PS3's have this technology built into them now too so when your console is idle it's CPU can be being used to the researchers gather data about whatever project is currently running.

they can easily compare the results then and see various stats; poor example: how many chromosomes are there in a strand of human DNA

Earlier projects were measuring what the content/genetic makeup of the various chromosomes for the human genome project were I think.

It does not demand anything from your computer and only uses idle resources, so if you for instance started up a modern game, it would only use whatever percentage of free CPU 'bandwidth' there was available, rather than a constant 33% CPU usage you know?

more info on all current projects can be found on the world community grid site, where you can also choose which projects to support

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I'll download it

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Originally posted by john-t
So its the same principal as donating spare money..

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Originally posted by john-t
So its the same principal as donating spare money..

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Nooooot reeeaaaaaly, that'd be funding this is kinda working

but in the sense of donating something to help the effort then yes. It's also fun and interesting watching the computer crack away at proteins and stuff (you can have it's visuals run as a screensaver)

Really? both clients? try again tomorrow, i'm sure there's a mirror on cnet too....

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im going to join, i lost my memere (grandma) to pancreutic cancer 3 1/2 months ago

p.s sorry for the spelling error

Great!! an excellent topic!! i believe that it's important to care about people with STD and other fatal deceases, but, how to be useful while being un-useful in your computer? xD if you havent seen or heard about I'M MAKING A DIFFERENCE, here is a link for you, it is very important for this people to get help. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/

bye!! good luck!!

Great!! an excellent topic!! i believe that it's important to care about people with STD and other fatal deceases, but, how to be useful while being un-useful in your computer? xD if you havent seen or heard about I'M MAKING A DIFFERENCE, here is a link for you, it is very important for this people to get help. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/

bye!! good luck!!

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if you havent seen or heard about I'M MAKING A DIFFERENCE, here is a link for you, it is very important for this people to get help.

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I've been on this forum for more than half a decade now. Not sure why I haven't joined this before. I should have really started a couple of years back when I started to let my machine idle 24x7. Better late than never

If you guys idle as well you could sign up
Yes, I know I bumped up a REALLY old thread. The point was to tell the new folk who've probably never seen this that such a thing exists. If it can get them to sign up, why not?

I'm installing it now. I've used the Folding@Home CPU client but it was too much of a strain on my system (the high performance client made my GPU squeal).

I don't know how a CPU works; at the moment "System Idle Process" CPU:98|CPU Time:14hrs, does that mean those cycles are being wasted and I could be using them on this software with no extra strain?

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I'm installing it now. I've used the Folding@Home CPU client but it was too much of a strain on my system (the high performance client made my GPU squeal).

I don't know how a CPU works; at the moment "System Idle Process" CPU:98|CPU Time:14hrs, does that mean those cycles are being wasted and I could be using them on this software with no extra strain?

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I've ran it for 4hours so far while I was using Photoshop and they got to 67% and 89% complete and I didn't notice much slowdown.